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郭南宏涉足武侠片领域是在《龙门客栈》在台湾掀起武侠片热潮之后。郭南宏虽然十年来都是执导文艺片，却应时改变风格，导演了武侠片《一代剑王》，影片由台湾首席武侠明星田鹏和上官灵凤主演，结果一鸣惊人。这部票房大卖的武侠片使郭南宏成为继张彻、胡金诠之后，香港电影市场上第三位“百万导演”。影片也成为台湾国语武侠电影的代表作之一。 《一代剑王》是部没有明确时代背景的古装刀剑武侠片，在这部片里，他起用了当时的影坛新人田鹏担任第一男主角。影片讲述武林各派之间的恩怨，故事比较俗套，但是由于武打设计是按照《大醉侠》等新派武侠的路子来走，将北派动作和日本武士片的武打动作相结合，观众倒也看着新鲜有趣。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
