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".
好个Hamlet！那个丛林中突然拉进的长镜头，最后的火山赤身之战，太牛了。神话和蛮众总在一线之间，祛魅的不动声色，喜欢艾格斯这种精气神儿的片。一转眼又是三年。
这不是一部好电影，很多场景和场景衔接既生硬又不够简洁。但这是一部艺术品。今年奥斯卡最佳摄影提名名额已占一席。
昭华如烟，雪花飞逝奈何天~ahh
新世纪古典主义大片，哈姆雷特原型故事，主角的人设比哈姆雷特硬100倍
复仇女巫戏，暗黑北欧风。参考影片《英灵殿》
看完了！其实是三星半啦，但蛮喜欢最后的结尾所以直接打了四星。是心目中的神仙卡司🥰这种类型应该很小众？但我很爱！之前看柯南堡的电影就很爱，算上这次他和v已经四搭吧🥺
没有想象中那么冒进和极致，和旧作比起来甚至蛮温和的？起码之前的作品里能感受到他笃定的特殊的身体逻辑，但这一部是戛然而止的，似乎有可能接触到一个新上帝？也是充满困惑的，在一个痛觉/感知失灵的世界里，艺术如何找到新的路径？但它指出了一种必然，正如那副天然被亵渎的器官一样直白，旧式性爱已经不适用了，肉体/世界需要被重新讲述
有一点没想到这是艾格斯的片子 依旧是风格感十足的影调 但故事稍微无聊了一点点 画面和声音层面的质感让我很想在电影院看一遍//啊 什么时候能进电影院看影展啊
布景好评 故事就算是严格遵守了北欧神话吧 实际剧情的逻辑就算了 感觉现在的观众已经不吃这一套了
当痛觉消失，当手术刀切入身体成为一种获得快感的途径，当人类可以随意操纵自己的器官
嗯 有了好工作不一定有好配偶，有了好配偶不一定有好孩子，确实不指望就是最大的指望了，放宽心一起迎接水滴
看的第三部柯南伯格，他大概在说两个主题：一是马克·罗斯科画作的注脚——白噪和“器官”（《大都会》）；二是，所谓“normal sex”之外，用现象学那套试图绕过精神分析、权力分析来为“新”欲望营建合法性（《欲望号快车》）
心肺经络家族树，野人屠村现女巫，奴隶球赛拼头槌，人体雕塑夜游魂，极恶亲娘毁童年，英灵武神三温暖，岩浆筋肉斗老叔；果然是哈姆雷特的正确打开方式，过瘾
雷声大，雨点小。本片由于题材另类和前卫，上映之前关注度很高，但得见真面目后并未觉得如何惊艳。题材确实很新颖，但是观感很平淡，也许是曲高和寡吧，至少我觉得影片的娱乐性很弱。
i expected crazier....
Hamlet式主线剧情真的玩不出什么新花样了，在北欧神话民俗已经快被好莱坞用烂的现在也实在没拍出太大新意。作为冰岛旅游宣传片目的达到了（想去看火山😢
艺术，性
用舞台风格还原愚昧和闭塞，在极小的能改变命运的空间里，处于知识和文明底层的人最强有力的精神力往往来自信仰，或者迷药，或者这两样结合... 每次看这位导演的作品我都信了一种玄学。我觉得他很虔诚。[合十]
导演把肌肉、刀锋、血腥融入到一个莎翁剧中，用他擅长的宗教议题（命运女神、女武神与王国命运），引入运动镜头、旋转镜头、迷雾等把几个单一话剧舞台（远景定格）串联，带来感官式正剧。不错，这年头拍正剧的人太少了，能拉到中型投资不容易。比最后的决斗好，完整且处理女性的方式不楞，但内核过于简单，可能并不讨喜。还喜欢几次夜景的处理方式，尤其是直拍夜景或简单调色，想起了《白鲸记》
月夜下的驰骋、火光中的交战，在视觉上依然出色，并全然着迷于它所构建的世界；那里只有无尽的杀戮，也同样寄予遥望着信仰。无论是与《麦克白的悲剧》还是《绿衣骑士》比照（用经典、寓言装点这类），它都可能拥有更简单直白的讯息，并书写着它对所谓“史诗”和维京年代的理解。从《灯塔》和萝卜，再到Alexander Skarsgård与这里，或许演员们需要Robert Eggers，来激发他们的能量和另重鲜见的趣味。【《灯塔》后期望A24推画册剧本，这里是希望有设定集】
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