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".
这颗彗星，也可以指代这个世界的任何一件荒唐事，不管怎么样，握紧所爱之人的手，抬头看一眼再赶路也不迟~
神仙阵容，MS女二、KB女三，甜茶A妹戏份都还行！只有CE是客串了几秒。很有趣，想讽刺的点太多了，不能说都完成了，但起码蜻蜓点水都点到了，而且整部片看下来轻巧舒畅，虽然是讲末日，但真的挺适合抗疫期间放松心情，毕竟轻科幻+轻喜剧+轻寓言如今太少见了。凯特大魔王真诱惑啊！别说教授，我隔着屏幕都顶不住！梅姨最后也是晚节不保，如果不是替身的话可谓牺牲巨大。
离开美国太久，就觉得这种讽刺没啥意思了。因为我们天天在电视里就直接开骂了，就觉得很不过瘾，你就给我看这个？所以反过来，在美国待久了的人看我们这里的东西也会觉得，你就给我看这个？
还不错，但拍法和演法都太常规了，太有底线了，既然都已经打算做疯逼了，不如从头到尾做个大疯逼～
当一切严肃议题都变成了网络热点，当民主被疯子、傻逼和资本裹挟，人类乙烷。剧情和设定其实挺俗套的，感觉拍一集黑镜就能讲清楚，这个阵容有点浪费啊。
本来是为了捧白左踩红脖子，捧民主党踩共和党，不过结合现实中的美国新冠疫情表现，感觉四个都能感受到冒犯，难怪口碑分化了。
堪称年度最失望电影，一流的卡司结果拍出来一部电视电影质感的“大片”，剧本粗糙到难以置信，喜剧效果和选题明显不相容，过度的讽刺只会让人反感，况且满屏的讽刺也仅仅是浮于表面，没有深意，演员方面，小李子又使出了一贯的咆哮式手法，吵得我都想帮导演喊cut；不过还是有一点做的挺好，电影在剧情的展现上没有因为过多的大牌而妥协，很多明星只是客串
看前面的时候不断联想起女王几年前的《真相》，没人在乎真相。说白了这个片子就是“在座的都是那啥”的主旨，不管有没有人活下来。
阿莫请你跟我说影片后面怪物是“阿凡达”这个把他们都吃掉了是吧…
不要抬头，现实里没有刷手机的快感，不要抬头，屏幕外没有你想要的答案。人们不再需要被理解只需要被看到，理性被情绪撕裂，贪婪将恐惧湮没，在最后的时刻一起走向毁灭。荒诞是现实而非效果，讽刺也只是结果不是目的，笑的时候千万别抬头，会流泪。
还不错，但拍法和演法都太常规了，太有底线了，既然都已经打算做疯逼了，不如从头到尾做个大疯逼～
【前排提示最后有彩蛋，两个~】讽刺爽片，我愿意给五星，一屏幕的梗，哈哈哈哈。剪辑牛逼！听说这片在美国评分很低，他们急了呀。从来没有get到过梅姨的演技，对她的表演方式极其不感冒，但在这里狠狠get到了那种恰到好处严丝合缝的表演，一本正紧滴hilarious！大魔王被化得妈都不认，看到1/3才认出来TAT……A妹那首歌超好听，但歌词实在太搞笑，魔幻现实主义啊~p.s.婊姐这戏份怎么好意思找小李要一番？？？
我特喜欢导演在处理这种密集时态+紧急事件的快剪跳切方式，让人一下子就能沉浸于此并过渡叙事，这在《大空头》就很明显了。此片的重点不在于彗星将要撞地球，而在于把一个危及全球的紧急事件穿插在各大段情节中，调侃讽刺政客作秀、选举丑闻、娱乐至死、肤浅传媒、麻木人世、狗血八卦、流量至上、反智主义以及无良资本家，——某种程度与当今新冠的世情形成互文，于此中犹有黑色荒诞意味。就这趋势人类毁灭是早晚的，这情境犹如看库布里克《奇爱博士》——“毁灭吧，赶紧的！”当你抬头看到彗星近在咫尺，“可怕又美丽”，为人类文明顺利画上休止符。临终前的哀悼，文明的终结，人类的大起大落，真TM刺激。7.9
肥佬李和大表姐飾演學術界人士，就⋯⋯沒什麼說服力的感覺⋯⋯
諷刺意味有些用力過猛，但前半部真的很戳中我的笑點，後半部卻荒誕得只剩沉重。這部片是我們這個時代的縮影。
电影版snl 但是太长了 后半段越看越没意思… 讽刺了100多分钟的美国 最后给出的结论是 就算美国再烂 那也还是地表最强宇宙中心 全世界都离不开我大美利坚！这才真的太过讽刺… 以拯救者的姿态可怜全世界 但其实只是单纯为了满足自身的道德优越感。
创作人把自己当救世主实例。自从the big short尝到奥斯卡的甜头，Adam Mckay就走上了成魔之路，但别忘那可有Michael Lewis的原著打底。这部比vice还焦虑，攒了一堆大咖，也不好看。只能感概现在除了怀念step brothers、anchorman那时的纯真以外，还要为他和Will Ferrell的友谊哀悼
还是挺喜欢的，《疯狂的外星人》后传《疯狂的地球人》——“毁灭吧，赶紧的，累了！”
4.5 虚无狂欢后褪去畏恐不安的落寞焦躁，我们早已拥有了一切—即主体发生的情感。终于也轮到好莱坞(美国)去完成对自身虚无演绎的质疑了吗？麦凯精通的荒诞喜剧类型精准演绎了这个濒临毁灭的世界无法直视真实存在的遮羞，诙谐揭示了众人麻痹自我娱乐至死的毒药。跟随泛庸的互联网悄然走入后媒介历程的形态变化，聒噪扁平的信息流之下有着令人惊愕的自反，彻底超水平发挥。大爆炸式的当代人类通史新编，对当下荒谬动乱时期中可能发生或者已经发生的社会政治、资本流通、权力斗争通过灾难片载体全部(暗讽)回溯了一遍，受流文化媒介影响的存在主义危机更是警醒着人类社群中真正危机的存在，而这个伴随华丽燃烧无谓反抗的过程就是人类实现浪漫的过程，也是宇宙唯一证实存在可被感知的事物。与所有自我毁灭相比，悬挂于空的彗星才是最微不足道的那个。
娱乐化世代，一切都可以娱乐化，更可怕的是，拥有权力的政治家和拥有巨大资本的资本家勾结起来以后，那么即使是人类末日这种事情，也逃不过被操控的命运。对于站在金字塔顶端的精英们来说，普通人的绝境，未必是他们的绝境。片名叫《不要抬头》，然而更多的时候，上层精英把控一切，底层人民连抬头的危机意识都不会有，这才是最残酷的。
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