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".
台湾版遗传厄运，对生育和抚养的恐惧与焦虑。
镜头的剪辑风格比较乱，想表现的视觉太多，但是为了伪纪录片的风格，又刻意安排太多日常的摄录源，甚至放大这些镜头做特写，慢镜回放一下还要调成黑白画面，原事件里的一家6口，改编成领养家庭，想塑造一个失败的母亲，一个喜当爹但几乎没有存在感的父亲，这里的角色关系没有呈现出一种日积月累的家庭问题，反而主线是作死三人组打破禁忌和报应，领养家庭的部分都只是报应衍生的事件
祸福相依，生死有名。确实借鉴得有点多，又没有融合好。目测有怪谈，午夜凶铃，哭声，灵媒，女巫布莱尔等等的影子
3.5吧。最恶心的其实是原案里的高雄中邪家族吃屎喝尿充饥…整体质感还是不错的，有些邪典的味道，美术布景（包括佛像设计）和特技效果也能令人满意，最大的问题还是故事过于单薄，着眼点在亲情，和大多数伪纪录片一样，大部分的时间都用来故弄玄虚了。结尾的设计导演应该是想让更多的观众来祝福自己的小天使吧（虽然不知道发生过什么事），倒也不必过度解读，否则像《午夜凶铃》这类的作品诅咒不是更加狠毒？期待续作。
如果拍一个坦桑尼亚诅咒也吓不到观众，
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一般。伪纪录片的形式可以说是毫无必要，而且很多地方刻意地第一人称拍摄，反而让我出戏。也不咋恐怖，本人经历过太多恐怖片洗礼，看这个全程放松不紧绷。两个小时中唯一稍微有点吓人的时刻还是主角准备播放洞穴里的影片的时候，我的硬盘突然接触不良黑屏了hhhhh
4v人被你诅咒就罢了现在还上网飞，全球多少人分摊诅咒？诅咒无效咯！！！！
祸福相依，生死有名。确实借鉴得有点多，又没有融合好。目测有怪谈，午夜凶铃，哭声，灵媒，女巫布莱尔等等的影子
比较期待看闽南民俗的，但搞半天告诉我是个东南亚邪神还是有点失望😅 视觉残留的符咒设计别出心裁，可以说是本片最大亮点。至于晦气的部分，两个神秘学/剧作法老油条成功闪避了✌️
还行，我觉得比灵媒，哭悲都要好，算是近期难得的华语恐怖片了。
湾湾的恐怖片，氛围有了，也有被恶心到，但效果一般。伪纪录片式的处理，不同视角的不断切换，确实有几分惊喜，但看多了感觉也就如此。对于一个无神论者而言，只能是有惊无恐。（PS: 所以是某种病毒？）7.0/10
虽然还是挺无聊，但真的有被恶心到，越老越看不下血腥的场面。人的意志会有意无意地引导自己走上某条道路，看似是被邪教土术的咒语所影响，其实还是含有挺强的自我意志，也就是所谓的“不作死就不会死”，求佛拜神不过是个安慰剂，咒语也同样如此。人在求一些东西的时候就像望进大黑佛母设下的欲望深渊，得到一些就会失去一些，不单是于己，可能还会作用到他人身上，即所谓祸福相倚、生死有名。如果是电影院大银幕看一定会很享受。
真服了，《咒》拍的是个什么破烂玩意，完全不吓人但属实恶心人，太晦气了，导演玩的就是QQ空间“不转发半夜鬼上床”的烂梗，看完只想赠予导演一个大比兜，拍鬼片就不能用心拍吗，这拍的是个🔨 ，故事稀烂套路下三滥，要恐怖不恐怖，要煽情不煽情，看完只能感觉所有观众都被诅咒了😅
能看到《鬼影实录》、《午夜凶铃》、《VHS》、《仲夏夜惊魂》等一票经典恐怖影像的杂糅，以及用烂的伪纪录效果。
遇事不要慌，先拿出手机录个像，全知镜头无处不在，这种伪纪录片真的氛围感越来越差了，恐怖是真没有，如果再没有最后那点晦气的反转，可能更没劲了。
以后伪纪录片的恐怖片能不看就不看吧，一点意思也没有。
视效恐怖占比大，第一人称伪纪录加上民俗氛围与诅咒传说，难怪大银幕好评如潮，这部电影在手机上看就是屈才。剧情上的剪辑到后面有一点乱，过渡衔接不流畅，像预告片的拼接。全片穿插母亲对女儿的感情与自省，一边讲恐怖故事一边讲母女温情略突兀。恐怖片作死必不可少，但这里太作了…是近两年少数没有让我失望的恐怖片，能在它身上看到其他恐怖片的影子，很正常。随着年代更迭和科技进步，原创的恐怖片真的好难。西方是驱魔人得知恶魔的名字便能驱逐恶魔，这里是得知人类的名字，但并没在此着墨过多，挺有趣的。女主最后有一点小反转，整体来说挺有趣的，值得看。说电影传播诅咒邪教的，我建议连夜抄某d语录刻在身上。官将首被删了太可惜了！
有新点子，氛围营造不错，但有些啰嗦，那些鸡汤式的“母爱宣扬”少一点儿会更好看。
这是虚构的咒语哎；而且大黑佛母设定就是「恶意之神」并且片名和主题都自带“咒”.... 你观看前就应该接受被下咒的准备，可这特么是电影哎！这只是电影哎！相反导演还玩成功了打破第四面墙的“互动”病毒营销手法。关于《困》的主题据说是亲情惊悚，为啥我感觉《咒》才是....
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