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".
答案是毒品。
阴冷黑暗的氛围烘托得很不错👌阁楼怪物的形象也很有特色
还行，小演员表演出色，只是女教师追杀到矿井深处手刃妖灵连带斩草除根实在有点过了，好歹这怪也轻易杀了数条汉子，凭什么女主就套上了猎魔人buff？至于女主家庭暴力虐待这类背景都不用细究，当灵异鬼片看就行
只是由山羊变成了鹿而已 换汤不换药 并不克苏鲁 起名人皮脸也没什么问题 剧情无聊到屡次睡着……等了那么久等了个寂寞 2.5
卢卡斯和茱莉都好惨，不仅父母都死了，卢卡斯弟弟也死了，茱莉的哥哥也中招了。都没有调查清楚这个东西会不会传染就去救人，真的会杀敌一千自损八百的啊……
比较套路的恐怖剧，浪费了怪物，只出场了几分钟。
氛围很好，就是实在太简单了，更适合拍成一集剧的体量，或者短片。
很早以前就开始关注鹿角了，跟想象中的还是有一定差距。
其实就像抖音这类短视频，一两分钟乐呵呵三五分钟就已经是极限了，弄个十几分钟就直接划走了好吧。
so 女主角有童年创伤，她看到小男孩就产生了额外的同情心，不顾一切要去拯救他，哪怕要对抗拿了好几个人头的嗜血怪兽，而怪兽也刚好在碰到女主的时候就变得格外虚弱，本来一爪子可以打飞女主她弟的力量，一下子就没了，轻松被女主扎成蜂窝，然后这电影想说救赎与自我救赎，爱与被爱，我只想说换成我，老娘童年被创伤成啥样，我命还是要的，我绝对不会这样奋不顾身，看到女主那句i have to save him就忍不住翻白眼，我可去你的吧，个人英雄主义有时候真的蛮傻逼的。
我觉得整体还是比黑森灵氛围感要好很多，看起来有种小丑回魂那种儿童向的感觉，当然部分镜头稍微血腥暴力一点，最后哥哥保护弟弟那个镜头真的有被感动到，除此之外整体的故事太规规矩矩了，没有啥突破
第一时间不把半条命的老公送医院就算了，还带到一起去矿洞只身单挑BOSS，更想不到的是，这个怪物完全没得战斗力；期待过高，确实也不好看，没什么逻辑。
很平淡的一部恐怖片，鹿角怪的设计本身挺不错的，但是结局也太潦草吧，这个怪战斗力不太行啊女主一个人就能把它手撕了……要说亮点的话，小男孩的表现确实可圈可点
2.5 Thursday double feature. 感觉在看一集不咋样的美剧 it’s a metaphor right? What it’s like when a loved one is struggling with addiction? 可怜小演员
7分吧，接受了地点真实年代架空很多剧情问题就淡化了，前半部还是挺抓人的，后半部开始出现一些常见毛病：用不作死就不会死的角色发展剧情，节奏莫名加快草草收尾，留了个死里逃生的只是为了第二部。结尾制片看到陀螺的名字笑了，氛围真的是照着他的风格做的
电影的怪物很有趣，但是影片内涵不足，似乎讨论了儿童虐待问题，但是点到为止，没有展开，而且怪物的出现也与虐待没有什么本质联系。
为什么评论区大家一副很期待的样子，这部平平无奇的烂片。
2.5星，很喜欢这种阴郁画面气质，不过怪物太弱了点。
美国恐怖片热衷于诡异的怪物特效和茹毛饮血的恐怖元素，难以理解，看到那种10年前的特效真的很难害怕
全片的色调氛围很好，营造出一个阴冷萧瑟凋敝的美帝小镇环境，这样环境下的恐怖片良品率应该不会低，后头怪物造型也出来了，看着还不错，披着人脸淌着血浆也有那味 ，可一切的铺垫在女主挺着长棍刺透怪物的桥段下毁于一旦，一个小时的酝酿就酱紫结束?这战五渣的怪物是来当吉祥物的吗?太让人无法忍受了，这不是把观众逗着玩吗?怪物寄生和小男孩豢养怪物的过程本可以好好发挥下恐怖的设定，女主的警察哥哥也应该是有故事的人，但却很潦草地一笔带过，语焉不详地就让女主只手屠怪。本片倒是很真实反映了美帝偏僻小镇的真实面貌，没有产业没有发展，当地人除了贩毒吸毒好像没什么可做，这样的恐怖片就是社会的真实写照吧。
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