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".
很惊讶居然没有一条评论在讨论男女主演如此相像的问题。女人用自己的形象绘制男人的变异，又或是男人设置一个虚拟的女人靶点表演自己的身份。无论如何，其原意都是个“本是同根生”的悲剧命题。电影本身和往常一样气氛佳高潮乏味
感觉这部电影只有意向跟不错的摄影，完全没有故事，最多有个人物小传设定罢了。根本就没好好讲故事。还好电影比较短，要不三星都不想给。
摄影很赞，够诡异，“男人”典型英国佬相，够怪异！一开始就知道，是心魔作祟！导演是不是种族歧视派？贬低黑人非要得到白人的爱，不然就自杀的低级人格！
沉浸式心理恐怖片，无论是基督还是green man还是苹果等一系列的那种西方的文化符号，都让整个片子充斥着诡异的氛围和强烈的挣扎感，个人还是比较喜欢这种异化的表达（主要是这个乡村美景和乡村音乐真的很美）不深刻不cult那还能是A24吗？还是第一次看如此强烈的男性凝视的影片，那种生殖、自然、恶心的象征画面真是一种别样的观影体验。女人逃避着心理压力来到乡村、一次偶然的机会在潮湿的隧道中完成“蒲公英受精”、后遇到四个男权社会压迫女性的象征、他们从无性别逐步变成健全的男人、女人的前夫…
摄影很赞，够诡异，“男人”典型英国佬相，够怪异！一开始就知道，是心魔作祟！导演是不是种族歧视派？贬低黑人非要得到白人的爱，不然就自杀的低级人格！
内化的男性凝视投向寂静的外部世界，理智沉睡之时这里充满了来自潜意识的梦魇，这只怪兽既是“愧疚”也是“无力”，是丈夫设下的阴影线，也是古老如岁月“不能为我征服之物将悉数毁灭”的诅咒。同一的面容也许并非男人们的真实样貌，却是这些强抑惊惧的女人心底心照不宣的影子
和《湮灭》一样，充满让人san值狂掉的克苏鲁场面。大爱加兰导演的风格。
生殖这部分还是看懂了的…这个片子只有6.9分是有一部分人破防了吗？
非常明白导演想表达什么。身为女性，就是原罪，无论如何，都会被捏碎。但是拍的过于奇特，风景真的特别美，这么美的地方确实毒瘤应该都该消失🫠
把女性对男性的恐惧原因以及男权无形的压迫构成，放大、拆解又表现出来，影像风格很赞，这个女性视角也是没想到加兰表现得这么好。就是这个放大解构得太明显惹…
公序良俗“邪典片”，又手握真理知识、又知晓现状问题，又有成套的隐喻体系，只拍电影是不是太屈才了？
men are like a disease
原译名《们》，改成《男人》之后显然更合适，A24从来没让我失望，小作坊类型精品。男人们入侵她的视野、房屋、生活、思想，不允许反抗的附属品，就算说是蹭女权热度也得夸一下A24想转型的努力咯
一个man必须用野蛮、自私、幼稚、自大、虚伪去向womem勒索爱和裂缝，man被想要不断复制自身的原罪牢牢锁在脑中，永远期待有一个专属women来崇拜跪倒在自己脚下。
MEN，男性糟粕大赏。男性的确应该看看，是什么令人恐惧或厌恶。最后的套娃不恐怖，但有点意思。不知道爱是什么，但绝不应该是束缚和伤害。
期待一部women 但应该没有人会拍因为没有消费者 什么思想到头来不都是生意（。）
恐惧感拉满，女性独自在陌生奇怪的乡村，总有男人不断来侵扰
非常不好评价，画面是真的美，恐怖片里最美的都当之无愧。金老师为艺术献身一人分饰多角且又一次为艺术全果演出，就凭这点我就想打四星了。至于剧情，我竟然觉得挺无感的，不知道我是对这种男女对立的观念伤害的根深蒂固以至于毫无触动，还是说从根本上就从未想过性别是对立的。可悲的不只是女性，而是全人类。
心理恐惧，男权世界，一人多面，概念不少，但这电影也太白了，隐喻都成了明喻，氛围有，感觉无。最后的一幕幕真是…..，能明白为何这样，但不能理解为什么非要这样。
奇观电影。整体是女人被男性折磨的故事，总结来说男人真就一个样
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