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".
4.5 非常独特的视角，从一桩杀人案开始，逐渐抽丝剥茧，男主从事件真相的追逐到对自我真相的探寻，两条线最后收拢。两个人患难时刻见真情，两个男演员都表现的不错。
以为会是一个苦大仇深的大型政治迫害事件，但只是公安领导被拍到色情录像里导致的灭口行动，与所谓风信子行动只是有一点联系吧。罗伯特和埃里克化学反应不错，很加分，两人的前戏拍的非常出色，审讯戏也很好，最后埃里克能跑掉也是没太想到。
两位男主挺养眼，故事一开始看起来有点迷，不过后面线索慢慢清晰，两人以警察和嫌疑人的身份审讯的那段特别棒，艾瑞克努力忍着泪看着对面的警察"男友"拼命忍住感情，也不说出最近的"性伴侣"名字，那几幕，挺棒。
另外每一个空间下的角色张力关系都展现得极其到位，在Robert家里两个人推搡亲吻，在你来我往的挣扎中突破心里道德的线那场戏特别好，一下子就串到《春光乍泄》去了。
还是刺激而可看的。原来都是好多国家有过的抗争。
导演不是在讲述一个发生在黑暗时代的同性恋罪案故事，而是将一个同性恋故事用那样的时代来做背景，包装于一个侦探故事中。导演太关注其中同性恋的内涵了，予以太多的强调，让一桩真实事件变得并不真实。
与男生，了解，认识，偏移，
Polacy nie lubią, jak inni Polacy są szczęśliwi. 大笑。太真实了。
酒吧-"人不应该对一切都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。";
besides 男主真的很受哇。和未婚妻同框的時候莫名地嬌是怎麼回事
整个故事的80年代波兰社会残酷冰冷压抑的氛围拍得真是棒的，悬疑犯罪戏的氛围拉满。前25分钟的案件悬念很足，情节节奏很快，案件线和人物情感线一直扭结，最好看的就是男主的reverse，人性的变量。5星给勇敢记录那段真实年代的电影创作者。
还是恐同即深柜定律。另外没想到电影还可以。
80年代，波兰安全局以“风信子行动”为代号，追踪羁押了近一万名同志，并利用其档案对其进行威胁、勒索和压迫，这是电影的真实背景。如今波兰右翼势力卷土重来，性少数再次成为稻草人，网飞此时的这部电影正中要害；作为猎人的警察最后发现自己原来是自己追捕的那群兔子之一，身体的感觉是理智和再多政治信仰或恐怖都无法抹除和消弭的，所以亲密、爱情和性爱都是极权的最大bug和破坏因素。
感觉这两人之间不太来电，特别是卷毛受，眼里没戏，像个美丽的石雕
看影评知道的这部剧，小受蛮讨喜欢的，小攻那两撇胡子总让我觉得他老气，整体是可以看下去的剧。据说背景很沉重，是那个时代同性最后的狂欢，但因为文化背景不同，个人感受的不是很真切。整体看，可以的。
其实怎么说呢，剧情其实挺俗套，好多情节都有似曾相识的感觉，但是仍然是欲罢不能，而且看完后意犹未尽！那段男男床戏拍的，可能我看的版本画质不是太好的原因，画面有点糊，有点影响观感，再多一点点就好了，漏的差一丢丢！整体是部好的电影，尤其是结尾，感谢导演编剧做个好人，至少没让观众看到两位男主挂掉，在我看来算是he了，值得加星！
异性恋压迫同性恋，有权力的同性恋压迫没权力的同性恋。悬疑部分还是有点好看的。
“做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
“我们不能对一切都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。”
两倍速，我都不看不下去的电影
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
