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".
科恩兄将戏剧搬进摄影棚的艺术探索了大概是，但作为电影去看那这过分文本化的对白确实拗口出戏，然而又很符合A24诡异的气质，丹泽尔和科恩嫂的演绎是绝对衬得起莎士比亚的剧本的。
(我怎么觉得莎士比亚写的这部剧也不过尔尔)
3.5。丹泽尔华盛顿的表演精准到极致，但是并没有让人觉得特别出彩，反倒是女巫的表演令人印象深刻，虽然很大程度上归功于造型和妆容。摄影真的绝了，用表现主义那一套布景和构图，变形的、图形几何化的场面调度，来表现这样一个摒弃宏大叙事、侧重内心情感之黑暗扭曲的悲剧史诗，再贴切不过了。
m2211：又是摄影美学。莎翁的台词自不用多说。音效也很赞。
摄影和转场太好了。看科恩拍莎翁，总觉得里面人物会干出奇怪的事情hhhh
不太欣赏得来这种舞台剧（古典）转换成的电影，不过总算是对《麦克白》这个IP有了一些些了解
从表演到视听语言，好到无可挑剔，居然只有7.2分。
摄影和转场太好了。看科恩拍莎翁，总觉得里面人物会干出奇怪的事情hhhh
还挺希望乔尔大胆改一下的。可惜本质上是旧剧场的。转场的手段有意无意地强化了段落感，人物的出现和退场也都被严密安排。调度执拗（僵硬）到甚至像能读到剧本一般：“地点，城堡。麦克白上。与大臣争吵。下。”所以只能看到场景，而难以形成情境。几乎是一个步调，没有强弱，缺乏变奏。视觉是好看的，像不断翻新的舞台布景。但极致形式的背面，是情感的虚无。于是注定会缺乏宿命感：过分冷漠从来不是悲剧的根源，过分的渴望才是。
无聊，受够了这么拍的莎翁电影了，不如把到剧场里去用这些现代电影手法排个剧，然后给观众看剧的录播好了
Harry Melling出场出戏
以前看中翻的莎剧总是不以为然，原来莎剧的精髓在英文，这台词听的真过瘾！摄影就不多说了，就提一下黑白电影里用烟雾转场挺有意思的。这次又把戏剧与电影的融合推向另一个高度，可见科恩兄弟对风格的深刻理解，他们在我心中是目前这一方面的天花板（不过）。以前看中翻的莎剧总是不以为然，原来莎剧的精髓在英文，这台词听的真过瘾！摄影就不多说了，就提一下黑白电影里用烟雾转场挺有意思的。这次又把戏剧与电影的融合推向另一个高度，可见科恩兄弟对风格的深刻理解，他们在我心中是目前这一方面的天花板（不过这次弟弟没来hhh）。
三星吧。我还记得第一次看《蜘蛛巢城》时的震惊。
风格有点过于混搭了，又还是somehow make sense
不够古典也不够现代，各种违和感，也就布景打光值得一看。
Billy Shakes for Christmas。文盲如我自然是听不太懂，但谁会料到今年最jaw-dropping的视听体验不是沙丘而是这个。I still pray to the Coen Brothers
就算在A24的量产风格里也不算优质作品吧。摄影打光是很美，可场景和表演太割裂了，完全是各演各的搭不上戏。难受，不属于我想看的电影，或者应该说它哪里像电影了！
大体上还是那个熟悉的故事，作为改编并没有看到侧重点，强烈舞台剧风格和极简黑白摄影美感十足，角色冗长拗口的台词又很分散注意力，华盛顿的表演风格和其他人似乎有些格格不入，科恩兄首部独立导演的作品实在有点差强人意了。
当然不会不好，但是i want something different, something more. 麦克白值得翻拍，但是真的不好翻拍...尤其是中间的故事呈现方式实在是有点平。不过还是值得一看的！尤其是开头巫女与结尾决斗的处理，非常喜欢，加一星。BTW 看完了以后疯狂截图，光影太好看了！！的确是一种近似伯格曼的体验。
印象最深的是Macbeth去刺杀Duncan那场戏：拱顶的影子在地上排列整齐，仿佛正等人去搅乱，M便踏上它，一步步向前，光影在他脸上逐次闪过——看啊，悬垂的匕首就在前方！就像我手中的这把。握住
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