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".
LGBT真是没有题材拍了，三碗豆腐豆腐三碗。
我太服气了，人类史诗
网恋被骗的故事，大部分时间都在描述无用的信息，也不知道主题到底要讲什么，人物转变也无迹可寻。
最近不知道为啥喜欢上了拉美小语种片。与美利坚的同类型片子相比，拉美的影片中人物总能更打动我。特别是底层人民那种悲观，绝望的生活中又带着点对美好生活的向往的感觉。总有那么一两个误入从来不曾想象的世界的过客，跟正常情况下可能不会有交集的人擦出火花，给那个绝望中挣扎的人带来一点亮光，在他希冀的眼神中最后又飘然远去。有时候，这句话说的没错。相濡以沫，不如相忘于江湖。爱过，拥有过，便足够了。虽然最终没有在一起，但是我挺喜欢这个结局的，剧中人物此次的记忆留在了最美好的一刻。写完这个评论，突然想起了几年前在墨西哥的日子。也是电影中这样荒凉的戈壁，和空旷的公路上行驶的汽车，还有播放的乡村音乐，突然很是怀念。
想起余秀华的诗穿越半个中国去睡你，在网上遇到自己的灵魂伴侣然后在酷暑中驱车去找寻那个不知道在哪儿的爱人，他的这些冲动和忍耐已经给自己展示了自己的真心，或许这也是最终能突破自己接纳真爱的契机
好久没看到愿意拍得这么认真的同性片。像王家卫的皮，但也有本土化的东西。绿光红裙，蛇皮裸背，那样极致的打光在暧昧、炙热、模糊不清的南美被肆意纵容着，变得更性感，更自然，更贴近人的肌肤。
网聊能美好到把人掰弯？或许吧。其实人物及情感的立体化塑造都做得很不错了，至少在这一题材命题作文范畴里，能算高分了吧，但仅对于我这种保守直来说，没有了《哭泣游戏》这样的时代政治背景，纯异装同是很难接受和消化的。
为了完成指标的同志片。《哭泣游戏》已经上映三十年了，后辈却连个皮毛都学不到
年轻钢琴家艾玛(莫利·库斯饰)在祖父过世后回到祖父的小屋，意外和幼狮、小灰狼成为好朋友。想不到这件事...
故事很简单，感情纠葛了半天，直男永远都是直男，gay最终还是活出了自我。主要是为了男主看的，说不上哪里帅，但就是很戳我，演员把直男气质演绎的淋漓尽致，这简直就是我身边大多数直男的形象。但编剧把这种直男的形象过于美好化了，历史经验告诉我们，事实上是，永远不要碰直男，他们感觉自己在被骗后只会让你尝到“铁拳”的滋味，如果还像剧中那样纠葛不清的，基本都是bi或深柜。
节奏娓娓道来，公路电影，演员表演中规中矩，3/5，就是sara脸上的痘太出戏，每一次要纵情投入都逃不过镜头切近….
没有才华，不懂节制。浪费主演。浪费编剧。浪费摄影。本来可以是个好电影。
#第78届威尼斯电影节# 在这片私人化的荒漠里有着太多的秘密和故事，但也正因这片荒漠的寂静与脱俗，能够让两个在错位关系中相识的人重新认识彼此。有着同样煎熬的过去，又难以看清未来的方向，这次见面意外地让两人从冲突中产生共情，从迷失中找寻希望。但整个电影在剧情布局上还是有些不足，开始30分钟才出片名进正题，最后30分钟才开始剧情发力，中间的部分则有着拖沓。不过还是很喜欢这个结尾，“and I need you know tonight, I need you more than ever…”
救赎不等于幸福，认同不等于相爱。嗯，网恋有风险
男二其实很会撩，是个磨人的小妖精。男主最开始两次见到女装男二，眼睛里都是光。
在私人荒漠尽管贫瘠荒芜，但至少有你，有自由。
男主的身材真是unbelievably sexually attractive, 眼神忠诚又可爱，我看傻了？电影好像在讨论一种流动性向的可能，和《迷恋荷尔蒙》中大兵爱上跨性别女不同，这里男二心理认同还是男生，anyway，I’m all for this idea. 但电影本身在许多情节冗长，还有一些缺乏说服力
本身也标志着对原有社会政治建筑的直觉化解构。在这场无法弥合的爱情漩涡中，我们最终可以见证私密的自由荒漠可以胜过无解的城市规训，并相信进步的可能
同片泛滥的时代，三分钟没有船戏已劝退99%的观众了……难得本片细腻柔软的讲述，两位男主表演上乘、诚意满满，給父亲打电话想诉说的那段尤其到位、令人共情，很好很好的电影…4星
在如诗如画的大自然哥动物世界里，人和故事都是多余的
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