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".
最后男人套娃生娃真的十分怪诞和“cult”了，故事沉闷却奇异，以女性视角的幻想与现实结合去看待男人的世界，故事里的男人都影射于死去的丈夫，暗喻各种极端性格，男人生娃无需女人，也是女主一直的精神困扰，明明那么讨厌丈夫却走不出他死亡的阴影，从女主吃下“禁果”，仿佛暗示这一切是女主的罪有应得，而在观众视角，看待男人对女人的影响，就是女人离不开男人，男人能把一切施加给女人，可最后又仿佛暗示本就一体，让人觉得可悲，导演想表达的也许远不止这些，相比内核，我更喜欢该片的摄影和镜头，真有一种独特的美感
女主可能是世界上最惨的人，遇到的都是男人，还都是一个样，强行被迫灭绝的状态。最后的男生男属实有点恶心了。前半段的绿色倒是挺养眼
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
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。
又能成为A24的代表作，拍得有点不明觉厉，加兰对氛围感和节奏的拿捏太好了，包括同一张面孔男人们的设定等，也留给观众很多解读的空间，最后的套娃脱壳看的目瞪口呆。
镜头构图美得让人心醉，随手可以截图明信片那种。女主角对前夫的心理阴影用形象生动到血腥残暴的方式活灵活现地撕扯出来，对男人毫无任何怜悯地批判。竟然是位男导演拍的，令人肃然起敬。
各种隐喻，各种画面，模糊且独特
前面节奏缓慢还意外的小清新，最后十分钟直接拉满。其实看到第一眼当在看动物世界小羊生产还好～之后看多了，就对某类型片产生条件反射了！
绝美田园自然风光片，配乐也很动听。高潮的套娃分娩非常cult，和女主一样整个看懵了。从头至尾蒲公英的隐喻不言自明，来自不同角色男人的凝视，洗脑，讨好式接近都带着目的性，而漠然麻木的警察角色也是这种恶意的帮凶。前夫的自杀式PUA更是成为根植女主心灵的梦魇。男人也好，女人也罢，就不要把自以为是的自我感动当成爱或者索爱的理由了吧。
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。
男人，集所有恶为一体的产物罢了，这个电影告诉我们要远离男人，不然会变得不幸。这不是恐怖片这是纪实片，看完真特么大受震撼
节奏缓慢、诡谲、晦涩，无疑是本片最大的问题，但在加兰创造的美学体系中显得非常融洽，由浅至深的几重含义也在荒诞恐怖的故事中完成表达
第一幕完成度非常高，诡异的氛围从始至终都维持得很棒，有民俗恐怖的特点。第二幕一来被预告剧透，二来过于直白，力度就弱了些，而且太多无所适从的慢镜头和剪辑让我很迷惑。结尾被评论剧透，有些心理准备，但更多的是电影本身泄了气，所以荒谬大于可怖，还是非常遗憾。这部电影能让我想起《Them》和《Lovecraft Country》这两部剧，和前者除立意外，就连标题几乎都如出一辙，而后者自然是 cult 场面的联想，提到这一点，我不太相信导演没有看过 extraweg 的作品。最后想说一句，对于类似形象的塑造，杰西·巴克利比伊丽莎白·莫斯水平要高出一大截。
有点神秘，有点惊悚，有点爽。喜欢一些对男凝的反抗，杰西巴克利戏路越来越好了。
我觉得拍的很好的预言电影 预言电影的意思是 不是纯故事片 而是通过凝练生活中的喻体来讲述人类处境的普遍性的片子 在这一点上 我觉得可以打五星 尤其是 女主和前夫自杀前的对话 看似有单个事件的特殊性 其实每个人看着都很眼熟吧 整个摄影一如既往的导演审美 女主站在隧道前的画面 莫名想到了千与千寻的场景
今年期待值高的几部恐怖惊悚片真的也太意识流了。恐男佳片，看完只想说：girls，开车一定要锁门。
恐男隐喻？操作得是不是太直白了。虽然但是，嘉兰的视听还是很棒。
如果看之前知道是机械姬的导演，我大概不会打开了。
五个男人，分别出现在她的身边，每一个都呈现了男性的不同姿态
诡异邪典，恶心，男人男人，头晕，压迫，暴力，漠视，不适
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