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".
文艺，太文艺了！根本不是恐怖片，看到要睡着，和2015年的《女巫》如出一辙，拍女巫就拍不出一些紧张刺激的恐怖惊悚片吗？作为恐怖片，只能给2星，这是看不下去的，那些说血腥的是没有看过血腥片吗？作为文艺片，能给3.5星，还是讲了一些东西的。
拍的真温柔啊，旁白像诗一样，看完竟然有点羡慕她能体验那么多。只是玛利亚太可怜了，如果她也能重来该多好。
7分吧，真的还不错，看了真的吃不下饭，太恶心了特效。。。。不过导演确实拍出了不一样的东西，值得学习
一起抵制泰伦斯马力克的脑残粉，真的不想看这种装逼作品了。
我不行了，每次新女巫披上目标人类的外套，这个人开始蠢得我实在看不下去，不会说话，手脚笨拙白痴的样子太影响观看了，在算了不看了疯狂忍耐中，新女巫喜欢上了那个和她一样笨拙眼睛清澈的小男孩，转身邻居女孩碧夏意外摔下山谷死亡，新女巫将小女孩的内脏器官装进自己的身体开始了新的人生，不出意外的和喜欢的小男孩一起长大，相爱结婚有了孩子，在她最幸福的时候，那个让她成为女巫的玛利亚残忍地杀了她丈夫，无法教会新女巫生存的玛利亚觉得太笨对她放弃了，又因为给了她新身份的原因一直在观察新女巫的生活，玛利亚渴望一个正常家庭，想要一个健康的丈夫一个健康的孩子，而碧夏就是很简单的获得了，唯有爱才能获得拯救
每次在小女巫幸福的时候，都被因为嫉妒而来的玛利亚女巫毁掉，换心化形的女巫设定蛮吸引人一直看下去的。
被命运诅咒的女巫努力寻回为人的一生，喜怒哀乐等一切失去的情感。。。
我不行了，每次新女巫披上目标人类的外套，这个人开始蠢得我实在看不下去，不会说话，手脚笨拙白痴的样子太影响观看了，在算了不看了疯狂忍耐中，新女巫喜欢上了那个和她一样笨拙眼睛清澈的小男孩，转身邻居女孩碧夏意外摔下山谷死亡，新女巫将小女孩的内脏器官装进自己的身体开始了新的人生，不出意外的和喜欢的小男孩一起长大，相爱结婚有了孩子，在她最幸福的时候，那个让她成为女巫的玛利亚残忍地杀了她丈夫，无法教会新女巫生存的玛利亚觉得太笨对她放弃了，又因为给了她新身份的原因一直在观察新女巫的生活，玛利亚渴望一个正常家庭，想要一个健康的丈夫一个健康的孩子，而碧夏就是很简单的获得了，唯有爱才能获得拯救
让自己大热天的倒吸了一口冷气...............
惊悚/自我归属 /宿命轮回 /爱
太绝了，外壳是奇幻恐怖的女巫元素，内里却是通过不同人的视角审视西方封建社会中的男女两性关系，女主尽管看尽了人间丑恶，最后却依然选择了相信爱情，血腥却又美好
挺好的，就是镜头晃得难受。以及完全不能以看故事片的逻辑来看。
她是万物，她永远在流淌。
漆黑的夜空中有最亮的仙后座为我指路，茫茫的人群中有父亲的关心，父亲的耐心，父亲的爱让我不在惧怕遗忘。是，还是会忘记，但心中已经养成的身体反射，让我知道他还在身边，就不用害怕。徐玄振的演技太棒了，有爆发力，也能很好的收住，每一滴眼泪都滴在了心上，女儿抓住胳膊的一霎那，真的哇的一下哭出来了。今天苏州在下雨，可以用力的哭一次。
马其顿聊斋，懵懂女巫入世记。梦幻的手持摄影，空灵的和弦配乐，迟缓的叙事节奏，呓语般的诗意旁白，那股文艺腔调犹如泰伦斯·马利克附体。走出被囚困十几年的洞壁，开启一段认识自我的旅程，观察自然万物，品味人间疾苦，未被外界垢污的纯净灵魂不愿茹毛饮血，失去引导的年轻女巫不得不独自去探索眼前的陌生世界。用窃取他者皮囊的方式完成再造，笨拙的肢体、失语的喉咙、僵硬的表情，适应新躯壳的过程像婴儿初次睁开眼时的迷茫；女人、男人、动物、孩童，以不同物种，不同身份去介入并体验生命的历程；欲望、爱情、婚姻、生育，外来者融入村庄，学习人类社会的秩序习俗，她终于坚定地选择成为女人，成为母亲，在被痛苦灼烧着的世界里寻觅到缺失的幸福，却依然逃不过被诅咒的孤独宿命。重口小清新，血腥但不恐怖，猎奇表征下，内核仍是女性命题。
还可以 脑回路挺清奇的 其实是个女性成长片
马力克风格的吸血鬼成长史。看不太懂但影像风格和大段独白是我的菜。
年度最美电影没有之一 正方形构图莫名就自带一种优雅的气质 哪怕画面里是个浑身烂肉的老巫婆
把一个女巫血腥的片子竟然拍出独特人文情怀，每一种生物都有她的过往与心酸，即使成为人类异类，怪物们不得不以杀人为寄居而残存，其实她们也有着向往一切美好事物的追求与联恕，被人类唾弃的同时也或多或少会生出些许的同情！
一开始觉得女主演技有些过于夸张 看到后面还是被感染到不行 太痛苦了 以及有一个让我难过的点是 电影里的男人会停下脱裤子的手 而现实呢？我甚至不敢想象现实中的父亲会怎么做……
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