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".
希腊旅游劝退片。以及达妹本体是刘海吧，看演员表我都没想到哪个是她…
不知道原著是什么样的，但如果是国产电影能有这样的女性形象我可以给四星。时间过得真快，Buckley和达妹都开始演母亲了。先说优点，有几场戏氛围很好，用了一点心理惊悚的手法但表现的场景还在现实范围内，那种生活的窒息感看得人四肢发僵；电影配乐很好，要不是因而配乐可能放演员表的时候就把电影关了，那样就看不到结尾的镜头了。再说缺点，叙事比较散，时间拖得太长，控制在一百分钟内比较好，剪辑有几处场景跳得太突然。
新年第一片，期待已久的olivia colman。一盘烂水果、一个洋娃娃，那些从旁的凝视、欲言又止的躲闪、欺瞒与坦白，甚至自私和罪恶，都溶进紧张感递进又带着些诡异和情欲味儿的气氛里，如此顺滑的演出一个乖僻的非自然母亲、和她放纵挣扎的过往与无处可逃的当下。
思路还是太《时时刻刻》了，过度关注演员的表演，使得外部世界的形象太模糊，反而导致了情绪流动的不畅，感染力的削弱
抓的是情绪和状态，控诉女性做母亲后的境遇，在一大堆歌颂母爱的作品及伟大母亲的塑造后，科曼用强大表演塑造了反类型的母亲形象，别具一格。当然杰西巴克利格外亮眼。但是整体过于散了点，以至于成片略微逊色了点，不够精彩。
最后她承认了。
而如果说里卡多是妮可力挽狂澜强撑起全片，本片就是扣曼光芒闪耀绝杀了这场个人秀。她的小表情为人物注入的活力，她一再谈起女儿时复杂变化的神情，远比闪回片段更行之有效。
3.5吧，很喜欢开头结尾的音乐。将女性在作为子女的母亲和个人角色之间产生的矛盾透过一个中年和一个年轻妈妈展开来讲。做自己想做的，可能意味着要成为一个自私的妈妈。Nina的家族对女主充满敌意，时不时还增添了点恐怖片的气氛。哦对 威尔这个角色存在的意义是？
女主，我不喜欢。对这片强调女权的女人，真可笑。有两个女儿还出轨，这样的女人需要称赞吗？
挺平淡的，预祝科尔曼二次冲奥成功！阿尔芭·罗尔瓦赫尔的脸怎么了，看起来像整容失败.65/100
总觉得结束的有点轻率了，有些点其实制造了悬疑但是没有下文去交代了，比如女主跟Lyer跳舞那场戏到底是发生了什么？或许是我看漏了？比起现在这条线里面Nina一家的叙述，女主早年的回忆和现在的交织真的看得人要流泪。那种离开了娃想开香槟的“amazing”的快乐，与之相伴又是不在场的愧疚和负罪感，你的小孩很爱你、你也爱他，但是你再也没有你自己了，你注定要有牺牲，注定无法再有无忧无虑的快乐，你注定要用愧疚换自由、用窒息换相爱。
碎片化的叙事一如按下不表的情感，甚至来龙去脉都不再重要。直观地体验那份焦虑和抓狂。配乐非常加分！对Maggie刮目相看~
迷失的自我、愧疚又自私的母親、失去的童年，有點懸疑又帶點驚悚元素，文本本身還好，驚訝的是瑪姬葛倫霍的執行成果，導演處女作就如此老練，很大程度上會一直想看下去就是瑪姬的敘事功力，以及奧莉薇亞柯爾曼、傑西巴克莉的表演，看到結尾才發現根本沒有什麼失去的女兒，只有失去的自我，女兒依然健在，只是她想不想打給女兒而已🙃，結尾稍微扣分，奧莉薇亞柯爾曼的表演實在太細緻了，影片對母親這個身份以及自我有一定程度上探討，能理解母親為何離去，因為再不離去自己就要永遠被困住了，但離去也要永遠背負著失敗母親的罪名，但願長大後的孩子能理解。
＠Albany Twin｜年度遗珠，女主的表演很有沉浸感。
细腻克制，nina最后那针太狠了。elena的作品都是互为映像的。
7分，不太共鸣的一部普通甚至略显无聊的作品，不太有共鸣是显然的，这是一部比较写意的作品，但我既不是女性更不是母亲，女主的很多行为我都不太理解，至于什么导演的暗示更是看不出来也懒得去猜，感觉导演为了追求一些奇怪的效果过于牺牲了本片的叙事，导致我作为一个普通观众很没有兴致看完这部作品，前半段都要看睡着了。但是，本片的表演是非常出彩的一个点，也是我能给7分的主要原因。科尔曼和巴克利的表演都太出彩了，相比起来更喜欢巴克利的表演，但不得不承认科曼的影院戏是全片最令人印象深刻的片段很表演，表演功底太好了。
這個的內容和表現形式遠比奧斯卡幾部入圍的都有趣和生動得多，只限於題材相對小眾不夠商業。但很多感情共鳴的東西，也有足夠留白，其實可看性和探討性都是不錯的作品。
母亲到底是什么角色？是只要生育了孩子就自动被认为充满母爱，还是无论如何都不能抛弃孩子？用了一部电影来展现女性自我追求和育儿之间的冲突，这种冲突并不是在于外部的，而是她其实并没有那么想要做母亲，但所有人都不能理解，怎么会有母亲不想要做母亲？最后的最后还是无人理解她，那个年轻的母亲即使感到绝望感到痛苦，她还是被世俗的母亲角色所绑架，于是她要伤害那个伤害她女儿的人。很喜欢电影的视角，有些恍惚，但又直白到可怕。Coleman的表演太神了。
1，本片译作《失去的女儿》是不是更合适？
好了好了我知道当妈很烦啦，好像第一次真有电影表现出这种烦？这个蛮可贵的。很多小段落都有很有趣，看电影的部分，和达妹几次交谈，和Will，削个蛇皮当然也是啦。但整体就挺闷的怎么回事。
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