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".
最后反转了，凯伦吉兰女主训练了很久，结果被克隆人用水毒死了
致命录像带依旧是我最爱的伪记录系列，出多少我都看。
被骗了。。。还以为能看美女决斗。。。没想到只有阴谋和欺骗。。。PS：不要低估一颗想活下去的克隆心。。。
还是挺有意思的电影。尤其是喜欢后半段多一点。不过这种类型的电影确实也有点麻烦就是。一人分饰两角。很容易混淆。
本来克隆体是要学习本体的，作为本体的载体和替代而活着。
活下来的肯定是复制体，这一层无趣的反转并不吸引人，真正吸引我的是导演所讽刺的，“你是谁不重要，重要的是别人需要你做什么”这一厌世价值观。自家人居然和复制体一起设计毒杀本体，而复制体活下来后却也深陷于本体无趣的人生泥潭，与爱人貌合神离，不接妈妈的电话，谁活下来有那么重要吗？
剧情很特别，冲突面营造地也不错，就是细节处理一般，还可以。
我还挺喜欢这个电影的。当一个更讨喜的克隆人在自己的生活中取代了自己原本的地位，自己、家人、爱人，和这个克隆人会做何抉择。
故事还挺有意思的，本体和克隆人只能活一个，通过决斗定死活。有点反乌托邦的设定，但重心还是放在这个高概念故事下的人物抉择上。最后没等来一场决斗有点泄气。
人性中的善良同情成为生存的绊脚石，恰恰是哪些残忍、尔虞我诈、弱肉强食、、、
本体胜，最后哭成这样输了母亲的爱，本来就是因为给家人的礼物，缺没想到自己才是个笑话
切入点不同。《天鹅挽歌》是不舍当下 ，本片则是困在当下。但无论是表现手法/文本高度/人物动机/叙事转折/演员演技等各个方面吧，本片都明显不如前者。算是个低配姊妹篇吧~
她和莎拉在小屋裡的對話明顯就講了母親是藉colour con對她進行要脇、情緒勒索；而且複製體以前沒有雀斑，男友才會說她皮膚特別脆弱，又明知她討厭墨西哥餐也逼她一起吃。
最后的结局很有意思，本体伪装成复制体作为本体活下去。。。
还不错，黑色幽默版《龙虾》。女主可能就是当代大冤种的真实投射？
有意思的点在于恐怖和科幻的包装下，内里是无尽的悲哀，无论是对于本体、对于克隆体、对于所有家人情人乃至旁观者，都是一种错位和怎么做都是错怎么做都不会快乐的人生本质。关于最后留存的是本体还是克隆体都有解释的合理性，也为电影留下耐人寻味的空间。
我本来以为活下来的是克隆，看评论又觉得是本体
还不错，前半段拍的比较无聊，后半段渐入佳境，最后的开放式结局很有意思。讲的故事其实不复杂，体现出一些对人性的探讨。克隆人代替本体生活了一段时间以后，家人们竟然也接受了克隆体，反而一起设计准备杀死本体，也就是说不仅是在社会上，即使是在家庭里，他人需要的也并不是你本身，而是你作为女朋友/女儿这一角色所具体有的一些功能，还挺黑色幽默的。
导演得处理还是有些笨拙，特别是在两女主的内心世界以及主题的深挖上，基本上没有什么有深度的台词。有些桥段的加入甚至感觉有点幼稚（比如两小女孩那段，完全是在那背台词，比如男朋友和妈妈的刻画），结尾的处理倒是很惊喜。
短篇版《黑镜》。主角苦练格斗一年，最后被克隆人阴了。原来克隆人练的是智力。
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