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".
片头那镜头一直跟着女主背影走，突然就切换到她父亲，又突然切换到她正脸，这镜头手法……可能这就是能让某些文艺装逼豆瓣猪打高分的原因吧……
故事新意不多 出彩在于穿插在其中无文化stereotype的笑点 以及南美风情高饱和色块的使用 但我由于个人原因 对这个有点神秘色彩奇迹和诅咒的故事特别感同身受 trigger到了我今年的某个trauma 最后一句奇迹就是自己 未来也不是一定的仿佛是对我自己说的 女性觉醒处理可以 也没有太讨嫌的角色 我还挺喜欢的/empire 25的杜比厅太舒服了 标第四排中间 最佳观影位置
这就是最近几年这个巨头，动画业务的现状，跟过去大制片厂时代批量生产的经典好莱坞电影没什么两样，偶有出彩，大部分却趋同，没有多少激情和创新，只有华丽的外表，像个芭比瓷娃娃。
股市来说还是个蛮老套的故事，本来觉得能达到3星，但是结尾实在是没能说服我，甚至让我开始怀疑最一开始两位女主的动机
全片以克制平静的叙事逐步揭示无话语权的女性从肉体到精神的全面受戕害；结尾既出意料，又是必然；梅拉尼的导演处女作可圈可点。（完全不赞同某些评论所谓「高潮来得太迟」的说法）
爸妈一言不合就把女儿送疯人院这真是亲生的吗？在feng县事件以后来看这部片子，别有风味。究竟谁是疯子？疯子剥夺人的所有权利，成为猥琐泄欲的掩护色罢了。
当你说出他们的罪行时，他们把你关紧单间牢房，说这个房间很有历史意义你是幸运的
一家人都有魔法的时候排挤她，合照都不带她，结果小姑娘还一心为家，又受气又挨骂，太气人了，这难道不是樊胜美吗？一人受苦，全家升天。
这部电影带来的感受是奇特又奇妙的，难以用语言形容，别的电影是观众被剧情吸引同喜同悲，这部电影却给人断片式的观影体验，怎么说呢，似乎是音乐引领观众而非剧情，像优秀的散文，观众每每就会停在某段回味思索，而忽视了剧情的持续，这种情况出现好几次我才发觉，我是认真观看思想没有抛锚，发现这点后，我让自己集中精神观看，然而思想依旧会在某刻停滞，或为一个镜头或是一段感情，这种奇特的观影体验让我觉得这部影片具有某种奇妙的魅力，看后久久难忘，可惜导演没能把这种技巧贯穿全片，影片后段回归普通，以剧情带动观众，没了那种断片式的体验，像没了灵魂。
对比开片镜头与结束镜头，女主角的心境都不同了。欢笑声、海浪声盖过了一切情感。
当医疗失去了道德与人性的制约，将沦为炫技的手段
迪士尼格局越拍越小，导演你好歹也是拍出过《疯狂动物城》的人，这祖孙和解戏码拍的也太敷衍了吧！总结起来就是完美姥姥逼太紧，凡人孙女起反抗，这个主题《勇敢传说》早就拍的差不多了，本来还期待能看到点成长的烦恼与自我的认同啥的，结果是我想太多，就搞了个歌舞串烧就完事了！（P.S.配乐真的是写出《汉密尔顿》的人写的吗？太普通了吧！）
历史上有多少出类拔萃，意识觉醒，不畏强权的女人被称为“女疯子、疯婆子。”而电影中的女主仅仅有通灵意识都要被关进疯人院，这是社会不容异己的出现。好在女主最后逃出了疯人院。
翻白眼了，今年好莱坞几大动画工作室都没有一部能拿得出手的，明年加油吧。★★/4.9
光影很美，女主很美，更喜欢大提琴配乐，哀伤，让我想起《她比烟花寂寞》。
三星半 以前得了精神病不可怕 可怕的的是进精神病院 以为女主最后会爆发大杀特杀 不过还好逃出去了就是好结局 心疼护士长一秒
你需要的并不一定我需要的。我需要的并不一定你需要的。我需要和妹妹对话，你需要自由，我的自由是和妹妹对话，平静自在呆在疯人院。
在男权环境中，girls help girls 。
看过就知道，这是惊悚片吗，这是女人的血和泪。
概念很有趣，结局有点草率，女主对着自己的祖母一通嘴炮“我理解你我感激你”真的是看得我尬到抠脚……
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
