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".
3.9分。 每个人的眼里，自己都是被忽视和受委屈的那一个，周遭则到处都是恶意和敌对。斯科特没有刻意对女性的历史处境做出批判，而是选用了一个独特的视角，让我们可以用不同的切面进入到当时的历史语境里，并且与三位关键性的人物产生共情。由此，你才不会认为最后女性的视角过于偏狭，为了女权而女权，更能理解被强暴的女人将要面临的困境。 斯科特能在八十多岁的高龄，对这样一个语义丰富的文本做出展现，用古典的打光和布景，让这一中世纪的故事变得可信，且戏剧张力十足，确实值得钦佩。
让人想到阿婴。虽然前者是根植于（）贞洁文化的罗生门，探讨的是女性情欲的合理性。本片是在中世纪骑士荣誉文化中，放大了真正受到损害的女性身体从未被看见，而男人以此获得荣誉的荒谬：强奸不是关于受害者，是关于其所有者的财产被损害。妻子可能受到的虐杀和自己的荣誉相比，从来不值得考虑。但是一个母亲，却承认愿意为了孩子放弃真相。人性的光辉高下立见。看得震惊难受到暂停了好几次，喝点水，吃个苹果缓一缓。结局耐人寻味。
出人意料，第三段的女性视角将一个平淡的故事升华出了女权主义思想
就看最後決鬥，21世紀過了20年，還有這種水平的冷兵器對抗。白雪飄灑，點落在盔甲上的冷寒；眾目睽睽，兩個人物聚合到頂點的矛盾，緊張到窒息的肅殺之氣。匕首扎進皮肉那一聲嚦血，面上承受數次猛撞後的血綻肉破。
老雷是一个真正的女权主义者:直到第三章开始，观众才明白这部电影的野心--补全男性叙事中缺席的女性视角。最后那场决斗，隐喻了几千年以来，女人在男人的血腥斗争中永远只是一个观众，甚至是这场战斗的“战果”或者是“牺牲品”。那一个男人拼尽一切赢得的“荣誉”又是什么呢？斯科特用一段非常简单的平行剪辑揭露了这背后的虚伪和虚无:簇拥欢呼的人群只为每一个“胜者”欢呼，他们才压根不在乎“truth”。狂热的人群里，唯有玛格丽特看透了这一切。
PS:今天是雷德利·斯科特84岁生日🎂
总归有种大费周章烹小鲜的感觉，这故事有必要花这么长时间讲三遍吗？雷导这是在过中世纪瘾吗，最后的决斗戏确实精彩。
有意思的是一些看似相同的场景在不同的POV中的展示。实际还是在探讨中世纪女性的地位和生存现状。
看著茱蒂·科默那張韻味別緻的臉蛋，不時會讓人出戲去回味“小變態”詭異又捉狹的表情，只怪她在《殺死伊芙》裡表演的太經典了。
罗生门是极好的反映人性的叙事手法，不论剧中还是剧外 更不论历史时代
6/10。一个兄弟与爱人的经典故事用不同视角拍了三遍，最传统的方法来凸显最后决战的悲壮。放在三十年前也许可以，但现在已经过时了。发情种马交配后下一场就是强奸戏，有必要这么浅白吗？但这一切都可以用“现在没有这种电影”来辩解，哎，真的没有了。（电影圈一直把老司机当作大帅来用我是真的不理解）
这是中世纪，一个女人为真相发声，一个男人决定拼死决斗，不管男人是出于虚荣还是真义，他们守护了无法自辩的真相，也许出于上帝的公正或者仁慈，也许是男人和女人作为人的倔强。
棋盘上的傀儡们有尝试过挣扎，王，将，骑士，公主，平民。拍的挺好的，拍法的不同营造了巨大的观测偏差，关于人类，大抵如此。
为中世纪的女人发生，这就是雷导的本意，所以它根本不需要像《罗生门》一样，把真真假假藏着众说纷纭的迷雾里。这个年代的观众或许已经不再需要深沉的史诗，但雷德利斯科特此番要多像那个与大海和马林鱼搏斗的老人，那股子劲儿谁没被感染到，我很难不带感情地去评价这部电影。雷老您就继续拍吧，还有别忘了导演剪辑版！我还等着呐！
前面两段太老套了，最后一段的叙事视角和决斗场面都很好。70
（豆瓣真空期补标9月末-12月）3.5 并非“罗生门”，而是一部直观的女性电影。
以为是罗生门，却又用字幕给你强调哪些是真相，显得少了点胆量，走的稳健路线。三个视角重复用的镜头太多了，有时候看的有点不耐烦，会短暂怀疑最后一个视角的必要性，当然最后揭示故事的主要意义是展现女性的视角，表现女性受的压迫和不公的，这就跟前面的结构有点拧巴。不过最后的决斗场景拍的太牛了，手心攥紧了看的，这才有"大导风范"。不过话说回来，这部分紧张感有多少是跟主旨的女性视角相关的呢？
这不是罗生门，是屁股决定脑袋。马特达蒙演这样一介武夫气质上距离稍远，倒是本阿弗莱克演的皮耶差点没认出来。
中世纪ME TOO故事，竟然还是真的，这三段罗生门结构是真的精彩，细节里层层推进，把这几个男人的嘴脸扒拉得干干净净，应该是这几年看过最好的“女性”电影，感谢几位为此“牺牲”的知名男性演员~~和全能雷爷。
过去男人为荣誉而战，现在男人应为女人而战。
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