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".
故事本身缺乏新意，但影片的艺术性接近满分。导演宝刀不老，分寸拿捏恰到好处。胖马特戴蒙与邓斯特恋人组合再上阵，但可惜没有足够的化学反应。卷福影帝应该稳了，贡献了一个影史留名的深柜牛仔。导演想说的我看懂了，那就是不论性向，男的都不行。眺望远山的几十秒是影片中罕有的令人放松的时间。
3.5。母之力，接下來就是兒子V.S繼父……(影片以權謀驚悚的角度來看，反而較耐人尋味。)看似脆弱頹廢的母親，最了解自己的兒子，Kirsten Dunst令人意想不到的表演好 !
两个人互为镜像，展现了性格迥然不同的两种男人的多样性，简·坎皮恩如此拍人、拍男人拒绝了当前所谓女权电影的乱象，拒绝标签化，格局比一派政治正确电影人高到不知道多少。
其实只是把末世灾难类型进行了荒诞处理，夸张呈现疫情时代以来的所有荒谬，政治漫画和SNL段子的融合但又不乏动人的戏剧化处理，内核有点像《火星人玩转地球》，在表层的荒诞背后全是焦虑、恐惧和绝望，这得益于导演在形式上尤其是剪辑对语调的把控（提前切断的情绪和叙事，以及最后晚餐的蒙太奇和突然定格，这是脱离段子小品和讽刺喜剧的关键），不同之处在于火星人最终回归到喜剧，而这片则由始至终都是悲剧，所以观影过程几乎没怎么笑，反而有泪目时刻，最后甚至有点《忧郁症》式的绝望感。全明星卡司里面Mark Rylance太亮眼了。另外比较好奇的是这片为何在美国和法国会有完全不同的媒体反响（法媒以称赞好评为主
不错诶！！！铺陈很慢，但没有无用镜头。细节隐喻也很好，忧郁画风和偷窥视角都很简康平！
放两年前看，我还会觉着这是搞笑片；放如今，只能说，还是美国人最懂最懂美国人哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
好久没看到情绪这么克制的片了，很喜欢Peter的设定，中立性别的暧昧感
要是换一个时间点，我肯定只给三星。还能说什么呢？timing就是很重要。面对着荒诞的世界，影像里的一切，都那么熟悉。必须五星了
很多深柜因为害怕面对真实的自己，总是表现得愤怒，生怕别人把女性气质和自己联系起来，其实真正内心坦荡之人可以接受任何事，别人怎么样关自己什么事呢，何来的仇怨呢。无论再坚毅的外表如果没有一颗勇敢的心都只是绣花枕头。
个人感觉有点形式大于内容啊，唯一的亮点就是福尔摩斯露diao，哈哈哈。。。
太含蓄，一切的表达都太含蓄，我觉得还是需要找到故事叙事和影像叙事的平衡点吧。最佳导演过了，给个最佳摄影也不赖
2022年1月9日看过，极好的黑色暗喻。借着一颗毁灭地球的陨石，暗喻着整个政商媒体权力体系。其实陨石可以看作是气候变暖。电影里的总统既有克林顿女士的身影，又有佩林的影子，而科技大佬既有乔布斯又有马斯克还有贝索斯的影子。最令人唏嘘的几点：1.讲出一个明确的事实，竟然先需要咨询法务，还需要媒体培训，而这竟然是一个纽时编辑劝告两位科学家的；2.所有人都已经适应了将严肃报道轻松化的氛围之后，已经没有了严肃新闻得到严肃关注的氛围，所有上节目的人都是为了抖机灵，获得更多的关注度，因为所有人需要的都是FUN，而不是事实了；3.NASA局长竟然是总统的大额捐助者和麻醉师出身，太嘲讽当代美国政治了；4.总统在科技大佬面前的唯唯诺诺；5.看似稳重可靠的三星将军，用白宫免费的零食骗了科学家20美元，毫无羞愧感。存于硬盘8/美国电影/2022
玛德被预告简介和什么营销的叔侄恋噱头给骗了，根本不是那么回事，正反派都搞错啦，但实际上，这片开头的话外音就已经剧透了全部，很深沉，很悬疑，心疼卷福，妈的，果然是咬人的狗不叫，
一段延续20年的钟情会带给人什么？也许因为不伦的孤独，反而无坚不摧地延续，却僵化到害人害己…因为认为某人某事“最好”而抓住不放，失去了所有“平常”的可能。男孩所谓“报答母亲”也异化到恐怖的地步，而缺乏理由。一切为图解剧情奇观而行动的人物都是可怜的，上帝之手未能使他们成活。
对人类绝望的电影：大众是缺少信息分辨与应对能力的民粹，精英也是只能看到政治、资本、或其他理解范围内的东西的民粹。
隐忍又残酷的西部，通片怪异的配乐和音效，还以为是导演的恶趣味，到最后才知道是暗藏杀机。看到最后有一点细思恐极，peter的爸爸真是自杀的？
有一个一秒钟的转场镜头，是个大俯瞰，高速公路上的鹿群被一辆从另外车道上驶过来的车子惊吓跑散。不知道拍这么一个看似无关紧要极容易被忽略的镜头要花多少人力财力和时间，但牛逼的电影还是会把这些东西编排进去（而且是个喜剧片）。一个镜头能解释很多问题。反正我拍的那么多小时的素材里没有一个这样的东西。
年度梗王，太好笑了！世界末日来了，有人想着支持率，有人想着流量，有人想着挣钱，有人想着做爱，只有科学家真正想要拯救世界。360度无死角的反美黑色幽默，《政局边缘》之后最带劲的政治讽刺，大表姐赞爆，剪辑赞爆！
细节什么的就不说了，坎皮恩功力太深厚，不疾不徐慢慢展开，埋下无数细节推动电影往前进，真的是很高级。更让我惊讶的是，片子充满着性张力，本来对卷福毫无感觉，但是有几幕坎皮恩把他的性感拍的溢出了屏幕，让人躁动不已。虽然片子最后朝着大家期待的结局前进，但是那种紧绷感在黑幕之前一直存在着。我觉得坎皮恩的奥斯卡BD基本上稳了。
phil虽然性格有点怪异，脾气也不好，但罪不至此，小孩的转变之点有点奇怪，基本全员谜语人，太多内涵隐藏在电影细节背后的草灰蛇线，导演极度克制，磨刀霍霍了两小时却没有向牛羊，最后的情绪没有了一个抒发点，戛然而止 3.5；
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