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".
为了冰岛的绝美风光加一星吧，谁看了不更想去呢
任何重拍经典都是吃力不讨好，老观众拿着放大镜看你，新观众拿着西洋镜看你，与艾格斯之前的电影类似，比起剧本，导演更看重的还是实现他的影像野心，整个剧本虽然架构在《哈姆雷特》上，但做出的改编与现代女性语境的勾连也依稀可见，但果然残酷的部分没那么残酷，变态的部分也没有《灯塔》那般以镜头语言传达来得更变态，类型化尝试只能说功过相抵，同时兼具写实的莎翁戏剧与超自然体验的段落，衔接的比较奇怪，电影的实际背景本应是以人命为草芥的时代，结果残酷只体现在各种血腥场面上，男女主还是有很明显的主角光环，尤其是几次重要决定的做出，都没有什么严谨的逻辑可言。你要是把它看做是一部寓言故事，那么他为了博眼球过分写实了，你要是把它当成一部目击版王子复仇记，那么它又经不起推敲。暴露的还是《灯塔》里过于写虚不务实的风格趋向。
啊啊啊啊啊我要吹爆它
看过的第三部Robert Eggers的电影，也是最喜欢的一部。北欧版哈姆雷特，满是男人味的血腥暴力与野性，充满戏剧的张力
整个故事有些拖沓；妮可讲真相那段演技杠杠的；女主侧颜无敌
自然景观，服道化，人物形象气质，与读冰岛saga时的想象都非常契合，好看！最后火山熔岩边决斗的戏当然是好看的，不过听到男主猛喘粗气的时候还是想说，其实真在那儿这么喘气，早该呛死了吧？
配乐，画面，各种部分，拿个8分是没问题的。但是为什么每次我去电影院看电影时，想看动作片但总能整出文艺片，北欧人一样，蝙蝠侠也是。里面对北欧文化刻画的很真实，很多次我都在想为什么主角不直接拿刀冲上去，或者他叔不直接砍死主角，后面才知道，哇哦，这是部落文化！如果客观来说，这是一部好电影，毕竟画面什么的都太美了，但主观来看，san值狂掉，各种宗教文化，ntr，以及蜜汁操作，如果不带入这些文化真的一种要烂的感觉。喜欢宗教的可以看看，如果就想看个商业片放松一下，那还是算了。
i like it，毕竟看到了碧玉的短暂出场。王子复仇+俄狄浦斯+女巫+仲夏夜惊魂的混杂体验，诡谲而疯狂的北欧传说为整个故事镀上一层神秘色彩。不过E大怎么呆呆的？
最细腻的对东方武侠/功夫的致敬
拍得还不错就是太太太长了。简单粗暴在一开始是优点，到最后就是审美疲劳了。
《预告片剧情 -> 变很壮 -> 超 级 抓 马！-> 全剧终》母子是有点震撼
如何用影像成为一个北方王子。这个有点让我想起田壮壮的那部《狼灾记》，或许生成的愿望与偏执不一定对观看友善，但诗的影像和存在会留下来。
半小时弃，牛鬼蛇神的无脑杀戮，蛮荒时代的阴森恐怖，兽性的肆虐，人性的泯灭
男主看着妈死啥也没做，然后又看着爸死啥也不做。。。
咱就是说 梁朝伟跟陈法拉生出来的孩子长成刘思慕这样合理吗 （没有说刘思慕不好的意思）
已把预期降到最低居然还能叫人更失望 只剩画面服化道好看与考究. 别扭的“诗体”台词都不说人话了, 生硬的叙述与剧情质量感觉都比不过随便一集<维京传奇>剧集, 难为了卡司
老掉牙的俗套故事墨迹了俩小时，但是视觉效果值得加分。空中抓长矛扔回去让我想起育碧游戏引发生理不适。
要说画面吧，蛮荒cult还挺好看的，剧情么就实在太狗血了。
3.5制作精良，就是剧情以现在眼光看来像非常冗长的游戏，到了等级才能解锁的武器，强行的剧情杀和末日火山般史诗单挑boss战。可能是服务仪式感的一种妥协吧。哈姆雷特的改造倒是非常不错。
关于这部电影 有件事和黑豹是一样的 很多人不喜欢它的理由是 它不像一部“中国的电影” 可关键是 它本来就不是中国的电影啊
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