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".
情感，事件比较寡淡。唯有主题算是亮点，但是表现精神障碍的古典电影也不是没有。总的来说发挥的不够好。
结局实在是傻。。不要随便有歪念想偷窥别人，这个世界还真不知道是谁偷窥谁。。三级场面是噱头。
题材是好的，立意也是很好的，感觉就是功底还不够orz
西德妮的婊实在是一种武器。她是青春版的莎朗斯通。
非常惊艳、劲爆的表演，峰回路转的剧情令人欲罢不能；刘承羽的出演华丽且迷人；偷窥、窃听及通讯的手法具备新颖性和创造性，科技含量十足。
我现在，应该能理解，女主最后洞悉一切，她这一生也就完了。 心里迈不过去的。
最后的结局还是挺让人舒服的😎四个人一个都别想逃…
梅兰尼罗兰做为一位曾经年轻貌美的演员，执导出如此一部电影也太过牛逼了吧！没看过原著，但感觉电影的年代感和文学性好强，服化道也是一流的。到底谁才是真正的疯子？在那个疯子和社会精英共处一室的舞会上，衣冠楚楚的绅士们露出了张牙舞爪的一面，更加狰狞丑态百出，变态扭曲的社会，真正的疯子反而制定了社会的话语权，而柔弱的女人只能被压迫被管理，在疯人院，不疯的人也活活被逼疯。结尾很传统但也很治愈，就算肉体被禁锢，只要灵魂是自由的只要有信念在，前方总有希望。大海边的女人和在疯人院椅凳此时合为了一体。
有点儿情色片感觉的悬疑片，看着挺有趣的，就是结局大可不必。
本来有挺多bug的，到结尾也算是圆上了。看起来短小精悍，虽然不如《后窗》那样有延展性，作为网大倒也算不错了。唯一成谜的是女主为何要和摄影师睡？
不知道为啥，这片看完让我有种怪异的感觉，引起了生理不适。。强行反转的剧情有点突兀。没看到什么深刻的意义，甚至可以当成三级片了。。
大提琴加钢琴配乐真的太应景了。女主到最后也没有恨任何人……
全片最不意外的就是女主和摄影师必会上床，但明明可以有一百种收尾的方法导演选了个最烂最玄幻的，直接把前半段营造的氛围和高级感打破沦为三流悬疑片，逻辑难自洽。
可以当作法治宣传片，偷窥害人害己，奇怪的是最后女主角反杀反而让人感觉不爽快了
胸是最大的卖点，因此选角的。然后是反转加反转，电影寓意在对白中也传递出去了。
一部美国电影，没有以ZZZQ或穿短裤拯救世界的英雄为主题，何其不易，必须打高分
朋友極力推薦，題材不錯，最重要是有很多fucks...
影片拍得还是挺精致，故事讲述得还算流畅，演员的表演尚佳。不过影片最大的问题，在于导演并未想清楚电影主题的方向，即导演究竟想表达什么。她在各个方向上犹豫着，不想做取舍，但表达起来又相互矛盾。其实，放弃一些时髦的东西，就拍一部商业片，恐怕会拍得更好看一些。
真的烂尾。这个世界是没有警察和法律的嘛？偷拍别人的照片能卖画廊赚大钱？自杀还是被毒杀法医验不出来？弄瞎别人眼睛不用坐牢？？ 到摄影展这边报警抓黑红摄影师夫妻就很完美了啊。
最后的结局还是挺让人舒服的😎四个人一个都别想逃…
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