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".
谁都知道波兰斯基加塔可夫斯基会很牛逼，那也得有人家的节奏和深度啊......
奔着猎奇来的，结果看得一头雾水，看来天下男人都一个样
希望《钛》的导演看看，什么是真正的女性视角！
女性电影成了这几年的热门了。牧师代表的宗教，警察代表的公权力，小孩代表的与生俱来对女性的追捕与厌恶……整个小村都是男人，代表无所不在的男权社会对女性的包围伤害，而他们还要冠以“想要得到你的爱”的名义。
这个社会上 当女性是受害者，全体女性都是受害者。当女性是施暴者时，她一定程度上也是受害者。而当男性是受害者时，根本没有受害者，男性是施暴者时，全体男性都是施暴者。
非常明白导演想表达什么。身为女性，就是原罪，无论如何，都会被捏碎。但是拍的过于奇特，风景真的特别美，这么美的地方确实毒瘤应该都该消失🫠
A24出品，必属佳片！这是一部很优秀的心理恐怖片，悬疑气氛可以与希区柯克的电影媲美。田园风光中的绿色植被、隧道、积水和积水中的倒影，给人一种苏州园林的即视感。在这种空旷、优美、静谧的环境中设定诡异事件所形成的反差确实引人入胜！结尾的高潮部分更是叹为观止，😏
①宗教，上帝造人伊始，造完亚当之后，抽了亚当的一根肋骨造了夏娃，在宗教里，女人就是男人的骨中骨，肉中肉，整个宗教系统都是歪的，所以女主不能在这儿获得救赎，神父那咸猪手也说明了问题，还有那个男女图腾雕像
怎么说呢我感觉alex garland的这种小团队小成本作者主导电影可能还是写他擅长的科幻作品比较高性价比，挑战新的类型片和些他不擅长的女性主题其实对作者的把控有很大的考验，做出这个有点四不像但是又很有味道的结果可能是他需要一个创作搭档的理由
居然有这么多人在今天凌晨看完整个cult电影。前面很美。
居然有这么多人在今天凌晨看完整个cult电影。前面很美。
在男权社会各种buff加持下的男人们总是如此地团结，暴躁的丈夫、伪善的房东、野外的变态、厌女的男孩、不作为的警察、道貌岸然的牧师，正反夹击，黑脸白脸红脸各司其职，为女性布下天罗地网。
本片创造了新型的恶心与恐怖，却又被有些悲伤的主题轻易化解了：男性因为不允许自己在亲密关系中展示软弱所以催化出虐待与暴力的方式害人害己 ，其实他们只是想要爱。 在我看来并不是对男性的恶意或讽刺，而是想要表达“你表达与索求爱的方式对女性来说是多么有压迫感”。希望我爸看它。
加兰仍然保持了前两部导演作品的高概念创作，但却仍然保持在高概念层面。所有要表达的都很直白给出，好在他对营造气氛特别在行，仍然可以让作品保持非常高品质和高辨识度。
这部电影的解读空间是如此之大，大到所有的空镜头，所有的绿色景观；这部电影的解读空间又是如此之小，小到不知道为什么一句话能说完的事情能拍成一百分钟。如果你的镜头内容不为你的主题服务（或者说主题压根撑不起镜头内容和语言），那请问去掉bgm, 你还能剩下些什么。。
布努埃尔的一角两饰到这里的一人饰多角 这里体现共性 皆为一体 借以表达主题 虽然最后那里（大家所说的“套娃男人”）还是看得目瞪口呆 但是整体呈现出来的东西比较浅显
一个男人 地脱身换骨多少遍才能得到女人的爱
很惊讶居然没有一条评论在讨论男女主演如此相像的问题。女人用自己的形象绘制男人的变异，又或是男人设置一个虚拟的女人靶点表演自己的身份。无论如何，其原意都是个“本是同根生”的悲剧命题。电影本身和往常一样气氛佳高潮乏味
对于女性来说，这就是一部真正的现实主义恐怖片。
生殖这部分还是看懂了的…这个片子只有6.9分是有一部分人破防了吗？
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