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".
- 我只是觉得她可以做得更好
疫情蔓延、经济滑坡、病痛阴影、代际隔阂、成长阵痛、文化冲撞……这个裂隙遍布的普通家庭如一叶扁舟在风雨中飘摇。母亲的抑郁与焦躁，父亲的隐忍与爆发，姐姐的任性和叛逆，妹妹的天真和柔弱，这些有性格缺陷的人被打包掷入一场猝然而至的人生危机中，每个人都遍体鳞伤，又惶然不知如何为他人舔舐伤口。导演将一些凡俗生活细节、琐碎纷争、庸常烦恼纷扬洒下，阴郁悲观的情绪漫漶镜头外。无意于进行道德判断，只是冷静观察每种情绪在纷扰和困境中溢出的合理性，也不断映照出作为情绪主体的人各自的羸弱与局限。远处的疫情仿佛隔岸观火，人性与生活本身的复杂性与残酷性，才是让人身陷泥潭的具体囚笼。
有几场戏让人共情，与母亲的争吵，永远容不进的团体，美国回来大概只是一个设定，让芳仪与这个世界格格不入，也让母亲和芳仪听不见对方的声音。高潮在芳仪与那批马的对话，就好像母亲和芳仪，希望对方能带上缰绳……另一方面也说明了东方文化对于女子的规训……无论是母亲还是芳仪，都在被藤条不断的敲打，成为“真正”一个女人成为一个母亲…
很喜欢。算是今年看过最好的华语电影之一。缺点和优点都很明显。但就情感表现得特别动人，离家的人应该都会懂。小女孩演得真好，林嘉欣也好。片尾曲居然是陈老师，成功让我坐到了最后~
孩子既“可憎”又可怜，母亲既无助又觉得她不适合做母亲... ... 都不容易。
与《瀑布》完全撞题，但绝对比《瀑布》好看。台湾的家庭片对现实生活的精准拿捏已经再次震撼到我，全片从一开始就爆发家庭内部的矛盾，大女儿的逆反与不成熟就是所有青少年的缩影，至少是我的。父亲的无意缺席失职，母亲的过度被害幻想。父母全程都是在以一种“牺牲”的姿态要挟成全别人，迫使女儿心生负罪感无力反击。但压抑久了，就会爆发。全片最无语的是小女儿竟然承担了救赎者的角色。。。
维瑟米尔也太可以了吧以及为啥杰洛特小时候是个光头啊喂！
@tiff中规中矩吧 确实是挑不出什么特别大的毛病 也挑不出特别大的优点。不过台湾drama的片子近年来太多 确实是很少有这种拍家庭的题材，但又基于少女的成长历程
以维瑟米尔为主角的前传故事，故事讲的虽然俗，但也算圆满。有些设定相对于原作，有些奇怪
挺奇观的，猎魔人和女巫之间的恩恩怨怨，魔法和血肉齐飞，很精彩！
太赶了，感觉是把一季的动画压缩到八十分钟。
这才是心中巫师的样子
完成度还不错，交代背景也挺齐全的，作为番外篇合格了
2021年的动画，感觉画面质量上、动作上都……不像21年出品的动画。扣分在此。
可能那时候真的没什么钱，但吃一包夹着辣条的干脆面就能开心一整天，爸妈也没有为了房子哀怨连连。
是不开心的压抑的琐碎的但竟然是高可看性的温暖的。饭桌上母女的争执的台词节奏、父女一起挑家具的调度运镜、母女大吵、女孩与马的互动戏、还有最后全家人松弛下来后的泪水，好多处理都让人觉得导演厉害
用了巫师世界观的大背景，原创和补完了维瑟米尔的故事，将人术士猎魔人怪物之间的关系都讲述到了，很完整，即使没有了解原著也可以看。
和原著设定出入太大，完全变成奈飞的猎魔人宇宙了
常見的青少年個人成長題材。整部片對於學校所呈現出來的控訴感是強烈的。同時也指出一個爭論不休的問題，社教化其中的家庭和學校責任那個更大？而這片最根本的戲劇衝突在於這個家庭的價值不同，目標不一致，而它實際落實到電影的行爲就是大量的吵架戲，無論是言語衝突還是到肢體衝突，但這種單一衝突的呈現方式實在過於重複，每次出現的内容幾乎都原地踏步，更甚到最後戲裡面的人物都得到釋放，但觀衆依然被這種戲所帶來的焦慮感所影響。導致到姐姐情緒釋放的時候已經變得很厭倦。（灣灣 06年新增教育基本法修正案— 零體罰政策，該片背景在03年）
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