剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 柏芮安 8小时前 :

    Slow and unfocused narrative. Pretentious style. The transition of the character Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) is unclear.

  • 禚芬菲 9小时前 :

    我没看小说,他四十多了还跟弟弟睡一个屋、住旅店睡一张大床?这正常吗?

  • 阳安福 2小时前 :

    用力过猛。全程铺垫暗示,节奏慢到睡着。Greenwood老师真的很适合做这种暗涌张力电影的配乐

  • 郏才良 7小时前 :

    好流畅,已臻化境,这已经不是电影,是一缕香魂无断绝。视角找得好,人物也择取得好,这应该是依赖于原著的强大,简坎皮恩也表达得好,她的那种温柔优雅的对于权力对于性别的嘲笑,那种深刻的无比贴近的对于人物痛苦的感受,真是好厉害。看之前我没想到克斯汀邓斯特有如此厉害的戏份,她的表演冲击女主角都绰绰有余,是她对于这个角色的诠释,才好像成为了本片的一汪湖水,她折射了整个压抑的故事,沧桑与纷扰,绝望与不毁,都像光一样折射在这湖水里。

  • 蔡书慧 0小时前 :

    年度最佳。不自禁地和CMBYN相比,窃以为这片更加克制和隽永。视角不仅来自于一方,更来自于两个看似无交叉却终将交融的维度。很多角度都非常学院派,会是奥斯卡的大热。

  • 独雅香 2小时前 :

    前面三分之二的剧情烘托了最后的三分之一,可以哦,这片还真的挺怕剧透的,其实,开头就已经告诉你最后的结局了哇。

  • 采芸 9小时前 :

    摄影可谓帧帧如画,调度和镜头堪称一绝,冷静而克制,故事细思极恐,讲了一个伪装者的悲剧。表面是探讨男子汉气概,事实上还是在讲人性。

  • 皇甫鸿达 6小时前 :

    把一个上不得台面的悬疑加同性倾向的故事文艺化处理,再赋予一个西部背景,就能成奥斯卡大热了?这种片子既没有在情节上环环相扣,更谈不上打动人心。看完只感觉一堆变态在暗中斗法。

  • 璇采 1小时前 :

    Delivery my soul from the sword, my darling from the power of the dog. 喜欢整个冗长又压抑克制的氛围,角色的张力和耐心,最后谷仓里点烟的戏份。Benedict身上真的有种莫名的敏感和孤独感。豆瓣2500纪念。

  • 祁壹 2小时前 :

    好流畅,已臻化境,这已经不是电影,是一缕香魂无断绝。视角找得好,人物也择取得好,这应该是依赖于原著的强大,简坎皮恩也表达得好,她的那种温柔优雅的对于权力对于性别的嘲笑,那种深刻的无比贴近的对于人物痛苦的感受,真是好厉害。看之前我没想到克斯汀邓斯特有如此厉害的戏份,她的表演冲击女主角都绰绰有余,是她对于这个角色的诠释,才好像成为了本片的一汪湖水,她折射了整个压抑的故事,沧桑与纷扰,绝望与不毁,都像光一样折射在这湖水里。

  • 梅舒 2小时前 :

    电影透露出令人不寒而栗的(真实社会)难以觉察但细思极恐的恶意。1.你的不为人知的秘密会是隐匿敌人的强力武器,要藏好秘密。2.来自同类的恶最致命,因为他懂你舔舐伤口的温柔与疼痛,因为他自己也如此。3.一个异类在被定义为异类的时代里,要成为敌人定义强者的样子,因此对自己也最狠。4.综合前三点,装扮成异性恋的基佬最恐同,对同类最恶毒。5.俄狄浦斯情结自然可以是恋母,但现实代价是弑父。家庭结构里,父权是掌权者;在社会结构里,父权是定义「正确」的文化,通过杀死强悍的、男性化的同类,温柔的、女性化的社会呈现得以经由权力的获得而拥有(局部)的正当化可能,本质却仍旧要凭借他弑掉的父权路径。6.一个再强大的人,因为不符合「社会期待」,你竟然可以看到他死之后所有人都松了一口气,包括慕强的父母兄弟。7.连狗都慕强

  • 狄清心 7小时前 :

    与其说影片讲了个复仇故事,不如说是一个弑父故事。且这里的“父”并不是一个典型的男权形象,正相反,他恰恰是个备受压抑,乃至于要通过扮演一个强悍直男来协调认知失衡以完成自我保护的角色。这也让“弑父”的动作具备了更浓的悲剧色彩。

  • 裔如云 5小时前 :

    还挺喜欢电影的质感和风格的,尤其是摄影,但还是很不喜欢卷福主要是脸,对比之下男二显得可爱了很多

  • 灵雅 8小时前 :

    三十分钟就能讲完的小trick级别的悬疑故事 看了开头还以为导演雄心勃勃要重拍1948年版红河谷或者文艺复兴1960年代西部犯罪片 看了四分之三了还以为是个多角恋狗血感情片 最后发现全是胡扯的烟雾弹?所以吸引了大家去看这部电影的 所谓的“同性” 最后全是噱头?

  • 韦和豫 0小时前 :

    这应该算得上是完美犯罪了,影片的细节很好,最后一刻死者出现的时候,前面的所有细节一下子涌上来,有点后知后觉的明白了一切。两边的角度,各有各的可怜,也各有各的可恨。

  • 纳喇美曼 2小时前 :

    原来是悬疑片啊我超,还以为是西部片。两个演员演的太绝了!!!情绪描写和人物刻画一绝...菲尔微微晃动的眼睛是如此不安。从一开始我们就知道会发生什么,但当那一刻来临时还是紧紧屏住了呼吸。

  • 芳静 4小时前 :

    新西兰拍的电影是不是就没有外景不好看的 文火慢炖的剧情配合恰到好处的bgm 最后再给你致命一刀 导演这功力不服不行

  • 栋怿悦 8小时前 :

    焦虑、压抑、痛苦、暗中汹涌的情欲。我觉得非常好看。

  • 烁骞 8小时前 :

    一场精心策划,还是过河拆桥?都是成年人,我想彼得一早看出菲儿的本心,妈妈以为是菲儿引诱了儿儿,其实我想是彼得请君入瓮。

  • 束南蓉 2小时前 :

    前一个小时节奏缓慢,后一个小时渐入佳境,结局细想之下寒毛直竖,后劲很大。阳刚和性取向无关,就如纤弱与善良无关;外表成为伪装的盔甲,卸下之后有温柔、有孤独、有怯懦的软肋,也有不见边际的恶犬之力。

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