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".
变身后一人屠一警察局，还能控制电流是怎么个设定，没得解释啊。
中间又穿插一下潜伏的桥段。悬疑的感觉铺垫很不错。就是引进后剪掉了一些恐怖的镜头，显得人们总是大惊小怪的。没有脑洞的话，就看不出温子仁的巧思。还有就是一直以来的亲情核心是没有变的，这就是喜欢温子仁的原因
还挺下饭的，但缺少了温子仁往昔电影中那种令人意犹未尽反复琢磨的层次感，可能是制作太流水线了，也可能是剧情太以“制造悬疑和完成最终的反转”为中心，反而少了点后劲，想要好好咀嚼却发现没什么味道。（四星的意思就是值得一看，挺不错的，但是不会二刷了）
为了迁就午休时间，后期1.5倍速看完，但还是被屠杀那part惊艳到，手法太干净利落了，招招致命不需要补刀。
铅黄的用光和音效配现代戏居然丝滑又尖锐，风格化上不是往常的温子仁但做到了。黑暗的另一半的核，生出现实替换的构思很金。body-horror的巧思诡异中居然带着优美，背部逆行骨骼倒错，几场追逃戏居然跳出了舞步（不是哈哈哈）
真的是我這個年代的驚悚大師
还不错，真相挺意外的，我说那个凶手为啥好像倒着走似的呢。
运镜、场景、恐怖和悬疑感缔造……世界顶级。我说温子仁是人类恐怖电影史瑰宝，有人同意吗？
是血腥的 我曾经不会看的那种 感谢朋友们赐予我看下去的力量
挺有意思的 连体婴可以被封印 反关节 梦境里杀人 前后联系的不错。 战斗力稍微有点爆表 大杀警局是真的不平衡。 温子仁的恐怖片 还是值得一看。
看前面还在感慨温子仁怎么开始走下坡路了，看最后三十分钟，卧槽，不愧是你温子仁。最后的警察局大战，恍惚中以为又看到一个女版约翰威克，这战力就是让她加入DC宇宙都不成问题
温子仁憋了几年终于放大招，史上最强“寄生胎”杀手惊悚登场。影片风格终于回到了《潜伏1》和《招魂2》的那种悬疑味道浓郁的feel，气氛营造很棒，其间场景切换（幻视）和动作戏凌厉顺畅，节奏掌控一流。尤其是后半段猛然发力，血浆残肢翻飞堪比《疾速追杀》、《阴风阵阵》、《黑夜传说》，摆脱了悬疑恐怖片半场飙半场卒的窠臼（完整版时长111分钟，国内流媒体引进版阉割了关键性剧情，警局杀场这么爽也不放过，毁人不倦新玩法？）。原版与引进版之间大概隔了一部年度最佳悬疑动作恐怖片的距离。
难以形容温子仁脑子里都装着怎样令人震惊的一个个恐怖故事。
美版寄生兽。最终战胜恶魔的是母性的伟大。前半小时代入感极差，莫非是故意营造一头雾水的感觉？所以导致更多的悬念都是在第二幕给埋下了，第三幕渐入佳境，但是我真的没想到不到5分钟就把尾给结了。总之节奏乱乱的，到也没有那么可怕，都是基操。
哇哦太牛了，温子仁，一个在镜头语言上不断追求沉浸感的人，配上这个完美剧本简直就是升华，太棒的想法了，最后半小时张着嘴巴看完。
安娜贝尔女主角
很好看啊，从头紧张刺激到尾，结局反转还好不是俗气的人格分裂，不过也差不多了，人格分裂实体化。。。最后那样也太恶心了
前半段靠未知营造恐惧，后半段揭秘后直接杀疯了。
作为非典型作者导演，明显感受到温子仁在经历二十多时奇技淫巧血脉喷张的电锯系列，三十多时稳扎稳打别具一格的招魂潜伏系列后，特别是指掌完海王后，陷入了不惑的灯枯油尽：东拼西凑了一堆元素，除了一惊一乍就是血腥……还留了一个自我和解的happy ending
中段之后变成了杀手电影，就非常有趣了；那个动作设计难度颇高，不知是怎么完成的。非常非常优秀，温子仁又进步了
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