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".
只有某地喜欢宏大叙事，灾难面前只有弱小又顽强的个体
导演很喜欢虚焦拍摄啊，都看不清楚朱迪的颜了。很喜欢朱迪的口音，真的可爱。本片狠狠地打了英国防疫一脸，求救那段真的是无助而崩溃的。 结尾仓促了些，和全片有些不搭。朱迪加油啊
20分钟长镜头让人难以喘息 对比出来🇨🇳真的很强大
中段长达20分钟的长镜头太过出色，描绘的却仅仅是疫情之下再简单、真实不过的场景，然而在我看来其压抑、惊悚的程度更甚于现如今一众恐怖片：凌晨三点半几乎只身一人的看护院之中，闪烁的走廊灯、肯尼急促的呼吸、不断转接中的电话，这一切构成了这全片最为绝望的一幕（有几个瞬间给我以很强烈的mgs v中亲手杀死母基地被感染士兵剧情的即视感）。同样朱迪-科默在这段惊艳的演技更是这一段最后也是最完美的一块拼图。可惜的是，第三幕带着托尼出逃看护院的情节实在脱节感过强，也抛弃了之前犹如无声呼救一般不断浮现help字样的空镜，而最后萨拉在警车中通过戏内的台词对着镜头外的英国政府进行批判、呵斥的一番发言，则显得编剧表达诉求与立场的欲望太过直接而直白。
泪流的片子，Jodie Comer演技爆棚。
你随便骂我就是不改可比你闭嘴我改恐怖多了。
＃帮Kenny翻身那段真的让我秒回2020年初，出个门要套得严严实实，口罩帽子，回来要把口罩扔掉，衣服特殊清理然后洗澡
Jodie Comer真是好演员呐，如果不是表姐球迷就好了😁
“从什么时候起，我们的生命不再平等了？”（看完不禁去xx医生改分，差不多题材或者主题有人在讲故事，以小见大，有人渲染过多，野心太大
英国抗疫影片，原来CCTV真的没骗我，欧美诸强看来被新冠折腾的够惨，难怪疫情越厉害，国力越强盛，晚舟都过万重山了！说回影片本身，完全的小制作独立影片，不过男女主这咖位都不小，朱迪科默的确演的非常传神，对得起这么多的赞誉，可是我格林汉姆哥哥表现的不好吗？挑战阿尔海默症，简直是绝了，完全忘记他曾经在大西洋帝国里叱咤江湖的大佬形象。个人认为本片有望也应该贴上龙标，拭目以待！
20220508 JC BAFTA三年两封
剧情有待完善，但方向是好的。起码敢问责啊！肯尼那一段看流泪了。还是爱朱迪演技。
没有什么歌颂题材的电影能成为好电影，但是控诉的题材，一般都不错。
敢于直面政府的利物浦 牛！PS：那段长镜头太棒了 感觉身临其境
同样的题材 高下立见…不敢多说 btw我是真见不得Jodie哭
Stephen和Jodie都演得太可以了！！一个眼神就让你心碎的咔咔的 Sarah一个人半夜走廊来来回回忙活 从无助到崩溃的那段 灯光、声音和镜头都掌握得太好了 感觉自己也在经历她的心情 嘤嘤嘤 暴风哭泣
中间20多分钟的“长镜头”，感觉观众就在跟前，摇晃的镜头太过真实，身临其境，紧张压抑的空间感和病情的急迫，让人窒息的爽，最后不忘骂骂帝国，也是欧洲一惯的套路，的确在疫情防控物资医疗如此匮乏，处置措施太tm操蛋的大环境下，骂一骂也是正常人的宣泄方式。
出乎意料地拍出了那些只流传在网上的，我们所有人曾经在面对新冠时所处的困难境地：物资短缺，只能把垃圾袋当做防护服；医疗资源匮乏，病人躺在床上等死，以及最令人心碎的无依无靠和被抛弃的感觉。有个值得玩味的镜头：护理院的管理人得到了一批从中国来的非常可靠的防疫物资，可能那时候中国已经度过了物资短缺的时期，而英国仍然处在捉襟见肘的状态中。我在生活中遇到了很多防控疫情过犹不及的情况，可我一直认为，什么都不如人命重要。
新冠疫情袭击之下，护理院成为重灾区，成为被遗忘的角落，萨拉想救下一个人，可她的行为给自己带来麻烦。当疫情泛滥时，最悲催的是医疗资源不敷使用，你眼睁睁看着患者死去，或者，亲友眼睁睁看着你死去。
1.电影并不是抗疫的主题，新冠只是背景，表现的还是人。
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