这部片子不是那种唯美的魔幻风，而是用纪录片那种冷峻又充满质感的镜头语言，直击上世纪50年代苏格兰疯人院背后的阴暗真相。 节目像一部悬疑惊悚片，通过调查那些轰动一时的“女巫抓捕”案件，将人性中偏执、恐惧与作秀的荒诞展现得淋漓尽致。非常适合那些不爱看传统叙事、只想被带进诡谲氛围里当“过客”的观众，权当打发时间的一场心理惊悚试炼。导演以鲁道夫·希特勒的视角切入，真实重现了那段黑暗岁月。它记录了一位专门猎巫的精神科医生如何“确诊”受害者的离谱疗法。你根本不用动脑子，就跟着镜头看这场权力的较量，心情一直跟着他们起伏。

　　In the late 16th century Europe was in the grip of a ferocious witch hunt, where thousands were tortured and burnt at the stake. The church was fully behind this terrifying crusade against the imaginary enemies of Christianity. In France and Germany alone up to 40,000 people may have been killed as witches. But England and Scotland were almost untouched by witch persecutions until King James himself decided to launch his own, personal war on witchcraft.
　　In 1597 King James VI of Scotland published 'Daemonology', a handbook on how to recognise and destroy, witches. The book explored the threat that 'those Detestable slaves of the Devil', posed to James himself. It fuelled waves of witch hunting throughout Britain.
　　The legacy of James' 'Daemonology' continued throughout the 17th century, and led to the torture and execution of hundreds of women in a series of infamous witch trials. No-one knows exactly how many men and women died in these trials, such as the Pendle trial of 1612, or how many others were killed in cases that never came to court. The documentary reveals the purges in many areas of Britain drew directly on King James' book. Also for the first time, remarkable new archaeological evidence from Cornwall, suggests that witchcraft was actively practiced for centuries, even during the most intense periods of witch-hunting. Experimental archaeologist Jacqui Wood has excavated strange pits lined with swan's feathers, and filled with animal skins and human remains. She believes the pits were ritual offerings inspired by witchcraft beliefs.

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