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".
！很久没看这种 纯电影的节奏 从缓到急 然后戛然而止 给你回味
爱与恨的转化微妙到这种程度，精致，但不友好。
今年观感最好的电影。看到评论说马修麦康纳来演会更好，口音气质更好。对卷福向来不太感冒，但这次表演还不错。鼓励一下，打个五星。
211001 NYFF 改成短片会好很多。
Benedict之前的表演给我感觉一直是过于夸张，这次单从表情身形到躯体都透着男性的压迫感，几场重头solo都很精彩，Dunst虽然突破不大但胜在这样的角色她已经太老练了，又有足够的戏份展示自己，希望可以顺利拿奖。
Campion导演西部硬核片，奥斯卡大热门，摄影精到，影片有多角度的表达及解读，情欲占有欲，身份及自我认同，家族纷争的隐秘暗流，蛮荒到逐渐逼近的阶层分化，剧情很好，角色都自有逻辑，是真正戏剧式的冲突，导演用了诸多暗示，环境的渲染，妖冶的配乐，最后犀利出刀。一定要注意片头的独白... 卷福/奇异博士 表现相当出色
“He tried to destroy the world before the world destroy him.”
现在的主海报很劝退我，以为只是卷福的个人秀，其实看完不是的，麦菲的表演，让我觉得更胜一筹。
非常严整的作品，文本深邃，各种各样的人物关系和人物本身的塑造非常在线，也不再强调同志情感的合法性，跨过了绝大多数电影都没法迈过去的门槛。女性部分又与《钢琴课》完全相反，那里面被释放的东西在这里全部压抑起来，那里流畅的东西这里全部阻塞住。叙事上与其说在故意遮挡什么，不如说是把人物的行动全都展现出来，但又取消了其中的意义，只有当你回过头来把这些影像串联起来，才会明白其中的含义所在。
看影评吧，觉得原小说仿佛就是耽美网文设定，英俊潇洒魅力无穷深柜恐同还搞骨科大男主，和天才学霸冷血恋母少年之间的虐恋。故事也毫无悬念，就是等着卷福出柜。有些情节看着很难不想起希区柯克的《惊魂记》。但就是这么雷人故事，简·康平还是拍得很有水平，暗流汹涌、余味无穷。
值得讨论和深挖的地方很多，但看起来是真的闷。
缓慢的叙事、克制的情感。坎皮恩的节奏控制能力太强了，重要的情节点到为止，但是也能让观众明白。前半程一直在铺垫，结尾大爆发，甚至让人不寒而栗。导演的调度绝了，摄影绝了，演员的表演绝了，全程沉浸感🈶️所有特写镜头都好有感觉啊～我可太喜欢了，怒给五星！
7/10。也是一部本尼与“彼得”的故事，结合今日某片首映。
内劲好大的片子。武术有内家拳，这部属于电影里的“内家片”。故事发生在背影是一片洪荒的农场中，这里有个粗鲁邋遢的坏哥哥，善良内敛的好弟弟，以及焦虑酗酒的妻子和他娘娘腔的儿子。电影的大部分时间你并不知道电影到底要表达什么，但你能感觉到线索在犬山、木屋、公牛、河流、马鞍、皮绳、标炭疽等种种的意象中暗涌向陌路。片中男女间的偏见和敌视也代指着文明和蛮荒的冲突，而到头来我们才发现，杀人不见血的文明葬送了善良的野蛮。
匠气十足，简直是把一切情绪隐忍到了不可压缩的地步。。伴着西部的风景，形成了一种独特的风格。每个人的角色都蛮饱满的，特别是那个少年的演员，长得就是那种又阴柔又变态的样子，看的人脊背发凉。这是一场缓慢的杀戮，喜欢BC在小房间里一脸苦大仇深地谈琴，喜欢邓斯特那几场半醉半疯的戏，一点点，一点点在没有高潮的剧情里高潮。
语焉不详和克制并不能画上等号，“细思极恐”的“恐”完全由Jonny Greenwood提供，康伯巴奇纯属miscast。这种极其拧巴的所谓“现代式”西部片对masculinity的讨论比起John Ford、Howard Hawks当年来说可真是差远了
一部极致克制的电影 一部需要静下心来数次屏住呼吸看得电影 配乐 运镜构图真的超赞 整体细腻的描述这个男权 母爱 权利 情感的种种激烈碰撞 那么浓烈缠绵同时却又单纯决绝 每一个人物都很丰满 演员太棒了 克斯汀•邓斯特的演绎真的很赞 逐渐崩溃绝望 她的惶恐及那摇摇欲坠的破碎感很棒 有几次我都觉得呼吸停滞了 卷福我甚至觉得他就是Phil 那个纯情又刻薄 脆弱而孤独 压抑却充满性张力的矛盾的男人 当他第一次脱下牛仔扮相时那种脆弱感 而他身上的破碎感也很 而Peter的残忍冷血 你以为他是猎物 其实他才是猎人 对于Phil的示好仿佛是种怜悯 这种气质疯批病娇气质真勾人啊 而这种残忍也恰恰是种脆弱 整部剧充斥着一种特别的强烈的残酷美令人心醉 而Phil对Bronco的感情真的是令我心碎啊 细节满满的片子
8.5/10 大银幕。今年目前为止我最喜欢的新片。超西部片，也是希斯特斯兄弟之后最好的历史西部片，和前者一样极富现代性的类型文化反思。每个类型都有其先验的文化意义，西部片是(男人的)神话，更是长久以来被男性导演们所主导、推动发展的类型，那是被男性确认过的范式和规则。本片是把原始的类型意象极大程度的从自身惯例中剥离出来，又最大化的消减类型元素，而突出的是细致到毫厘的心理洞察，对于观众则是心理负荷信号，最后这也直指主题价值。slowly rising，纸花、木梳、皮绳… 阉割、伤口、病毒… 我感受到的是简坎皮恩的心性和耐力，看到了她的智识。西部片涉及到男子气概、性别角色、同性情结这些都不易过时，身为一位女性电影人她也可以在这个类型留下自己的足迹。本尼的这个高压角色可能会让他拿到第一座小金人…
真的很值得回味，男主的拧巴，对身边的压迫，他的无助与失落，恐怖的气氛渲染，让观众期待意外情绪的出现，但一直保持克制，抽丝剥茧，情绪层层推进，最终都这一切造成了最终的悲剧，当结束后稍微思考一下为什么会死？无限回味就来了
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