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".
Judie 尽显大女主风采，每一个特写都那么美；Matt，Ben 和 Adam 的演出精彩纷呈；看完此片，只想祝雷老爷子电影艺术生命无限延续~ Long live Ridley!!!
尽管我感觉如此难过
事件三方，不同角度叙事的风格，比想象的好一点。
完成度非常高的电影。剧情和拍摄手法都很像是加长版本的黑镜。Ali演技真的太好了。从电影中段我一直不能自控的和他共鸣，眼泪一直流。
boring，这女性主义直白的，就差把这四个字贴脸上了。从剧作角度出发，和《间谍之妻》的女性主义比差了很多。
女主想要的所谓“正义”居然是看“上帝的旨意”
雷导对战争场面的调度以及中世纪的人物塑造已经在《天国王朝》中轻松驾驭了，这里是锦上添花，最后的决斗更是让我血脉喷张，这种英雄式的单挑是前作缺少的，也使得这部电影称得上史诗。
看到第二章才意识到，这是罗生门式的结构。前两段的铺排很平，差点没忍下来。从一开始就同情马达，一个埋头苦干的猛人二愣子，不懂得人情世故被边缘化，太委屈了。一个女人指控强奸却要背负那么多枷锁，被闺蜜背叛，被婆婆嫌弃，被世俗不理解，一个女人被那么多男人围住问那样冒犯的问题，太特么屈辱了。最后决斗大战野蛮生猛，一颗悬着的心始终被吊着，终于，刺穿那张烂嘴。沉冤得雪大仇得报。申冤再难也要干。
剧情重复三遍，我觉得有点啰嗦，后来才知道这是一种电影拍摄方法。很奇特的是，我竟然对坏人Adam Driver产生同情感，进而对Adam Driver开始欣赏起来。
以三个人的视角分别讲述，每个人因为立场不同感受不同，这样的视角变化并不新鲜，而且这些不同对于剧情没有任何推进，反而显得非常重复和拖沓。
人类在1996年成功克隆出了第一个哺乳动物——绵羊多莉，随后这项生物技术引发了公众的广泛关注，和对克隆人出现的担忧。
电影是好的，但当下这种气候，这样的叙事也过于安全保守了吧~
这竟然是部女权电影！这当然是部女权电影！缺位也是一种表达，忽视也是一种控诉。
以一个罗生门的故事，讲述了女性在男权社会下的处境。前两番以男性视角来叙述，最后转到女性视角，这种视角转换本身，或者说叙述者身份的转变，已经表明态度。
唯有爱是永恒
雷导用罗生门的手法讲述一次决斗事件，三人在讲述自己的故事版本中，都会不自觉地将自己描绘成无辜的受害者，但是不管决斗结果如何，作为女性始终会扮演牺牲品的角色。
人类在1996年成功克隆出了第一个哺乳动物——绵羊多莉，随后这项生物技术引发了公众的广泛关注，和对克隆人出现的担忧。
讲真，不要被烂片名和低豆瓣评分而蒙蔽双眼，用你的眼光去看它，再去评价它，它是一部好电影，是的，关于人生、生命的思考！
7.0 罗生门式叙事，落点在于那个时代看清荒谬本质的女性个体。
黑镜看多了，中后程都在等着出什么大情况。结果没有，一切顺利地结束。故略有怅然。
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