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".
最近几年不只动画领域，也不止迪士尼一家有以下种种的堕落了，华而不实，政治正确，条条框框，虚情假意，按需拍片等等愈演愈烈，悲观失望的情绪我想世界范围内是有在扩散的。
结尾太老套，整体基调还不错。《圣母》更胜一筹
通灵小姐遇到了一个好护士长，还有大样本随机双盲对照试验之前，医学很糟糕。
有时候，这个人间，到底是谁更疯狂？女人要自由，绝对不仅仅是身体自由，还有经济自由，个性自由，精神自由。
于是梅兰妮给我们展开了一幅这样的画面。
是不是想成长为一个一流女演员，都要至少演一次疯魔？
面对不了解的东西，无知可能让人感到恐慌畏惧，也可能会激发人的勇气去征服它
镜头语言沉静优美，摄影高级有艺术感，但故事太过细腻以至于墨迹
211105 分几天看完的，整条故事比较平，没有什么跌宕起伏的剧情，看开头我就知道护士长最后会被关在自己工作的医院里面。有些人看似疯了，实则清醒；有些人看似清醒，实则是个疯子。带有点讽刺意味的一部很平淡的电影。
人物: 护士长有个性
就这样，我们获得了自由，获得了强大，获得了永生
还行吧。剧情一般般。只是感叹那个年代精神病院的诊治手段太恶劣了太残忍了。
恰恰在电影中，存在这样一女性，她看得见灵魂，这无疑是对正常看不见灵魂，只信仰上帝的人的一种外在的否定，在普遍信仰上帝的正常人中诞生的一个看的见非上帝的女性，普遍性的人不禁否定她，因为如果不否定她，不把她送进精神病院，就意味着这群普遍性的人的崇高信仰的坍塌。
很《百年孤独》了，一家几代人的爱恨情仇不管命运怎么变迁依然不离不弃相聚在一个屋檐下，部分歌舞场景还是很有想象力的，最好听的是西语那首。但价值观有点不合时宜了，如果家庭是原罪，又何必不离不弃？“让家人骄傲”的slogan也未免太老旧太不符合迪斯尼如今LGBT老巢的称号。
虽然大部分相当平庸，但最后开门的瞬间，连平庸都不如。
镜头非常摄影化，整体节奏不错，平缓中有小高潮。但最最重要的是，这部电影让我更加笃定，卡米耶•克洛岱尔当年根本没有精神失常，却被关在精神病院30年，就因为她想找回本属于自己的东西。
主意被繁复的细节给掩盖了导致略有点跑题 本讲的是父权社会对于女性的训诫，不愿服从的女人被污名化为疯女人，进而沦落为男人的妓女。如果这样只能说是一部纪录片而不是剧情片，主题还要好好提炼才行
‘为什么人们可以相信上帝 不能相信鬼魂’前半部分娓娓道来 后半部分要表达的东西太多了 有点混乱 结局有点过去接近理想了 我是不太相信的。
因能看到鬼魂而被送进精神病院，遭受非人折磨而逃亡…医院无情人有情，一众病友好有爱…
设定不错，立意不错，但是展开不够，人物太多导致每个人都没有特别深入，甚至连主角都很单薄。尤其是几个兄弟姐妹其实各有各的问题，但是最后老奶奶一句话就轻松解决，有点虎头蛇尾，开头很吸引人，结局却轻飘飘的。歌曲良莠不齐吧，有的好听，有的一般。最近迪斯尼比较注重家庭关系的故事，不像九十年代没完没了的公主王子恋爱，挺好的。我喜欢这个发展方向。
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