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".
大概是本年度给出的第一个五星。这部电影绝不是神作，只是非常对我胃口，我认为这种风格的惊悚，是未来最应挖掘的一个领域。我认为这才是高级恐怖，将惊悚的故事娓娓道来，没有一惊一乍，反而让你浑身恶寒又汗毛直立。（前半段偷窥的剧情让我深陷其中，我大概也是有一些偷窥癖的，但是话说回来，每一个深爱的电影的人，大概都有一些偷窥癖，人生无趣，窥窃电影里别人的璀璨激烈来豢养自己平淡的精神世界）
掀开黑暗章节的沉重一页，被压迫、伤害、监视与利用；“疯女人”不是结束，是“塞勒姆”之后的上演，更或许为“得州心跳”的前续，所以这是个跨越数个世代并始终回荡着声量的故事。Mélanie Laurent在改编时做到了这一点，也始终去聚焦作品的特殊性。印象深刻的还包括病院以及监禁的生活片段中，丝毫不讳于对“抓狂”的尺度呈现，以及观感上的挑战；但这之外，它同样去关注难得的女性情谊与绝境下的相守。力量与温柔并存，有着难得的气质。
我觉得还挺有意思的，拿着望远镜偷窥的时候想起了《后窗》，感觉第一次反转已经足够好看了不需要结尾再反转，但是男女主角的身材都太赞了➕一星hhh
前面太苦了，那种无尽坠落和无力改变的苦，太难熬了。
你要说往簧片方向走那真的赢了，除此之外，太牵强了，甚至可以说狗鸡巴不是。
情感，事件比较寡淡。唯有主题算是亮点，但是表现精神障碍的古典电影也不是没有。总的来说发挥的不够好。
一定程度上算是惊喜的复古小成本，以当代流行风为基底的视听打造是一味不错的调剂，悬念与刺激并行，人物逻辑行为在人性本能的遮掩下保持不崩实属不易， 最后以眼还命是更高明的复仇方式，也没落入俗套的结局。西德妮·斯威尼表现相当抢眼，奉献的尺度是值得的。
题材是好的，立意也是很好的，感觉就是功底还不够orz
很香艳，女主胸美，get到刘承羽，蛇蝎美人竟也很合适。Hitchcock果然超前，强行反杀有真善美结局之嫌。
网大出品的上等片，低配版副作用，反转无趣，引诱有趣。
看《白莲花度假村》时我就想还有比奥莉维亚更令人讨厌的角色么？女主在本片中做到了！
还把男朋友的自杀
好复古好病态，喜欢颗粒感的画面。梅拉尼做导演也能有模有样。
看到圣母就是神迹，看到鬼魂就是疯子？还是控诉男性权威，探讨疯的界限，还有老调重弹自由的价值，舞会整场戏在高调的音乐下非常出彩，但是结尾我没看懂，一换一的意义在于什么？其他悲惨女性就不管不顾了？女主要如何面对出去后的世界？没做成双女主的情感基础，也差了一口气
女主角真的给人感觉很不舒服，说话的方式甚至语调都让人厌烦，很装，相反刘承羽的气质、身材和五官简直是完美。
影片的题材非常棒，可惜被导演和编剧糟蹋了，就好比准备了上好的食材，却请了新手厨师和帮厨，做出来的菜自然很一般了；首先，既然是偷窥就要稍微“隐蔽”一些，例如:把窗户贴上深色太阳膜，在室内使用望远镜时关灯等，而不是像片中那样举着大型望远镜和外接长焦镜头大相机在灯光下“窥视”；另外，借参加派对去人家家里放镜子，根据激光笔反射的声波进行窃听，也是故弄炫虚，更何况激光笔的光束夜晚可能暴露，使用微型录音笔或者录像机更加简单、方便；其次，该片把情色和惊悚两种元素结合在一起有些不伦不类，前半部分剧情除了一些成人级镜头，恐怕没啥吸引人的了，甚至还有催眠效果；后半部分，突然反转成惊悚片，有些突兀，结尾也是草草收场，很多细节没有拍出来；三星评价，看一遍就行了。
收藏本片到 好看并不完美 文件夹。
看开头就猜到女主和摄影师必有一炮。几个ML镜头十分香艳，因为是偷窥视角，所以看起来比看普通色情片更爽。刘承羽真美。最后三分之一反转接着反转，意想不到。全片显然受到《后窗》影响，导演是不是得拜拜希总，吃水不忘挖井人。
这种电影学院速成两年的剪辑还是少学点吧
结局画蛇添足，主角颜值身材在线，眼镜老实小哥实惨
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