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".
光影真的很绝，演员演的也很到位，但有对比就有差距。《麦克白》改编的只看过黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》，相比之下黑泽明的故事更具完整性和故事性，而这个《麦克白的悲剧》戏剧化的延续，让人物内心活动表现得更突出一些，但故事性就不如《蜘蛛巢城》，我会更偏向于故事讲的好的，因为黑泽明方方面面都不差。
7.9分，看了又好像没看，很平淡，可以打发时间。
继《爱你，西蒙》后的又一部平常态同志喜剧。希望以后能多出这种风格的电影。
片尾的那些红色绳子圈出了爱情所有的不忠。我和别人做爱，但我爱的始终是你，这感觉好像也没什么毛病。嗐！
現實是會和解的家庭太少太少了，Paolo怒吼Leone的時候只覺得如果每個孩子知道自己遲早要面對這些傷痛，會不會寧願沒有來過這個世界？（另：弟弟太好看了，Leone你確定不用再深度探索一下自我？
感觉已经看到好多男主角这个类型的男主角了 哈哈哈
现实又不现实，生活中gay出轨很现实，但这复杂的基因关系，仿佛故事会，不过挺好看的，国外开放的形式和态度就让一切变得又现实了，最后两位爸爸处成闺蜜也是没想到，总之爱能包容万物吧。
乍看是新时代新型家庭的问题，然而父辈的婚姻和家庭问题，子女青春期的矛盾与困惑，其实和异性恋家庭会遇到的问题，几乎是相同的，归根到底是人类的课题。
虽然故事的发展是一系列烦恼，但却用简单清新的镜头语言与配乐讲述地十分舒适、熨帖。观感惬意，自然流畅。令人感受到爱与真诚。
我喜欢这部电影~我们国家什么时候能有如此景象呢，虽然这个希望很小很小，但每次看到这样的电影心里还是会有一点小小的期待……
结尾很戳心，彩蛋里的话就是现实。所有的爱情都会有消磨殆尽的一天，不是悲观，而是清醒。
男主的女朋友好漂亮哦！我一见钟情了！（有点点像裘德洛的女儿Iris（我也好爱（氧气美女我的最爱！呜呜呜
同性婚姻和异性婚姻一样，如果不是网飞青春片，就会伤人。那既不是同性恋的错，也不是异性恋的错，是婚姻的错。
很喜欢❤这部电影的视角蛮有意思的（以及意大利滤镜lol加成）
意大利片总是碎碎念 题材规避沉重 让这个话题看似已经可以轻松谈起
我，倒了你珍藏的红酒，
这译名真的好极了
最后一幕真的好有爱啊~原来代孕老妈演过猎魔人的Queen Calanthe 我说怎么这么眼熟~ 小男主和喜欢他的那位都很可哦 LOL 就是腹肌没什么铺垫啊 都没见做什么运动……腹肌成了标配吗 哈哈。 另外其实满赞同一个评论 这个故事换成男女夫妻也不会有什么违和感…同志夫夫只是让小男主和另一个男生的互动有了看点吧 时间多的可以看一下 :)
生命来自#《万缕千丝的爱》#，大概也只有亚平宁半岛能吹这样的风，所以这个电影就是生命本身一样鲜活。世界虽然只看结果不问原因，但也不是非白即黑。伤痕其实挺好的，伤痕让一个人与众不同。女神节，凌女特务推荐了这个意大利新片，其中几个女角，确实活的也都比男人明白。
话说同性是注定逃不开出轨偷吃吗🙃
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