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".
近年绝少的华语恐怖佳作，老梗新花。伪纪录片、密教古村、浆液蛆虫、无耳少女、癫狂呢喃、密集恐惧、满身经文、自行撞头、传播诅咒…午夜凶铃、咒怨、邪、无耳芳一、遗传厄运，浓烈既视感，开首及最末也致敬十年前的邪典PS照空手指。艺术设计、道具质感、角色的妆容及打光都无可指摘；不过酷似刘若英的女主及其时刻惨郁的面容，加之沙嗲味的口音总能将恐怖消解。瑜中多瑕，在华丽包装之下，摄影形式和片段化叙事的指向都不明确：华丽的机位让生活日记、探险等理由构成的纪录片格式荡然无存，虽然监控、视频通话、CT、手机追拍的加入都积极迎合着时代；另一方面，内容，女儿朵朵的癫狂化也断续巧合、无逻辑递进，并未构成一条明确的主线。贴合母爱主题确让全剧核心更具合理性，但拳师振奋：仅再度提供了一份歇斯底里、无助无能、愚昧猾诈的女性文本。
虽然我倍速看完，但大家看盗版影源的时候没有流进导演口袋一分钱，也不必这么说晦气啊…导演才说“晦气”
大威天龙！
你大部分的剧情 你的剪辑 你的镜头
爱你孤身走洞窟
好吧，看完几篇影评以后决定回来把两星改成三星。一是作为恐怖片来说它确实够恐怖，坦白说我也几乎全程手捂着眼睛不太敢看，因此错过了一些剧情细节。二是这些细节原来构建了一个蛮完整的剧情暗线，设定上也很细致，感觉是用心了。三是结尾导演选择这种冒犯式的手法，的确是有冒险精神的，我个人比较肯定这种勇气。但还是要说，就“伪纪录片式民俗鬼片”这一类型而言，它真远不如《中邪》.........用力过猛，各种塞的太满，最不能忍的是导演明明是用的传统电影的分镜设计和表演风格，但硬要全程用伪纪录片的手法拍，让人极度出戏。而且动不动就是大段大段的恐怖音效+煽情音乐，时时刻刻都感觉导演在伸手摁着观众的头咆哮“给我哭”！而且整个创意究其根本，不就是小时候qq群那种”把这条消息转发给10个朋友，不然全 家 暴 毙“么.....
看完和女朋友一起大呼晦气，也算是电影的成功了，优点是村落那段和邪教相关道具水平非常在线，世界一流的水平，再多给制作组点钱，完全可以构建一个6部起步的邪教世界观，未来可期。其次是结尾揭露女主邪恶本质这点很给力，比装可怜强多了。然后是给观众下诅咒有种第九艺术的体验，缺点是故事合理性还得捋一捋，然后用爱发电这段看得出导演努力的方向，但力度不够，震撼度也不够。这点《来了》里亲情的冷淡和邪恶反而让我印象深刻。
你叫什麼名字? 以後報個名 都會有陰影~ 哈哈
剧情结构其实很简单，或许不是最吓人的恐怖片，但绝对是最有新意的恐怖片。女主角开头直问观众「你们相信祝福吗?」、「你的意识，决定你的命运」、「其实我们都在不知不觉中，相信我们的意志可以带来好的结果」，女主角一度说服自己「早就不怕了，所以这些东西都不会存在」、「想着最喜欢的事情就能不去想那些恶」、「凤梨、兔兔、汪汪汪」，不知道大家有沒有经验，例如平常关灯都沒事，但不知道哪根筋不对，突然想到关灯后会有鬼，当下就不敢关灯了，或是夜里平常一个人搭乘电梯都沒事，但是突然想到鬼片的片段，当下就突然害怕搭乘电梯，或是平常大半夜一个人走在沒人的路上都沒事，突然一个意念偏掉想到会不会有鬼，最后整段路都一直念咒语加速跑走，这就是信仰的本质，因为相信，所以一切才会有效果或有影响。因为相信，所以存在。
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看恐怖片还要嫌弃被搞得不舒服、晦气的人到底是咋想的啊？前面代入感真的很强，作为鬼影实录式的恐怖片我觉得真实感是做到了的，中后期习惯了反而没有那么吓人了。但有几个坑总觉得没填上，比如从前被献祭的小女孩是怎么活了六年的？
彼得·汉德克有骂观众，而本片是咒观众，而正是这个咒一下子拔高了这部恐怖片的立意，那些互动以及最后隐藏的“恶意”十分妙，这些挑衅和冒犯也正是电影的华点，不要觉得晦气，只是在看电影而已，然而这个膈应的点也是这部电影最出彩的形式。从电影的角度说这是一部极其平凡且设计逻辑有很大问题不成功的伪纪录片，但正是这种冒犯的形式形成其核心，大胆的互动和引导让观众步步走入被诅咒的圈套，但是导演也考虑了观众的玻璃心，在结尾他告诉你不想看可以到此为止，可你的好奇心和不信邪的心让你停止了吗？所以有必要因此觉得晦气而给一个差评吗？看恐怖片的意义是什么？作为观众被谩骂和冒犯可以应激吗？恐怖片的效应不就是用某个概念来刺激观众吗，因此他让我们觉得晦气激发我们对“邪”的回避心，撕开内心的伪装，它已经成功了。
感应灯闪瞬移姑娘，心灵动画回放定格，大红灯笼活人烧烤，鬼打墙纸盆吊颈车顶，仙姑脱发反脸暴走，千手隧道无限深脸……东西怪谈+伪纪录一并乱抄，把无耳芳一都能抄成印度佛母邪神。虽然原创元素太少，但片里片外煽情营销挺会玩，各种本土化做得还算有诚意。跟朋友讨论后对片子有了不同认识，剧本做得真挺好
拍攝手法是敗筆。其他尚好。只能說及格或良好，算不上優秀。基於真實事件改編是加分項，但把雲南某民間巫術嫁接到密宗某體系上純屬牽強附會。密宗，不管是藏密、唐密還是東密，不可能衍生出如此邪惡之法，也不可能有如此邪惡之神明。
阿原作死踹洞穴
真晦气啊就是说 宣传了半年台湾最恐怖的恐怖片 就这啊就这啊 恐怖系数0 恶心系数3 晦气系数10 真的无语搞这套 结尾退退退🤺🤺🤺咱们爱国敬业诚信友善的唯物主义者虽然不信邪但是你不能来恶心我 谢谢🙏
中式恐怖可拍的太多太多了，是不需要黄暴却让人头皮发麻的恐怖，它自成体系、有特色，素材更是多如牛毛。可惜内地禁太久，不知错失多少经典，即使有望解禁，也不会再有黄金时代的条件，强如张艺谋再拍一遍红高粱也还原不了当年的真实感，更别说像霸王别姬、四大名著这样需要天时地利人和的作品了。
看睡着了，什么玩意，台巴子别刷了，还有吹拍摄方式的，是家里刚通网，没看过伪纪录片吗？
为Jodie Comer细致入微的演技鼓掌，可塑性很强。演得了小人物，也撑得起商业爆米花，更能抗起super killer的疯癫。好的演员是多面手。
想起武林外传里诅咒信那集，韩娟被马卓子骗分发诅咒信以为这样能减轻身上所谓的不详灾祸，可人家最后还是花钱把送给香芋的信收回来了，可你看导演呢，为了电影效果不破迷信反而要把诅咒散播给观众，真的恶意满满！
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