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".
养眼但cliche，冲着画面和troye可以一看。
离开了了弟弟的乔尔科恩确实有在做新的尝试，有很成功的地方——黑白光影画面做的太好了，单独抽出任何一帧都足够讲究；但是也有失败的地方——既然要做电影化改编，大段大段的莎翁台词就显得太累赘了，与简洁的画面割裂感极重，不如直接删繁去简。
8分，表演出色，制作精美，摄影尤其出彩，科恩对情绪和气氛的把控深得我心
It sucks but it will be ok.
剧情性不强，先看了一个长篇MV。但是戳爷演的很好。
感觉两个主角不是特别来电
期待值没有很高，确实符合预期hhh。（但是戳应该去客串sex education耶！
4:3 黑白画幅，极简的布景，以及光影和大理石构造出来的对称工整的构图，保证了极高的观赏性和舒适感。可是晦涩生硬的台词和一丝故作深沉的表演，让影片本身便成舞台剧，表演痕迹过重 @AppleTV+
就这个颜值和配色也很赏心悦目了哈哈，
一句话总结就是“性病这件小事”剧情各种穿插然而也只是一个很普通的故事 戳戳和渣男也没什么发糖的cp感 也就只有戳戳夏日的少年气了 原来喜欢泰勒丝真的是各个国家同性恋的底层 笑死
Dara也是横看竖看都舒服
高纬的日光真的还蛮像舞台追光效果的。语法其实还蛮统一的，幻像与预兆全都来自光的变形，除此之外就真的很怀疑还在用这个文本玩什么。Frances McDormand的表演跟这部难得地非常配搭，“演给你看”的过度表演刚好提供了造作的面部与体态的形状。
颜值巅峰，且小作精也没那么作了。然而加了动作依然是无效NC我甚至都要佩服这一对了……
舞台剧形式重塑《麦克白》，感觉《蜘蛛巢城》之后大可不必。或许是乔尔科恩在寻找自我突破？建筑好似心灵迷宫，人物独白好像迷失在迷宫之中。
MV视感，看着很舒服，音乐也很舒服，印度小哥略显无聊。
这种婚后生活可以拍1000集吗谢谢，俩人越来越自然越来越甜了，看了后面的花絮感觉小一好容易害羞，ja总是一脸淡定hhh
毋庸置疑，丹泽尔华盛顿是好莱坞的演技担当之一，在戏里的表现也相当出彩。电影的色调与构图、舞台化的背景和原生态的台词，让我想起《白蛇传·情》，东西方的故事和表现手法迥然不同，但是对于传统文化的表达，却是异曲同工的。但，影片这样的安排还让我想起了好莱坞的zzzq，麦克黑、棕雪公主、墨人鱼、00黑妹……我的天，非要拿他人的历史文化和自己的传承相结合，有必要吗？
3.7分。 虽然故事是根据莎翁名剧而改编，但在形式上确实玩出了不一样的感觉。没有在历史质感上下功夫，也没有对大场面做出过多的要求，甚至可以说，除了几个主要角色外，没有任何大场面，全是舞台化的戏剧表演方式。 但这种参照三十年代德国表现主义风格，加上极简建筑撺掇成的场景，有着浓厚的神秘质感，仿佛将人置于悬浮未知的空间。而几处远景场面的低调打光，也拍出了很不错的影像质感，这和《爱尔兰人》、《罗马》都是很不一样的黑白摄影风格。可以是，即使是为了美学上的享受，本片也值得一看。
听不懂啊真的听不懂，莎翁的文本还是太难懂了，好在知道剧情是啥不然真的看的云里雾里的。美术风格十分风格化，用了一种极简的风格，用混凝土在屏幕上打造了一个舞台还原经典命运悲剧。黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》是日本电影对莎翁的本土化改编，本部《麦克白的悲剧》在风格上感觉也借鉴了黑泽明的一些风格。
形式非常厉害，剪裁也很得当。极简的表现主义光影建筑竟然非常服帖。
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