Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
这么多明星来为圣诞添欢乐结果也没觉得有多精彩，大材小用典范了，还不如让他们一起唱圣诞赞歌俩小时。
小说改编难度很大，成片已经很好。本尼更是性感到难顶啊
他靠破坏世界的男性气质，来保护那个与他形象不符的、细腻的心；这里每个人都存在矛盾，都在进行力所能及的反抗；他成功了，她成功了，他成功了
“宛宛类卿”的情节吗？！
A HOT MESS. 无论是电影还是电视剧都打出尚佳成绩、奖项宠儿的Adam McKay其实早已深暗自己的“流量密码”- -由全明星阵容保驾护航，跟风蹭各种热门话题以及钝化一切分歧，都用「娱乐精神」炮制（甚至这次还把和Will的不和花边也拿来作为前菜，辅助呈现这道精心烹调的主菜）；谁不说句太懂了。只可惜它既没有成为能最终扣响议题的末世危言，也欠缺到达最终结果的精心铺垫；即使演员们意外没有在这种散乱中被冲走，我们也乐见两个彩蛋带来的讽喻。当然还是好玩儿的- -尤其是“抓”那些客串做找熟脸儿游戏，以及诸如从“Kate”的角色设计找到类似“Greta Thunberg”抑或一些热门现象的对应讽刺；但，
看之前以为是爱情片看之后原来是谋杀片，绝杀！
第一部令我简直怀疑自己智商为零的电影，看到一多半竟然还是不太清楚各人物之间到底是什么关系怎么回事，最后也只能靠不确定来猜测这片子到底讲了什么。现在的电影已经要靠故弄玄虚来制造噱头了吗？原谅我不懂这是电影的进步还是退步。（影片中卷福多次穿着大喇叭裤走来走去也没干什么事，真不知道几个意思。）
忙起来是真的会忘记在豆瓣打分的……喜欢不慌不忙讲故事的电影
并非是那种我们熟悉的，将整个故事全盘托出的影片。全片分章节的结构设置像是小说。将人物各自性格的特点精彩展示，不过冰山下的部分留白过多，人物性格的来源背景。只能依靠观众自己的猜测，但悬疑感吸引我看到了最后。
这个片真的不能看剧透，不然少了很多回味的乐趣。
爱死刚开头这段旁白！这个氛围和配乐，真的很锈湖啊！卷福还是太英国太有文化了，这个角色给他有点违和。影片里很多细节，找机会看看原著。
内敛到最后的reveal也轻描淡写但后劲十足，BC和Kirsten Dunst都演得太到位，窒息了。
2022.3.28 空镜是我喜欢的类型，但是和片子交融的不那么合适，就算是卷福蓄起胡须，也没有西部那种野性的感觉。狂野下的细腻，不可言说的压抑。所以是自己杀死了自己、还是被“羊”干掉？主要很多暗示，不知道是不是我想太多了。
讽刺有水平，危机娱乐化，人类蠢猪化，大表姐知性化，小李子老年化，顶着一把达摩克利斯之剑，不解决问题解决人，组团赴死绝绝子。
非常完美的拍摄形式。空旷的西部空镜，极力隐藏的真实性向，情感的迸发只在一瞬之间，肉体没有纠缠的却用一根烟来最后暧昧的同性关系，导演克制的表现最后让人在看完整部电影“卧槽”之余也就是立刻买好了原著然后决定影片要投屏再看一遍。女性视角下的男性爱情故事原来可以用这样克制的方式去表达，本尼饰演的phil从一开始觉得过于粗俗到最后发现他是深柜之后就忍不住整个观影过程都想表白他惊人的演技，侄子Peter并不是纯良兔子在最后谷仓的表现也令人惊叹不已。这个银狮奖最佳导演我是服气的！
吉他的哀奏开启了黄山中的干涩温柔。洞那头的池塘创造了一个封闭空间，其中掩藏了phil脆弱、不安的所有情绪。空间被赋予情感意向，与屏幕外的人共鸣。结局令人唏嘘。
情绪非常到位，整个片子有一种奇异的氛围，怪吸引人的
这部电影还是比较含蓄，就和男主压抑的情绪一样。
power to the invisibles
把火山般的段子讲成了打火机般的效果，说得就是这种。6
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