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".
披着恐怖片的外皮，实讲人心。这世上本就没有绝对的善恶是非，人人心中都有一扇罗生门，真相到底是什么已经不重要了。这部国产网剧倒是有点出乎意料的好，演员演技在线不出戏，特效勉强过关，悬念一环扣一环，结尾有彩蛋，认真思考就能感受到导演想表达的深层含义
痛觉丧失，器官增殖；身体艺术导向身体政治，由摘除展示到主体性构建；官僚体系化注册监管，将超常之物置换为亵渎之物；睡眠/消化辅助装置消费资本主义corporation与corpse同一词根，将人类自主进化的所有可能修正回尸体；自然的非自然遗传造物，终能消化纯人工造物……感觉看到八十年代的柯南伯格回魂，有点感动
破烂玩意儿，还是跟二十年前的《感官游戏》一样，弄些丑陋恶心粘乎乎的所谓科技设备，就装科幻片了。归根结底就是在贩卖变态。
柯南伯格试图建立某种新的感知体系，主要在性快感和痛感方面做文章，但这个体系太过模糊，前后也不一致。比如，莫滕森被开膛，是为将无用的本能（器官增长）表现为艺术、赋予意义，而且充满痛苦；但赛杜被开膛，却性意味浓厚。一会儿身体与感觉间是被mediate的，但一会儿又诉诸旧的亲密、抚摸、亲吻体系。其实很简单，导演面对莫滕森这衰老臃肿的身体，没什么想法。所谓身体美学，不止是新奇与神秘的，还必须是性感的，对性感的表现才是问题的关键，柯南伯格此次就没什么新招。
要不是有人强烈推荐，很可能因为名字而错过的电影。算是国产里真的不错的悬疑惊悚了，推荐！
不错不错，国产恐怖片里难得看的下去的，本来想打三星的，多打一星以作鼓励吧
大家都说柯南博格喜欢玩Bodyhorror那一套，赛博格和身体在现世代的隐喻，以及人类社会对子宫千百年的迷恋，都构成了再造/重造/重组这样的恋物癖式。说实话，当天首映我真睡得很香，戛纳连续两年选这种类型的片子，会不会让人审美疲劳啊？
还是值得一看。二十年前的剧本，今日看也还行，但也没有特别厉害的地方。执导演员还是一流的。隐喻都传到了，而且多次重复，令人记忆深刻。特别小k窗口那段，回应也很妙，旧式s*已经不行了。另外一个层面，如果结尾能够好，四星一定。一个电影构建一个世界/宇宙，说通不容易，部分瑕疵之外，总体还可以，投入的钱也不多。
总体好于预期，演员有点拉，不错的罗生门本土化
编剧是很不错的，整个故事完整，深度可以，就是人物塑造的有点差意思，导致有些反转认不清楚人。故事很好，就是导演水平欠佳，演员演技有些地方还是有些尬，特效乍一看还可以，多了就是很假。如果有大投资，这个剧本再完善下，多半小时剧情可以拍的更好。至少没有快进很舒服的看完了全集，比现在很多院线电影强多了
演员选的都不错，没有看着出戏的角色，配乐贴合剧情，很带感。就是狐仙儿整得跟毒液似的，恶心度拉满了……妖魔鬼怪并不可怕，可怕的是人心，真真假假全凭你信哪一出。意外又惊喜的网大，赞一下！！
不让成精，故事峰会路转到合规。
的确是被名字耽误的好片，同一件事通过不同人的嘴里说出来，就成了罗生门。
莫名奇妙，我也不覺得柯南伯格像某些短評說的那樣，愛扭曲的肉體他不一直都是對人的異化持一種批判態度嗎？所以表達起來也是一種讓人覺得不適的感受。
披着恐怖片的外皮，实讲人心。这世上本就没有绝对的善恶是非，人人心中都有一扇罗生门，真相到底是什么已经不重要了。这部国产网剧倒是有点出乎意料的好，演员演技在线不出戏，特效勉强过关，悬念一环扣一环，结尾有彩蛋，认真思考就能感受到导演想表达的深层含义
yysy，真的一点点都不恐怖，完全是一部剧情悬疑片。。。刚开始看都做好了像看《招魂》那种心理准备了。。。总之网大拍成这样很好了，剧情整体上很不错，在dddd的国产惊悚片审核制度下， 既保有怪谈元素，又顺完了整个故事，属于很好的“带着脚镣跳舞”了
关于人体进化器官肿瘤相关的政治性隐喻和讨论我真的不是很懂，就略过了。虽然没看过几部柯南伯格的电影，光对当年crash的念念不忘，就值得仰望柯南伯格关于肉体与性的探索。不过这部探索到“内在美”的个人有点跟不上了，虽然可以理解索尔口中所谓有别传统性爱的切割，手术，活体解剖，公开行为艺术等性得表达方式，也理解痛在感知和性中的地位，但当剥脱了痛之后对肉体的深层探索，无论是艺术表达还是快感索取就真的跟不上了，我是真的怕肉痛呢，视觉上的肉痛我脑仁都一抽一抽的，crash中车祸和金属的刺激还停留在肉体之外的刺激嘛，个人还是无法从肉痛里解放。即使如此，我还是佩服有这种脑洞升华并可以用影音表达出来的柯南伯格，持续仰望中。
线索扎得不够紧 中后段就散乱了 还有精致的现代妆容之类的眼下通病 村里说「来来来 我告诉你啊 这事儿啊是这么回事儿」的片段从台词到表演都刺耳刺眼地业余 好在用作消磨时间还挺不错
一星是给最喜欢的赛杜，的美胸😍
真的好看啊！有点像围炉夜话，一个故事不同的视角得到不同的版本，零零碎碎的最后拼接出真相，却是人性的黑暗，好在天道轮回，恶人终得恶报
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