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".
个人还蛮喜欢的!!故事设置很能打动我,让我想起之前看到过的一起真实案件记录提到被害的多名女性在知道自己无法逃脱以后都会尽量在现场藏自己的指甲,皮屑,头发为未来侦破提供证据,和这部片所表达的还挺异曲同工的
剧情 想要谈的内容深度 以及表演 都值得四星 虽然设定有点过于狗血 但是关于拉拉那段还是深深共情了 爱直女的拉拉没有好下场（不是
近些年少有的恐怖精品，经得起推敲，非常朴素纯粹，虽然一丁点恐怖都没有。另外，几段“黑暗影像”相当出彩，这是奇博导演最拿手的，类似《险恶》的杀人录像。
可惜只愿意打个3星，实在是现实和历史两条线太割裂了。好在缪斯佩内洛普·克鲁兹表现一如既往地好（甚至更加自然？），奇情故事和大历史才能稍微融和一些。女2就明显稚嫩了，只是银短发造型很惊艳，能和大导大牌合作，未来看好。里面一段蕾丝情也是戛然而止，克鲁兹又和男1怀了2胎。这种流动的取向阿莫多瓦都懒得去讲了～可惜只愿意打个3星。实在是现实和历史两条线太割裂了。好在缪斯佩内洛普·克鲁兹表现一如既往地好（甚至更加自然？），奇情故事和大历史才能稍微融和一些。女2就明显稚嫩了，只是银短发造型很惊艳，能和大导大牌合作，未来看好。里面一段蕾丝情也是戛然而止，克鲁兹又和男1怀了2胎。这种流动的取向阿莫多瓦都懒得去讲了～这么多年过去了，克鲁兹美貌保持得太好了
22.5.31 脱离了西班牙语境就变成了旁观者。原来开头那段枯燥对话（对不起）不止是引子，而是贯穿始终的主线。可谓历史与现实的照应，可谓用鲜活的现实例子来理解被埋葬和隐藏的血缘与归属。我理解为破题。
每次看阿莫多瓦的的电影，都感觉到凝结着个人的，家族的甚至更大维度的情感与关怀汩汩地流出。无论故事中人物是如何发展，背后都是导演对人的爱，很温柔也很坚定。
逝去的男孩们即使忘记了自己的名字，也仍无法咽下愤怒，用自己的经验帮助主角成长。但感动之余，想到他们死亡的事实不可逆转，就又觉得这份沉重更加沉重。反杀看起来也不爽，反而有点憋屈。。
《平行母親》阿莫多瓦在劇本上應該下了一些苦心，對歷史正義與親人真相的追尋和j角色（肥皂劇般）的生活在時間流逝中延續與疊合，對作者來說，面對過去和現在是同等重要的同一件事。電影以挖掘國家黑暗歷史的漫長與決心為背景，同時在說無論這些阿莫多瓦式人物人生如何地曲折與混亂，他們都無愧於心。
每次在阿莫多瓦电影里能猜到的都是冰山一角，总有狗血的一幕会被震惊到。
和阿莫多瓦相见恨晚。爱很简单，上一幕分别，下一幕就相隔一年，重新团圆；多么轻盈的创作。阿莫多瓦电影里的人物冲突永远是简单的，可以解决的，就像他电影的后景一样简单，大块的颜色，简单的家具。改日重看
还是阿莫多瓦原来的配方原来的味道，可以说是《回归》那种水平，母子关系，坚强女性，一次又一次地回到自己的那个乡村小镇，一个挺温柔挺体贴的男人， alberto Iglesias的配乐，高饱和色彩，几乎每一帧都有高饱和的红色。应该是对阿莫多瓦的配方太熟悉，以至于这么多年过后还是有些审美疲劳的。但我还是爱这个爱恨分明，色彩饱和情感饱满的西班牙导演。
镜头语言和配乐很有阿莫多瓦一贯的风格，在叙事过程中传递女性主义和人文主义的元素也让电影探讨的维度有所上升。但电影的两部分剧情有些割裂，强行合在一起并不连贯。孩子的逝去让她需要情感发泄的窗口，现实中的生活又让她学会坚强。乱葬岗上的骸骨背后是多少家庭的生死离别，每一段残忍的历史都应当在现在和未来不断反思。
les与强豹，责任与只有，往这转都比弗朗哥强啊，要讲弗朗哥那为啥不直接拍《刽子手》呢？
这…奇情有了 lgbtqia有了 大面积鲜艳的红黄有了 结尾都是女性在执着乱葬坑挖掘 这些看起来都像阿莫多瓦，但整体感觉怪怪的，尤其落脚在历史上很奇怪，被迫收尾没写完的样子 PS.骚潘真是美啊
伊桑霍克太适合演这样的变态了，故事很精彩，可惜反派人物刻画不够。对于我来说是一部优秀的惊悚电影
A vouloir inscrire l'histoire dans l'Histoire, Almodovar fait en sorte que le film soit scindé en 2 micros récits qui ,même reliés par le thème de la filiation, semblent éloignés l'un de l'autre (parallèles?). Le réalisateur réitère son attachement pour la condition féminine ainsi que les combats féministes dans un genre de sa prédilection: le mélodrame almodovarien porté ici par une maternité fusionnelle nuancée par une forme d'amitié et de désir, renforcée par l'absence masculine 3.5
伊桑霍克你要是被绑架了你就眨眨眼。哦你全程带着面具眨了也看不到……
历史不会沉默，永远不会。两位母亲依靠棉签，依靠孩子连结在一起，追溯，回忆，她们之前的爱和情，她们拥抱在一起，母亲是什么？后代是什么？伟大，热爱，赞美，这部也许不是最好的阿莫多瓦，但一定是及格的阿莫多瓦。
22.5.31 脱离了西班牙语境就变成了旁观者。原来开头那段枯燥对话（对不起）不止是引子，而是贯穿始终的主线。可谓历史与现实的照应，可谓用鲜活的现实例子来理解被埋葬和隐藏的血缘与归属。我理解为破题。
非常好看！克鲁兹冻龄美女演技咖。故事极为戏剧化，人物表现非常生活化，不洒狗血，每个人都善良，太令人感动。（“No history is mute. No matter how much they burn/break/lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth.--Eduardo Galeano)
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