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".
为了大本蝙蝠侠我看了这四个小时,我可真是爱他。但我最喜欢超人对蝙蝠侠说的那句话剪掉了
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通篇毫无节制的慢镜头似乎在告诉我们：怎样把一部2小时的电影拍到4小时？只需打开0.5倍播放速度就可以了
非常幸运能在大银幕看到这部片子/当中国近代史的洪流穿过邱福的身体 溅出的是一代艺术家的绝唱
平心而论，个人觉得影片整体的质量和扎导的《守望者》相比还是稍逊一筹的，目前的9分偏高了。但……老子就是看得贼TM爽，老子就是要打五星，管他呢！:-D
是介于舞台和电影之间的2.5维 比舞台的二维更立体 比电影的三维更扁平 方言加分 那种鬼魅感和超现实感是独属于从旧媒体遗留下来变换成现在的电影的全新形式 半沉浸体验 二维的砖墙和石头门 像是导演提醒观众处于一个戏剧化的世界 喜欢形式大于内容太多 感觉终于有些只有中国电影人能想出来的东西了 而且不是只有苦哈哈的内核 而是真正创新实验性的东西
自2019年支持众筹起整整三年后终于欣慰地看到了成片，没让我失望。邱炯炯独特的棚拍美术风格让本来就很爱《痴》的我看得会心一笑。本片也同样继承了《痴》的历史厚重感，用三小时的篇幅勾勒出川剧团半个世纪的风雨浮沉，亦是一出大历史沉重时代下一群小人物椒麻酸辣的悲喜剧。戏迷将军和唱戏烤蛆的细节应都有历史原型，在较低成本制作下完成度极高，可与《霸王别姬》相提并论。同时又铺设一条牛头马面的阴间故事线，戏谑讽刺兼备，节奏拿捏得当。一众非职业电影演员状态也好，个个浑身是戏，尤其是饰演师叔的川剧戏骨好出彩哇，他的每场戏举手投足都大方自然，让我忍不住击节赞叹！顾桃演的驼背也仿佛是历史的旁观者。若说缺点，则是观感尚未达到神作《痴》那样醍醐灌顶的通透震撼。但若放在当代华语电影序列中，无疑必有分量颇重的一席之地。四星半
这才看没几天，已经不记得情节了；唯一的记忆点是那个故意搞笑但是很尴尬的闪电侠；还有很恶心的超人胸毛。
相比《正义联盟》，扎导我觉得更多笔墨在钢骨身上，然而看下来我觉得钢骨这个角色够立体了，但！啥时候出个独立电影啊！这个角色的可发掘性和他的魅力真是无边！最后还要再表白一次盖尔加朵，真的好美啊！
不一定会非常喜欢，但一定会觉得很有意思。成本受限，从布景上就直接话剧化，不过得益于出色的镜头运动，让非常有限的片场延展出了足以承载中国近代史的广阔空间。而时代悲剧用喜剧的形式来呈现，也和邱福新在台上的丑角浑然一体，在视听语言的设计中延续戏剧的荣光。戏文写得好极了，建议《第十一回》好好学学。黄泉路这条线的转场有时候还蛮硬的，没有那么喜欢。只要接受了邱炯炯的一些基本观点，「入戏」了，那整部电影的观看就很顺畅。易思成在片里好性感啊，想睡。蒋鸿宇客串了一个饿死鬼，摸着带他上路的鬼时透露着性暗示的意味，把俩鬼吓跑了，笑死。最后的众筹名单里看到了好多认识的人…年度华语最佳的头号种子。2022.02.13 澳门恋爱·电影馆
is just as bad and twice as long
❸#ReleaseTheSnyderCut: Warner does bleed, Hollywood does bleed.
独树一帜、自成一家的美学体系，横卷展开的历史传奇、家族往事，体量丰富，形式突出，在日趋严苛的审查之外，丛生出丰沛、蓬勃的创作风景。它延续了《霸王别姬》的历史沧桑，以时代命运同构着夹缝中求生存的戏曲艺术的起落，兼有《活着》的平民史诗和冷静控诉，目之所及，一部再难以超越的华语电影伟作。
离合悲欢忘川渡
但就从审美和美学的角度而言，叹为观止、惊为天人。
去年七月隔离期间又看了一遍院线版，其实我不讨厌那个版本，它错就错在被剪辑得极其平庸，平庸到和制作不像来自一个次元，平庸到断送了这个系列的未来，而这也从侧面烘托出了导剪版的悲壮，因为部分演员以后都不会再在系列片里出现，并且部分填不上的坑以DC的尿性肯定不会再填上。这次导剪版依然是一个怪胎，冗长的只有粉丝会高潮的铺垫和最后燃烧经费瞠目结舌的大战加剧了头重脚轻（我能用太平轮举个不恰当的例子吗），使它注定无法和对家的终局之战一样拆分成上下两部还保持着极强的观众粘性，但还是感谢扎导把他想讲的故事（虽然这个故事可能没那么好），最真诚地讲了出来。不管非粉丝能解读出什么来，我都理解这部片子为DC大粉和一个悲伤的父亲给我们和他的女儿最好的礼物。
个人风格太强烈！太爽了！以及，我想在电影院看完这四个小时！
他们枯燥乏味，是生存在新教伦理的理想人物，除了亲情爱情、父子情、姐妹情、崇拜之情的基本种类以外，情感分寸没有把握好，刻板僵化，只成为身份认证和抓手，而全片更多情绪情感的细节完全不在场，许多对话堪称稚嫩和淤塞。
ps.达克赛德就要毁灭世界了，丧钟再帅又有谁关心啊😅
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