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".
前面的所有镜头都是为最后那个剃去胡须后苍白清秀的死颜做铺垫的。
一部控制力杰出的电影，和《钢琴教师》构成对女性与男性欲望与权力世界探讨的两部曲或拱形建筑的两端。表面上看是有惊无险地把注意力集中在彼得的母亲罗斯和她前夫的兄弟菲尔之间。菲尔嫉妒弟媳妇在家庭中的位置，弟媳妇则嫌弃菲尔的粗鲁，就像野蛮人一样（埋怨他上桌吃饭前不洗干净）。但是在谜底揭开的时候，我们发现最汹涌的冲突或情感张力是被掩护在表层之下的，是在菲尔和他的侄子彼得之间。在影片结尾并没有给出一个确切的解释，只是援引法医学的术语，说他很大可能不是死于炭蛆病。那么他可能是被彼得谋杀的。就像菲尔和他的“导师”布朗科·亨利的关系，二人也是师徒，年龄之间的差就像菲尔今天和彼得之间的年龄差，但是在一次夜晚肌肤相亲的意外之后，布朗科·亨利意外逝世。
A damaged person will eventually be destroyed by the world. It’s he versus the world. Phil lived in the past and lived in the memory. But life goes on, so either the world destroys him or he keeps attacking everyone to maintain his balance. Once he shows vulnerability, he can not immune to the harm, cause he is so lonely, lonely to death.
浪费了时间 误以为是好片 硬撑着看完了 片名也莫名其妙 实在欣赏不了
如果从导演技术角度来说，绝对是今年最佳，简康平对女之性和男之性的理解，在所有导演里绝对没有雷同，我甚至找不出相似的主义来解读她想表达的东西，她从80年代拍电影开始就超前所有人，现在也还是。
前面快两个小时的铺垫，隐忍克制留白很多，不知道导演到底想讲什么，直到最后的结局小正太反杀，回过头看叙事手法很高级，完美诠释了最聪明的猎人往往是以猎物的姿态出现的。（过分强调男子气概的人多半可能是深柜。
弟弟绝不是蠢笨，他的人生哲学应该是“不干己事不张口，一问摇头三不知”。
这个片子大概就是讨厌的觉得故弄玄虚，喜欢的觉得设计精妙，有点让我想到stoker当初给我的感觉。可能是我不懂欣赏（），但我看的时候一直觉得主角应该是马修麦康纳黑...美国西部片要复兴了吗
毫无疑问是佳作，但故事和剧作都了无新意，视听语言上缺乏创新，思想内核也没有可圈可点之处，按中国话来说就是“观赏性、艺术性和思想性”一头不头，这不会是奥斯卡历来青睐的那一型。相比之下，CODA在艺术上平淡无奇，却是非常能取悦观众的，传递的social message也很积极，说白了就是不掺杂陈腐价值观版本的《绿皮书》，冠军相很明显了。
好几处摄影和片段简直不能再美了~
依然是阴柔对阳刚的征服。有点《御法度》的味儿。不过还是属于可看可不看的片。
Campion导演西部硬核片，奥斯卡大热门，摄影精到，影片有多角度的表达及解读，情欲占有欲，身份及自我认同，家族纷争的隐秘暗流，蛮荒到逐渐逼近的阶层分化，剧情很好，角色都自有逻辑，是真正戏剧式的冲突，导演用了诸多暗示，环境的渲染，妖冶的配乐，最后犀利出刀。一定要注意片头的独白... 卷福/奇异博士 表现相当出色
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摄影可谓帧帧如画，调度和镜头堪称一绝，冷静而克制，故事细思极恐，讲了一个伪装者的悲剧。表面是探讨男子汉气概，事实上还是在讲人性。
依然是阴柔对阳刚的征服。有点《御法度》的味儿。不过还是属于可看可不看的片。
一大家人一起看的，我说是奥巴马的年度推荐之一，Ricky一看是西部片说他爸应该可以看，我一乐说你注意到了同性的标签吗哈哈哈。结果只有我一个人喜欢，其他人有的心不在焉嫌节奏太慢，有的干脆就睡着了......我真是太喜欢了!压抑的节奏广袤的影像出色的配乐和演技，在最后的十几分钟推向高潮。同抽一支烟的那一幕张力太足了!之后刷了很久影评，发现了更多之前没注意的细节和隐喻，更加喜欢了。Jesse Plemons现实中和片子一样，平平无奇的长相但抱得美人归，两口子演得真好! BC演得也真绝了!
很不错的故事，压抑，空旷，尴尬，又有趣。一个阴谋的借刀杀人，一个鸠占鹊巢的故事，但是又有缓慢的淡淡的欣慰。
抛开西部、同志、伦理这些标签先不说，这是一部女性视角的非常独特的黑色电影啊！蛇蝎美人变成蛇蝎小鲜肉罢了，因为大量的留白成分让这个故事和各位角色都有了很多解读的空间，可能甚至太多了吗，我倒是希望要是能多讲点，但是也说不上来哪里需要更多一些，简坎皮恩的确是一个视角和语言都超级独特的导演。里面Rose练琴被人在背后弹一样的调调嘲，完了没练好还让在客人面前表演，我可真是痛苦得感同身受🥲这真的是学乐器之人都会有的噩梦吧啊啊啊
你以为你在看“断背山”，其实你是在看“惊魂记”。善与恶，肉眼永远看不清。
电影情绪极好，紧绷的弦直到最后一刻，多维度的角色张力伴随扭曲的西部景色，几乎让观众喘不过气来。
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