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".
哇 好北欧的horror。小女孩太能演了吧。
7分。挺有意思的一个片子，整个电影充满了各种隐喻。每个人都能从中看到你想看到的部分。不知怎么想起了浦泽直树的《MONSTER》：“你看，它已经这么大了！”。小姑娘分饰两边只能说中规中矩，最后的蜕变尽管已经猜到，但实际看还是挺有那么股味儿的~~~
表演很不错，概念落地也够完整了，就是文本太老了，换成国内可能还有点搞头
还是想给2.5🌟的！ 本来很期待北欧气息+怪物恐怖+儿童恐怖的碰撞，结果导演拥抱了传统恐怖片的节奏。但怪物的制作以及对“完美主义者创造丑陋自我”的设定我还蛮喜欢的。
jumpscare还是很过瘾的 小女孩演技不错
挺ok的~坐旁边的小朋友们看得又开心又揪心，还有不时听到妈妈们说：宝贝，成绩好不好没关系，你怎么样爸爸妈妈都爱你~靠谱成年人看更有收获，顺便还能收获一堆美好~作者彩蛋好玩。p.s.皮皮鲁一哭阿拉心都碎了，多可爱的娃啊QAQ
最近很出圈的一部芬兰body horror，北欧中产家庭的mother issue，结尾很猛。
喜欢跟身体较劲的重口味，每年这样开胃的小清新请来几部。
如果不是童年有郑渊洁情怀加成的话，这片连及格线都达不到，皮大王皮皮鲁全片像个傻子一样，鲁西西的大女主戏份和五个罐头小人主导了主要剧情，爸爸妈妈和老师都和《驯兔记》一样完全沦为工具人，想要与时俱进的批判应试教育和现如今的素质教育问题却太浅层次，可以说连皮毛都没摸到，一开始靠博士的作弊满分到后来发现作弊的不对而集体努力也完全没合理的过程，最为大多数人所诟病的火灾及自救过程，被学过民防课的人理解沦为反面教材，完全是为了凸显上尉的牺牲精神，而歌唱家虽然为全片颜值担当，却实在太过花瓶，约翰也纯为搞笑和耽误事的作用而存在，究竟是郑渊洁的童话过时了，还是主创的能力不够不得而知，希望彩蛋的《魔方大厦》不要再重蹈覆辙
更应该认为是一个复仇故事，“你夺走了我的母亲，我夺走你的女儿”。小女孩的母亲是现代社会典型的表演型人格，社交媒体上呈现的是最完美的一面，跟丈夫和和气气、一对儿女漂漂亮亮，有一座带花园的院子，枝形吊灯、沙发套和地毯交汇出一片温柔的色调，直到一只误闯的乌鸦出现，用利爪彻底撕破了这张平静美好的画布。紧接着，内心的暴戾很快以杀戮的形式施予这名不速之客，你知道，她不会再有好结果。至于家庭关系中的裂痕似乎都在意料之中：跟丈夫的开放式关系、对女儿的苛刻并不亚于最残忍的亚洲母亲式“鸡娃”，儿子则基本被她忽视，毫无存在感。要对这样一个女人复仇，必须要夺走的是她最心爱的女儿以及她的希望，让她不再有退路。而她“如同尸体分泌黏液”一样的本质的生活，将恶心她自己并恶心所有人。至于恐怖片的“借尸还魂”倒不是什么新招了。
圆梦童年~皮皮鲁和鲁西西是八零后，所以电影呈现的是九十年代的风格，大白兔奶糖，红绿水壶，圆罐头，焦虑的妈妈们，我已经不记得从前看的鲁西西和罐头小人的故事是怎样的了，但是无论故事怎样我都很激动，身边都是爸爸妈妈带着孩子来看电影，也许和我一样，更多的是为了圆自己小时候的梦吧！最高光时刻就是最后的彩蛋了，路人郑渊洁大叔~希望更多的郑渊洁宇宙能搬上荧幕！
画面上很北欧，清新与邪典齐飞，春花与血腥一色。主题有点类似于《妈咪晚安》，在成长的关键节点上，亲情的缺席所导致的黑暗后果。但本片在人物形象方面，要比冷峻的日耳曼民族丰满很多。特别是“Mother”这个角色，而一直在边缘游走的“Father”则非常完美地体现出家庭关系的非正常倾斜。阿莉是由谭雅孕育（孵化）出来的，作为谭雅的对立面，是谭雅潜意识与黑暗面的外化。最终，二人有回归统一。
病态的家庭环境下孵化出更病态的孩子……22.05.24
有《钛》的味道。一个破碎的原生家庭：软弱的爸爸、虚荣和控制欲强的妈妈，孵化了一个黑暗嗜血的女儿。
买了两张票却看了不到十分钟，终于在优酷看完了。挺好的，人性故事，非常棒！
失火那场戏我女儿在影院里终于忍不住爆发大哭哈哈
陪女儿去看，童年在课堂偷偷看了那么多郑爷爷的童话，欠他一张电影票，今天终于补上了，电影情节不完美，拍摄手法也不是那么成熟，但是被小女主给感动到了，那清静明澈的眼神，内心的善良与爱，正是我们每一个人越长大越离我们远去的东西。
演员、故事都不错，但是感觉还是差了点什么，也许是太大人观点了。
还是及格的片。给个四星吧。希望下次继续努力。
更应该认为是一个复仇故事，“你夺走了我的母亲，我夺走你的女儿”。小女孩的母亲是现代社会典型的表演型人格，社交媒体上呈现的是最完美的一面，跟丈夫和和气气、一对儿女漂漂亮亮，有一座带花园的院子，枝形吊灯、沙发套和地毯交汇出一片温柔的色调，直到一只误闯的乌鸦出现，用利爪彻底撕破了这张平静美好的画布。紧接着，内心的暴戾很快以杀戮的形式施予这名不速之客，你知道，她不会再有好结果。至于家庭关系中的裂痕似乎都在意料之中：跟丈夫的开放式关系、对女儿的苛刻并不亚于最残忍的亚洲母亲式“鸡娃”，儿子则基本被她忽视，毫无存在感。要对这样一个女人复仇，必须要夺走的是她最心爱的女儿以及她的希望，让她不再有退路。而她“如同尸体分泌黏液”一样的本质的生活，将恶心她自己并恶心所有人。至于恐怖片的“借尸还魂”倒不是什么新招了。
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