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".
我们梅导进步了啊 这个结局处理的很好 这也是她之前戏里的女主角嘛 总是把她拍的这样美
虽然是老生常谈的主题，但若用女性视角看，却久违的感受到看Frozen2时的感动。故事的高光之处其实是在讲女性的共情、由此而来的联结，以及它所蕴含的巨大力量。“她”足以治愈创伤，修正“父”所制造的错误，让在父的阴影下残缺而迷途的孩子在破碎中重生。她永不需要证明自己，因为她本身就是意义。爱从何处而来？爱是自然诞生的甘露。这即是每个女人寻回“母”的叙事的一刻。
一命抵一命。没想到那个时代的水疗，和沙可时代的催眠会给患者带来这么大的痛苦。作为医者，引以为戒了。西方鬼上身也挺剧烈的，不如东北仙那般静悄悄
“决定权在你父亲手上，应该说曾经在你父亲手上”。从女性观影角度来看，父权的压制、环境的迫害的压抑感十分真实。但凡作出与旁人期待不符合，就会认为你有病。电影里的女性在男性眼中不过是实验品、发泄处、一件可交换的商品，但偏偏不是人。舞会就像把控制着这些肮脏想法的外衣剥去，让他们有肆意发泄的端口。反正她们是神经病，没人在乎，说出去也没有人相信。
传达的信息清楚明了，压抑感表达得淋漓尽致。结尾部分有点可惜，但又符合那当下。很不错的电影。
2.5。关于家庭的美好童话…歌也不太好听，没必要那么多人住一起吧，女主也是挺辛苦的，而且不懂本身就没有gift的奶奶怎么就瞧不起同是没有gift的女主了….
可能不懂法国文化背景，看的不是很明白。女主挺美的
精神病院里的老套故事，最后还来个极限一换一，理解不能…
当你说出他们的罪行时，他们把你关紧单间牢房，说这个房间很有历史意义你是幸运的
未知的东西超出我们认知范围的东西为何要一概归类于疾病，因为和这个时代的观念相悖就被扼杀掉的意识，人，真正的本我，躯壳是我，身体里的精神，灵魂是我，躯壳和灵魂的关系也是我，谁才是真正的疯子？
一群自以为是的男医生随意地用所谓的女疯子做着各种实验，显示自己的学识和能力。女护士们是坚定的执行者，甚至有人借机以折磨病人为乐。被关起来的疯子却治愈着身边的茫然活着的正常人，让她内心得到自由，疯子身体得到自由，一起强大。根据记载那个时代欧洲疯人院多到惊人，满足了很多人的“需要”。
阴暗、寒冷、深深的无力感。
可怕的的是，这样的事情还在眼前发生，以疯癫来欺压女性的世界，从来没结束过。
分类上这是一部惊悚片？NONONO，它其实是一部现实主义作品，如果当成惊悚片来看，会相当失望。最后说一句，女主身材不错，有好几个全luo镜头 ^_^
真正的疯子正是人性的失控
（结尾确实和好的有点点突然 但是不影响整体的绝）
我很爱的镜头语言和服化道，主观上满分；客观来说，剧情以小见大也反应了一些事情，从电力发明应用到现在也不过两百年，这两百年世界进步了多少我们很难一件一件来叙述，但女性地位确确实实的有了一个非常高的提升。不过也很难想象，如今还有杨永信这种人和机构存在，与200年前的萨尔佩特里尔如出一辙。
（6.5/10）今天还在说活力四射林漫威，这晚上看个新片又是他的原创歌曲。这种“老”迪士尼的调性不必多言，观众都有概念，因此这也是一部那种在影院同很多人一起观看会十分愉悦的作品。做得不够好的一点，第一幕铺陈的冲突太尖锐，勾起人十足的观看欲，但却没想到这么一个迪士尼式的大女主后面的主动性这么差，这种落差上次见到似乎是我家Merida。值得商榷的一点，所谓人物的那条弧光，多数会从内在与外在两个角度延展，但有一些编剧会大胆地将外在弧光复归原位，让观众去体察更为细腻的内在演变。这次看起来也是如此，但效果并不理想。魔法的复归并不自然，也许让其彻底消失倒是符合影片前面展现的历程。值得深究的一点，我们知道迪士尼向来偏爱传统牢笼中的异类，这次却营造了一个异类的牢笼囚禁普通人，这种倒置可以发展出无限可能。
这个故事好奇怪啊，到底是要魔法还是不要魔法啊？？但美术还是绝美，音乐也好。
迪士尼格局越拍越小，导演你好歹也是拍出过《疯狂动物城》的人，这祖孙和解戏码拍的也太敷衍了吧！总结起来就是完美姥姥逼太紧，凡人孙女起反抗，这个主题《勇敢传说》早就拍的差不多了，本来还期待能看到点成长的烦恼与自我的认同啥的，结果是我想太多，就搞了个歌舞串烧就完事了！（P.S.配乐真的是写出《汉密尔顿》的人写的吗？太普通了吧！）
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