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".
看完之后细思极恐，70多分钟的铺垫。最后出乎意料，因为没看剧透我还一直以为会有什么小叔子爱上自己儿子的情节。结果越看越不对劲，想着标签也没贴恐怖，惊悚啥的。可是看完以后，我觉得需要加个惊悚的标签，这简直就是一场精心谋划的温柔的杀戮，不要惹医学生啊，能有一百种合理让你死的方法。bgm不错，听出惊悚的味道了，听说本尼为了拍这个一个礼拜不洗澡也是蛮厉害的。
五国联盟合拍...这个有意思 ....
温吞乏力又无聊，还管这叫克制，根本就是没啥剧情又无趣，到是想放肆。硬塞个变态大叔的印象，45岁康伯巴奇也开始卖肉。要说细腻也比不过《断背山》，就这还全球拿到147个奖项246项提名，不仅仅是明星们老了，连评委和观众们也老了。4
几乎不动声色，虽然开篇的旁白已经点明了主题。
后劲很强，解读也多。双方都在为守候自家的领地而起冲突，同时知道在不明朗的时候要先相处，同时两方的破败也明显，一个是醉鬼母亲，一个是无聊弟弟。但儿子方懂得不断精进技艺，不胡乱树敌。而牛仔方则始终无法安放自我的压抑，处处树敌。也就意味着突然之间双方博弈之间，那极度渴望的温情突然击垮了牛仔。高手就在抽烟这一瞬间一剑封喉。一种更隐忍更强悍的力量弱肉强食取代了之前，当然没有任何情感可言，都是适者生存。如果把视角定义在卷福身上，那则是无处安放的隐藏自我必然被所有力量吞噬，尤其是亲人。精彩，酣畅，克制，美妙。
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。
牛年推荐《第一头牛》，狗年推荐《犬之力》。坎皮恩真沉稳，有条有理地把人物挨个塑造起来，非常复杂的感情也讲得有条不紊，即便不能全部共情也可以充分并放心地去相信它的存在，正如人都是复杂的。氛围感也做得特别好，两次看到那个山，原来完全不同的感觉，菲尔和彼得一起看的时候那片光影逐渐显现的那一幕，真的是充分表现了自然光影的神奇。如果这是特效做出来的，真是做了特效非常应该做的事，充分发挥了电影的奇观性，令人感动。可怜的男性气概啊，一定要以贬损女性和pua他人来彰显，就单薄可笑以致可怜，所以当抽烟一幕发生时，是有种轻微的以小博大、智取翻盘的快感的。菲尔是典型的充当受害者而不自知再去充当加害者。彼得对生命应该是挺冷漠的，在他眼里的纸花和活兔子应该都是差不多的东西。
当我父亲离世之后，我只想要我的母亲能够幸福，如果我不帮助我的母亲，如果我不救她，那我又是什么样的一个人。在女权控制下，男性又在男性之间产生权力。那就是权力。母亲控制了彼特，彼特为了保护母亲将菲尔杀害。一个被母亲隐晦控制的孩子（情感阉割是腐朽的父权制对男性气质的统一要求）
好喜欢好喜欢，男人和少年之间的那种张力。缺爷演得实在是太好了。
啥几把，就是这种神叨叨的片子，才让豆瓣影评有价值。不看影评等于白看。
叙事手法极其精巧，直到最后才知道是这样的故事。真是一场温柔的杀戮啊。有的残忍是为了掩盖内心的脆弱，而有的残忍以脆弱作为掩盖。
最压迫神经的影像往往采用最克制的调度。简·坎皮恩的视听乍看平平无奇，但静默中积蓄着可怕张力，表层起伏又带起暗流涌动，非常有pua魔力。
7.5分，Phil自渎和最后喂烟抽的戏好极。全片很平，看似无风无浪的水平面，而底下暗流涌动，暗流是人的潜在情欲（占有、控制、保护）。
太绷着了，看不下去。个别场戏还是精彩的。至总督到访，Dunst拒绝弹钢琴处。
如果从导演技术角度来说，绝对是今年最佳，简康平对女之性和男之性的理解，在所有导演里绝对没有雷同，我甚至找不出相似的主义来解读她想表达的东西，她从80年代拍电影开始就超前所有人，现在也还是。
如果从导演技术角度来说，绝对是今年最佳，简康平对女之性和男之性的理解，在所有导演里绝对没有雷同，我甚至找不出相似的主义来解读她想表达的东西，她从80年代拍电影开始就超前所有人，现在也还是。
一点独处空间，一些似有非有的肢体接触，一片半明半暗的打光，已经是如今钙片的标准手段了。无聊
最后的场景，peter通过窗户看到楼下拥吻的母亲和继父，好了朋友们，可以脑补接下来的故事了！
外强中干深柜被腹黑心机boy算计的故事🤠用了很大的篇幅做铺垫和刻画Phil卷福也是贡献了自己全部的演技（以及一闪而过的丁丁）虽然节奏缓慢情感隐晦但不影响是个好故事👏导演非常擅长刻画克制压抑的情感
真是直白又“隐晦”，叙事掌控仿佛半放弃一般，但又必须在这种放弃之上，调度才能尽显功力，回看故事即便有些单薄，也很是有韵味了，赞一个。
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