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".
没想到有一年能看金棕榈比看温子仁更惊悚。故事很阿基多，拍得比较铅黄，但搞到最后反而乏善可陈，作为人（？）的反派太万能且看起来体力怎么样都大幅超过普通人类机能后就会看起来很像超英电影，于是爽感有余，痛感不足。而温子仁通过平滑调度来营造的Jump scare也没出现多少，以至于氛围上不去下不来，偶有亮点，但大多数时候一直在比较尴尬的地方游移。3.5归3吧。
完全放弃了叙事逻辑的自洽，以b级片的内核追求多种类型趣味的融合，但整体非常无趣。。。
作为一个恐怖片相当流畅，吓人的元素其实比较经典，超自然的力量，复仇，各种保护措施的但是完全无效的无力感，自己亲临凶案现场的恐怖等等，主角凶手一体的设定也不错。
故事很老，不像2021年的水平。结局让人无语凝噎，早干啥了？！
不要粗暴对待精神疾病患者。对精神外科手术的控诉。因果报应。凶手像蟑螂一样迅速逃窜。
好像是第一次看溫子仁 海王不算 收貨吧 爽是爽的 製作其實不小 雖然所有卡司看上去都是「我來打工」的樣子 看到很多熟悉的套路和元素 which means我已經不覺得害怕
虽然后半段揭秘有点儿多，但胜在前面氛围营造得好。类似“双（共）生”的命题，其实恶魔是阴影面。她忍受够了他的家暴，终于弄死了他，这才是故事的核心。其他的，都是让其合理的论据。行家一出手，就知道有么有。恭喜温导回归恐怖片。三星半
各种元素缝合，CG依旧疲软……亮度一上去之后太多镜头露怯露的有点儿厉害。音乐很奇怪，个人不太能接受，music sup的工作做得不太好……恨奇艺你说你们这是在想啥呢……想开拓也别用R级恐怖片来啊……这不想不开么
太可惜了。
PS：这片确定不和《关灯后》安排在同一宇宙吗😂
温子仁可能超英片子拍多了，我觉得和他一贯的鬼屋风格区别挺大。想到招魂系列越来越不行了，这种新变化倒也不坏。
7.5，开头还以为是传统温子仁恐怖片，实则悬疑惊悚片。黑影的真实身份吊足胃口，警察局大开杀戒非常有必要，和妹妹查出真相完美呼应。唯一不足是没能解释电器电灯为什么异常，还能控制收音机发声。就算战胜黑影，最后也还是要坐牢吧。
运镜、场景、恐怖和悬疑感缔造……世界顶级。我说温子仁是人类恐怖电影史瑰宝，有人同意吗？
阉割版。某种程度上，也可以算做是一部“温馨的家庭片”吧！
寄生人被切掉了只剩下共享的一点脑子，能钻出来还带着牙齿和眼睛，钻回去头皮自动会缝合，能控制电流和无线电，like really？
多一分给姐妹情深 剩下的剧情太烂了 2021还在重复电锯惊魂那个电话喊麦放狠话有够没新意的 和竖锯的变声器都用的同一个吧？ 温子仁非要在电影里也做片头概念片就别怪要和美恐比较了 审美和脑洞全方位比不上瑞恩·墨菲
灵异附身、鸠占鹊巢的故事，没想到还真能看到“打开脑洞看世界”，不过故事比较单薄，在温子仁的导演生涯只能算中等。
开头一小时悬疑部分一般，揭秘前后部分杀得还挺爽的，最后解决问题的方式实在是又老土又尴尬了，说是在致敬铅黄恐怖片，好吧我信了。温子仁的电影运镜一如既往得帅气，特别是反关节杀人狂在警局单杀数十人那段，大概是从之前几部商业片学来的吧。本片虽然更像是一部杀人魔那样的电影，但是前半部谜题的植入还是带着一股浓郁的温子仁风味——当然这个谜题并不难猜。另外，这个反关节杀人魔其实是个很有意思的角色，不知道是否有意开发，我觉得有可能成为像弗莱迪、杰森、人皮脸、钉子头这样的经典杀人魔角色。
作为一个恐怖片相当流畅，吓人的元素其实比较经典，超自然的力量，复仇，各种保护措施的但是完全无效的无力感，自己亲临凶案现场的恐怖等等，主角凶手一体的设定也不错。
重要的事情说三遍！！！
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