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".
好全的一次毛骗后主演团队再聚首，冬冬的几段承包了此片所有的笑点。
大题材用非常小的切角，整体氛围其实我真的挺喜欢，让身处在“妻子、母亲”身份的女性观众得以移情，后半程的挣脱也如梦似幻，《闪灵》也好《巴里林登》也罢，就像你并不知道真实是否如电影揣测一般——Dianne被婚姻制剥夺体重、衣着、饮食，但你可以体会“自我”伴随空间被剥夺的窒息。这只是痛苦一部分，痛苦不会只来自外部而没有内部——凭什么女王能扛得下holy oil，而女主角不行，这说了，却没解释清楚，没好好地展开啊。通篇隐喻过于匠气直给，来自王子授意的仆人压力、城堡主管说那一句效忠王权也大可不必，太小家子气了。我只同意那一句，fuck doctors，what you need is love.以及KS演技造作的问题是挺严重的，总是有偶像剧味儿，美则美矣，就是老端着膀子。
好看！我愿称之为中国版"两杆大烟枪"，编剧下功夫了，环环相扣，三波人在故事线中来回交叉，最后也是结尾在桥上。邢东东演技8错。反转，烂梗，好笑，共同交织成一部优秀作品。当然，中间的感情戏略显突兀，但我也想不到什么办法能让两个冤家分开。总体很推荐！看到我熟悉的石家庄也很温馨。
美！即便不尽人意怕也是K近几年来演技最好的一部了吧
KS的台词模仿痕迹过重，吐气节奏让人不舒服。皇室的刻画太平了吧，怎么人人都一脸便秘被欠钱了一样
2021.12.*宅男高材生和离职创业邻居的化敌为友，看着很不专业的感觉
2.5 全片给我的感觉就是在无病呻吟 幻灯片式的切换场景 小K仪态上和戴安娜差太多了
演技着急，服装加一星。矫情如我，都觉得spencer过于矫情了，服化道真的好看
说到底，叛离皇室与重返家族压根是两回事，把戴安娜不幸的出口寄托于父亲、祖宅、旧时光、中产生活、肯德基，未免是创作者太一厢情愿的粗陋勾连，一种庸俗的心理主义对主人公简化。全片俗不可耐且无话可说尴尬尤其体现在对Anna Boleyn的空洞召唤上。从《第一夫人》降级到《斯宾塞》，剩下的只是一套静态的肖像美学，真正的叙事和人物动作已被精致姿势所瓦解。
说到底，叛离皇室与重返家族压根是两回事，把戴安娜不幸的出口寄托于父亲、祖宅、旧时光、中产生活、肯德基，未免是创作者太一厢情愿的粗陋勾连，一种庸俗的心理主义对主人公简化。全片俗不可耐且无话可说尴尬尤其体现在对Anna Boleyn的空洞召唤上。从《第一夫人》降级到《斯宾塞》，剩下的只是一套静态的肖像美学，真正的叙事和人物动作已被精致姿势所瓦解。
6.5/10。一部“好看”的电影，一袭白裙倒在马桶旁崩溃的一幕太美了。恐怖片手法拍囚牢中的人物是很难失误的选择，厨房偷吃一段非常《闪灵》。美颜滤镜般的调色弊远大于利，虽可找补为暗合王妃亮丽的表面人生但我希望在不同节点能转换不同风格；与相似调色和故事的《吞咽》相比缺少灵气。稻草人、鸡、铁丝网等等太多直白的意象了，相反的绝代艳后更肆意、更自由。鬼魂指引意外让我想到红楼梦。
Omg,it’s so fucking dull.🥲🙃这电影完全属于绣花枕头一包草了就是说
全程逐帧盯小k 经得起这样怼脸的有几个呢 独舞虽然小虎背不怎么动人 但重在情感表达 这只被禁锢的美丽天鹅 最佳服设没跑了
影片一边倒的描述失去了平衡，我就奇怪，戴妃之外，其他人是怎么活下来的？
还行吧 虽然有主角滤镜但是挺逗的 当个无脑片看看没啥问题
全程逐帧盯小k 经得起这样怼脸的有几个呢 独舞虽然小虎背不怎么动人 但重在情感表达 这只被禁锢的美丽天鹅 最佳服设没跑了
老套路，一个误会接着一个误会，最后大结局好人和解，坏人伏法。情怀加一星吧。
片子的问题在于历史上任何一个被规矩和习俗约束着但又向往自由的皇室女子都可以是戴妃，但为啥戴妃凭啥是独一无二的戴妃？这个问题一直贯彻始终得不到有效的解答。心理戏如果写到这，还解决不了这个问题，那就原地爆炸吧。但这一缺陷倒给予KS一定的呈现空间，KS表现的其实是自己，只是口音和形态还是照着方法派去，结果造成：如果戴妃就是KS这个样子，那我就很喜欢这个戴妃，这是通过KS的表演弥补了编导上的缺陷，所以我很想她拿今年的小金人。
很少一部电影让我看得如坐针毡，巴不得赶紧结束赶紧走人。一星给服饰，别的都太无聊。
视听形式和《困在时间里的父亲》类似，通过虚实混淆的画面和激烈的古典弦乐交织渲染，具像化主人公痛苦焦虑的内心世界。多处远景和平视镜头追求工整对称；厨房一整条情节线的设置；餐前的体重秤、必须紧闭的窗帘、层层裙装、珍珠项链等意象，从内到外隐喻君主制这一华美牢笼。直接的视听震撼，夸张所以动人，不正是电影的长处吗？谁不知道真实的戴妃肯定不会表现得这么“夸张”啊，要看人物的“真实状态”（不过是被压抑着的表面状态）你直接去看纪录片史料吧。KS的整体表现不错的，餐桌吞珍珠那场表演尤其触动到我。玛姬这一人物的设置是唯一的暖色了，’Diana,the shocked’和’Spencer’同样寓意着解放和希望，至少在这一情节、这一时刻。
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