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".
剪辑和镜头是美的 复古的。剧情是烂的不行的。
“我很高兴你没有。”
不知道是不是因爲色調和音樂的關係，整部影片的沉浸感特別强，Edgar Wright不落俗套的敘事功力和拍攝手法依舊，兩處沒料到的Jump Scare也恰到好處地讓人過癮（一處夢中夢，一處衛生間的回頭，都發生在8號樓。）故事的結尾不算巧妙，甚至讓人有些莫名其妙，但是整體的觀感真的不錯，可能是這類軟恐怖片本身就比較和我胃口吧。
只有前半段值得称赞，Edgar最让人失望一次。
此片能找出一堆对照，六七十年代用cult反哺黑色电影那些，冷血惊魂、魔女嘉莉，用金敏式转场，搞了个复古大拼盘，念旧的赖特。新东西是真的新（玻璃阶梯），套路也是真套路，主要是抻得太长了。有一个点：我对“男人们”的情绪仅仅是厌恶和反感，但要上升到恐惧感觉需要更多铺垫才行（可能是性别局限？），鬼影并未起到世界尽头外星人的作用，而这是中段唯一的逻辑点，厌男≠见到鬼影就跑。万圣节舞会这个设定（典型的魔女嘉莉场景）太顺拐了。总之鬼影恐惧点，对我来说不成立，也没意思，不过视觉效果挺不错的。对于个人精神错乱题材，A24在不断做新，赖特这种影迷型导演在做旧，是一种有趣的现象
好看。不是铅黄。但居然做到了比铅黄还蠢。边缘群体意识昭然若示，但这种低级的概念包装却只不过凸显了内容和形式的双重虚伪。
有几段戏拍得不错的，剪辑音乐也很棒…但这个可怕的开头和结尾是在干什么…
只有前半段值得称赞，Edgar最让人失望一次。
安雅泰勒乔伊这两年演技越来越成熟，独有的复古气质让她从以前的小清新小可怜直接进化为当下年代剧女王。当时就很喜欢的乔乔兔里的犹太女孩，表演神经质也很稳。两只小女神都没的毛病，但是赖导啊……你还是接着用你那两个好基友吧……
其实电影发展到如今这个时代，拼的不再是诡计多端的故事情节，而是偷天妙手的讲故事方法。瞧瞧本片，其实剧作上Bug多到繁星点点，但影像上剪辑（相似性）和摄影（红蓝色）调制的好多桥段真是惊鸿一瞥，每每响起的老歌也配得相得益彰，这种独属于Cinema的华丽丽视听语言正在向沉寂于老套电影的观众呼唤：“电影万岁！”
2.5。現代電影工業的精緻取向完全剝奪了復古美學的旨趣與內核，也剝奪了九成導演精進自己視聽語言的進取心。於是他們重複地給出最為廉價的視覺刺激元素，使得觀眾都吃驚於他們居然真的相信這些東西有效。
从主题（inspiration、mental illness与spirituality、historical burden的缠杂关系）到声画（赖特的强项）、角色都很精彩，尤其前一个小时。但情节上又是“开头结尾有了画面，发展部分没想清楚于是硬来”，vision的过度反真实处理导致观众中途抽离，是这种没想清楚的症状之一。当然，这种硬来与“uncanny导致抽离”也是1970年代恐怖电影的特征之一，或许可以当作赖特致敬的表现吧——至少比温子仁的手法高超多了。总之，2020年拍出这个水平，值得推荐。
鏡像附身也放大了女性的心理恐懼使女人跌入深淵的從不是她們自己 本片高光角色似乎只有Sandie很有女人味一刀刀扎在了某些人的肺管上 I wasn’t be used anymore.They deserved it. 不滿硬要給Eloise搭一個“好”男人以及刻意安排一些mean girls製造衝突
真凶的设计仿佛暗含隐喻。为了保存自己持续作恶到老。似乎也呼应了伦敦固化的社会结构。但整体看下来片子还是属于比较烂的水平。而且这个结尾应该最不合豆瓣用户的胃口，6.8分明显虚高。
视听俱佳，但叙事土的让人想喊救命。全员提线木偶，结局大可不必。
本以为不赖特，却依旧很赖特，风格确实很适合拍这种老时代，曲子很棒，镜像和幻境也很棒，视听实在惊艳，受剥削女性的跨时代通灵，无形的压迫无处不在，文本故事还是俗套了些，但风格完全可以盖过 ，今年的最佳恐怖片，我就选这部了！
丢掉最为代表性的极速变焦蒙太奇的埃德加·赖特依旧鲜明无比，之前被遮盖的匹配剪接成为这部电影的最大技术瞩目点，在加上本身擅长的转场设计，两个年代的转换自然成了炫目十足的观看着眼点。前半段重返黄金年代好似对《午夜巴黎》的另类挪用，但后半段却成了对伍迪·艾伦的反写，那个由文艺作品与过往情调搭建起来的沙上之塔，最终在遭遇现实的海水冲击之时，暴露了隐藏下的泥泞，皮条客与恋人的身份转换，揭开了那个年代的女性境地，最终光影浮华变了鬼魅浮生，之前怀旧视角下的泛黄暖意色调也自然变为了铅黄清冷寒意。但结尾的悬念回转在制作惊奇感的同时，又一定程度消减了之前的女性受害情况的描写力度，在魔女化的同时甚至有合理化的嫌疑，人设也从追梦单纯女变为了复仇女杀手，后者自然爽感无比，但与前面铺垫的写法相比，令人怀疑导演的本意。
色彩、画面感挺好，没想到后半部分会彻底变成怨灵复仇恐怖片，Edgar Wright真的很用心想要吓观众😅 在看过的他的电影里排最后
我以爲是恐怖片 好吧！是下海之前要想清楚的片！
一直都挺喜欢的两位新生代妹子，风格迥异但同样地充满灵气。。从开始镜像蒙太奇的惊艳到最后反转的有点意思，中间其实还蛮boring的，就是两位妹子的精彩飙戏阻止了每一次快进的企图。。
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