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".
林嘉欣瘦了好多，真的是女神啊，不过其实她什么样都女神。片子本身乏善可陈，虽然演员都很努力，但这就是很一般的片子。对非典在戏剧中的运用也没有用好，只是个噱头和壳子，其实跟故事关系不大。看完不懂为啥金马拿了这么多奖，是真的没好片了？不过林嘉欣还是值得，电话响起、冲过去、停顿了一秒才战战兢兢拿起来，生怕电话那头是妹妹的坏消息，影后真不是盖的。
大概華人看了都會有點頭和感同身受的時刻吧，不管是在校園還是家庭，甚至是千禧年周杰倫金曲，以及與華人甚至亞洲環境始終無法斬斷的連結。在Covid19下看SARS背景有些奇異的重合感。
想到了游戏里石之心拍卖行里的那个老太太问我认识Vesemir么他还好么。几个法印都过于厉害了一点，阿尔的法印简直是龟派气功，居然还能双手阿尔德。
比預期好看很多，同樣是家庭衝突，處理的比某兩字片簡單有力/劇情鏡頭台詞都很舒服自然，兩位女主角不慍不火的表演我很喜歡/另外也很喜歡年代感的呈現，MSN、部落格、5566護貝卡，蔡依林周杰倫的歌、體罰、排擠、保守的校園風氣，生活在那個年代尾巴的我也有些許共鳴
评委真厉害啊，没把大奖给这部，立马把瀑布加满2星❤️
这味，对流~打斗炫酷
很片面，又很写实。围绕着夫妻，姐妹，母女，父女，家庭多维度的情感脉络。减弱了所有的戏剧冲突，用尽可能生活化的情绪状态来表现故事。
7.5/10 比正传剧集牛多了，维瑟米尔前传拓深了猎魔人的悲哀，把杰洛特和叶妮芙那种传奇式恋爱下沉到了普通人与猎魔人之间渐行渐远，但时间依旧不能割裂爱的牵绊，更具普适性，也更动人，意外律也陪衬得更加残酷。也把原作里维瑟米尔嘴里一带而过的凯尔莫罕大战讲了个明白。但我不满的是权斗和术士的贪欲和妒忌这方面太草率，仅仅归咎于偏见是没啥意思，要学原著中道出“为何偏见”，看来创作团队太轻视观众对于系列的理解力，都以为路人是粉丝的偷懒心态。
最后那句总会有新的怪物出现的杰洛特。我破防了
挺不错的，剧情完整，动作出色，配音大气，但有些地方有点赶工了，80分钟还是太短了
沒看過原著，但是，無論是誰，都會有錯，這點沒說錯，最後，改正或接受懲罰就好。最近的很多事都一再刷新著認知，呵呵。
还蛮压抑的，从主题，导演影像色调，但也是一部新一代创作者向内的，温柔的家庭故事，不再追求“团圆式”的大家庭，而是，元子化的出现在这个城市之中，甚至只能是倒垃圾或者没有带钥匙时才能和邻居们萍水相逢式的打个招呼，或者说几句话。看的时候一方面觉得小女孩太作了，另一方面也劝自己，谁没有青春期嘛。
残忍程度好像有点过了。
3.0
对我来说太太太接地气了，虽然背景完全不同，但于我个人，家里的气氛，家人吵架的情形 频率 模式都近乎一致，学校打手板的老师，家长会，不合群的孩子，网吧，这些元素我是太熟悉了，熟悉到我会惊讶于在地区 文化 年代各种背景都不同的情况下人们的生活元素会这么相似，至今的大流行也是一样，给我种社会从未进步的印象。再想想我和电影里比缺了什么？没有见过世面，没有心爱的马儿，没有叫jesse的朋友，更没有爱恨交织的兄弟姐妹
想起朋友的一句话：“贪嗔痴面前，我们人人平等”。林嘉欣依然很美，演技更醇熟。
对没玩过游戏的人来说背景有些乱，相对于主角，反倒更偏爱女巫一点
影片的切入點很好，故事改編自導演青春期的真實經歷，故此，臺詞、場景設置和佈景設計都高度生活化，觀之好似窺視鄰家的日常生活；演員演技亦全員在線，尤其林嘉欣演活了因疑患絕癥而分外敏感憂郁的母親形象。但以“電影性”的標準來說，影片的缺點也是顯見的，即敘事的深度嚴重不足，一如謝飛導演的評判：“衹開了個好頭，家庭人物之間的情境剛描繪完，還沒有發展和深入，就簡單地結束了”，又以另名友鄰的評價來說，“始終停留在吵架—和好的循環結構劇作模式，很難觸碰到真正的人性痛點，……文化衝突之類的議題也沒有真正展開。以這部電影架設的母題與敘事結構來說，整體的毛病是缺乏一個類似楊德昌式的對台灣社會犀利透徹的剖析視角”。下一步導演需要深入思考和更加妥善地處理的，正是個人（日常）經驗與可同觀眾和社會通約的公共經驗之間的關係。
高星的人都是玩过游戏的人么？说实话这个片实在看不出哪里精彩，get不到哪里好看呢。。。画面什么都不强求了，感觉剧情有点突兀，全片没有任何打动人的点，大部分的打斗都有点不明所以并且也不精彩。。。整体感觉比较无聊
就……很有那种面对时代浪潮的无力感。猎魔人终将走向灭绝，而制造出小狐那样的变种怪物、最终招致灾祸也确实是咎由自取。“她没有选择变成这样。”
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