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".
电影里的讽刺其实是很幼稚的，人物也比较脸谱化。但作为爽片还是挺好看的，基本的人物逻辑与核心立意还是有的。
绝对的时事讽刺喜剧，从上到下黑了个遍，娱乐性与时政热点巧妙结合，用科幻的外壳讽刺了现实的荒诞。小李子的咆哮博士很有味道了，哈哈...
遭重了... 这个破玩意不配称为电影 荷里活再捧麦凯我真的会谢...
娱乐化世代，一切都可以娱乐化，更可怕的是，拥有权力的政治家和拥有巨大资本的资本家勾结起来以后，那么即使是人类末日这种事情，也逃不过被操控的命运。对于站在金字塔顶端的精英们来说，普通人的绝境，未必是他们的绝境。片名叫《不要抬头》，然而更多的时候，上层精英把控一切，底层人民连抬头的危机意识都不会有，这才是最残酷的。
[3.5/5.0] Ron Perlman 角色用手槍打彗星是不是在致敬巴頓將軍ＸＤ
各种讽刺看得挺开心比如stupid tiktok challenges 这星光闪闪的lineup光写完大家的名字都要花好长时间 茶就无足轻重的凑热闹角色 Cate身材好好！对比起来老李被称什么最性感科学家可见鬼去吧他在这里看着的确像我和我的家乡里范伟的扮相 如果知道什么时候会死 在死之前会做什么呢？和亲朋好友聚在一起最后的晚餐其实挺不错
美国贺岁片拍人类末日还挺带感的，小李奉献了荒野猎人以来最好演出，就是终于不那么Leo了，希拉里：直接报我身份证得了。结局加半分。
7分，彻头彻尾的讽刺喜剧，台上口号喊得再响亮背后也不过是虚伪和自私的利己主义，一切都成为政治角力和企业盈利的工具，他人的生死在有些人眼中已经无关重要。最后的反转来得好，人总要付出代价的。
亚当麦凯的节奏有点迷，可以删掉一些情节，留些三星少将卖白宫零食的段子就够讽刺了，要知道奇爱博士只有95分钟啊。
笑麻了就是说，然而笑着笑着就笑不出来了，最后竟有一丝丝伤感，每一个梗挪到现实生活中发现居然并不陌生，这时荒诞喜剧反而变成了现实题材的正剧了。总有人告诉你要做一只把头埋在土里的鸵鸟，总有人在孩子说皇帝没穿新衣的时候说不信谣不传谣，还总有人拼了命努力却不过是他人的一颗棋子而有的人却赢得不费吹灰之力。当下的生活频频让我觉得就是电影里演的这样，大家捂着耳朵闭着眼睛关上嘴巴，假装不知道世界在发生什么，只期待如果有一天谎言信得足够久变成真的了话，那能够这样死去倒也是大团圆的结局。“毁灭吧，赶紧的，累了。”此刻没有什么比这句话更能中肯地形容看完的观感。
比起社会治理的无效性，我更感兴趣的是两位专业人士如何被体制改变、腐蚀或边缘化
三点五星，太荒诞了，荒诞的好真实。每一个情节设置都切中当下社会现状要害。就是结尾太过真实，如果巴什公司真能分离陨石，又会是怎样的呢？
爽！又好笑又悲凉，愚蠢的人类啊，可赶紧毁灭吧。《好莱坞左翼工作者协会正告美国人民书》
真好，这在我看来算是HE。其实这样的等死就不可怕了，可怕的永远是“生活还要继续。” 能和爱的人在一起到世界末日，不是很浪漫么。只是落实到中国的现实因素就不免是，如同过年一般，最终是去男方家还是女方家等死。甜茶依然迷人！
我还挺喜欢这部电影，无论前面的各种梗、自黑，还是最后的温情和戏谑，都挺合胃口。
很神奇，你把它当喜剧来看，完全笑不出来；但你把它当科幻看，omg，笑死。所以，我们这两年的生活也是这样，当喜剧来过，抑郁，当末日科幻大片来过，噢，genius！
说这是第一个敢拍末世结尾的电影还是看得太少，没看过拉斯冯提尔的《忧郁症》吧？剪辑保持了亚当迈凯一贯的水准。中间的部分讽刺段落不错。甜茶的角色设计算是个惊喜，小李子没了拿奖执念后表演反而更好了。看预告片就猜到结尾和大部分过程，不过这不是最大的问题，最大的问题是这片的讽刺性本就是它自身讽刺的对象，而且归根结底，《不要抬头》的讽刺还是西方中心主义的讽刺。
在一个疯狂的世界里，如果一切注定毁灭，那你是愿意跟着一起疯狂，还是直到世界毁灭前最后一刻，也要保持常识、爱与理性？
还挺好玩的，嘲讽满点了，也不能说是没有必要吧，毕竟把人类社会当代生活的乏味无趣展现得淋漓尽致了，但要说有意思呢也还好，从电影质量上也完美体现了当代人类的没有必要了，所以看到彗星要撞地球的这个过程我其实还挺开心的，唯一的遗憾是彗星不会真的跟影片中那样到来，不过最后看到动物们的镜头还是挺难过的，所以对人类灭亡的期望还是限定在智人种族比较好，把地球留给其他动植物那真是完满了。
观感4；开头节奏怪，情绪别扭，就算是为了适配剧情固有的尴尬基调，也挺没必要；但影片过半，情绪就顺畅了，一路走高，最后煽情非常到位；结局之后还有个小结局，虽然情绪基调不一样，但格局拉大了，还有种水晶金字塔配卢浮宫的意思；可惜最后的最后还有个狗尾续貂的彩蛋，格局很小，生生减掉半分观感。本片上线正值针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪（尤其是黑人犯案）猖獗之时，却在仅有的两个警队群像镜头里于显眼位置安排了东亚裔警察；考虑到本片直白地讽刺了针对黑人的警察暴力，所以主创绝不可能意识不到这种安排的问题（近年出名的警察致黑人死亡事件中，先后有两名东亚裔警官卷入，引发亚裔-黑人关系的争议）。有戏份的亚裔角色有二，一是腐败无知的东亚裔女官员，一是出卖女主角的西亚裔前男友。这片应该能算“白左（黑左）不喜欢亚裔”的又一案例。
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