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".
……为数不多的实在看不下去，进b站看解说的恐怖片……
及格。恐怖片最核心的还是说好一个故事，不要搞那些乌七八糟的。
还可以吧，叙事顺序上下了点心思，有一点点恐怖游轮意思
真的
全滅...我個人並不討厭這種結局,就是過程有些不足,或許是時長的問題.男主自己闖鬼樓是不是太托大?身上真沒什麼護身之物...照說自己單刷鬼樓的話,應該不管見誰就直接一杵刺過去,但男主偏不這樣...還要確認名字長相在鬼面前念誦一次才出手,所以錯過了好多次送走地縛靈的機會,讓自己落入地縛靈的掌控中,還被自己關在鬼門裡.人格分裂鬼的設定還挺有意思,有屍體派對幸子的感覺~善良幸子的黑暗人格,操控錘叔殺人!
原来豆瓣脸盲的也是一大把，新版尼罗河上的惨案把艾玛认成“小丑女”，好吧，确实很像。
每一位死去的灵，都被困在一段死前的时间，并不断重复着死亡的整个过程。
完成度还算可以，故事情节也算跌宕起伏，还挺有回味空间。
剧情《两个月亮》+《昆池岩》+《怪奇宅》。混乱的空间，昏暗的老楼，致命的追杀，恐惧的呻吟，真的是视觉享受。
爱(婚外)情，拍得很美。整部影片，就是艺术品一般，拍摄，场景构图，音乐等等，都很非常出色。影片剧情叙述也流畅。4.5星推荐
模仿一波昆池岩 但是恐怖效果没昆一半好 剧情给了时空交错 逻辑线又没理清楚 失望
时空交错，循环，驱魔，鬼屋探险，宗教等各种元素揉在一起，又有细节，音效和妆容加持，其实蛮出彩的。
韩式驱魔来一点 废弃大楼探险来一点 时空交错和时空穿越来一点 有各种片的影子 但啥也没说好 逻辑各种混乱 导演都圆不上了
UGC Goblins 冲着Maeve去的！la construction du premier étage的场景很震撼，日落之下男女主站在铁塔上的画面也超美！Elle a une forme d'A.. 埃菲尔铁塔的形状是字母A，因为她的名字是Adrienne。在电影院哭到不行，快告诉我我不是一个人..
今年韩国的鬼片都够顶啊！
一位如此传奇的工程师却以一场三角恋作为传记片核心未免有点大材小用啊
重点讲的埃菲尔的爱情故事，建塔只是顺带一提，但是故事讲得也很一般。一星服化道，一星男主演技。
译作《埃菲尔》更好，因为基本跟铁塔没什么大关系。女主的个人气质很重，很难将其置于19世纪的想象中。终于理解了Robert Delaunay的画里铁塔为何总是红色，那是我们未曾见过的旧日光景。
而影片着重的爱情线，在拍摄手法上的确非常抢眼，插叙的手法将爱情和事业的起伏融合得恰到好处。演员的演技让本来普通的故事线依然动人。尤其是男女主最后庆功会上含泪遥望的表情转折，非常有感染力。但无法否认的是，这条故事线剧情上亮点不多，还是有些仓促。爆发点略显无力。
为什么要拍这么黑！其实跨时空设定和演员都挺不错的，但是又乌漆嘛黑又时空交错驱魔等无数个元素揉在一起，故事线索也没讲清楚，而且除了很俗的鬼妆也没有什么真吓人的地方，剪辑完全让人无法集中注意力，最后越看越混乱。
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