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".
最棒的还是中间那段派对时间。那个录像带那里我真的很好奇，为什么会是“深柜”。这让政治战争变成了内部战争。🙃🙃🙃扣一星
今年看过最棒的电影，这是上世纪八十年代发生的事情，不过对于我郭来说，车轮回滚的同样事情估计也不会远
很不错的男同毛片（波兰语，听起来和俄语很像，算是毛片吧），片中男主也观看了男同毛片，女主比较美。80年代+波兰+男同=绝望
被Erick狠狠蛊到了！换我我也动心！他太可爱了！
电影以谋杀案为引线，以风信子运动为背景，讲述了一个名为罗伯特的小警察在寻找真相的过程中与他的“线人”向往自由的艾瑞克展开了一段既暧昧克制又疯狂恣意的禁忌之恋。
女巫拉扎罗选择相信的故事。
这世界灼烧着，痛苦着，这世界让人刺痛，让人恶心，然而...然而...
空洞无聊，Terence Malick copycat
演员，摄影，故事完美。停在胜利的晚宴上足以，根本不需要过多的描述后面的内容。
3.5，跟当年《黑夜造访》一样都是恐怖片包装，故事整体容易联想到聊斋。女巫对人类生活的渴望，对父权社会的认知以及对爱与亲情的好奇心几个侧重点在同类型片子下算新颖。镜头挺美但对几个村庄的习俗刻画少了点，最喜欢动物视角的部分
恐怖又成了噱头，这显然是部文艺片。起初昏昏沉沉，观感逐步上升，对烦人的台词和晃悠悠的镜头也适应了些。艺术表达上小有成效，例如一开始猫的视角就很有意思。主要就是借女巫传说，讲了一个女孩如何重新做人，学会“爱”的故事。之前没看过这类扒皮变身的电影，可给个好评，最后落点还是真爱无敌，俗套又感人。
固定机位好多
男主所谓“不懂得如何享受成功”的正直，Arek 为了自由的无畏，高官可以为了掩盖自己是homo硬是发动了风信子行动。想来以前的希望也过于幼稚，身居高位的人可以为了权力而屠杀与自己拥有相同痛苦的人。就是男主与女主在一起的线略欠。
"我会找到你的"甭管能否找到，简直是最浪漫的结局。但感觉有点天真，特别是老妈那句"至少你做回了自己"。那个年代，谁能有这样的觉悟?
我想
应该是我看过的最马力克的非马力克电影了，很美。
披着惊悚片外衣的文艺片，我能说我没看懂么...
角度独特的女性电影，以一个啥阅历都木有的小女巫的成长和探索窥探强势父权下的女性困境。恐怖的标签来自于血腥，如果以村民视角，这样的邪灵食狼女是恐怖的，倒过来以邪灵护体的抗争是不是又有点爽呢。风格的确有点点马利克的味道，虽然差得远，但一点点味道反而服用得挺舒适，马利克趟趟能让我有嗑晕的状态。
摄影手法和配乐旁边过于文艺片风格，有几个瞬间恍惚到莉莉周。以至于对恐怖片爱好者来说看了个空，事先声明我不属于恐怖片爱好者…但我觉得我也看了个空…
剧本扎实，技巧出色，故事前半段很精彩后半段中规中矩。但看完电影后又想要去了解 风信子行动。值得一看。
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