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".
88- 緊張的弓弦悠悠喑啞出黯淡的背景，精緻的妝容無法點染内心的空無。背叛、孤獨，猶如永恆的詛咒不休止地漫過幾抹溫馨。找回自己的父姓也是找回自我，背負著過去的重擔未嘗不是嶄新的開始。出色的剪輯深入到劇本難以企及的人物内心，小K貢獻了她自己有史以來最精彩的表演。
她被凝视，被束缚，被不知所措，被选择，也只能突破这一切，ks这一次的表演还算是完成度很高的
您也不至于拍成三流心理惊悚神经病片吧，而且一切都太工整和安全了。
《被囚禁的斯宾塞的一生》。小K也开始演妈妈了，仅靠外部堆砌聚焦于主角看似高明，实则是露怯的表现，好在小K表演撑得住，所以反倒证明导演功底略欠火候。
2.突兀的希望结尾
王妃语调真是这样？显然该去看心理医生，何必这样做作。知道王妃过的很痛苦，但是比她痛苦的人太多太多了吧。皇室的伙食真令人羡慕，甜点天堂啊。厨师长好可爱
黛安娜像被驯服的象，被控制着，每个人都不会好好说话。hold on, fight them.小K演的不错，服装的确出彩，音效稍有点喧宾夺主了。
除了能拼一把奥斯卡最佳服装，实在不知道有啥好夸的了…
7/10，构思和执行都不错，尤其是视听较为风格化，观影时总让我想起闪灵和柯南伯格的那些早期电影
呃……搞不清楚皇室和那個比，究竟哪個更滑稽。
崩溃边缘的黛安娜王妃，教条的传统，严苛的规定，生活中的每一个细节都是预设好的，就像电影里查尔斯王子说的，身为皇室成员，必须有两幅面孔，隐藏真实的自我，展示皇室家族需要的那一面。
很多大远景，展现了皇家气派和压抑。镜头总体上以静制动，大部分要不是固定镜头，要不是平缓的拉推。和童年的场域连通的那段环绕镜头在全片特立独行，正如黛安娜在皇家的如坐针毡，然后是一些漂亮的蒙太奇拼接，于是高潮诞生。色彩是一种反抗手段，黛安娜服装的颜色总是与周围格格不入，从服从到尝试反抗到觉醒，颜色从翠绿到薄荷绿到大红，从不协调到对比色，在欢快的色彩中她终于找重新寻到了真我。
拍得很美，但不喜歡說故事的方式，真的不喜歡
Diana：Shocked. 华服魅影，弦歌仙乐，珍馐美馔，遮不掉颤抖的神经苍白的面庞。如果在逃公主是你的本命，就把阆苑仙葩的所有一切都抛给稻草人。小K最迷人的一次情绪表演。
小k相对她自己是巨大的进步，然而整一个还是在拍chanel宣传片的感觉；倒是全片推进和闪灵片段意外的不错，可惜k女士没有演出来
比《第一夫人》更上一层楼，更加写意，更加聚焦于主角一个人，时空交错的噩梦和充满人情味的片段让角色不仅处在一个牢笼之中，它还是一个满是冲突和变数的牢笼，影片临近末尾的那个蒙太奇段落着实让人开眼。
高开低走了属于是，把王妃整成了一个赤裸裸的神经病+同性恋
封建社会真的擅长吃人，especially in吃女人。令人惊讶的是评论区里对戴妃和女演员的情绪要求，你们这样也是在要求她做你们想要的那个人，这样和the👑有什么区别我看不出来。
电影贯穿始终的拉锯和焦灼非常到位，让人feel for di a lot。再加上可以说是美感十足的摄影和构图，怎么也不至于六点几分。几乎同时释出的大女主spencer和大男主ttb，这个对比简直了，时常被你瓣儿的电影评分激起莫名的胜负欲。被诟病overacted，但同时我确实看到她那股子灵动了。相反加菲多少年演技也没太大长进，一激动就表情乱飞，之前在加菲身上感受到的少年感现在也只剩下木
虽然很喜欢斯图尔特，但本片换年轻时的凯特.布兰切特，我们就能一睹真正的戴妃当年的风华，甚至会感同身受，为她流泪。表演情绪没有一次是刺心的，虽然小K已经很努力了。
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