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".
前半部分是各种各样的性爱画面，中间是恐怖的猎杀时刻，后面则是让人无语的降智反杀。不得不说，老人的性爱确实看着还挺恐怖的。
电影《雪国》2022版看完，驹子叶子的颜值相较于《人间失格》低了许多，虽有淡淡的物哀之愁，却没有太多撕心裂肺的痛感。
没看懂的电影，我的水平好低Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ
生也好，爱也好，都是徒劳。（没看过原著都能感觉到这改编差点意思…）
以19世纪为背景，“Moeyo Ken”紧跟着Hijikata的生活。他是新仙谷副司令员，与明治维新作战
我承认我草率了，如果不了解川端康成、不了解日本那个时代的文学背景的话，会看的有点云里雾里，不过高桥一生独特的气质倒是撑得起来角色，那种颓颓的、玩世不恭又有点厌世的气质和嗓音，很适合演这种薄情寡淡的角色。
最后二十分钟…是真没想到川端康成的故事都被能改造成推理档，高桥一生披着斗篷离去的背影，怎么看都更像金田一耕助而非岛村orz…叙事全靠旁白叨叨，既无对雪国风土的细腻摹画，亦无对三人关系真正入心的演绎。看之前还纳闷怎么亿万同人会做这一部，原来是编剧把人物关系读出了这么一层莫须有的暧昧来。可是川端所谓生存的徒劳或美的徒劳，都不是这么个徒劳法。与原作偏差极大，没读原作的观众请绕行此版。
作为入门的剥削片爱好者不会给这片好脸色，搞艺术电影就别碰瓷砍杀片了，再说你这推镜头和跳切剪辑也没多少新意啊，居然还有人说是年度恐怖片，剧情上严重失真就不说嘞，你想致敬70s恐怖片也没抓住精髓啊，这老头老太的即视感跟正儿八经slasher比差得不是一点半点，想找新视角却显得格外生硬，甚至可以说很雷人。《农场主的女儿们》原片比这部有才华得多，这部电影最先锋的手法也不过是三次连续跳切而已，人家那部真军片都有农场风蒙太奇增添新鲜感，而且这片里那个艺术男照你那法子拍porn早破产了，怼脸拍不拍正经东西的hardcore片不是胡闹吗？
近藤的命运、土方的命运早在他们还在武州多摩打闹的时候就决定了，要带着他们的武士精神，与幕府一起覆灭。
比较有特色的恐怖片，有些镜头还是很不错的。关于衰老身体，欲望的失衡导致的杀戮，比起那些毫无理由的血腥暴力B级片，这部营造出来的时代感已经好很多了。对老妇人杀人后在车前独舞的那段戏印象比较深。
原著并不长，也不好改编。这个程度不算失败。
仔细想想还是加一星鼓励，毕竟恐怖片口碑的生存条件一向困难，几乎所有恐怖片稍有漏洞便会被人一脚踩死。前半段稍显沉闷，后半段又落入俗套，只有中间部分令人眼前一亮，无论是平行蒙太奇还是悬念铺设，把B级片玩出了具有文艺质感的效果。虽是拍摄黄片却也有自己的艺术追求，戏中戏较为直白地揭示了本片的最终呈现。整体剪辑效果尤为不错，仅靠几个具有巧思的剪辑反复切换就营造了些许恐怖氛围。致敬了包括《闪灵》、《惊魂记》、《未麻的部屋》等一众影史经典。电视机中播放的声音略显突兀地成为了影片暗藏线索的一部分，神神叨叨的语气与《驱魔人》相似，宗教部分在结尾时挑明，看似为下一部作铺垫，实则又为前头的故事再次罩上一层雾霭。
沉迷在历史故事中的原田真人只能靠服化道和明星演员继续苟，对着摄像头来一刀也挺无语的，战争场面比《关原》更加乏味和空洞。在历史主义的宿命论的悲观视角下，反映个体或是小团体的挣扎显得是如此的无力，早年原田真人《投靠女与出走男》的轻盈感，现在已是荡然无存。
是徒劳啊。。。 （高桥好看，驹子也好看，有点像苍井优有点像周韵
被雪地里的奈绪吸引来看 男主的玩世不恭还是很欠揍的
没有川端康成的原作了，剧情主线完全依赖于旁白推进，极大程度削弱演员及镜头带来的感染力。卡司还行布景构图氛围是不错的，配乐与氛围相合打光太僵硬。川端康成对人物心理的描写落于纸上是细腻和寂寥，一旦改编成对话就显得刻意又矫情
健壮小伙为何裸死农场？
一晃眼差点把奈绪认成优酱。改编得有点迷糊，演员和剧情托不起这部著作啊。
活着是徒劳，爱情也是徒劳，一切都是徒劳。
没读原著的人眼里，感觉是一个装逼犯与傻小妞的故事……傻小妞还尚且惹人怜爱。装逼犯真的感觉是来观光喝花酒的游客，和这个故事完全没关系………
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