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".
I mean...what IS this?...seriously...
雷雅和小克，毫无灵气的两个人演了两个毫无灵气的角色，电影看得我好疼
2022年7月13日晚和迪仔一起看完。“山村狐妻”真的是再现了一个离奇民间传说的形成和演化过程。另外数个人讲述故事的数个角度，包含个人私利的考量和择取，镜头摄入的范围与时长，逻辑的先后叠套覆盖，简直就是小说有限视角的示例。人心不足蛇吞象，闭塞空间的愚昧与险恶其实古往今来已经有很多范本了，这样的尝试国内外不算是全新，但至少能比正序叙述要更添恍然大悟的一个结尾。
四星鼓励，有点分段式恐怖片的意思，结尾/彩蛋虚虚实实留悬念。男主没看出来是《怒晴湘西》的小徒弟。
不是对国产电影不支持，都沦为网剧了能不能搞些有意思的东西？我还是喜欢纯鬼神，局中局戏中戏的类型看得很无趣
最后一幕像是个平行世界的概念，每个人都活得快乐。
打死我也想不到莫腾森会在柯南伯格片里当一回处女
这是柯南堡对观众施行的一场手术，人们已经麻木太久了，所以才需要被唤醒。整个故事及人物关系足以套入当下涉足电影业的资本家(电影-生意/商品)对艺术创作者(电影-艺术/生命)的干预和榨取。最后一镜特写镜头中流出的那滴泪是inner beauty的真正结晶。Howard Shore的配乐又一次勾走了我的魂。小K表演上痉挛般的紧绷感在这片里也太对味儿了，Viggo的表演完全能够竞争影帝。@Cannes2022 CINEUM IMAX
通过割裂痛感而达成的G点，和《欲望号快车》同工，而以生物机械作为载体更新颖猎奇。人类以改变自己的体质来消化自己创造的土壤难以消化的塑料，这脑回路也是绝绝子。
普普通通，特效做的还可以，但是不怎么好看，被恐怖片推荐安利过来的，结果一点也不恐怖……无语了，国产网大的进步空间还很大
“人恶人怕天不怕，人善人欺天不欺；善恶到头终有报，只争来早与来迟。”
Cronenberg在后期没有坚持把写实黑帮犯罪片做下去太可惜了。
放在任何现实主义电影里都会滑稽可笑的形而上讨论包上了身体恐怖的外衣就值得被理论化了吗？在撞车中可以一言不发就把情欲完全从插入式性交中抽离，直接和暴力本身进行连接，就连车甚至撞车都只是一个媒介。而到了未来罪行，俨然一副不用嘴硬不起来的潦倒样子，居然要口口声声说起手术如性爱，新性爱旧性爱这些可悲的自诉。唧唧歪歪大半天，还不如自己前作的一个远景。
有个反思的点，一味的帮助别人，最后反而被其所害。让恶人自食恶果，也是宗旨了。
各方利益的纠葛，故事大部分都是用台词来推动，这么有趣的题材视觉上太弱了，显得有些无趣甚至枯燥了。
这是柯南堡对观众施行的一场手术，人们已经麻木太久了，所以才需要被唤醒。整个故事及人物关系足以套入当下涉足电影业的资本家(电影-生意/商品)对艺术创作者(电影-艺术/生命)的干预和榨取。最后一镜特写镜头中流出的那滴泪是inner beauty的真正结晶。Howard Shore的配乐又一次勾走了我的魂。小K表演上痉挛般的紧绷感在这片里也太对味儿了，Viggo的表演完全能够竞争影帝。@Cannes2022 CINEUM IMAX
柯南伯格延续了自己拿手的Body Horror 仅对标他本人的话算不上有新意 感官冲击上有些像《录像带谋杀案》 概念上又偏向《欲望号快车》 内核接近《大都会》《星图》 因此必然导致口碑两极 也注定拿不了奖 小k的表演不算精彩 大概和角色本身有关 蕾老师和维果的表演更亮眼。Surgery is the new sex. 这概念真牛啊
网大惊喜越来越多，费了大劲还是把鬼给悬疑了
故事可以，摄影美术也不错，但没有撒感觉，气氛没有营造好
逐渐试图想要把故事讲清，从头到尾说散发的那股子f*ing charming的气质足够了。我的痛苦变成了你的快乐，当surgery is reality，所有的恶之趣味变成一场迷人的危险，刺激与感官所调动的是第二意识的脑子的震荡，所见即感官。我身体的痛苦成为他人骚动的渴望，身体机械势能的血液在流动。变异的怪物在独舞，痛苦的大脑被钻空，我的痛感变成新型性爱。折腾与调度，果然第二意识的归属依然是，安乐死。我得到释放了。
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