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".
大家族八卦 060#2022年看208部电影
LES版《可在你心底的名字》不懂为什么还是要和男的结婚，不懂为什么就不能在一起，不懂为啥就要是永远的朋友
The accent feels like wearing a fake Gucci sweater that stings.
流水账的拍法。面对金钱，其他的都是浮云了。
PS:如果两个人同时勇敢会有多么美好
片尾才注意到是雷德利·斯科特大导的作品，实在大跌眼镜，观影过程睡了醒醒了睡。Gaga 太出戏。Gucci 创始人从豪华酒店行李员起步，在意大利老家开创品牌。离世后将商业帝国分给三个儿子。二儿子过世后，老大老三各持 50%股份。老大努力经营品牌，但其子不成事。老三的儿子仪表堂堂，但志不在家族企业里。直到Gaga上位，在老三的反对下，嫁给老三的儿子。随后，夫妻二人一步步将大儿子送入大狱，拿下大孙子的少数股权。老大出狱后检举三孙子的税务问题。三孙子也嫌弃 Gaga 过多涉足家族企业事务，另寻新欢，Gaga 老羞成怒买凶杀夫。
*导演之一是杨潮凯
这个电影好像没有讲什么情节，可就是让我沉浸其中。心怀愧疚，存有亏欠的那个人，最终迟迟无法释怀。当初被“伤害”的人最早放下。
没先到第一个镜头很赞，是欧洲文艺电影的范儿，可能是压低了背景音？运镜缓慢。后面一下子就平庸了，故事实在太松散了，没有让人惊心动魄的权钱斗争，远不如《继承之战》，音乐也是乱七八糟。。。最可怕的是明明讲的是高奢蓝血的故事，却没有什么我想看的华服，主要是他老婆气质太俗了（可以说LadyGaga气质拿捏的不错？最后完全就是失控村妇的形象了）。他情人出场感觉一下子就有了，亚当·德赖弗的文艺范很适合高奢少爷～最后一场秀很赞，TF的唇膏真的好，正想买他家的乌木沉香。他们为啥要说英语啊，搞得我不得不查了下故事背景。。。虽然意大利是墙头草没啥气节，可也不至于在本国说着乱七八糟口音的英语吧，为啥不让意大利演员演啊。。。重音是很意大利了，但是亚当·德赖弗的口音好Russia，真是让本片挫上加挫。。。
Ladygaga 演好了一个令人生厌作呕的女人，戏剧王子演好了一个无聊的男人，阿尔帕西诺演好了一个被生活打败的高贵的人，但那又如何？这个片存在的意义是？仅仅是为了满足导演和世人的窥视欲？
PPT式大电影 感觉完全没有plot纯靠堆砌 人物转变生硬 可能唯一的优点是让我再次get到了司机
陷进去了
好狗血好抓马的故事，搁tvb可以拍出一部大时代了，可惜电影不够劲只是走马观花看了个豪门恩怨没有把主角的多面性挖出来
只想说2022年了……拍一部没有男人和父权视角强奸的纯les片真的不犯法哈。
只想说2022年了……拍一部没有男人和父权视角强奸的纯les片真的不犯法哈。
靠，本人太能代入設定了。尚算合格的自傳式電影吧，本來期待就不高，故事設定在2000年初，劇本也停留在2000年左右。女校女孩密友間的微妙關係太難描述了，一些情節設計跟宗教寓意痕跡有點重，有些自戀的感覺而有點突兀。操場雨中擁吻那場還是喜歡的。另，談善言太可了。
虽然狠狠relate了一下，但还是好无聊…
有无数个擦身，我都想吻上你。🚬婚礼那场，能否就当作她俩结婚现场啊。
结婚那段很像那些年，就差没冲上去亲新郎了。
崆峒深柜把姬佬耍的团团转啊哈哈哈哈哈，什么30岁没有结婚我们就结婚，诶我就给你来个30岁前结婚，合着拉拉最爱的是和男人结婚是吗
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