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".
女性在逐渐发现母亲并不是一个女人必须要经历的人生阶段 并且女性创作者也开始不断表现这个观点 女性的中年困境似乎也因为母亲的身份而天然地拥有了更多的层次//新生儿带来的喜悦感仿佛是某个都市传说的结尾 怀孕生产育儿和新任母亲的身心痛苦越来越被透明化 我们终于不再无视那只房间里的大象
建议导演可以做爱丽丝门罗系列，风格完全在线
想要传达出来的女性之苦、身为母亲的苦楚以及女性选择个人而非家庭的好处是有感受到的，但也因为这种略俗套的处理方式而弱化了，尤其是结尾与达妹的对话和试图展现出来的和解，则是进一步地将这种表达和力量弱化。
剧作出彩，整体完成度极高的处女作，闪回呈现甚至比幻化的“现实”当下更为细腻。
玛吉·吉伦哈尔演蝙蝠侠最爱的女人时，我吐槽过几次导演视力有问题，给蝙蝠侠安排这么个女神。不料玛吉·吉伦哈尔的导演处女作如此惊人，开篇20分钟左右就牢牢控制住了气场，才华让她魅力四射——无关长相。//翻译成《迷失的女儿》恐怕是最贴切的。《暗处的女儿》这叫法都离题了。//影片中艾德·哈里斯说：leonard cohen以前经常来这里，跟我们一起写歌。突然， 我简直，裂了。
剧本当然OK，但落点不对，没能给科尔曼的角色足够的赋能，拍那么多达妹简直是在胡闹，主要她演得也太尬了。至于科尔曼演得好不好？当然好，但她和其他人长期不在一个频道上，同时，她这种跳脱的表演，时间一长真的很容易让人审美疲劳呐。
面对比预期更为平淡的答案似乎观众也应当为被养大的胃口而反省。
林强和罗大佑联手奉献全片最佳镜头。太想卖弄江湖气，加之叙事不清，抒情只得一击即碎，仿佛笑话。看完就感到，《南国再见，南国》真是可遇不可求
试图与文学性的联结不够行之有效；
3.5，科尔曼的表演很迷人，似乎自带一堵墙，但同时吸引人跟着她进入一场迷局。原来不是The Lost Daughter，而是The Lost Mother.
【Netflix】惊艳的处女作，对于情绪的暗潮涌动处理的非常老道，张力十足。不过本片的最大功臣必然是Colman，举手投足皆是戏。
有点奇妙，昨晚刚看了时时刻刻，两部都有描画束缚于家庭中的女性心灵上的困境，选择离开令人窒息的生活是无奈不舍的不负责之举，也是肆意活出自我的必然选择，正如时时刻刻最后所说“当你别无选择时再后悔当初做的决定已毫无意义”，重要的是与过去的自己和解。
没有责任感的父母总是有诸多借口，电影里的至少还懂得反思，而评论里的却各种振振有词。
今年份恐婚恐育！原来原著作者是Elena Ferrante。题外话，我一直无法判断这个故事发生在哪里，不知道为什么这一点始终非常让我出戏，包括里面每个人说话的不同口音。
彼得萨斯加德还有意大利那个女演员怎么老成这样了？！震惊。。
有点boring，看一半看不下去了，一开始以为是悬疑片呢
（6.6/10）当《德州巴黎》中那位抛妻弃子的父亲离开后，他感受到了自由。在《暗处的女儿》中，女主角同样离开了她的家庭，而她的感受却更复杂：有自由，有实现自我价值的满足和成就感，当然也有因社会对女性“完美母亲”形象的追求而造成的自责和悔恨。还有一点很有趣：抚养孩子的过程是家长在教育孩子，而反过来孩子也可以在某种程度上重塑家长。
給我的感覺很好，無可替代，很台灣，情懷萬歲，黑幫青春片，典範。給人的感覺太好了。也很傷感，青春，江湖，人生，在路上，失落，等等，將這些搞的曖昧無比，太喜歡！
今年份恐婚恐育！原来原著作者是Elena Ferrante。题外话，我一直无法判断这个故事发生在哪里，不知道为什么这一点始终非常让我出戏，包括里面每个人说话的不同口音。
很真实。想起前几天逛街的时候我跟我妈说，你自己确实想要一个孩子，但是你有没有想过这种想法有多大程度来源于你自己，多大程度来源于外界对你的塑造？是谁让女人成为了母亲？
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