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".
“生活仍然值得你挥起拳头等待”
没有预想的好，故事很平淡，但是充满夏日气息的高饱和度画面，和回春的戳爷散发出的少年感，真是赏心悦目
看似《灯塔》的4:3画幅黑白影像，和库泽尔2015年版《麦克白》的“文言文”，可不论视听还是内核都远不如前两者来得深厚。耳熟能详的故事，美学上强调光影构图与极简舞台，新鲜但不新意。★★★☆/7.6
太美了！经久不衰的麦克白，保留莎士比亚剧本精髓的一次改编。“I have no words; my voice is in my sword…”
真的是超级超级甜。很喜欢fiat小一啦。虽然副cp的结局不太好，但是他们两有新剧要拍啦所以结局没在一起。
这版《麦克白》非常科恩，是舞台剧的电影化。黑白处理，舞台灯效，布景、构图都相当到位。对白有删减，但没改变，仍算莎士比亚戏剧。
在格斗中占据上风的麦克白，因为去捡掉落在地的王冠而死，他的王冠飞了出去，掉落在地，是预言中的宿命，却也是由自己的欲望而主动完成了预言。
诙谐又舒适的一部片，还是至亲和姐妹可靠，戳好有少年感，脸也有故事感和电影感，还很少年感，片尾曲是戳的创作曲，真的好好听很舒服的调调，so blue
这回科恩兄弟竟然没合作，麦克白的悲剧也算是被反复拍了，这版的黑白质感和极简布景给予了两位主演更多的空间，科恩嫂一如既往地稳，这两点很加分。
不知道我到底要成长到几岁才会逐渐走出青春片的受众范围，我好像一直都拒绝变成熟，拒绝变得不伤感和敏感，感知的触角是我作为哺乳动物最珍惜的羽毛。择校的假期，家庭内部结构的流离，友情的顾此失彼，爱情的延滞，太年轻所以太容易像风中浮动的粒子，好像什么都没做，夏天就过去了，但回忆一下的时候，又会觉得上个夏天太珍贵了。what's how we grow up
青春伤痛文学，很老套的故事！ 不过是能够让人看下去的。 戳爷贡献了自己的美貌，我很开心。 二十七八的人了演起高中生还是那么得心应手。
戳爷的表演很自然，甚至让人忘了他有偶像光环。很有英气，很符合这个角色，让人很情不自禁的喜欢。他身上有着自由放纵的气息，或许也是因为这样，自己也想成为像他那样的人，把一切都看得不在乎。但无可辩驳的是，青春永远无敌。
3.7分。 虽然故事是根据莎翁名剧而改编，但在形式上确实玩出了不一样的感觉。没有在历史质感上下功夫，也没有对大场面做出过多的要求，甚至可以说，除了几个主要角色外，没有任何大场面，全是舞台化的戏剧表演方式。 但这种参照三十年代德国表现主义风格，加上极简建筑撺掇成的场景，有着浓厚的神秘质感，仿佛将人置于悬浮未知的空间。而几处远景场面的低调打光，也拍出了很不错的影像质感，这和《爱尔兰人》、《罗马》都是很不一样的黑白摄影风格。可以是，即使是为了美学上的享受，本片也值得一看。
一边看原著一边看电影，部分改动相当合理，整部剧展现到位。
四大悲剧的基调在于人物，你会发觉悲惨皆与权利有关！在莎士比亚的幻想中，所创造的神迹应该是与科恩有一些重叠的。换句话说，鄙人自己用形而上的价值观片面感受到在美术中，搭起了一座画等号的桥。首先黑白增加了麦克白与夫人疯狂的欲望扩张，却又好似无论怎样放肆，也都在笼子里表达命中注定，加强了戏剧的样子。另外极简的美术形式，无论户外还是室内，放大内心魔鬼的无处不在。这就是科恩厉害的地方！ 无论在舞台还是影像，把故事中人物内心的假象与思考，变成实体人物，无论魔鬼还是天使，都是虚幻的。自然就达成鄙人心中所说的共识桥梁。也就更贴合一副好似英格玛·伯格曼《第七封印》的样子，把心结做成了人！ 但这一切却只因为它们作为电影的一些关联，而源于戏剧，莎翁的戏，就好似他手中的那支鹅毛笔，远比写出来的文字，癫狂与潇洒太多！
高度电影化的戏剧表演，所有演员都在飙戏。每一个场景都很惊艳。台词听懂了一半，还以为自己听力水平不够高，结果一起观看的英国朋友也没听懂。。
是不是每个天才导演都想挑战下莎翁剧，不过有黑泽明的珠玉在前，科恩这个形式感玩儿得稍显呆板，完全把精力压在了构图摄影这些技术层面上，文本和人物就没什么创意，华盛顿挺卖力但不对味，身上没有暴君感。
我为他付出真心，他却只把我当成夏日的“消遣”。戳爷真的太适合演电影了！！！夏日感拉满了！
Dara也是横看竖看都舒服
好明媚的夏天，好明媚的感情啊！
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