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".
兄妹二人小演员都演得很灵，长得也好看，甚至感觉是比《怪奇物语》的老几位强了【此处拉踩】，故事内容其实看简介也很吸引人，可惜表现出来并没有太出色，
幼稚，男孩演技太差。换成女孩演可能评分能高一分
不是一家人要进一家门，是枝裕和永恒的主题。结尾太美好，少了力量。
结尾母亲看着坐在客厅吃凉粥的伊娃，笑中带泪瘫倒在地，她最恐惧的一天结束了
【3.0】看下来并没有感到特别震撼，究其因是导演对整个事件的回溯缺乏犀利有效的切入点，说白了就是太流水账的第三人视角的剧作思路。好在整部电影骨子里的好莱坞电影化的叙事节奏是精准的，从前期剑拔弩张危机亟待爆发的紧张气氛营造，到结局停留在小女孩喝粥的镜头设计，一切都安排得刚刚好，因而观影大抵能融情于故事之中。
失常的发挥，失败的重复。小偷家族之所以优秀是因为避开了此片所有的问题点。过分糖水到完全游离于是枝裕和其他作品之外。几乎是生涯最差。
全片过了三分二才出现轰炸那一幕，角色多戏份散，但是整个剧本的叙述并不是集中讲这个悲剧的引发过程，那两个飞行员的角色很重要，结果就是个龙套，故事用了很大一部分去描述其余几个小孩的命运交叠，又描述一个对信仰动摇的修女和纳税士兵的恋情，这三个主题都足以拍三个版本，但是却要缩在100分钟里，结果都没有说透。
过分地平庸，小男主简直就像玩游戏看残影一般通关，伊桑霍克这个反派充满了弱鸡蠢感，故事平淡，牺牲的小朋友太令人难过了，难受，开挂的小妹倒是演技蛮好，可爱。里面太多废的细节，自杀的母亲，凶手的过去，父亲的狂躁都没有讲清楚。
我只知道二战期间，丹麦国王没有做任何抵抗就宣布投降，以此在最大程度上保护自己的国民；却不知道在二战即将结束之时，以正义的名义，一场悲惨的屠杀却夺去了123个无辜者的生命，其中有87个是天真懵懂的孩子。
战争车轮下最惨的还是妇女儿童，这群投错炸弹的英军上军事法庭没？
孩子改变恶人的电影不要太多，人物和故事稍显生硬，拼凑之感。
创意核心电话通灵并不重要，其模糊性甚至可以被理解为幻觉。年代感全靠配乐和插入的超8影像碎片支撑，小镇冒险故事（《捕梦网》《小丑回魂》）+囚禁心理困境（《杰罗德游戏》《危情十日》）两个斯蒂芬金元素1+1＜1，角色之间缺少羁绊，作为前者群像潦草失败，作为后者情节过分程式化，乔·希尔可能很难走出他父亲的阴影了。
喜欢这个片名，视听语言也很不错，开头就很有力。可惜收尾太草率了。试探信仰的修女与灵魂迷途的辅警前期台词和张力都很好但作为独立的角色没有展开更多有点头重脚轻。小孩子们都演得好好，纯真得令人心痛。
斯蒂芬·金的儿子就写了个这？《黑洞频率》和《超时空来电》，甚至韩国《电话》都要把这梗拍烂了，打着斯蒂芬·金儿子的旗号又整出一部校园版。充其量是一个变态绑架案，硬塞进穿越电话的梗，逆袭的太过儿戏，抄袭的不伦不类。3
鬼魂带你密室逃脱。小兄妹好可爱。小妹片尾的黄色雨衣吓我一跳，it家小弟同款~~~不懂为什么反派一直戴面具，以及面具被摘掉之后会崩溃。
这啥啊这，基本没有剧情，就一个小孩被绑架了，最后在一堆鬼魂和妹妹通灵的帮助下逃出来了，看开头还以为后边会给一些解释，结果最后啥解释也没有，反正鬼魂们就是要帮他。妹妹骂完耶稣不管用后立刻梦到了哥哥的准确地点然后一边去救哥哥一边喊对不起耶稣我相信你的存在拜托这个梦一定要正确啊，这其实是，大型基督教传教片？完全没看出那是伊桑霍克。
9.7.2022 | @ Regal Majestic | 在没啥恐怖片的七月初重新上映，所以横向比较还算可以？故事还算可以，讲得也还行。一点点的jump scare就够满足了。（扒着指头等NOPE的就是我了）
以前一直羡慕有信仰的人，认为他们总有种无形的强大的信念支撑，但在巨大的苦难和个体的创伤面前，信仰脆弱得一击即碎，上帝不是在打盹，上帝不存在而已。
有点浪费一个好题材。拍的不聚焦导致了没有一个主角，每个演员都各司其职完成了表演但彼此没有什么融合，也没有凝聚到某一两个人身上，散而杂乱。甚至到最后有几个人物都没有交代到底怎么样了。
二战中很少被人提起的一次轰炸，英军飞机在丹麦首都哥本哈根执行轰炸德国纳粹任务的时候，误炸了附近的教会学校，无辜平民被牺牲，历史惊人的相似，正好对应今日的实事。三个小演员的表演非常有感染力，最后那个长镜头惊心动魄，母亲一路狂奔的身影，把观众的情绪拉到最满。
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