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".
很治愈，很感动（小声bb：那颗咸鸭蛋黄真不错）
全程都是高质量高密度的嘲讽，把美式民主这套从里到外烂穿了的制度扒了个底儿掉，面对灾难(疫情？）现实恐怕比电影更加魔幻，不过老美看来还是坚信没有他们人类就会完蛋，缺了点胸怀。
主题比较现实，告诉我们战争的牺牲品就是民众，没有办法，但是我会带着他们的无辜继续挥剑，剧情不错，莲弟弟已经成为野人了。哈哈
伦太郎爹观念也太奇葩了，伦太郎那简直太好了，贤人那看不明白，托马那到还行，不过反派打不过反派去打正派，太吊胃口了，大结局还有一些坑没填，
不论是伦太郎坚守自己身为剑士的信念，还是贤人的爱情，托马为了小陆隐瞒自己火之剑士的身份都能让人体会到深情，而不同以往热血漫，靠空吼来阐释自己所认为的真理，无疑这是近几年来最好的外传，也相信剑士们终将演奏出自己的深爱的四重奏
有点仓促
极致的荒诞里有极致的真实。它还不够好的地方是还不够荒诞，它在破的时候还是立了一些东西的，这让它更像个悲剧，实际它就是个悲剧。片子是想告诉我们世界末日这样的事太严肃而完全不应该轻松诙谐么？但它又是以一个诙谐的方式呈现的，这是否是矛盾的？片子非常反映当下，疫情下的美国让人感觉这部片子里的故事完全有可能发生。
我挺喜欢结局的，二向箔还可以说无能为力，但彗星却因为我们的不团结而让地球重生，挺好的。喜剧性感受的很弱，讽刺虽然刻意不过到也直接。我们如何认知是事实还是队伍，或许越往后这个问题越重要。小李子这个人物的设计是很出彩的，面对困境带来的机遇首先是贪图享受，虽然一直有良知的纠结但知道尊严被人踩碎才选择反击。
两个月前看觉得很照进现实，两个月后看更觉得照进现实了。。
讽刺喜剧，末日片。人眼可见的慧星撞地球危机被一步步忽略。
真的是恶意满满又诚意满满，本以为是日版哥斯拉反讽日本政府效率低下，又看了一会，才发现这不就是艺术来源于生活嘛？！很真实！几乎所有的人物和故事情节与现实都有对应！影片走向确实让人很无奈！被娱乐文化封闭和控制的国度，遇到大灾难的操作，确实让人窒息！小李子演的是真好，虽然依稀记得他演过的诸多经典，但在此片中依然让人不出戏，甚至跟着他一起着急。
挺有意思。开嘲讽力度可以：政治、财阀、传媒、大数据……都在射程中；民粹、反智、娱乐至死……全球无一幸免。（是谁说小李子这次表演类马景涛的？看完本片我已经被洗脑且深以为然
every time I watch Leonardo's new films all I can think about is his young beautiful face. Oh youth.
电影从头到尾都在讽刺美国政治，以一种荒谬、诙谐的方式，让我这个很少关心时政的人也能被打动、被说服。太强了。
嘲讽的点挺多，挺乐呵的。地球毁灭的题材最适合平安夜看了。
我们都身处这样的荒诞之中，为什么会这样？人类的自我幻想太大，以至于看不见幻觉之外的事物。此外，权力意志玩弄一切，也将会毁灭自身。讽刺的点太多了，看到了深深的虚无感，疫情后的终生相。
saber的TV是好故事，但是外传跟TV几乎毫无关系而且带着莫名其妙，只能，呃，你猜为什么大家喜欢童话故事？只是因为年龄小吗？
这确实是非常好的外传了，就是剧情节奏有点快，如果内容可以扩充一下，把悲剧感加强一些会更好的。风格很喜欢，写实日常和悬疑，血泪。希望之后还有更好的。
5555555 真诚而善良 每次都会让我痛哭一场 或许是最后的这一次也谢谢hilda
低端黑 一些发飙点我看得很爽 想起阅后即焚了 主要是把媒体和政府都骂了个遍 论证一下新冠的极端情况 各种指代估计懂王们都看懂了 这部爆米花工整又政治正确没啥新意 但确实又是只有美国敢拍并能拍出来的片子/结尾到末日竟然看出了遗愿清单的味儿 如果问我希望如何度过生命的最后一天 我也希望和家人朋友在一起 最后一堆人移民外太空秒想起元宇宙 元宇宙如何如何和我们有啥关系 有钱人为了糊弄老百姓真能想出各种表面高大上内里虚无的名词 看到他们光个屁股降落到外太空第一次觉得他们可怜 没韭菜了他们就是个屁
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
