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".
雷公使出浑身解数，试图打造一部野心勃勃的大女主商战史诗，服化道一流，可还是难以掩盖八点档狗血肥皂剧内核，最后拍得就像《美国犯罪故事》选段。嘎嘎的表演刚好介于偶尔炸裂和大规模抽风之间，不提个奥斯卡确实保守了。
太无聊了。讲的是一帮蠢货把另一帮蠢货赶走，继而又被赶走的故事，其实是有悲剧性的，可这豪门恩怨又太过家家了，如同那一池烂泥。算不上荒诞喜剧，只能说是荒唐喜剧。场面调度没任何想法，雷公到底在干嘛。只有最后十分钟的戏有点意思。
拍摄和剧本如此意大利抓马，俗辣艳丽，骄傲整全。改了一些细节确实效率更高了，也把她变成了彻底的捞女😓选角真的非常厉害，服化道的优秀就不说了。好久没有看得这么爽的电影了，在电影院被粉丝的尖叫包围了也不介意😂为爱极生恨的大姐忿忿不平，被一家扶不上墙的阿斗拖累一生。搞什么血统论，她难道不是最懂Gucci吗，金句连连眼光毒辣，她来当CEO联合tom ford说不定有新天地！开头结尾的命案太美了……雷啊你多拍拍杀人吧。
雷德利•斯科特把影片拍成这德行，一个原因是他为了迁就嘎嘎，照着时尚圈版的《西西里的美丽传说》的思路去拍的，另一个原因是嘎嘎的加盟把老爷子也给整不会了。
非常平的流水账真的是毫无惊喜（大概只记得床戏很新颖了），期待的悬疑商战让人紧张刺激的元素一个都没有。gaga的patrizia也毫无层次（对不起），除了是个泼妇之外竟然没有一丝让我觉得这个女人有魅力的地方。ps：那个傻儿子竟然是Leto演的！
⭐️⭐️ 剪辑糟糕的流水账，各种跳跃。一个“贵圈真乱”的狗血故事在糟糕的叙述节奏下被稀释淡了太多，实在有些乏味。嘎嘎在遭遇婚姻危机然后筹划杀夫那段演得还不错。
作为对Gucci几乎一无所知的穷人，觉得这部电影真的挺好看的，几分钟就洒一捧狗血，大家演得也莫名可爱。
可能是我欣赏力不足 可能是雷公这次角色塑造有点敷衍 我感觉这次Lady Gaga角色中的爱慕虚荣有点太过于明显 一听到你姓Gucci马上脸色变了 结婚了处心积虑帮你拿资产搞你叔叔搞你堂弟你还傻乎乎跟着她做？亚当德赖弗我是从婚姻故事就很不喜欢他 这里对待帕特里西亚浮于表面的喜欢的回应太假了。我对高奢品毫无认识 但是看着里面一套套精心搭配的西服啊套装啊又打从心里觉得有质感有格调 Gucci的成功实打实的牛 但如果这家族的烂历史会毁了这个品牌 也不过会是活该 （又怪罪一下雷公？）因为从电影看来 这家族真正为了Gucci着想能为他做贡献的人 一个死了一个股份被抢有心无力。gaga眉眼还是好看的 那个时代的歌像《on the radio》《una note speciale》这些都好好听！8分可以。
gaga和leto overacting孖寶 但leto絕對是冠軍 adam driver筆挺地騎單車莫名覺得這是基努李維斯lol
+0.5 娱乐性满分 不知不觉两个半小时过去了哈哈？
古驰现在没有古驰家族成员——最后一句最有力。
很特别的人物变化线路，结尾不知道是什么主题，但就是莫名好笑。喜剧无疑了。
雷德利斯考特这么高产的嘛？一年两部电影，还有一部美剧！虽然这部质量很一般吧！看到结尾也没看出想要说个啥事！
一个家族纷争的故事能拍成这样，这个时长讲好一个故事实在是太充裕了，然而电影大部分时间都在讲一些毫无意义是事，对推动剧情毫无关系。人物性格站不住脚，且转变也没有前兆。Gaga小姐挺性感的！
"Once you think there's enough to go around, then you'll have a taste, and then you"ll want more, and then you'll want the whole thing for yourself."
叙事剪辑不是很流畅，故事本身还是挺有意思的。佩服雷霆佳佳小姐特别想要transform自己的决心和努力，就是本次出演还是很average。再接再厉吧。 @Pathe Noord
+，能感觉到嘎嘎是一个非常有表现力和力量感的女演员，但是这个剧本问题真的很大，各个角色的变化毫无征兆，硬转折。
I am with Tom Ford, at best it's a SNL sketch. Patrizia的故事其实非常有得拍，其实几大fashion house都还蛮有故事的，但拍成这德行算做啥？我甚至觉得好像只有gaga还是认真的。这电影也完全没有任何雷导风格的影子。Why do we need this?BAFTA居然还给最佳英国影片的提名？
Reeve Carney演了TF的震撼都没有片尾字幕看到Leto的冲击大（。感觉只是十分平庸的上流社会窥视，叙事中一副怪老婆的暗示也很微妙
太过平庸了，像是没有波动的死水，这么有戏剧效果的故事和人物关系拍的毫无波澜，家族内部的仇恨、斗争、背叛全都一带而过，角色性格也转变的很生硬，毛里奇奥的虚伪和阴险都没过多展现，只剩下了似是而非的懦弱，这和看百科词条的感觉也差不多了。再加上这是老雷拍的，简直是令人大失所望。
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