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".
太难看啦，除了冰岛风景和一些猎奇习俗其他的都很无脑。想看维京文化和茹毛饮血blabla我还不如继续刷一遍《Vikings》。
野蛮人复仇记，两手空空扮猪吃虎的过程还是挺过瘾的
不好意思啊，就不是拍给爆米花爽文观众看的，当邪典遇上莎士比亚，正视愚昧与不适，你需要这样的观影体验。
身体的改造？器官的切除？艺术的解构？
一镜到底的打戏是真的惊艳：浑身肌肉、淤泥、汗、血的Skarsgård。Eggers审美一如既往的好。比约克...一如既往神棍。3.8
大银幕。失望透顶，和看一个超长预告片别无二致。属于两不靠，不伦不类的，很奇怪的一片，类型化纯度不够，爽感的获取被抑制，但另一方面有着这样的制片规模你又不可能做出一部完全作者化的电影。前面很多时候都在尽量避免分切镜头，弃用多机位拍摄，选用平滑的移动长镜头调度取而代之，但显然像最后火山口的叔侄大战你不可能还这么拍，你不得不去做更多的镜头分切来分解动作，否则不仅没有燃点，疼痛感也不强烈，情绪和动作的爆点终究还是依靠了分镜，所以到制胜一击时马上切至了全景。在拍法上我感觉艾格斯的本意是追求更多从容平缓的长镜头段落，但我认为大体并不适用，以艺术片的运镜方式来拍摄激烈的战斗场面值得商榷，主角的野性和怒气从未感染摄影机，全片的镜头都在诉诸一种平静的冷异感，摄影机与角色各自为战，渐次拉开了同观众的心理距离。
虽然每一次的行为艺术更像是掺杂着欲望的变体，但感觉重口程度也不如钛看着疼，也没有钛的表现手法那般直白。加了很多的概念，像是在谈哲学，但是完全不懂哲学的人看这个片无疑是对牛弹琴即视感。
明显觉察到被干预的痕迹，最明显的就是后面某段船戏，运镜和打光跟整个片子都不在一个系统之内。艾格斯延续了之前片子里非常出色的影像和调度，虽然没有《灯塔》那么极端。阿姆雷特成年后的出场到第一次展示他突袭的段落算小小地惊艳了一把，但不知道是不是这部分把片子的预算都花完了。从原型改编为戏剧再反改回此。
最后一幕柯南伯格说圣女贞德 而我又看到了拉奥孔 只不过是能消化毒液的拉奥孔 对于超越人类肉体的人类而言 痛与不痛 喜悦与悲伤 外在与内在都是混沌而陌生的 （蕾真的性感到流泪 虽说整体观影感受是期待了个寂寞 美学到位却缺少彼此间的连接
three stars for the misrepresentation of shrooms
比例的问题，还是别把少例当成常态吧
这是为当代人解压的电影，里面的角色都单纯得充满安全感。不会让你被人类的阴谋折腾得身心俱疲。那俩人决斗的地方好像穆斯塔法，有几个镜头E大也神似老王，好想叫他快点占领高地啊。
The perfect render of ethnography and mythology, authenticity and outlandishness, OG viking black metal music throughout (!!) in the background and icelandic landscape in the fore. It just builds and builds and keeps getting better! I didn't know what to expect going in but came out mind-pretty-fucking-blown.
两星半，预告片 is overrated，看完成片倒觉得有点无聊。斯图尔特你为什么每次演戏都有种嗑完药的抽搐感？
大气的维京王子复仇记。导演没延续前两部成功的小成本电影路线改走大场景大特写来营造维京人野蛮强悍。投资花在冰岛瑰丽美景并强调个人风格内容显单薄而空洞。形式大于内容的作品（喜欢在火山岩浆上那场决斗戏）
★★★★★★★★★★★★ I walk on the lands of God, revenge is my life.
当痛觉消失，当手术刀切入身体成为一种获得快感的途径，当人类可以随意操纵自己的器官
在《狗镇》（2003）中，格蕾丝·玛格丽特·穆利根（妮可·基德曼饰）被演员亚历山大·斯卡斯加德的父亲斯特拉恩·斯卡斯加德饰演的查克强奸。在电视剧《大小谎言》（2017）中，塞莱斯特·赖特（妮可·基德曼饰）被演员亚历山大·斯卡斯加德饰演的丈夫佩里·赖特虐待。在《北欧人》（2022）中，1967年出生的妮可·基德曼饰演Queen Gudrún，被1976年出生的亚历山大·斯卡斯加德饰演的儿子Amleth杀死。
四星半。最喜欢的《哈姆雷特》改编。完全剔除了莎翁戏剧的多愁善感。神话和写实水乳交融。
3,5 风格与15年《麦克白》有异曲同工之妙（甚至可以怀疑参考了最后的duel）至始至终都没脱离莎翁式复仇悲剧的框架，但电影从后半部分愈来愈失控，朝着外放与疯癫的方向散发，任由血腥暴力扩张。
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