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".
三星半
柯南伯格自己可能没接受，没想清怎么讲，对现实人类极限也欠缺了解。他自觉移挪来一些大胆概念，却保守地使用大段对白来解释。可惜，这剥夺了人物和表演的空间，让视听也不够极致。并不是它没有满足我，或者不想满足我，而是它像男主的老泪一样，让我无所适从。
4.5，仅仅是文本层面就有着很多的结构空间。类型只是点缀，而器官是隐喻，柯南伯格正是通过这点在发出宣告。
求求小k别再演戏了😭
人类的创造需要由人类的进化所构成平衡的新世界。不过话说回来，小男孩解剖戏份里大家的反应和身体内部让我很困惑，以及lifeware谋杀塑料人的动机也让我很困惑。如果就以艺术映射来解释肉体与灵魂的权利交换也不是不可以，但我们这些药理人第一反应就是，你们所说的干细胞培植与痛觉清理但又不完全清理，我觉得不是一个可以一劳永逸的小手术… 这种极度物质贫乏的世界里，大家一起做新世界的塑料人，是不是也是一种浪漫呢。
从诗句中挖掘意蕴类比成从身体中开掘出内涵，属于典型的指物错乱，当然如果非要强行比较，身体和自然存在器官的自然美只是个框架，而展现人体内在行为艺术和自走型“塑料废物处理鸡”在柯南堡视域下都是艺术美，因为有理念加持，但也会因为被动过手脚的“物”，导致最终指向这个新新人类时，理念彻底崩溃，毕竟黑格尔的自然美与艺术美关系，并不是个走哪哪牛逼的自动机，绝望的结尾即悲悯又美且引人深思，三者不分彼此，不要作任何 价值排序 的忠告回响不绝，柯南堡用心良苦啊！
有人看完像是尝了口toxic塑料 有人看完发掘新性癖 我竟然偏向后者 body is reality. surgery is the new sex.
有人看完像是尝了口toxic塑料 有人看完发掘新性癖 我竟然偏向后者 body is reality. surgery is the new sex.
《钛》的威力加强版，重拾当年看《感官游戏》的恐惧和恶心感。柯南伯格的的确确有一套。
蕾老师和K老师都拿捏。
滑稽可笑 糟蹋艺术 身体改造早就存在了 没玩出什么新意
服了。完全是对艺术行业的满满讽刺，对当代艺术家的慢慢讽刺
工作十小时之后看这个真的有点too much，还是比《钛》好很多。
不太行，并不晦涩，但是执行没法还原或者说有效的表达好概念，最后变成流于假鬼假怪的自嗨。但是小K终于有演技了，表现还不错。看艺术片比较容易遇到的尴尬就是有佳句无佳章，也没有能控制观众情绪的能力，顶多属于一个桥段，或者是单纯为概念设计一个场景。但从文本变成视觉，变成电影，就需要很多东西才行，光靠演员玩先锋，硬造留白可不行。你说我要给概念打高分，就没啥意义了，毕竟拍的是电影。各演各的在这部片子里非常明显，简直是尴尬教科书。
比较失望，总感觉结尾太无力了。那位父亲就这么死在阴谋之下了，难道这一切都毫无意义吗？
假如每年都能长出一个新的肾的话，那每年都能用上苹果最新款啦🐶
被诗意神秘的人体异化内容包装的工业化寓言。到了2022年，柯南伯格的影像风格与《变蝇人》《孽扣》时期已大异其趣，变得更沉重黑暗，带着腐朽的诗意，也不再追求《变蝇人》这般直接的视觉刺激，而是以更接近《孽扣》的方式，将蜷曲的人体、变异的内脏和造型相比机器更接近人体结构的怪异科技产品（类似《孽扣》中的手术工具）不紧不慢地收入镜头之中，随后在视觉和精神层面上同时将它们构建重组。这是一曲人体与变异的赞歌。
柯南伯格的科幻风格与过往作品保持着高度一致——笨拙的、庞大的、无用的、粗糙的、形似人体骨骼和器官的“仪器”辅助着人，而人在不断的追求异化又害怕异化……为坚持这样独特的美学风格+1星
是我的艺术鉴赏力不够了 55555我的两个老婆同框了 蕾老师英语进步好大
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