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".
3.5 劳模姐和加菲都演疯了 回想到高中被宗教狂热支配的恐惧 果然卡罗莱纳们是重灾区
姚弛速报月刊第三十一期，推荐语：往常我更喜欢刻画普通人生活笔触细腻，让人感觉真实没有距离感的表演。然而这部电影是一个与我以往审美取向完全不同的例外。相比于平凡人的故事，本片讲述的故事有着与我们距离遥远的起点还有疯狂的、很具娱乐性的爆炸式的大起大落。影后劳模姐和加菲的表演让我看得又惊又喜，为什么可以这么有想象力，可以这样演可以这样塑造让人信服的立体人物。
设置是女主角被扔在了一个文化不通语言不通的境地，受限，太受限啦，所以凡是困难都需要别人帮着“做主”，最基本的交流也需要个翻译，每次出现个新人，观众会想“他会是那个‘救世主’吗”最后都以失望告终，就连结尾也是；别人不愿意浪费精力帮她“做主”时，就随便找个合理的理由粉饰一下：他只是有点喜欢你；你想多了，是你太紧张了。像是一个寓言和现实的微缩
片子对于中国人来说真的有点水土不服。劳模姐这次冲奥成功，大概学院真的超爱这种LGBT的传记电影，另外大概就是竞争对手太拉胯。电影从两个信教的年轻男女开始讲起，他们乘上70年代美国电视业爆发的东风，干起了电视传教募捐的工作，自信的加菲说，我们赞美主电视网2000万观众，远超其他媒体。就这样从发迹，到奋斗，到膨胀，最后被陷害入狱，可以说流水账一样记述了这么个故事。至于说塔米菲的眼妆为什么越来越重，故事背后的隐藏线索过于简单，甚至是她怎么精神发生转变，怎么从家庭和工作地位中的配角，翻身成为引领新风向的先锋，也没看出来。大概一个保守的虔诚信教者，转身成为LGBT的叛逆者，加州学院就喜欢这种类似风尘女子从良的故事？？至于这个转变，难道是从嗑药开始的？？？那么中国观众就别跟着参乎了。
我们劳模姐拿小金人啦 她值得 恭喜恭喜!
Jessica Chastine很有信念感的表演，也确实把整个故事带到能看下去的程度，基本上编排中规中矩，其他角色的厚度不够，而男女主之间的关系也没走够深（要不直接走大女主的心路历程也可以？），加菲的线没拉起来，但最后吵架那场戏挺好，可惜了两位演员很好的表演。
非常喜欢，建议每一个女生都让男朋友看看这部！虽然时长拉的长了显得有些拖沓，女主和摄影非常出众，氛围营造的也不错，惊悚元素没有类型片化每次都有吓到我，语言不通的设定带来的不安定感效果十分出色。但最吸引我的点还是，太有现实意义了！关注女性困境比近期《最后的决斗》更具体易感的多，展现girl's power比看过的所有大女主电影都要强大有力。反思自己是不是很多时候也像电影里的丈夫一样呢？
设置是女主角被扔在了一个文化不通语言不通的境地，受限，太受限啦，所以凡是困难都需要别人帮着“做主”，最基本的交流也需要个翻译，每次出现个新人，观众会想“他会是那个‘救世主’吗”最后都以失望告终，就连结尾也是；别人不愿意浪费精力帮她“做主”时，就随便找个合理的理由粉饰一下：他只是有点喜欢你；你想多了，是你太紧张了。像是一个寓言和现实的微缩
奥斯卡女主片。演技的确不错。注意到了框中框、镜子、界线的运用。
童年的一次表演变成歇斯底里的信仰，她人格分裂，自欺欺人，但完全自恰。可只要我们笃信着一些价值，都能在她这里看见自己。
#Sundance 2022 2.5星 和Fresh的扣分点一样，结局本来可以很干净利落地结束了，结果硬要再加一段，Fresh加的虽然比较拖沓但是比较合情合理，毕竟还有一个人物没处理，但Watcher这结尾加的基本上是拉垮了。不过幸好中间也有一两次氛围极好的戏份，可以给个三星。
纯粹靠表演打动你，非常喜欢劳模姐，当然也喜欢加菲。
劳模自然是演得超乎寻常的好，但靠这成片质量实在无法恭维！两小时只看她在当神棍骗人，却不见挖掘本人的内心！加菲也演得可以 不过最佳女主角靠演传记片获得 难免欠缺点说服力
又一部奥斯卡流水账人物传记片，每一场戏都直白浅薄的要死，然后中间插播还原几个名场面，别的部分一带而过。和人讲一讲就上电视了，吃个饭就开自己电视台了，儿戏到要死。洗白负面人物也算这种流水账传记片的传统艺能了，冠冕堂皇地说要为别人正名，然后把主角夫妇骗钱的负面部份有多省略就多省略，还把女主塑造成一个无辜地不得了的形象。但不管她有多无辜，她也是帮凶啊，自己天天过奢侈的生活嗑药然后还一点都不怀疑丈夫? 本可以深挖资本主义蚕食利用信仰来赚钱的故事，偏要用来洗白主角来提供一些对电影毫无帮助的oscar clip。这种电影毫无存在的意义
可以说颁奖季到目前看过最差的电影，拍得太细碎了，只能给1-2🌟剩下的星星全加给劳模姐，看到最后竟然对这个神婆产生了一丝同情。
影片复古惊悚气质营造出色，尤其地铁遭遇一段，高光就在那个本不起眼的塑料袋上：即使暂停使劲儿看，也看不出有何端倪。但是逐渐放大的画幅却把压迫感推向崩溃的边缘。以镜头语言的角度，袋子里盛放的不是一颗人头，而是女主角心里无法抑制的恐惧。
男女主尽力了 原型原来就这么神经病 但是这妆画得真的是不舒适 看着好难受
劳模自然是演得超乎寻常的好，但靠这成片质量实在无法恭维！两小时只看她在当神棍骗人，却不见挖掘本人的内心！加菲也演得可以 不过最佳女主角靠演传记片获得 难免欠缺点说服力
劳模姐每年始终如一输出优秀的表演，这次应该是很有希望的，希望跟加菲这次都能有所收获，片子整体一般，主要靠演员魅力带动片子，跟那年的朱迪有些许相似，但都不是特别喜欢.
一个表演型人格时时刻刻都在避免自己的脆弱感，但是被过度贩卖的情绪和无人怜爱的周遭环境还是让一切在上升时崩溃。对信仰的怀疑是矛盾的起始，劳模的演绎再再再次值得冲奥！！（希望得到父权认可的边缘群体只会被当沙子抹掉惹）可惜到最后被太多事件糊住眼睛，一个更立体的塔米菲并没有呈现在眼前，评分太低补个4
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