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".
片子挺压抑的，略感沉闷，看到结尾才发现竟然还不错。
“我通过成为男子汉而杀掉我的父，成全我的母”
2022年1月9日看过，极好的黑色暗喻。借着一颗毁灭地球的陨石，暗喻着整个政商媒体权力体系。其实陨石可以看作是气候变暖。电影里的总统既有克林顿女士的身影，又有佩林的影子，而科技大佬既有乔布斯又有马斯克还有贝索斯的影子。最令人唏嘘的几点：1.讲出一个明确的事实，竟然先需要咨询法务，还需要媒体培训，而这竟然是一个纽时编辑劝告两位科学家的；2.所有人都已经适应了将严肃报道轻松化的氛围之后，已经没有了严肃新闻得到严肃关注的氛围，所有上节目的人都是为了抖机灵，获得更多的关注度，因为所有人需要的都是FUN，而不是事实了；3.NASA局长竟然是总统的大额捐助者和麻醉师出身，太嘲讽当代美国政治了；4.总统在科技大佬面前的唯唯诺诺；5.看似稳重可靠的三星将军，用白宫免费的零食骗了科学家20美元，毫无羞愧感。存于硬盘8/美国电影/2022
其实挺有意思的，我们什么时候能看到这种类型的国产片。。。
（圣经《诗篇》22:20）
不错诶！！！铺陈很慢，但没有无用镜头。细节隐喻也很好，忧郁画风和偷窥视角都很简康平！
一开始以为是爱情伦理故事，后来以为是同性故事，最后原来是人性故事，搞得还挺复杂。。强壮的大人永远都不要小瞧瘦弱的孩子，因为知识才是最有力量的。这孩子内心还真是很“强硬”，外表的瘦弱只是表象，保护自己母亲的那份心确实值得称赞，但是这手段也真是阴险毒辣。从他对待兔子的方式就能看出他内心是黑暗的，而他对自己父亲的死之描述，也让人看后细思极恐。这片子拍的挺好，就是有点磨叽。
外表 内心，强悍 脆弱。
卷福的表演和摄影是唯二的亮点。有人说邓斯特表演也很不错，我却讨厌她那永远长不大的娃娃脸和腔调，如果非要用她，把身份设定改成瘦弱男的姐姐，可能还有一定可信度。
纤细柔弱敏感的本尼桑在树林子里打飞机那场戏真是太美了……
拍得像三十年前的电影，隐晦克制到极点，不知道还以为海斯法典还没废除呢……主演应该找马修麦康纳啊，简直绝配，那种重度直男癌晚期大男子主义控制狂以及隐约的崆峒及深柜倾向，不就是马修麦康纳本人吗？配乐很不错加一星
知道此剧最扯的地方是什么吗，就是如果真有这么一个撞向地球的彗星，美国的反智行为很可能是和此剧一模一样。
幸好明天不是世界末日，不然死之前看了这么烂的片我真的会哭
主要给卡司和特效…另外别觉得这电影讽刺得多高明，看出来了就多厉害多牛逼似的，真没必要😅
如果世界毁灭是这样，我希望是真的。完全是时代情绪，又烂又卷。这部片子给我的感觉就像一张考卷，每到题都答对了可是字迹奇丑无比。要素过多，还挺好笑的。
前面节奏缓慢，看着是西部片，后面开始又像是同片，结果是悬疑片。恐同即深柜，菲尔似乎跟他弟弟有点不伦，或者是互相陪伴太久了，对于女的加入，是强烈抵制，显得就像是吃醋的风格；后面光屁股那里，又对死了二十年的故友性明显，后面又看上了被他鄙夷的娘炮小朋友……结果被小朋友设计炭疽杀了。主角非常厉害优秀，但强势倨傲，不仅仅弟媳，连整个家人都不舒服，最后死了，似乎大家都松了一口气。彼得外表娘，却被他父亲评价强壮、劝他要善良，显然他父亲才懂他。而对他母亲的守护，也有点别样的味道。新西兰拍的？风景真漂亮
这特么是什么惊悚犯罪故事！BC可以的，演技一直不停在进步。邓斯特两口子越来越夫妻相了…… 好么这个剧情和安排手法，再加上特别营造惊悚不祥的弦乐配乐，好么。 而且，看着就不蒙大拿（看看人家《黄石》），果然，片尾最后特地加了一行：本片全程都在新西兰拍摄。【而且Waititi给导演颁奖时各种气美国人啊：知道你们都想移民来我们纽西兰，但我们可嫌弃你们了不让来的
无论是女主、少年还是卷福，情感总显得冒然，冒然的背后就是线的断裂。
文本层次厚重至极 镜头语言节奏如谜 却醇涩辣口 真让人沉溺
把自己裹成泥人，然后洗澡。
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