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".
失望。剪辑频繁炫技，但仍跳不出毫无进展的文本，人物无脑行为逻辑就已经令人咂舌。再说回文本，将性色附身于砍杀已不是新鲜事，逐个砍杀过程更是没劲之极，像极了垂老之人的苟延残喘，只会更进一步感叹人物行动逻辑太蠢。砍杀核心仍是不洁，但垂老肉体的引入是想引起反应强烈的生理不适。幸存之女的最后那段互文，画蛇添足。总结：在无法文本深入的情况下，视听并没有改进，无数概念导向德州电锯杀人狂，却不得不说是一次浅显而没劲的模仿秀！
修正主义的德州电锯，内容丰富程度远胜前辈，血腥和恐怖气氛到位了，老妇床戏恐怖至极！！！
太特么棒了！ 一部脱胎于老式恐怖片却不走寻常路的电影！如果是传统的恐怖片的恐怖是来自于未知和突然的惊吓，那么这部电影就把已知的、缓慢的恐怖做的令人癫狂！片中的老人既恐怖又让人可怜和感动，很值得深思。
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老年人应如何疏解身体的衰老，如何面对欲望，这是个非常值得探讨的问题，但当作恐怖片的题材来拍，着实有些过于冒犯了
血统纯正的美国B级砍杀电影，2022年目前为止第一恐怖爽片
太一般…老年人招谁惹谁了 被导演给拍成嫉妒 自怨自艾 性爱成瘾的形象…
女主还蛮好看（可爱）哒；为什么迫害黑白牛牛！！比起血浆，衰老才是最恐怖的。
X.2022.2022.2160p.WEB-DL.x265.10bit.SDR.DDP5.1.Atmos-NOGRP 直接看后半段吧，片中的老人很恶心
太特么可以了！我的年度最佳恐怖片！好恶心）好喜欢！构图可太棒了！！！今年能等到前传么！！！！！
一个关于老妇人想要爱爱老伴儿却担心自己心脏病发不肯行房却说别人勾引他老婆要杀人的故事。
恐怖的不是两个老家伙杀人，恐怖的是杀人之前年轻人的寻欢作乐和老人坟墓一般的生活来回切换！一样的背景音乐，两种强烈的情绪反差，快要有阴影了……
马克辛的双重人生，毁灭一切禁锢毒害自己的以重获自由
我就喜欢看又涩又恐怖的B片儿，这片复古内味儿
不够带劲，而且这老年人床戏简直是精神污染。
不知道想表达啥 讲ageism 又妖魔化老年人惊悚片都爱拿老年人的性做文章 （同故事的故事）彩蛋比正片好 建议安排
A24是不是也像银河映像似的有个杜琪峰那样的人？
发力都在海报上，也不准确，，，毕竟还有小电影
摄影剪辑音效音乐都太棒了，海报就值得一星。
A24 always special！！！戏中戏刻意追求形式感，米娅·高丝裸足神似昆汀磨坊戏作。视听风格依旧炸裂，切题角度永远不落窠臼。宗教亵渎、老年人性压抑、年轻人性解放，体制反抗、灵肉分离、欲求不满、爱而不得、追忆青春等一众看似风马牛不相及的素材杂糅，观影体验堪称离奇。
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