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".
这个电影才是关于女权或者说女性最正常的表达吧。现实生活中的女性就总会有不那么母性却人性的瞬间吧，感谢把这些拍出来的人
很细腻。母亲是一个她放弃自己人生，被孩子慢慢拖下水，慢慢吸干的过程…期间她可能自责自己的缺乏耐心和愤怒，时刻想逃离，在崩溃边缘。时间可能磨平了这个棱角，也可能让她彻底放弃。
还是Léna的故事，Elena的文字，和文学一样的节奏，一样的演员想象，不矫情、不戏剧、每一个动作和眼神都直击神经的日常，很迷人。
勒达-妮娜成为镜像照应，女儿成为母亲，所到之处，似乎都对其的所做所为进行谴责与声讨，窒息的生育原罪，不会消散的母性泥潭。科尔曼超越《宠儿》，再次冲击最高奖。
处女作就拍得如此细腻娴熟，很有才华！；音乐相当加分
所有的想法就非得都塞满这120分钟吗玛吉姐？以后是不拍电影了还是怎样。看得累死
1，本片译作《失去的女儿》是不是更合适？
臆想症到了极致的人怕不就是这样的吧？到处乱约，见人就上 还偷东西。。真nice最后车祸居然没死也是coooooool
{★★☆} 叫做失踪的女儿，讲的其实是失格的母亲。强调失格对母亲造成的创伤，又对失格对孩子施加的影响避而不谈。我不是说这些做法都不对，不可以--但着墨精神体验的电影首先要让观众走进角色，Maggie Gyllenhaal眩晕的闪回和Leda古怪的行径都只让构思停留在空中楼阁。所有人都在夸奖Olivia Colman的演技，我坐在这一锅乱炖的粥跟前，一口都吃不下去。
Maggie的處女作，老公也參演了，可惜弟弟沒來哈哈哈，Dakota真的很做作。女主請來了我的女王大人！！🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️加一星！（應該添加驚悚標籤）
感觉像是为了表达女性在家庭责任与追求自我之间矛盾的心态？电影配乐，个人感觉总是不搭。
闪回镜头还是有点多，要是能更多地给到Leda现在的部分会更精彩，尤其是偷偷藏起娃娃的这个情节。毕竟是处女作，可以看出导演的镜头感更多是围绕着演员而非整体服务。Olivia Colman表演的感染力很强，可以让观众在任何片段下快速进入到主人公的情绪。
太喜欢这种怼脸特写了，压抑的暴风雨，神叨叨的氛围，快要窒息的母亲
I don't know anything,like everything.
太喜欢两位女演员的表演了！科尔曼说来就来的恸哭秒了曼切斯特的小米，娓娓道来的细腻恍惚鲍起静上身，而巴克利的脸就很莎莉霍金斯，充满了故事。女性的矛盾有展现，尾收的还可以再高级一点。
与男性不同，女性对于情感的负担更重，“母亲”这个身份折磨束缚着女性，煎熬的母亲们！
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导演的镜头很晃，观众和女主角一起进入一种很焦虑的情绪中。早婚早育，不管是在贫困之家抑或者中产中产高知家庭，大概率都是个悲剧。而大多数情况下，被压抑的那个往往都是母亲。这部电影争议之处大概也在于，残忍地撕开了中产家庭温情的那一面，多子女家庭和母亲的个人发展往往是相悖的，不存在兼顾家庭和事业。当然，桑德伯格那种fancy家庭的除外
895｜3.5，不完美的母亲，迷失的女儿，一个道理讲半天的原地转圈之作。小细节很赞，摄影配乐都很到位，科尔曼演得也很好。一开始我就猜女主搞不好是文学系教授，结果还真是，还是比较文学。
演员找得真好，年轻时的样子和现在还挺像。三个女人一台戏，完全撑起了整部影片。Olivia很适合演这种“自私”“不正常”有点阴暗的角色。就片子呈现的这些，让我还没有觉得几个小女孩很聒噪，反而是身处那样的家庭环境下让我更觉得窒息。现实生活比电影呈现的难多了，所以母亲的痛苦才要更强调。
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