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".
开始不知道这是宗教 信仰相关的影片 但其实看下来 对于不是基督教的观众来说去看的也毫不费力。过程中感慨颇多、结局唱的那首歌 Lord love you He loves what you are 她唱的自己的心声 一直以来传道歌唱的就很好 我都被她感染
在想塔米菲的真诚或许没有比杰西卡表演出来的更多
加菲猫一如既往的稳定，不过这个片子还是很平庸，犯了纪实片的通病
一个仿佛糅合了去年《偷窥者》和《门锁》要素的故事，整体行进得有些按部就班。最先是烘托女主角在陌生国度的种种处境，对语言的不熟悉、不被相信的遭遇诉说以及失踪的邻居和再次引起怀疑的心；接着是扑空和“狼来了”的转折，末尾则指向必须解决的痛快。尽管所有的过程都几乎能想象，但透过公寓内外、街角前后的空间展示或是借由与伴侣相处的生活状态从而烘托的无助还是足够行之有效；它没有给予更复杂、更大的展示，但却做好了自己想要完成的事。
劳模姐全片演技slay! 奥斯卡欠她一个提名！
劳模姐和加菲表演都很不错，豆瓣评分6.5，显然偏低。
三星给劳模姐的演技，最后看得好难过，人类是多希望有人爱着自己啊，无论是何种模样的爱，哪种爱，人类是有多厌恶自己啊，所以总是希望被谁爱着。加菲无论何时都像个大男孩。
仅有光鲜的时代包装 却少了人物的内心窥探 如若不是查斯坦精湛的演技 导演可是要回炉重造的吧
非常戏剧化但可能太简单化了点，感觉这两个人太明显地一直在算计，应该没有这么简单化。表现教会的一些分歧很有意思。
最后的1/3不要太棒！！！2022/7/5大森家
7.0，故事乏善可陈，劳模姐的个人秀，最后10分钟值得多一分
同样表演一种做作的、神经质的角色，劳模姐确确实实是在表演，而ks则是一种被上身般的自以为是。虽然整个电影都不知道在讲什么，导演的把控力也差到极致，内容和观点都为零，对女性或者边缘群体都是一种硬性的关系。不知道创作的出发点到底什么，而更可怕的是到最后也没找到。
It has a weird combination of the worst and the best
劳模姐演的倒是很好，可人物刻画有些流于表面，可能是我对宗教狂热始终不能理解同时也对相应的历史背景缺少了解吧。
劳模姐改头换面，完全不认识了，她就是塔米本尊。片子却一般，总体上是很平淡的讲故事，流水账，对比几年前的花样女王，这片子成色差很多。希望劳模姐能凭此封后，表演值得。
塔米菲贪婪，虚荣，拜金，可她真的是心怀大爱的好人。
气氛营造的有代入感。女主的服饰变化也很有趣。语言不通环境下的陌生与孤独带来的恐惧感。还有无时无刻的注视和逐渐淡出的丈夫形象。最让人胆寒的甚至不是跟踪和监视。而是饭桌上的外语玩笑。即便听不懂那种感受也同样存在。当你觉察到不适一定要逃。远离不舒服的环境。
普普通通，安德鲁的妆发有点出戏，不如劳模的妆发自然，自然也影响了观影体验，更希望故事可以专注于一个事件，而不是整个时代流水账一般
一个仿佛糅合了去年《偷窥者》和《门锁》要素的故事，整体行进得有些按部就班。最先是烘托女主角在陌生国度的种种处境，对语言的不熟悉、不被相信的遭遇诉说以及失踪的邻居和再次引起怀疑的心；接着是扑空和“狼来了”的转折，末尾则指向必须解决的痛快。尽管所有的过程都几乎能想象，但透过公寓内外、街角前后的空间展示或是借由与伴侣相处的生活状态从而烘托的无助还是足够行之有效；它没有给予更复杂、更大的展示，但却做好了自己想要完成的事。
劳模姐真的又一次奉献了精彩。而我被感动的却是母女情的支线。当然永远令我破防的都是这种情节。而本剧独特之处在于微妙精细地描摹出了母女之间外人难以察觉的独有的感应相知深情，无论外在如何。电影的优异之处在于表现了信仰的复杂性，以及一个明明具有女权意识的女性如何仍然难以挣脱男权世界自出生便加载内心的束缚，获得真正的独立与解放。或者又提出，究竟应该如何看待婚姻关系。本届奥斯卡女主竞争实在激烈。加菲很努力出演了两部截然不同的传记片，也都不错，但比起功力深厚的劳模姐，差距和局限都太明显。他的问题在于演什么都很“加菲”，相比本尼在犬之力中的完全不本尼，高下立判。加菲若无法突破这点，事业恐怕止步于此。
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