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".
本以为这次加兰会给我们玩出一点新花样，结果最后还是向我们重复了一遍《湮灭》中相似的“高概念”。但好在这次没有那么嗨，用女性主义议题去有力回击了这个男权为主的社会，用最简练明了的视听语言去展现了男权压迫下的女性生活，以及加兰对于这个议题最终的结论——让男的自生自灭。 这部电影从开篇的摄影和调调就摆明了这是一部属于A24的标准恐怖片，用文艺片的外壳包装了惊悚片的内核。罗利·金奈尔用一人分饰N角的演出hold住了千人一面的恐惧感，讲道理这就有够惊悚的了。但如果你是抱着传统恐怖片的期待去看的话恐怕你就要失望了。只能说这次加兰在继承前人优秀理念的同时也没有让自己的表达脱俗。二者的有机结合也让这部电影会成为今年的年度盘点名单里的一位。
为了一点醋包了一锅饺子。cult场面没有铺垫部分吓人，恶心更多一点。片末场景女主丈夫说完台词后感想是“就这”…
喜欢这个故事…………… 透露着一股绝望又残忍的诗意
配乐一如既往的不错，视效也充满新鲜感。但是主题稍显俗套，故事本身是无法自圆其说的，而所谓的隐喻也过于肤浅和夸张。请不要把罪恶与性别符号相关联，这两码事毫无关联。最后什么也解决不了，无非还是女孩不要半夜吃烧烤，不要独自租住乡间别墅，然后呢？
③捉迷藏，捉的人是主体，是行动者，藏的人是客体，捉迷藏一开始就不能再行动，只能被动等待，女主的反捉是一个觉醒
MEN，男性糟粕大赏。男性的确应该看看，是什么令人恐惧或厌恶。最后的套娃不恐怖，但有点意思。不知道爱是什么，但绝不应该是束缚和伤害。
诡异又恶心……
空有概念，内容真的好简陋。加兰的重点依然是《湮灭》那一套类型化邪路，女性主义只是他包装自己“湮灭2.0”的工具，没看出他对于此类议题的深入探究。还有最后一part连环生子有必要拍那么长吗……
摄影不错，但剧本不行，情节推进太慢，比《湮灭》差得太远了，25分钟弃剧。
人体奇观大赏，代代相传的恐惧，生而为男，请你抱歉。PS：男男生子文可代（bushi。
3.5。把這部電影稱為蝻片可以提前列為年度最令我不理解的十大行為之一。加蘭回退到了一個內核極為簡單的驚悚文本，漏洞百出但不失精簡有效地展現出了恐男心理正當產生的一種途徑。
感觉隐喻很多 没有全部看懂 但是最后那几次蜕化视觉值得加一星 又恶脑洞又大
黑叶芝黑到位了，看的人人版被剪了不少只能靠脑补，高饱和的环境色很容易联想到《湮灭》
我还以为结局是女主拿着斧子🪓往男人的脑门劈上去。
这部片和拉斯冯提尔的《忧郁》有异曲同工之妙。男性生育套娃和分裂开的左手引起严重生理不适。
男上加男，男里有男，千男一面笑死。好好的乡村景色，好好的英伦别野，这些男的搞得人都没心情呆了，真晦气😓😓
愿这世上再没有文艺恐怖片🙏，每次看完都感觉被诈骗了🥹
不要靠近男人，你会变得不幸，可以感受到独身女性对于陌生男性的深深恐惧
他们侮辱追踪恐吓施暴自虐，居然还以爱之名。
Alex Garland的风格依然强劲，但是感觉剧本缺乏一些东西，后面女主角反而成为了道具
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