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".
心理惊悚与“肉体”惊悚五五开的温子仁，用一场电影类型实验，表达了对多孩政策的恐惧 (误
不敢相信这次是温子仁导演，整部电影质感如同低成本的老式恐怖片，仅后半小时的观感尚可。创意很好，可控制电磁场的超能力是哪来的？节奏和内核与招魂系列很相似，先是情节反转，最后点题落到亲情上。
温导回到了熟悉的领域还是可以给人惊喜的，而且还顺了点超英片的元素回来，要是那部新变种人也这么拍也不至于那么惨了
剧情对男主角色偏心的明显，坂口健太郎尽情释放着魅力。
Why does Nana Komatsu say "fools" are so lovely?
天啊到最后我已经不管逻辑了，今年可算看到个像样的cult了！
而且又是铅黄+德帕尔玛+血浆。
虽然和想象中的恐怖期待不同，也是别样的恐怖体验，就如同温子仁自己说的，不想让别人以为自己只会拍鬼屋驱魔，想尝试别的恐怖题材，本片即是温导的突破之作。
明明说好了要记录美好的时刻，删视频是什么个意思啊，痛！好痛！
总的来说就是没什么可夸的，也不够血腥，任何方面都差一点。人物都太模式化了，关爱女主的姐姐，不相信的警察，高潮和反转，照着恐怖片教科书拍的一般。如果说idea有意思，那剧本过于苍白，没有任何的情感表现力是苍白的原因之一。为何要安排一个完美的妹妹？如果她没妹妹，她长期又渴望依赖这种亲情关系，甚至无法意识到她依赖的这个妹妹是恶魔，这不就引起共鸣了吗？我们要看的是人间悲剧人伦悲剧，不是生理变异缺陷，可以在看的同时，要么同情受害者要么是鬼，要么是那种逃离不了的宿命感。如果只有这种低级的生理恐怖，毫无趣味。
带了一盒纸巾去影院 有点夸张了 亲测一包纸巾够了
故事很好，但导演好像并不太行，蒙太奇用的也不太能引起共鸣。在我看来余命十年之际是给了男主太多的力量，但这个表现力太弱了，以至于不敢认爱的过程也显的牵强与尴尬。现象级别的电影就这个水准看来只能为周边、写真、胶片这些加加分了。同样的花束的现象级话题真不是所有现象级的电影都能引起讨论的。当然这种现象不包括同情的眼泪。
昨晚上本来说不熬夜了 结果还是看到了很晚 好久没完整追过一部电影了 死人纯爱配上两位的cp感 看的中途不知道感叹了几次坂口好帅 nana好有气质 中间的暧昧拍的心动 后面相爱在悲的总基调下轰轰烈烈 竟然哭了好几回
没什么逻辑的剧情，前面既不够甜蜜浪漫的纯爱，后面又不够煽情和催泪，为了虐而强行制造了一些冲突和别离，但完全没达到那个效果，很多地方的设定和处理都是没头没尾的。有病为什么不能在一起相互鼓励和陪伴，就硬要提前分开了，就那么挣扎一下，就没了联系，等到快死了才跑来见了一面，是爱还不够么。为了片尾野田的歌勉强三星。
当下电影环境，看到这种成色电影不得不拍手叫好，不愧是恐怖大师啊，即便拿来或者致敬的段落，都能跟自己的风格融合的密不透风，鬼片式的招牌神秘莫测+怪奇畸形的视觉冲击，整个丧心病狂的cult杂锦，强烈的镜头游移和回旋式的动作戏跟随，超级浓郁的沉浸感溢出电视屏幕，“招魂”里的“阴风阵阵”，医学研究室“摇篮里的恶魔”，虚实交错的今敏式文风，“血溅警署”的酣畅飒爽，真相逐渐明朗，局势却开始失控，简直是恐怖迷的狂欢盛宴，虽然故事细节经不起推敲，能力和动机还有待商榷，但节奏掌控的如此的好，视听调度堪称极佳，温子仁恐怖大师的称号又坐稳一回，气氛与反转，思维意识的变现，无一不在佐证，他是最懂恐怖片的。★★★★
然而不知道是不是因为没了鬼，血浆滥用跟不要钱一样，也不像电锯系列把花样百出的死法和剧情结合在一起，单纯的暴力杀人加那把即视感极强的短剑，不知道还以为在看V字仇杀队。
剧情是真的没有惊喜，不过画面和镜头倒是相当的赏心悦目，搭配上RADWIMPS的歌，是很棒的MV了。
配乐似乎借用了Pixies的Where Is My Mind，剧本其实非常有趣，铅黄、鬼宅、动作片、身体恐怖（柯南伯格、帕尔玛之外，还想到格德勒《恶神》），繁复的外壳包裹简单故事，情节在各种恐怖类型中无缝切换，但最终效果实在令人不敢恭维。帕尔玛式pulp故事确实很能检验一个导演，同样爱用镜头炫技，帕尔玛、阿基多都是为了悬念服务，而到了温子仁这里，精致华丽的俯拍、倾斜、越肩长镜就成了拖沓累赘的漫长趣味展示，放在动作片里还算恰当，而在恐怖片里，就既不中看也不中用。恐怖形象方面，温子仁（和他的朋友们）似乎已经再也离不开“扭曲人体”这一个创意了。
可以算科幻片了：女主和操控她谋杀别人的肿瘤生命体加百利做斗争的故事。看的完整版，运镜和调度的水平依然在，但不吓人。
终于 看完了 是我最喜欢的两位霓虹国演员 感觉是nana演技最好的一部 但这不妨碍我觉得剧情只值三颗星…对绝症病人的心理描写有点太流于表面了吧 反正没触动到我
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