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".
主题与形式的闭环很完整，片面刻板但能自洽。只是真的晃得人头晕，看到结尾字幕如释重负
A Ghost Story+致不灭的你（前16集）。
主角塑造得有点扁，连他搭档都比他形象圆，实在是个败笔……但是如果说他的特质就是intensity，同Arek所代表的幼稚的“自由”相对，好像又可以说服我自己……片子的部分内容让我感觉，其实导演虽然在拍这样一个群体，但是对群体的关注非常随便，故事是集中在Robert崩断的那根线上，从而把视线投向更宏大的主体（压迫、官僚），而抛弃了深刻省察这种文化特质的机会……把角色扁平化，一方面确实可以在渲染背景上走到极致，一方面，却又太“东欧”了，如果只把同性恋当做受害者刻画……唉我说不下去了，我懂导演想拍出manipulative的感觉，但是主角能不能就是，不要像个提线木偶。？
〖20220511〗什么鬼？？体验人生呢？
想看商业片找找乐子的别看，这是典型的欧洲文艺片。故事其实蛮有趣，但我实在是受不了全程镜头面部直怼，而且是边怼边晃，几乎所有角色全都是近镜大特写，我晕。
披着奇幻、恐怖外衣的对于自我成长、认知与觉醒的散文电影。
几乎要屏住呼吸看sex scene，调度得太好了，太好了，我再次体会到一种很久没有的感情。撕裂的疼痛下是茁壮成长、无法被隐瞒的生命力与希望。当忠于自己成为了一种政治选择，诚实的人就注定如此如此勇敢。“做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”我真开心我还能感受到这一切。
It flows and flows, and still it stays in the same spot."
马其顿毕赣，马其顿画皮。第十三使徒的人生体验轮回。
我实在是啃不动文艺类的片子，一直强撑等到劳米拉佩斯，后面就被闷睡着了
将犯罪与同性结合起来的电影本身就少见，拍出精品更是不多，更何况是波兰拍出来的。影片叙事流畅，情感铺垫自然，结尾的追击也让人屏住呼吸。总之，这是我在《烈焰焚币》之后看过的另一部同性犯罪佳作。
喜欢这个设定，女巫的身份变幻本身就是对男权中心制之下诞生的“存在论”的质疑，她是生成－女人，也是生成－动物，她的失语由上一代女巫（她也是女性所遭受的一切伤痛的历史化身）所造成，在她的呓语中存在着一种永不间断的韵律，“然而……然而……然而……”
拍得太好了！！！太好看了啊啊啊啊啊啊！！TTTT罗伯特和艾瑞克在床上床下对视凝望的画面直接看得我眼眶湿润！！TTTT片尾的音乐好美，动人悠长！真的很喜欢这部片
同志片+探案片的新型影视题材，可惜国内永远看不到
就是…没什么意思。
环球，口碑爆棚，劳米现在可以算得上是劳模了，一年最少两部片
在我的观感里面，电影算是好看的。悬疑部分不烧脑，感情线略短但也算是递进式，男二选了个帅哥倒也合理解释了男主掰弯的前提，毕竟谁不喜欢好看的脸蛋呢。
空有其表的文艺片。用男权的视角来诠释女性。看不看两可。三分之二的时候我就睡着了。
当相爱的人被迫站到对立面只能假装陌生人的情节出现时，我连连感叹太残忍了……看完之后意识到有些地方恍然大悟。男二颜值在线加分，配乐很好加分！所以说男主是双？
能拍到这样也算不错了，毕竟是80年代的视角。前半段80分，后面30分钟60分！
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