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".
非常新颖的题材，超载毒药导致的灵魂脱离，既串联了一系列扑朔迷离的事件，也营造了独特的时空错乱的氛围。这类创新影片，在国内的主流电影市场，相当少见，或是审查机制，或是过于缺乏创造力了，值得更需要警醒与深思。
社恐真的发挥到极致了 我觉得是好看的哎 虽然情节略微扯淡 但是感觉很符合当下的社会氛围 看完立刻出门锻炼 当代独立女性要有非常了好的身体素质呀！
2022-03-11
一般 但是每次女的都不爱补刀 真是不喜欢这种妇人之仁的塑造 本剧女主补刀补上瘾 钉子枪大站真枪 简直小鲁班 跑都不让你跑
7 前两天在看完听风者之后想到，这类声音为主内容的电影缺乏表现性，没想到索子已经借由科技开始进行探索。从一开始的声音先入，到房间内寻找声音的过程，再到出门后无时无刻存在的背景音皆是在做此实验。重构的后窗是致敬也是手段，完成了听到看的合谋。但结尾处看的宅男冒着生命危险帮助女主也没能抱得美人归，表明了索子对于类型发展的态度。电脑戏做成桌面形式，出门后用kimi一直引导看就更好了
包裹着灵魂转移这种华丽设定、实则内容简陋普通的动作片，穿越戏份有些许趣味，可是剧情实在拖沓凌乱，主演们演技也一般，更何况故事内核本就老套
◎对于隐私的描述切中时下问题。
新冠爆发老子在家办公将近两个月之后出门/乘坐公共密闭交通工具确实有过一段时间障碍感同身受😔
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不错~
剧本很扎实~精力都放在放大剧情有限的转折点上~非常solid不玩虚的~
故事如此简单却融入了大数据监控，疫情封闭，女性议题。全都是热门话题，作为网络电影的话简直太会抓热点了。它最大的好处就是短，让节奏不拖沓，一个现代版后窗。社恐女性如何自救，面对大数据和资本我们该如何自处，电影给了我们一个理想化结局，所以说作为网大还是爽到的。在个人信息完全暴露的时代，依然还是需要看什么样的人以什么样的目的去用，所以仍然是共存的态度，即便不完全赞同，也无法拒绝这个时代了。
偷窥狂
Accompli pour une lecture sur l’écran le temps d’un vendredi soir.
一个很好的小点子是撑不起一部好电影的，可以说灵魂脱离是个好点子，但是逻辑不够完整剧情冲突也不那么明显，靠大量的动作和打斗戏来填充未免让人失望。
我们不过是一个个可以被查出并且抹掉的device number而已了。想要施以援手，却发现周围的人都被买断。这不就是铁链女的现实版吗，只不过现实里没有这么解气的结局罢了
女主工作量过于随意哈，竟然没“指标”😄虽然心理障碍出不了门也一定要坚持锻炼，这样坏人来家了也有行动力反击👍结尾女主的发色好好看，酷粉🎀
索德伯格这部是随便拍拍玩的吗，感觉剧本很简单很扯
怪力少女为正义反击黑恶势力 网络时代数据真的很重要 私隐也是
特别像一个才华横溢的新导演处女作，在限定条件下（有可能是主观挑战也可能是客观限制）完成了一个很漂亮的作品，bug就不挑了
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