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".
这种题材和这种拍摄方式的恐怖片很特别，第一次感觉眼前一亮的恐怖片，看完以后还是久久觉得有点后怕……胆子大试试呗
当我们在歌颂时其他国家还有在拍社会救援挤兑所带来的人性探讨，诚然歌颂是应该的毕竟很多人在去年疫情期间付出巨大，但歌颂时的另一面：人性和悲悯，也值得去直面，微小个体在乱如草台的政策下看似错误的手段也同样值得被尊敬，只要出发点是善的。我们何时能看到自己拍摄出阳光下的另一面。
除去有点可恶……这影片手法上其实已经达到顶好的“恐怖”效果了
看完后感觉怪诡异的，就喜欢这种东方宗教恐怖。
没想到特殊时期看了这部特殊的片，真不知道居然是和新冠有关。不管是哪里，遇到病毒，付出的代价都是惨痛的。镜头对着特殊时期特殊人群，讲了一个充满温柔的悲剧。希望早点好起来吧。
三星鼓励。台湾类型片产业从恐怖片开始有了复苏迹象，无论从投资还是票房看，这也确实是个恰当的切入点。祈福。
其实我个人觉得中国跟泰国一样，因为涉及到很多民俗和宗教，所以特别适合拍涉及“群体意志”类的恐怖片。毕竟国外的恐怖都太过架空且直白，所有的神鬼都像种可以被人为打倒的外力，完全可以当成怪物片看，很少能够让人真正共情。但涉及到宗教和民俗的恐怖往往是心绪上的，就像《咒》里一直在强调的“精神的力量”，甚至还很容易会有“群体效应”。因为种种原因吧，咱们这方面的重担就都交给湾湾和香港了。香港的恐怖片受“僵尸”和“真实凶杀案”的影响很深，台湾的恐怖片却背靠“邪教和民俗”杀出了一条属于自己的特色道路。总得来说真的很特别，中式恐怖才是最屌的！
缺：伪纪录片最难的就是怎么解释全程都能被拍到、看到。这点也太出戏了！另外少点表现母女情深父女情深的画面多点对于这个邪恶宗教的探究不行吗？我至今还是不理解这6年女主怎么平安度过的，以及为啥女儿一来坏事也来了，佛母是从狮驼国取经回来最爱吃小孩吗？
这个概念本身挺好，但从完成度上来讲，这部电影可以说是失败的。
看完了传说中的《咒》，可能是因为我是坚定的无神论者，完全没有get到神佛那一套，也没有兴趣跟着念那个晦气的咒。看完全片，发现没有想象中那么多高能片段，期待了N久的佛母脸，像是缩小版沙虫，甚至不如片头的牙齿带来的生理不适感强烈……女主真的好讨厌，从头烦到尾。不作死就不会死。
本作处处透着【我要作死】
7+的片昨晚放出资源立马就6.4了。1女主人设蠢且自私，好讨厌，想给观众下咒，但一看就能识破，她让你跟着念和盯着看跟着做，撸撸猫哼哼歌喝个水，心里默念反弹反弹反弹。2最后讲清楚了这组织的来龙去脉，也说清楚了女主动机，三星可以打底。3以分发祝福为饵诱人上钩共享诅咒这个概念还挺新颖的。4精华全在预告片系列。5女主像刘若英到经常引发我出戏。
故事拼凑，叙事稀烂，伪记录就跟学前班拍的，音效刺耳，无效废戏一堆，素人演技尴尬，整体给人很廉价的项目，《kb》起码还有冲突的视觉刺激交出，这玩意儿除了开篇抛出自视耐人寻味的视觉议题，就只剩下故弄玄虚和刻意的惊声尖叫来凑时长，从头到尾没觉被吓到，氛围营造的也很假掰，每个角色都要撞头了结，创意词穷，挖掘浅显，民俗文化流于表面，所有对这部电影的前期期待通通都落空了。★
7.0 移动互联时代下的形式之作，画幅、调度等方面打破第四面墙的“共同创作”或理解为体验参与感。在元素的架构下：诺斯底主义还是有市场。
《咒》的確達到了台恐怖片中的新高度，它沒有販售廉價的恐怖，並且小心翼翼的鋪陳了真正會讓台灣人恐怖的細節，沒錯它當然是近年來賣座恐怖片元素的縫合怪(後設的偽紀錄、第一人稱、素人影像)，但在其目的很明確就是要全力塞滿恐懼的架構下，那些背後過於明顯的操弄，很難會被視為缺點，或是被列為不好看的原因。
这个剪接的顺序很奇怪，作者性太强，但某种程度上与伪纪录的形式相悖。调度有些凌乱，些许下咒的内容令人会有生厌的反感，我知道这是想吓唬人也知道这就是个电影，但是这种方式跟电影结束之后字幕告诉你没鬼都是精神病其实某种诡异的有异曲同工之处……我们什么时候能放开了拍邪教和这些邪事儿呀
就是感觉去西双版纳不用隔离真的不错TAT 海清老师考虑去演一下恐怖片吧。
确实晦气 但又挺好看的 但故事又讲得不清不楚。。。就是牙齿头发什么的，女主的孩子为什么被选中还有诅咒为什么是这种表现形式也没说，就单纯地诡异和恶心。。
这么好看刺激的恐怖片打低分怎么想的，从头到尾喘不过气，特别是闽南地区出身看这些拜拜仪式简直是更毛骨悚然，演员表现都特别好，说实话故事有点抑郁，就是“无论如何也逃不出无法被救赎”的设定，真的吓死我了今晚估计睡不着了….
新冠袭来，之前简单的事情都变得异常困难，很真实展现了疫情初期养老院的窘境。
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