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".
改编的太离谱了，美国人的政治正确到了走火入魔的地步，过犹不及。
惠允的粉絲 一本滿足。故事挺現實 挖掘機不很常見 女主眼神里那股狠勁 和手臂的紋身，让觀眾 對她艱辛的現實生活 沒那麼絕望了。
PS：感觉女主角有点莫蕾娜·巴卡琳和李冰冰的合体。。。╮（╯▽╰）╭
Stop！Fucking up！My ending！真正的影迷都是连环变态杀人魔，谁毁了我的电影，我就刀刀捅进去让他血流成河！
这里面的安有点过去轻佻了。可能为了体现她的睿智和爱讽刺？总之改编的很一般。虽然奥斯丁的作品本来也没啥情节，所以很难影视化，但是这个版本并没有表现出其精髓，过于表面程式化了。
知道要打头为什么不打啊！反派明明是路人还能这么抗打，火烧、刀捅、枪击都不死就离谱
我以为女主不会蠢到手机录音没有备份就去找社长对峙，但我错了，女主忽高忽低的智商真的让我着急，还有韩国警察也是sb脑袋有坑，非要开枪打女主才可以吗，直接爬上推土机给女主抓下来不就得了，那么大块头对付一个十几岁小姑娘还需要用枪
看到最后wes真的好想哭 什么叫做有诚意的续集其他人都他妈学着点 虽然billy女儿这让我有点… 但是 算了… 就纯为了sid和伙伴们 为了horror 还有我永远喜欢sid&billy这对嗯
三星半。其实还挺好看的，全程无第四面墙。选角用心了，每一个年轻演员都有我喜欢的作品。惊声尖叫和惊声尖笑真得有区别吗？这部就好好笑啊。
本来想打三星，但看到最后开推土机拆家招牌是中华料理，还有红灯笼就觉得不可以了
一星给达妹的颜值，一星给简奥斯汀老套也经典的言情剧情。其他真的泛善可陈。当然也有一点点反省，我反感刻意的diversity，但我这种反感与不适是不是也是一个要这样做的理由？我们的下一代，看着这些东西长大的人，是不是就不会有我这样的不适应？
港台译名《夺命狂呼》，是比较贴切和准确的一次翻译。比如，影片后半段有一幕是「反客为主」电话呼叫，这种「狂呼」是双向带有杂耍意味的。另一处真正的「狂呼」，是导致“正义阵营”一名成员的直接死亡。——整体来说，本片是及格之作，虽然逻辑略有牵强，但整体完成度蛮高，恐怖感营造得相对俗套，又比较出挑——好吧，我看的恐怖片相当有限，反正影院观看过程里有被多次吓到。另外，从戏剧内容设定上，呈现了一次狂热恐怖片粉丝的癫狂，恐怖片现实「同人文」创作，影片也试图将社会议题引向粉丝文化，但「进入」得太表层、浅显了。但不得不夸赞的一点是，影片似乎努力把该片拉出“恐怖片”创作范式，但又进行了巧合式的前置设定，促成了剧情的向外发展，又坐落回所谓俗套剧情。创作者抖的包袱是——恐怖片无法摆脱俗烂套路，进行了一次深刻“自嘲”。
达妹的表演还是挺喜欢的 只是男主似乎没有男主的气质 没有看过原著中途差点以为男二才是男主...
除了最后结尾潦草一点，全程看下来是一部温暖人心的好电影，不要让别人教你如何生活，教你如何去爱。观影以来，这是对我而言最不无聊，最能讲故事的电影，给5星。
非常惊喜。不仅在血腥度、惊悚度和娱乐性方面完美还魂Wes Craven，更成功打造一部新生代Scream——陌生来电不会在第一声被接听、Elevated Horror作为新兴概念被提及、配角多元且不再必死、Jump Scare沦为一个个假预警、网络与Fandom文化大行其道。借角色之口抛出“如何正确重启一部续作”、“如何在恐怖片中存活”的讨论，以及将前四部化作“片中片”的Meta玩法（包括旧角色/演员的回归和对前作的吐槽），达成对影片本体和恐怖类型片公式的解构、揶揄和自反。同时不乏对经典的致敬。某种程度上甚至强于Halloween重启。
太糟糕了，除了女主好看，风景不错，简直不知道还有哪里好...完全不忠实于原著，也没看出来想对奥斯汀做出什么超越，女主从隐忍，内心深沉变为调皮可爱的现代人，这倒没什么，但是不顾别人感受，在宴会上说出她妹夫本来先喜欢的是她，简直不可原谅，这不是奥斯汀最讨厌的那种人？怎么会是她笔下最深情的安妮？期待的台词全都删了，除了half agony half soul这句真爱担当，其他的只有eliot先生的对白最精彩，导演是最喜欢他和安妮这对cp吧，wentworth虽然是个海军，也不用被衬托成一个野蛮人吧...好久没有看某部电影想吐槽这么多...三分给女主和她与eliot调情部分的对白吧...
可能最近女性主义作家编剧的戏看多了，这种HE结尾就显得俗套，中间男女主的拉扯逃不开傲慢与偏见，选角失败，尤其男演员太不帅了喂，and为了政治正确强行一波非裔亚裔真是倒胃口，btw没看过原著可能失望度要更低些，看到原著党下的评论已经开始暴走了
我无法强行代入情感，总是跳戏，甚至想二刷07版能让我觉得舒服点儿 （开头配乐真的很五十度哦）
全程对话真是烦啊，充斥着无聊的自以为是。不是真爱粉不吃这一套。
看到最后wes真的好想哭 什么叫做有诚意的续集其他人都他妈学着点 虽然billy女儿这让我有点… 但是 算了… 就纯为了sid和伙伴们 为了horror 还有我永远喜欢sid&billy这对嗯
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