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".
哪哪儿都不对味，包括表演，黑奴版麦克白很别扭
在危险活动后，等待HIV抗体测试的结果是煎熬的。不过同性恋的爱情总是这么脆弱。
又是一版极具风格化的《麦克白》。与库泽尔版大量的苏格兰实地取景相反，科恩兄这次回归了既表现主义又极简的棚拍美学，表演风格也很大程度上加强了影片的舞台感。但总体来说改编的还是有些太中规中矩了，两位主演异于寻常的“高龄”也并未如预料中的那样带来新的解读，表演最为出彩的反而是饰演女巫的Kathryn Hunter和饰演Ross的Alex Hassell。同时也几乎看不到过往科恩的影子，也许这标志着单飞以后的新阶段？
离开了了弟弟的乔尔科恩确实有在做新的尝试，有很成功的地方——黑白光影画面做的太好了，单独抽出任何一帧都足够讲究；但是也有失败的地方——既然要做电影化改编，大段大段的莎翁台词就显得太累赘了，与简洁的画面割裂感极重，不如直接删繁去简。
匡威本年度最好的广告！
第五个麦克白！开头女巫过分可怕，半夜刺杀那一幕也真实的可怕；denzel好镇定啊，称王跳脚那段算是一个情绪小高潮了；最后打戏颇英雄，不过是黑白的叶子；把莎士比亚缺的预言里的儿子线补上来了；片子stage感很强，像一个童话寓言，感觉会适合做成蒂姆伯顿式动画；hollow crown
我为他付出真心，他却只把我当成夏日的“消遣”。戳爷真的太适合演电影了！！！夏日感拉满了！
很奇特，忠于莎士比亚，又不多于莎士比亚，并且，是纯然电影式的，在挖掘故事意涵上，依旧杰出。
这是一部可以让我这个直男可以共情的电影 比同类型的一些电影要强很多
诙谐又舒适的一部片，还是至亲和姐妹可靠，戳好有少年感，脸也有故事感和电影感，还很少年感，片尾曲是戳的创作曲，真的好好听很舒服的调调，so blue
第一次知道确诊AIDS需要三个月的等待。虽然知道肯定会很难熬但也不会特别共情，可以轻松地看下去。
那个船也开的更野了好吧！！
“等待不是放弃，并且要挥起fuck hand！”我们都会有wonderful life！
一句话总结就是“性病这件小事”剧情各种穿插然而也只是一个很普通的故事 戳戳和渣男也没什么发糖的cp感 也就只有戳戳夏日的少年气了 原来喜欢泰勒丝真的是各个国家同性恋的底层 笑死
黑与白，光与影，宫廷服饰与现代建筑，美国人演绎着英国戏剧，很有冲突性。有几个场景让我想起伯格曼的《第七封印》，其中乌鸦的形象确实是本片亮点，但拍的太好了，导致片中的预言有一种神明感，麦克白的人性反而显不平衡，把麦克白从一个悲剧故事拍成了寓言故事，这部分真的仁者见仁 智者见智了。ps只希望丹尼泽华盛顿别走摩根佛里曼那种说教老头的路线。
看预告以为会非常棒，但实际上三女巫戏份之外都有点无聊……形式大于内容，像是低配版的伯格曼。全员都有种表演痕迹过重的感觉，科恩婶的麦克白夫人更是意外地不戳我……
三个月的不安、忐忑，还有亲情、友情，爱情的漩涡中终于找到了属于自己心里的那种归宿……果然死男人都是靠不住的！顺便说一句我戳好棒！歌曲也好好听！
NYFF世界首映，科恩夫妇都来了。知道剧情，台词听不懂，只能赞赏一下摄影美学。虽然是apple tv出品，但影片开头黑屏一下转白，不由感叹这只能在影院看呐/二刷开头，麦克白从迷雾中走向镜头那一幕，绝了
奶奶真的很给人以力量，“a fist in the air”是我需要狠狠学习的。
摄影节奏表演几乎挑不出毛病，但是还是比较喜欢法鲨版本的麦克白。法鲨＞丹泽尔，而反过来科恩嫂＞歌迪亚，极简的风格注定这部剧的悲壮和悲凉，过于精心设计的格局和编排，戏剧性极强的人物和台词，比起法鲨版本的是恐惧与爱人的绝望，丹泽尔只有恐惧与良心的谴责推入地狱，随时一换就是一出舞台剧了。
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