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".
6.0/10。两男一女组成视频博主团队去邪教仪式的禁地录制所见所闻，结果两男主和女主的父母全部死于非命，女主也因此精神失常。后来则是一个温情（？）的亲情故事：女主为了女儿开始打起精神，四处找人试图解开她和女儿身上的诅咒，最终结局算是开放式（？）。影片是典型的伪纪录片（第一人称手持、伪自我纪录、伪访谈、手机竖屏录制、监控录像、空间上的突兀跳跃等）式恐怖片。总体来说虽不能说不恐怖但恐怖效果中规中矩（而且集中在后段，前段甚至昏昏欲睡）。结尾扣一星（要是恐怖也就算了，现在不怎么恐怖还咒观众出事，只觉得晦气）。
挺恐怖的，没敢仔细看。有神无神姑且不谈，互相尊重是最基本的原则。
很好，模仿痕迹太重。小演员没有镜头感，太强了
视效恐怖占比大，第一人称伪纪录加上民俗氛围与诅咒传说，难怪大银幕好评如潮，这部电影在手机上看就是屈才。剧情上的剪辑到后面有一点乱，过渡衔接不流畅，像预告片的拼接。全片穿插母亲对女儿的感情与自省，一边讲恐怖故事一边讲母女温情略突兀。恐怖片作死必不可少，但这里太作了…是近两年少数没有让我失望的恐怖片，能在它身上看到其他恐怖片的影子，很正常。随着年代更迭和科技进步，原创的恐怖片真的好难。西方是驱魔人得知恶魔的名字便能驱逐恶魔，这里是得知人类的名字，但并没在此着墨过多，挺有趣的。女主最后有一点小反转，整体来说挺有趣的，值得看。说电影传播诅咒邪教的，我建议连夜抄某d语录刻在身上。官将首被删了太可惜了！
利用了视觉停留创意十足，就是观感不太好，眼睛都要瞎了，最后还跟观众开了个玩笑，导演还是很有想法的。
镜子迷宫唯物设计，感觉和因果循环有所联系，“福祸相依”，“因果循环皆有定数”，女主在得到佛母帮助后就陷入这个循环，她是诅咒的媒介也是诅咒本身。
整体完成度的感觉挺破碎的，从世界观的搭建到摄影机位的布兵，有少少好料但无好桥。
其实诅咒还好，没有感到晦气，恐怖片本来就是用来吓你的，你要信就说明他成功了。可是可能我已经对恐怖片基本免疫了，所以没怎么被吓到，不过片子里的很多视觉元素还是很不错的。
首先，一定有很多人会为这个结局打低分。然后，其实这个算是一个伪纪录片形式的恐怖片，以邪教为切入点，讲述诅咒和民俗的怪力乱神。本片的片名是《咒》，再加一个这个参考《午夜凶铃》的包装，以提升沉浸式体验感，很损但还是很奏效，可以想象一堆人黑着脸，或一脸害怕，心里骂骂咧咧地走出影院的场景。但是，这还是近年把亚洲恐怖元素讲得比较好的作品，很难得，也能看到导演的用心。希望亚洲恐怖片，能够再度崛起！
无脑血浆片，虽然让人恶心可比让人害怕要简单
个人觉得从创意到剧情有点炒旧饭。先是类似于10年前qq空间看到必须转，还有祥。。。四字的看到必须跟帖。再到哐哐叩头，和某韩国(还是日本）某个恐怖片很像，网红在直播，然后屋子里东西全在动，最后被鬼按住头哐哐哐在那儿砸
缺点 中期有些剧情较为拖沓 所有演员无时无刻手拿摄像机有点出戏 还有所有恐怖片的通病主角团就硬作死 但瑕不掩瑜 85
中式恐怖做到这样挺顶的了，要不是我看的心不在焉估计也被吓个半死
镜子迷宫唯物设计，感觉和因果循环有所联系，“福祸相依”，“因果循环皆有定数”，女主在得到佛母帮助后就陷入这个循环，她是诅咒的媒介也是诅咒本身。
可惜我不爱吃这套，开头的不厌其烦已经让人厌恶而没法代入了，主角们的骚操作更是活该，最恶心的是这晃晕头的手持镜头，整部电影故弄玄虚，乱七八糟，让人没法共情，导致一点都不恐怖，只觉得厌恶，恶心。
个人不太感冒搭桥场外观众的病毒式传染渲染恐怖，遗憾伪纪录片的镜头真实感较少，正片有迹可循的答案跑到预告透露太多。
2022年了，还有玩这种拙劣的故弄玄虚，感觉更像搞笑片
剪辑上还可以再下点功夫，有几处非常明显的造成了逻辑上的混乱，影响到整体观感。
无神论者不觉得被冒犯 只是一个梗而已 可能因为做了妈反而不觉得恐怖 就是那种管你是天王老子 老娘为了娃跟你拼了
别说什么根据2005年高雄一家六口中邪案改编了（影片内容也跟该案扯不上半点犊子关系），原新闻的起乩仪式及“通灵”后用法器“自残”的行为不比蠕虫、莲蓬头这些烂大街的玩意可怕多了。还是会继续相信台湾的民俗恐怖电影。[64]
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