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".
个人还蛮喜欢的!!故事设置很能打动我,让我想起之前看到过的一起真实案件记录提到被害的多名女性在知道自己无法逃脱以后都会尽量在现场藏自己的指甲,皮屑,头发为未来侦破提供证据,和这部片所表达的还挺异曲同工的
对于Janis在最开始得知真相时候的退缩，我也不太能理解……有点超出了我的共情范畴
乱葬岗中是冤魂的哀嚎，乱葬岗外是深切的追思。历史印刻着过往的沉痛与真相，所有的努力都是为了敲响命运的警钟。历史的车轮不断向前，渗出的伤痛还在蔓延。我们拥抱淬炼而出的新生，我们携着无法抹去的疤印。唯有亡魂得到安宁战争才会结束，要记住今日的繁荣皆是昨日悲怆洒下的鲜血。
一段两个母亲在产房里互相抱错了孩子的故事，一段关于遗骨的挖掘揭开了残酷的历史的故事，我没理解这两段故事交织在一起的意义在哪里。
与其说是阿莫多瓦拍的，不如说更像是阿莫多瓦的模仿者拍的。
不是恐怖片 纯纯超级英雄电影 看到最后电影院的人都跟着一起欢呼起来了 没几个吓人的镜头 但是神经一直紧绷 拍的太好了
安娜的银色短发太好看了。想请阿莫多瓦当我家的装潢设计师。
奇情与历史的融合。人要向前看，但你所处之处是怎样的。人类的历史并不沉默，哪怕将它投入火焰。最后一个镜头太好，身处在任何时刻，都不要忘了，那个躺着的人可以是你。
和西班牙大叔hookup一起看的，看完他哭了。。。
看这个想到了可爱的骨头，那部剧真是挠心的难受。这部剧在灵能的加持下有了一个HE，最后凶手被杀的时候还是挺爽的
莫兰迪色系的阿莫多瓦为母性的诠释披上了一抹浓绿，言说的仿佛是“春风吹又生”般的生命力。电影在“死亡”和“新生”的主题间来回变换数次，“死—生—死—生—死”的路径之外，女性之伟大和历史之厚重平行并重，但关系暧昧不明。
伊桑霍克太适合演这样的变态了，故事很精彩，可惜反派人物刻画不够。对于我来说是一部优秀的惊悚电影
与《驾驶我的车》的心法暗通款曲——表现有关“迷因之复制、变异、选择和传递”的思索。但此片更突出：①“基因—迷因”这一对复制子在文明社会中的撕扯和纠缠；②透过母性于文明演替中的变与不变来传达影片对伟大母性的赞颂；③导演技艺精湛，众演员表演传神。
记录、孕育、传承，历史便在此间流转下去，这是雅尼斯的职业、家庭与身份造就的这一份因缘；与之相对的则是年青一代的遗忘和丧失，当雅尼斯将孩子与历史通通交给安娜，这份上启下至的联结开始诞生，到结尾墓地上终将完成。一方面，导演对西班牙那段历史有自己观点与立场，另一方面，当孩子的身份改变，作为母亲这个角色的爱会随之改变吗？雅尼斯身份的建立—丧失—再次建立的过程正如那些一直在寻找亲属的西班牙民众们，他们对自身关系、亲缘关系乃至于自我与历史之间的关系艰难地断裂寻找期待重生。最后男女老少躺在墓地上，寻获的欣慰是在根源上终于完成自我与情感上的圆满，人们与这片创伤的土地和过去，都需要在阵痛中重获新生。3.5.
错位的母亲身份，相同的女性困境，阿莫多瓦所构建的依然是一个戏剧性十足且颇值得玩味的奇情关系。对西班牙历史的发掘只在首尾出现，看似跳跃，却是超于电影本身的社会表达，毕竟，要着眼于未来，不然就是不停地揭开旧伤疤。
永远看不厌的阿莫多瓦女性话题。佩内洛普·克鲁兹真女神，希望能一直演下去。
太棒了，依然是我喜欢的阿莫多瓦，并且引向了历史深处。结尾处的引语耐人寻味:“历史永远不会沉默。不论他们如何诋毁，不论他们如何篡改，不论他们如何伪造，人类的历史都拒绝保持沉默。”
蛮精彩。妹妹太可爱了！Jesus what the fuck!
哪哪儿都正确，滴水不漏；人权、女权、生育权，全都要管。
开了一个脑洞，如果和佩德罗差不多大但经历更坎坷的老谋子再拍一部严歌苓式的电影：一双在十年动乱中相爱相杀的女人又在“只生一个好”政策的时代鬼事神差地重逢，命运嘲弄又让两人各自从自己的母亲那里挖掘出五六十年代的苦难回忆……尤其是看到片尾“历史不会沉默”时
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