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".
开头是搞笑的，而且景色拍得很好，就是节奏很慢。有一块星空很美，但很假，就有点怪。
柯南伯格看了都自愧不如，男人真的都一个样哈
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看得出來導演的中肯~~但是原罪~自大~利己~慾望~渴望愛之類的~~不感興趣不關心~~
Mind blowing. 希望所有女性拥有女主面对伤痛自我疗愈的能力和面对压迫坚决反击的勇气。自然的不代表是合理的，应当承受的。
当下的两性问题已经到了非常尖锐、极端的程度了，在极度夸张的特效下，一些最本质，最深层次的问题被揭露出来，意识形态、青少年、生育、教育、宗教、文化等等，这些内容要不以非常直观的方式呈现，要不被藏于隐喻之中。不过作为电影，确实没那么出彩，因为其本身也是一种传播意识形态的工具。
加兰真的非常对我胃口，隧道/男人分娩两场戏足够五星了。
推进故事的节奏很奇怪，孤芳自赏的感觉，导演一定觉得自己特牛，不紧不慢地铺陈男权社会的恐惧，结尾也是直接给我整无语了，高对比度的摄影甚至把英格兰乡村的树林拍出了星之彩的感觉。虽然千人一面的隐喻有点太直白了（本以为是《逃出绝命镇》那种的故事），但在今年已经端下柯南伯格的前提下，本片依然能贡献年度最让人震惊的cult场面，真是实属不易，看不懂但大为震撼了属于是。
就这？？？除了连环套娃够猎奇之外也太无聊了🥱
女性电影成了这几年的热门了。牧师代表的宗教，警察代表的公权力，小孩代表的与生俱来对女性的追捕与厌恶……整个小村都是男人，代表无所不在的男权社会对女性的包围伤害，而他们还要冠以“想要得到你的爱”的名义。
现在太多的词语用的不精确了。恐男，哪些人恐男？恐的是所有的男，还是特定的某些男…
前半段美如画，后半段惊悚加cult，跟男女关系……竟然有那么点像。
前半段异常唯美，后半段异常扭曲的血腥，但概念真的挺好的。
被淹没在人群中，抬头一看是被形形色色的男人们筑起的高墙。自以为冲出重围步入伊甸，哪知寄生于千百张面孔的撒旦早就捣毁了她曾住过的乐园。
A failed attempt of “I’m not like the rest of the men.” 作为男性导演写出的八股文，展现一种对toxic masculinity和女性生存困境完全不理解的tonedeaf。Bravo Alex.
当下经历的恐怖与过去的心理阴影并行。原本是不错的点子，男人的共同面孔和不同暴力形式，还有身体恐怖的生育戏都设计的不错，但摇摆在堆叠隐喻甚至明喻和做一部类型化的偏僻恐怖片之间，剧本完全是崩坏与稀烂，走女主内心线路使得Men之间的联系交代不充分。而影像方面很好看也有代入感，拍出了美丽到诡异的英伦农家庄园。
连环生育 包括闺蜜
故事核很简单 结合了邪典 制造出现实与幻想的混淆感 恶心镜头是真有点恶心的
谁都知道波兰斯基加塔可夫斯基会很牛逼，那也得有人家的节奏和深度啊......
诡异邪典，恶心，男人男人，头晕，压迫，暴力，漠视，不适
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