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".
又血腥又文艺的片子，打三星主要还是节奏真的挺慢，然后探索世界体验过这么多身份后最后落脚是当女人生小孩？
确实可以称得上史上最治愈系恐怖片,当下人们都在逃避生而为人的痛苦和无奈,却忘记了生命本是一场奇幻的旅程,如何体验皆在自己的选择和坚持。
今年最好看的文艺恐怖片预定。绝美old fashioned风光片
其实我想看的是恐怖片，然而看了半小时放弃了。
欧洲版聊斋，一条女巫的使命，仍旧是近年早已不新鲜的重口味+小清新的反差萌，主题还是那种绝对不会错的“少数的认知”，以及注定会被猜到的结局，其实这类片子再次验证，只要风格逼格到，其他怎么拉都不胯，就说这片怎么没让A24相中呢？
演技真好，家人之间的互相扶持很感人。但故事完全停留在家庭和个人层面，缺乏社会性探讨，有点可惜。P.S: 徐姐2022年律师角色无缝对接 XD
算是《钛》的复制品吧，几乎任何方面都很一样。
很喜欢，一边显现对生命的探索一边展现女性成长的艰辛，也有母亲对女儿式的（老女巫对新女巫）扭曲的情感：你的女巫生命是我给予的，你必须听我的，你会同我一样被火烧，你不会更好，你怎么可以更好？最后她问她，也是问天：为什么一切对你来说就这么简单？最终也合理地完成了终结和传承。想起押井守对生命的理解，就是死亡和繁衍。世界是灼烧着的，然而，然而……
四星半 这哪是惊悚片或者恐怖片啊 这是独特风格的女性史诗，除去部分血腥镜头 整体像英式古典小说一样唯美细腻… 两代女巫 都是被迫走上非常人的道路 一个在复仇的道路上一去不回 但能怪她吗，其实不能 另一个在一次次探索中找到了自我 经历了从古至今大部分女性都不得不经历的一切 高光的时刻是男儿身的那段时间 撒在身上的阳光都是格外温暖的
在多等几年，治疗的手段快有了。阿兹海默确实比断手断脚恐怖。
导演可以啊，处女作就这么厉害。结尾不太喜欢，略略有点俗气。“当男人在房间里，你就不是女人，而是餐食、茶水。”20220604
很少看到如此文艺的惊悚片，同时还是女权片，但作为文艺片挖掘却不够，拍的尺度也太过保守，扭扭捏捏的
7分。年轻人也会得阿尔茨海默症。女强人律师得了“早老性痴呆症”，病情极速恶化，很快就什么也不记得了。女儿刚刚送到美国，身边只有曾经十分疏离的父亲。那个错过自己童年与青少年成长时期的父亲，现在需要照顾三十多岁的“孩子”。总觉得阿尔兹海默症离年轻人很远，电影里有很多关于老年人得了这个病的故事，大多会觉得遗憾又可怜，而看了这部电影会觉得痛苦又绝望。特别是女律师在法庭上作证时尿失禁那场戏，让一个人彻底丧失尊严。虽然电影还是比较温情的，但现实中这样的病患实际上已经失去了作为人的能力，对于他本人来说，得病即是宣告了“死亡”。
父亲这个角色演得厚重，让人越发难受，看完只能一声声叹息。
感觉片子是拿手机拍的，看着晃得头晕。远景不多，没啥美感，而随时出现的大特写粗糙丑陋到恐怖。不太理解高分的～对人性剖析和拉满文艺格调就得放弃好观感么？
还是有些刻意了，节奏也有点拖，看得特别压抑。本以为会有点《返老还童》的意味。不过徐玄振演得真好，安圣基也挺好，但设定过于刻意。阿尔兹海默的早老型痴呆症阶段的故事，故事毕竟是故事，真实的人和他们家庭该多痛苦啊。
文艺恐怖片，所以在文艺片的节奏下基本也没啥好让人觉得恐怖的了。影像风格让人印象深刻。
又是泰伦斯·马力克的风格，充满诗意的静默的荒野志怪故事。是女巫，是女人，是男人，是小孩，这个世界如此走一遭也不付光阴了。
悉尼电影节SFF第3场，后半段节奏就有点奇怪了，前面很不错，画面视听也很好，女巫在人世间走一遭，体会人间的极悲与极乐。
为什么文艺片导演不能涉足恐怖片，正是有这些导演才可以看见不同风格的优质作品!!! 我正好奇那个性瘾男怎么这么帅看了才发现是名校风暴里的足球先生哈哈哈。故事情节挺新奇，美学风格强烈，总之挺喜欢的
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