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".
“Inner beauty”被物化的想法既醍醐灌顶又悲不自胜。
柯南伯格对未来人的物化、异化想象一直纠结在官能维度，尤其是sex层面的官能维度。整部电影更像是一个关于器官演化想象的高概念维系之下的艺术片，或者甚至就是装置作品——床、椅子，没有痛感，不会感染，可以消化塑料以及人工化工产品，老式sex作废，外科手术替代sex，内在美，这些概念串联起了电影的文本运转。有个悖论，就像有限之人无法想象无限之上帝一样，人如何摒除非人的意识想象非人类？sex即手术这个概念也许是非人的，但比如拍摄蕾雅·赛杜赤裸身体的那场戏，明显感觉到摄影机后面还是人的意识在掌控，对于色情表达的微妙把握依然是人的意识在起作用。结尾维果·莫腾森吃下塑料制品，留下眼泪，人类器官的悲剧性演化已经无可挽回，封闭了想象的可能，并不高明。一部未完成的作品。
看这个电影我就感叹于那句老话：升米恩，斗米仇。真的是这样啊
说话太多 讲得太白 太scifi了 不够神秘主义
开头还正常，越往后越迷惑，结尾高潮更是像学生汇报表演，还出现明显的定焦不准越轴的技术问题
我本来以为真的有女狐仙的，结果……人心真的太坏了
我说怎么这么难看，那么垃圾，原来和“钛”一个德性。
虽然套用了罗生门的内核。但是编导非常用心。很有诚意、很花心思的把各个情节巧妙的连接。摄影和配乐以及演的都不错。希望越来越多这样的国产电影
剧情本身可以给三颗星。但是男女主，特别是女主，那个整容脸，那种超级大双眼皮，真是太让人出戏了。
那些器官和血肉回來了。最喜歡其中關於藝術創作與表演的部分，以肉身影射將烈度推向極致。柯南伯格一如既往探討性與人工虛擬性、媒介（攝影機和電視）；此番野心也拓展到進化與人類的未來。有許多令人驚異的cinema時刻，但類似《大都會》和《星圖》，在收尾時有些乏力。（沒有字幕Viggo的太多低聲台詞都聽不清，待重看）
还行吧，surgery is the new sex还是蛮好了解的；电影里感觉没大用的戏不少啊，如果重点在拥抱进化上
网剧里的高水平
我在看什么？老爷子这么多年拍的东西没啥变化，当年看《感官游戏》的不适感在这个片子里再次卷土重来，没啥区别，依旧不懂。kstew长得真精致啊！蕾老师一对比就是法国乡下奶牛喂养长大的结实憨妹儿，一对躺下依然山峦起伏的好🐻，货真价实，令人无法不垂涎。
人类发展到未来，痛感致命的部分被弱化，取而代之成为性快感。perform一语双关是手术也是表演，是人体学解剖学科学，也是艺术，更是艺术，被围观的性狂欢。
这是柯南堡对观众施行的一场手术，人们已经麻木太久了，所以才需要被唤醒。整个故事及人物关系足以套入当下涉足电影业的资本家(电影-生意/商品)对艺术创作者(电影-艺术/生命)的干预和榨取。最后一镜特写镜头中流出的那滴泪是inner beauty的真正结晶。Howard Shore的配乐又一次勾走了我的魂。小K表演上痉挛般的紧绷感在这片里也太对味儿了，Viggo的表演完全能够竞争影帝。@Cannes2022 CINEUM IMAX
垃圾玩意，女演员说：打更（geng)的。字都说不准别拍出来丢人了
网络电影的质量都这么高了？！
在网大里算不错的了，不过最后撑船的，是随时都绑着炸药吗？太搞笑了点
延续柯南伯格对身体探索的主题，身体成为进化的载体——“Body is the reality.”身体是物质，是现实，是舞台，是包含未来无数可能的容器；人工的手术进阶为自然的遗传，技术的操作幻化为新型sex，实则是一首人类无可救药的穷途末路之歌。“早餐椅”是身体外部延展/异化的象征，当外向的探索已被阻塞或技穷，当艺术的创造力与想象力已临枯竭，对器官生长进度的自如掌控——转向内里的探索成为一种延伸“永生”之古老梦想的可能；鲜血浇灌出情欲，骨肉与刀摩擦出灵感，死亡的艺术从中古蔓延至今，死神和美神再次相逢在未来的荒原。
整体电影质感居然非常不错，人善人欺天不欺……
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