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".
感觉还能够更作者化一点…..我的意思就是那些个明显很好莱坞的感情线动作戏可以再省省…..看完虽然感觉有点被吵到，不过这年头还能做到服化道这么还原的古装片，真的要且看且珍惜，整体观感还是很令人满意的。罗格斯的仪式感和神秘感贯穿了他整个创作生涯，通常来说这类导演的作品不要试图去理解，而要试图去感受。
不喜欢这种风格的电影。本来很期待的大片，结果和我想象的很不一样。
是有想法的，视听语言也不错，但和去年的《钛》一样依旧看得生理性不适。
以为是一部粗戾狠辣的黑暗史诗 结果是一场印象·北欧？
昭华如烟，雪花飞逝奈何天~ahh
挺好看的，只是剧情对话什么的比较戏剧，可能有人觉得不够现实。如果拍一部正统好来屋的类型，那一定非常好看。
有些失望，最期待的生命政治的故事线，顶多算冒了个泡。整个故事浸没在晦涩艰深的低语中，以一个艺术家的先锋尝试，去找寻new sex。艺术的先锋，社会语境的割裂，器官的崇高感使得电影脱离了body horror的经典表达。他似乎走到了《钛》之后的那部，已经试图在政治 神秘的窄缝里，但就如莫滕森死神一般的装束里柯南伯格依然是悲观的，这条后人类的新路，有了声响却再度落入概念的窠臼
两星半，预告片 is overrated，看完成片倒觉得有点无聊。斯图尔特你为什么每次演戏都有种嗑完药的抽搐感？
还怕缘悭，不忍分离人世间~ahhhh
导演把肌肉、刀锋、血腥融入到一个莎翁剧中，用他擅长的宗教议题（命运女神、女武神与王国命运），引入运动镜头、旋转镜头、迷雾等把几个单一话剧舞台（远景定格）串联，带来感官式正剧。不错，这年头拍正剧的人太少了，能拉到中型投资不容易。比最后的决斗好，完整且处理女性的方式不楞，但内核过于简单，可能并不讨喜。还喜欢几次夜景的处理方式，尤其是直拍夜景或简单调色，想起了《白鲸记》
经历了期待、失望、惊喜，没去电影院观看不遗憾，一是因为台词难理解，即使加了字幕，逻辑上也自成一体，有时需要暂停反复品，二是电影太性感比较私人体验。
有些失望，最期待的生命政治的故事线，顶多算冒了个泡。整个故事浸没在晦涩艰深的低语中，以一个艺术家的先锋尝试，去找寻new sex。艺术的先锋，社会语境的割裂，器官的崇高感使得电影脱离了body horror的经典表达。他似乎走到了《钛》之后的那部，已经试图在政治 神秘的窄缝里，但就如莫滕森死神一般的装束里柯南伯格依然是悲观的，这条后人类的新路，有了声响却再度落入概念的窠臼
4.0。1.莎士比亚的哈姆雷特无疑是一个天选之子，背上了替父报仇的宿命，彰显的是人文主义者的理想驱散现实黑暗。罗伯特·艾格斯的阿姆雷特是自以为是天选之子却不得不背上替父报仇却只能共毁灭的命运，一个是人的觉醒，一个是人的毁灭，大相径庭。2.连带着北欧风光的摄影更多选择了黑白色彩，尤其是对门的使用，门内门外两个世界，从门中窥视仇人复仇，又从门走向下一代新生。3.如果没有大银幕的直观观感，给予任何过多的评价都显多余。
其实这次的多数镜头色调还蛮温柔的。
大衛哥連堡對於受奇形怪狀的外部義肢（調整坐姿幫助消化的早餐椅、協助入睡的機器）長期操控而獲致的單純的感官體驗已經不感興趣，他真正想要進行的是一如片中的女藝術家Caprice所言，我們只能一而再，再而三地深入身體內部，從虛空（無組織、無意義的器官群）之中創造出意義／答案。主人公Saul Tenser於結局流下的一滴眼淚既是他終於接受身體進化的象徵，同時亦是他親自承認「混亂的」、「碎片化的」身體成為大腦以外的全新智慧生命的光輝見證：何嘗不是一種近似於宗教式狂喜的超驗性瞬間（新技術、新身體／器官、新藝術三位一體），神似德萊葉鏡頭下的貞德受難。
将近两年前标记的，实在是不喜欢，像罗伯特的维京学毕业论文。
虽然对这种古典戏剧新改体裁+北欧神话史诗题材不太感冒，但视听还是强大到撑得起140分钟，这梦幻卡司也是极其捧场，Eggers感觉要火。
一般般，PS：我要是反派，一定先把对手的手脚都剁了然后再磨叽
一款太专注影像诗以至于忘记了要有剧情的北欧部落风情宣传片。我知道你是Hamlet式的复仇故事，但发生在这么个不到五十人的小村子，斗争激烈程度差不多就是高中选班长，到底有什么好神神叨叨地打打杀杀两个小时的！开头我在睡觉，后半部分在演员朗诵的散文诗里思考明天中饭吃什么。
歌剧不像歌剧，剧情却又稀烂的套壳北欧哈姆雷特记，完全没有任何的改编，有的只是自以为是的大段唠叨。妮可·基德曼是唯一吸引人的看点，无奈整体拉垮，独木难支
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