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".
魔幻的人世间，不过那是欧洲女巫的魔幻人世间。人类是什么呢？人类是这世间的尘埃吧，我们这一生太短暂了。
感觉片子是拿手机拍的，看着晃得头晕。远景不多，没啥美感，而随时出现的大特写粗糙丑陋到恐怖。不太理解高分的～对人性剖析和拉满文艺格调就得放弃好观感么？
我怎么感觉，老女巫杀死知道小女巫真面目的男人，不是出于妒忌，而是了解人性：你有把柄在人家手里了，人家现在不怕，不代表永远不会把你交给宗教裁判所……“纯真、太纯真了”和用爱化解咒诅什么的理念，只有文艺电影里才有啊！！！
你还是继续孤单吧，世间是一个轮回，周而复始，受苦受罪，就在山林间与大自然为邻有什么不好，喜欢幼崽，林中失孤幼崽不少。就是有克制不住的好奇心啊，对人世间向往，然后又灰溜溜回去。
说实在的 一开始觉得女主表演很用力不自然 但后面还是边看边哭😭特别是女儿回来之后那一句 “我并不柔弱 因为我像妈妈”
差点被这评分唬住，啥也不是。恐怖片就好好拍恐怖片，尽整些花里花俏的东西。。。另，女主也挺高产的，尽拍些奇奇怪怪的片子。。。
Witch is nothing and everything.
点子还算有趣 但拍的很乏味 该说是文艺片吗 又不是很有内涵 最重要的是那烂脸老太婆很恶心啊 简直污染眼睛
“人不能因为毫无负担地出生就能毫无代价地成长或死去，每一个瞬间都是在欠债和还债。”出生不能被选择，我们只能选择每一个当下如何去过。是啊，谁又能知道自己在命运中会抽中哪张牌面呢
#你将不再孤单
陪着我们走过一生的人 最后全是悲惨
味同嚼蜡。意象堆叠看似高级，说穿了不过是一些简单而又刻意的成长比喻，干燥乏味。
导演可以啊，处女作就这么厉害。结尾不太喜欢，略略有点俗气。“当男人在房间里，你就不是女人，而是餐食、茶水。”20220604
挺好的，就是镜头晃得难受。以及完全不能以看故事片的逻辑来看。
你看它千奇百样 源源不止
老女巫不要那么丑就观感不会这么不舒服，4:5的画框比例很有年代感，文艺片、诗电影，不是什么恐怖片，更像是诗意地真实描述在那个年代生存的不易和爱的难得，最后通过新旧女巫的不同对比，爱的羁绊原来如此微妙而感人。
带有奇幻色彩的唯美伤痕文艺电影，一点也不恐怖。可看可不看，画面挺北欧，就连女巫之间的互相毁灭都是源于嫉妒，没意思。
又血腥又文艺的片子，打三星主要还是节奏真的挺慢，然后探索世界体验过这么多身份后最后落脚是当女人生小孩？
老女巫对女巫说：“你为什么就这么简单？！”“这世界灼烧着、痛苦着，这世界令人刺痛、让人恶心，然而、然而……”
摘下坚强的面具接受不完美的自己是一条漫长且艰难的路，然而残酷的是对于早发性阿尔兹海默症患者来说，一切都像是被按下了十倍速，转眼间就被时间甩在了身后。父亲曾错过的女儿的童年和成长，在逾期三十年后尽数补上，也算是万般不幸中的最大慰藉。在关注病症本身的同时，它又像是自我迷失的巨大隐喻，在这样残酷的过程中，家人便是浩瀚星空中那个耀眼的仙后座，无论我们深陷何处，都能带我们找到归途。故事本身并不出彩，却赢在了表达的方式和内容上。当父亲握住女儿的手，当女儿轻抚母亲的头，那些没有刻意渲染的情感全都喷涌而出。
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