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".
宋康昊这部戏里的表现真的值得拿戛纳影帝？？
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战争无情，令无数家庭破碎；战争也无绝对的正义，处处都是人性的碰撞；战争中没有绝对的主角，参与其中的每个人都惨遭荼毒…战争是人类共同的敌人，我们本应抵制一切非正义的侵略战争，然而如今却因国际立场人类与共同的初心背道而驰。May there be no more fxxking war in this world.
妹妹要是能梦里把掳童犯搞成植物人就神作了。
故事淡出个鸟来！震慑校园霸凌者，缓和父子关系的方法是干掉镇子里的掳童杀人犯。以为小男孩长大后会是伊桑.霍克，很像他小时候，是不是照着霍克小时候找的演员？
唉就还行吧其实……但深刻怀疑那座金棕榈可能是是枝裕和创作生命力的终点了
喜欢开头的钢琴曲，喜欢最后的结局，其余的也没有什么特别喜欢的地方了。
结构太散，人物太多，群像也没处理好，整体看下来感觉该讲的没讲到，尤其是行动的英军飞行员一方。轰炸盖世太保，结果轰到了学校头上，如此荒谬粗心的行动让人难以置信。战争年代，上帝已死。
宋康昊这部戏里的表现真的值得拿戛纳影帝？？
这啥啊这，基本没有剧情，就一个小孩被绑架了，最后在一堆鬼魂和妹妹通灵的帮助下逃出来了，看开头还以为后边会给一些解释，结果最后啥解释也没有，反正鬼魂们就是要帮他。妹妹骂完耶稣不管用后立刻梦到了哥哥的准确地点然后一边去救哥哥一边喊对不起耶稣我相信你的存在拜托这个梦一定要正确啊，这其实是，大型基督教传教片？完全没看出那是伊桑霍克。
故事颇有几分趣味，兄妹各有各的挂，哥哥这条线比较有意思，通过电话沟通亡者获得部分攻略，每位亡者提供的攻略都无法做到一命通关，需要正确的组合使用才能完美通关，这流程看着很像是解谜游戏。可惜干翻boss的这个陷阱没有足够的铺垫，看起来并不像是男主角主动设计制作的，更像是无意的被动巧合，伊桑霍克演的这个反派无的有点莫名其妙，只能说这都是命运（剧本)的安排，剧情上对这个反派角色没有足够的关注，他的过往经历与内心世界都是个谜，人物比较苍白，工具人属性过于明显。妹妹这条线也没有什么意义，有没有对这个故事都没有什么影响，多少有点水时长，看着挺多余的。
会感觉仓促潦草，那么多人物，拢不过来的动机，难以发展的矛盾。最难以相信的就是这个妈妈……
仿小丑回魂，气球，小镇杀人狂，黄色雨衣，雨天自行车等等元素，叙事有些流水账了，特别是反派没有塑造起来
特瑞莎修女，你觉得上帝是不是把铅笔弄掉了？
印象中丹麦应该是新教国家，但是这个被炸毁的教堂是法国天主教堂。那些是天主教修女
《小丑回魂》的气球是红色，《黑色电话》的气球就改成了黑色，虽然故事的气质与《小丑回魂》有相似之处，但是本片故事结构过于平铺直述，没有反转，没有叙事诡计，人物塑造也是轻描淡写。
我们有祂们所言的贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑
小男孩演得不错，最后一幕随着那个母亲的狂奔我也是止不住老泪纵横了。。。
先是误伤一辆车子，后来误伤一整个学校，但调查人员也只能说“下次要小心”。对于意外确实没话好说，只能把帐记到战争发起者头上吧。
但，能不能，在你打盹之前，给大部分还算善良的人以神启
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