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".
前半段很有ALL THAT JAZZ的潜质，且因为前面太抓人导致后面画风转变让人觉得龙头蛇尾。不过Edgar Wright的Visual还是很值得一看，McKenzie和Anya也是双厨狂喜了。
很好的视觉片。前五十分钟非常新颖有趣，镜像变身玩出花，后一小时开始凑数了，一度感觉可能剧本是现编的就为了能凑到结局。我不是很同意埃德加赖特的“反父权”真的是在反父权，看上去仍然和糖衣炮弹差不多，从双女主到女性配角其实都很刻板，除了视觉奇观和霓虹惊悚的氛围之外并没有深挖什么“来源”，当然这只是一部大众商业作品不用指望太多
以恐怖悬疑片的形式，来包装一个怀旧片，满片的六十年代歌曲，像极一个大MV。而贯穿全剧的各种元素，就是一部可笑的大杂烩，更是令人生厌。片中有一句台词还不错：旧时代伦敦的味道，已经渗透到每一堵墙壁之中。确实。
这狗屎剧情！导演你不能感觉自己有个好idea就洋洋得意，编不出好剧本就拿出一坨屎来凑！开篇以为是girls help girls或者是双线叙事。后面直接大脑罢工，全无逻辑，降级崩塌，又闹鬼，又精神病的。有病就去治好吗！
其实是挺不错的悬疑片，但是结局……差了点意思
3.8/已经是非常高的水准了 虽然也有缺点 但是看完足以让人惊叹 尤其是镜像和分身的段太美了 完全被带入60年代的气氛中 最后无脸lsp们的求救变相成为了一场新的谋杀 很多概念叹为观止
前期电影感可以，光影和调度都挺抓人，后面有点自暴自弃了吧……
“是那些男的活该，我不要进监狱，我一生都在监狱之中”
复古优雅的视听语言和被反复消费的安雅小11和芬尼克
形式大于内容的歌舞mv，视觉听觉风格浓郁都超过了故事本身的冲突和人物的刻画%但是2个女主的美真是被服化道衬托得不可方物啊1。托马辛·麦肯齐 Thomasin McKenzie没输给给安雅。
居然是年度最佳（女性&惊悚）！我靠，埃德加奈特生涯最佳，没想到大家喜欢的西蒙佩奇反而是埃德加莱特的拖油瓶。整部剧感觉非常的浪漫，且很会讲故事，开篇的感觉直追《守望者》。我要颁给赖特最佳导演奖，剧本奖，摄影奖和音乐奖。
7/10。不难发现赖特受到了希区柯克、德·帕尔玛的影响，火烧阁楼一幕男性幽灵的镜头中极快速插入凶刀的大特写，想必源于《惊魂记》的著名凶杀剪辑，而珊迪踏足六十年代浮华的舞池时，观众通过银幕看到镜像化的分身和多重空间，艾洛伊斯的真身和珊迪的分身纠缠，剪辑、布景的炫技调度营造入梦/出梦的丰富变化，像德·帕尔玛式的分身电影。相比鸡肋的铺垫情节，闪烁神秘灯光的酒吧、派对、时装秀和唱片机，弥漫期间的女性色情奇观，召唤出了男性荒淫的威胁信号，纯真无邪的艾洛伊斯被侵染成金发、黑眼影和白面妆的浪荡身体，迎接她的是年老珊迪——犹如从地狱闯出的复仇恶鬼。出租屋象征性地打开了一个时间隧道：物恋化的黄金年代与成名欲的幻灭感形成深厚冲突。但影片经典文化的拼贴感，完全是去深度化、原创性缺失的，体现了独立作者向商业片的妥协。
多少有点猜到，但又使了小心眼再转到，怨灵的因果嘛，但其他部分因果对神经质的妈妈影像和结尾再出现女王影像有点不那么感冒，这是我的原因，不纠结。
两位女主角都发挥的非常不错
感觉埃德加赖特的才情消耗的差不多了，果然不能只在电影中寻访电影的想象
感觉从《我们》来的一面镜子照见一个人的两个后脑勺这个创意被发扬光大了，粉色的裙子配金色蓬蓬的头发加上Downtown的舞蹈的安雅太美了。以及果然酒吧小妹乱蓬蓬的头发和浓厚的眼妆不值一提练成的。一百次的死亡之后都练成平和的绝望了，安雅的悲惨也太好哭了。
丢掉最为代表性的极速变焦蒙太奇的埃德加·赖特依旧鲜明无比，之前被遮盖的匹配剪接成为这部电影的最大技术瞩目点，在加上本身擅长的转场设计，两个年代的转换自然成了炫目十足的观看着眼点。前半段重返黄金年代好似对《午夜巴黎》的另类挪用，但后半段却成了对伍迪·艾伦的反写，那个由文艺作品与过往情调搭建起来的沙上之塔，最终在遭遇现实的海水冲击之时，暴露了隐藏下的泥泞，皮条客与恋人的身份转换，揭开了那个年代的女性境地，最终光影浮华变了鬼魅浮生，之前怀旧视角下的泛黄暖意色调也自然变为了铅黄清冷寒意。但结尾的悬念回转在制作惊奇感的同时，又一定程度消减了之前的女性受害情况的描写力度，在魔女化的同时甚至有合理化的嫌疑，人设也从追梦单纯女变为了复仇女杀手，后者自然爽感无比，但与前面铺垫的写法相比，令人怀疑导演的本意。
弱三星 结局太拉胯了 警察那条线给观众放烟雾弹ok 但把人搞死就没必要吧（话说警察是知道真相默默守护么） ；结尾那些男的举起电话说help时我都傻了：啊这？立场突变？ 理解导演可能是想做个小转折 落在女性觉醒上，但是实际上那一瞬间的观感是很别扭的，包括珊迪对俩人的杀心，让整体的表达都变得很拧巴。（以及尸体封在墙里真的太不严谨了8....
这个故事告诉我们，有了幻觉或者产生幻象，一定要去医院看精神科，不要拖/ATJ真的好美
从报警开始，剧情急转直下的，不过整体来看，片子还是太有趣了，算是年度惊喜。
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