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".
影片元素异常丰富，悬疑、动作、惊悚、恐怖、人格分裂、畸形……这种种的原料在温子仁手里，被非常和谐的封装在了一起。
我的天 这让我想起走近科学里有一期类似的 没那么极端 但那是第一次知道寄生胎
以為溫子仁在拍了那麼多部恐怖電影之後，難有突破性，但是這部還蠻不錯，除了例行的驚嚇場面，懸疑性，故事性及反轉劇情依然夠吸引人的目光。雖然中間劇情有點拖累，但是最後的大惡魔像個武功高強的殺手大開殺戒，動作場面充滿暴力美。還有飾演男警探的那位真是太帥了。
啊啊啊，溫子仁新片好生猛，警局變身堪稱抗日神劇附體般唰唰唰唰唰唰唰唰唰，恐怖電影中的動作大片，動作電影中的驚悚鉅獻。
这个反转就是换个花样的精神分裂，虽然剧情是在鬼扯，但也算是把老花样玩出了新意。最后监狱和警局的那两场杀人戏，难怪有人吐槽是刺客信条，不过确实拍得挺好看的。作为恐怖片我不推荐，但作为动作片我推荐。差点忘了温子仁也是个水平不错的动作片导演。
再吐槽下这个片名翻译，「致命感应」很容易误导观众，以为是个灵异片。但是如果你去查一下 malignant 这个单词的意思的话，剧情走向其实已经有所暗示
温子仁最新作品。故事设定与气氛营造颇有水准，没有更多的漏洞，讲述也很流畅。作为一部恐怖片，算是一个合格的作品吧。
這不就是《白髮魔女傳》裡面的姬無雙嘛。而且為什麼不找當年強姦自己母親的人報仇，卻殺一堆無辜的人呢
配乐和氛围感都很棒，但是故事总感觉差了点力道。
#致命感应
7.5，开头还以为是传统温子仁恐怖片，实则悬疑惊悚片。黑影的真实身份吊足胃口，警察局大开杀戒非常有必要，和妹妹查出真相完美呼应。唯一不足是没能解释电器电灯为什么异常，还能控制收音机发声。就算战胜黑影，最后也还是要坐牢吧。
温子仁一向很惊悚很悬疑，而这一次的影片还多了不同的结局。
我觉得大家还是去看完未删减版再来客观的评论，不要看了一版删减版，跑出来说导演怎么怎么退步……
设定上多多少少有那么一点儿《死寂》的感觉，但仅限于可能的形式感上，如果可以延展的话倒是能做成一个反超英的文本，甚至能做成一款恐怖动作游戏。（虐杀原形的感觉？）
影评讨论区都不能回复，全部评论为零，恐怖片区闹鬼了？
一开始没往这方面想，悬念揭开时直接卧槽！录像带里的画面比现实更瘆人。
明明前面並不是多了不起的故事
基本上没有惊吓点，寄生的创意也被用过很多次，最后也没解释超能力的由来，整体视听效果还算不错~6.6
看完影片首先挺纳闷，这影片为毛连7分都没有？后来才知道爱奇艺竟然弄了个阉割版。个人很喜欢温子仁的恐怖片，毕竟底线在那里，他的作品再差也肯定超过平均线（监制的除外）。《致命感应》的故事并不算新鲜，悬疑性也一般，但影片的节奏感很好，流畅而刺激，不会有太久的冷场。暴力场面冷酷而干脆。视频档案中加百列的首次真身让人震撼，据说在阉割版中这段被删减了？高潮部分的警局大战，血腥而果决，虽然忍不住要吐槽下加百列前后不一的战斗力，但看得还是很哈皮的。最后影片留了个尾巴，是想开续集吧？开吧，我很想看！
2021.09.13
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