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".
其实还是再说青春期叛逆和家庭教育给孩子带来的影响。
小三竟然是片子里唯一的正常人┓(´∀`)┏
童年最美好的回忆之一，一路感动着看下来，很期待还能有下一部！郑爷爷yyds！！
芬兰版奇蛋物语...主演换日本人的话也毫无违和的剧情..."尤其现代东亚父母和儿童不宜的摇篮曲"...
【芬兰】试着将亲情关系的畸变、社交文化的病态展示以及成长难题（甚至就是体操为代表的运动疯狂）等很为在剧情片里常见的戏剧性元素，完全打包成一个类型化的故事；它提供像《异形》的“黏糊”或者观感上的恐怖，更不吝渲染那种在完美幻象之下被改变和挑战的扭曲心态。只是始终知道它每个步骤和元素在象征什么，就会失去未知的趣味，观影进程全然按部就班；亮点是挑战两角的小女主，太会演。
有点暗黑童话的意思，不过罐头小人也太可爱了，各种奇思妙想是我童年最爱啊！
很怪诞的一部恐怖片，其实并不吓人，个人还挺喜欢
建议以后改编成电影的话，可以让情节更丰富成熟一点，更成人向
翻了好多短评，感觉书迷买单还是蛮多的。皮皮鲁宇宙目前为止没开发的特别好，可惜了。
家庭教育警示片，讲述一个失败的母亲和一个缺乏存在感的父亲是如何导致女儿畸形地成长。
为了满足自己的一己之欲，做出各种令人反感的事情，真的吐了。
还挺有趣，前半段完全可以把蛋与孵化看做女孩自身的压力与焦虑的缩影。
[视]R血，预告配乐不错。体操开局，自带BT属性，有伤退役望女成龙为母系铃。带面具的弟弟，带眼镜的父子，乌鸦埋狗，中场换别墅，迷你城堡经典物件，教育理念碰撞<瞬息全宇宙>，直播元素，镜子墙纸。一人分饰两角，有意往精分方向发展，模糊时空逻辑，结尾倾向回归怪兽类型，开放结局，裂唇，断手，拾人牙慧，李代桃僵，为人母，人为母
除了润出去的华人家庭，原来北欧的亲子关系也这么紧张啊，大家压力都挺大。
#Sundance 2022 3.5星，虽然剧情并不像，但却莫名觉得看了一部芬兰版的《遗传厄运》是怎么回事...以及妈妈这个角色演得真好尤其是皮笑肉不笑的时候。（这片子里的芬兰语听起来好像泰语）
将本体的恶剥离并养育成完全体，再强制代表一切的善的本体去见证无限放大的恶，二者看似的对立实则却又同命相连。正如Jolin医生说过，爱就爱，错就错，面对真实的自我。
题材上跟 瞬息全宇宙 对位的同期档。3.5
孵化，开始其自由生活的过程。女孩身上里面拥有自己的孵化，互相伤害，控不住替杀人可怕，结果女孩赶紧挡住孵化的人，被母亲杀女儿的心，做错了事很后悔很自责，没想到她活了，体会母爱的感情
女儿的演技不错，而且好有气质好美，就是我想象中那种北欧带着忧郁和神秘气质的小仙女。
小女孩和她妈妈真的蛮漂亮的，就是剧情有点无趣，唯一的看点就畸形家庭
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