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".
像是Alex Garland拍片之余随手创作的小品，不搞隐晦不搞神秘，就把所有的想法全盘托出且具像化，加上自己最拿手的摄影质感，前半段哪怕没有复杂的剧情也看得赏心悦目。最后的三十分钟够邪典够刺激但欠一些含蓄美，这个主题由一个男性导演拍出来，挺难得的，如果走神了，你甚至可以把它当作一部英国乡村的风光片看。
拍得很细腻，导致代入感很强，的确是看完会有阴影的片，竟然是男性导演？了不起。视听相当赞
氛围有了，情节有了，观众要的spectacle也有了。可以说是cult片中的邪典，男人套娃生娃确实震撼，但归根结底，恐惧还是源于人的内心。7.5/10
膈应人；只是放大了“男性社会对女性压迫这个问题”，没有起到任何缓解作用（根据导演男的看来这也是合理的）。
房东、怪物、男孩、牧师、警察，不同的男人有着同样的面孔，他们对女主施加控制与暴力，倒打一耙女主是罪恶的来源。在这限定性别的恐怖片里，男人的名字是无辜，女人的名字是万恶；男人的行为是求偿，女人的行为是还债。女主的前夫之所以选择自杀，怪女主没有在前夫对其家暴后马上原谅他？！不管自己是对是错，我这样都是你害的。能够如此逻辑闭环，这片真是太恐怖了。
所以看到最后“他们”为了分娩不断哀嚎，被开膛剖腹，然后死去，竟然有种莫名爽感？因为“他们”终于体验到了分娩之苦……不过这种东西只存在于大银幕，现实中的部分“他们”，依旧大言不惭，妄图控制“她们”的生与育来达成表面深明大义实则令人不齿的目的。
从机械姬再到湮灭，亚历克斯嘉兰的电影一向都是未来感元素极强，且配乐极具有氛围感，但这一部作品的画风相较于前两部而言要略微复古，最现代的元素莫过于苹果智能机了。女主那过于保守的装束某种程度上像是一种自我防范的意识，裸男的出现乍一看是恐男，实际上则是对男女情感危机的不安及不确定性在讨论。高潮部分男人不断的在生孩子，但生出的孩子也只是不断的在对母体进行重复，是一种较为扭曲的恐育思想在潜意识里的表达，事实上怀孕的不是她，而是她的闺蜜，这也正是证实了这片子本质依旧还是自己吓自己。不过这个片子还是有着不合理之处，尽管种种臆想奇观都是针对女性在生活中所遇到的危机而产生的嬗变，但其本质更像是构建在男权视角下对女性危机的凝视，远远达不到反思的层面。
本片无疑是一部女性主义电影，写出了男性丑陋本性的普遍并将其具象化。男性总是竭尽千方百计地为了让自己占据道德高点而进行无耻又无理的诡辩，这个要点虽只是轻轻一点却入木三分。更可贵的是创作者利用了观众尤其是男性观众的生育恐惧而增强表达效果。
符号化的内容相当之多，而且用得很到位，不管是那个洞还是银河，都承担了女性性吸引力的身份。而全片的核心也就在于由情感伤痛引发的男性恐惧及生殖恐惧，末端不断的生殖其实是个内部矛盾剥离的过程，也将中间铺展开的对全体男性的恐惧的根源挖出，从而完成了哈珀这个角色的成长。
太喜欢A24这种奇怪兮兮表达方式，而且把女(性）权表达得不让人反感，真喜欢
求个解释，除了看出女性主义外，其他都什么什么隐喻啊
每个女性都能从女主身上看到自己真实的遭遇，啊男人真都是一个逼样，当我们拿起斧子，不再服从，不再内疚，开始反抗的时候，我们将不再恐惧。
配乐一如既往的不错，视效也充满新鲜感。但是主题稍显俗套，故事本身是无法自圆其说的，而所谓的隐喻也过于肤浅和夸张。请不要把罪恶与性别符号相关联，这两码事毫无关联。最后什么也解决不了，无非还是女孩不要半夜吃烧烤，不要独自租住乡间别墅，然后呢？
符号是直给的，隐喻是表层的，但图像上绝对能载入cult影史（到后半段越看越兴奋。直接联想到阿伦诺夫斯基的《母亲！》一类强符号性的寓言作品，海报之一也让人想到《趣味游戏》，同样不断地对观众实施精神强暴。
概念大于效果。没有传递出多少恐怖的效果，相反让观众感到恐惧的只是脑补出的现实片段，更确切说是迎合了女拳的仇男想象。一部好的恐怖片应该是虚拟空间与现实的共振，而不是用现实来反哺华而不实的影像。
心理恐惧，男权世界，一人多面，概念不少，但这电影也太白了，隐喻都成了明喻，氛围有，感觉无。最后的一幕幕真是…..，能明白为何这样，但不能理解为什么非要这样。
导演在cult的路上开起了飞机✈️，我看不懂，但我大受震撼……
摄影很赞，够诡异，“男人”典型英国佬相，够怪异！一开始就知道，是心魔作祟！导演是不是种族歧视派？贬低黑人非要得到白人的爱，不然就自杀的低级人格！
当意象化叙事作为目的而不是载体呈现时 分就不好打了
最后的连环生子那一段着实厉害，男人就是男人的复制品。特效怎么做的啊，真牛逼，可以载入史册。
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