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".
精湛的恐男电影，所有男的在剧中，结尾都变成了同一个人，最终变成女主死去的丈夫，父权绑架女性，控制女性，究竟要到何种程度才可以停止？谁也不知道，于是有了这部电影。
期待一部women 但应该没有人会拍因为没有消费者 什么思想到头来不都是生意（。）
奇观电影。整体是女人被男性折磨的故事，总结来说男人真就一个样
这部电影为当下中国性别暴力事件中男人的困惑做了一个太好的解答，为什么作为个体的男人没有实施犯罪，却需要“承担”所谓的无法从all men中豁免的“代价”。和《隐形人》互为补充，一个说的是everywhere，一个说的是everyone。自体繁殖的意象很生猛。结尾那个怀孕女人是想说什么，一种割席对立还是同盟还是悲剧循环？
不吹不黑不知道什么男拳女拳只讲自己的理解。在追求心仪的异性时我作为一个男人确实会降智（女同志会不会这样我不知道我觉得也会有一些吧），典型的表现就是自己作，特别在青少年时期（也有个说法叫无病呻吟）把自己搞得很惨的样子，打架破个头啊，割个腕啊，离个家啊，喝烂醉躺大街上啊，然后还最好不是自己说的，是碰巧被她知道或看到了。然后对她说，你看我都是因为你，都是因为爱你才变成这样，这说明我是多么的爱你，我都这么爱你了，你该感动了吧？该能爱上我了吧？你要是不爱上我你就要背负”你让一个爱上你的我变得这么惨“的道德审判。
人体奇观大赏，代代相传的恐惧，生而为男，请你抱歉。PS：男男生子文可代（bushi。
气质太独特了，画面和氛围也是真是好到想骂人，还创造了或许是今年最好的恐怖片段。
一开始乡下绿色景象太美了，再配上女主的啊啊啊啊！
前半部分气氛控制了特别好，虽然看的一知半解，但是对于男女性别之间的解读还是比较清楚的。导演是一个非常热爱自然的人，好感度up！
喜欢这个故事…………… 透露着一股绝望又残忍的诗意
对于女性来说，这就是一部真正的现实主义恐怖片。
不愧是《机械姬》的导演，没有让人失望，期待A24更多佳作。
感觉这部电影只有意向跟不错的摄影，完全没有故事，最多有个人物小传设定罢了。根本就没好好讲故事。还好电影比较短，要不三星都不想给。
①宗教，上帝造人伊始，造完亚当之后，抽了亚当的一根肋骨造了夏娃，在宗教里，女人就是男人的骨中骨，肉中肉，整个宗教系统都是歪的，所以女主不能在这儿获得救赎，神父那咸猪手也说明了问题，还有那个男女图腾雕像
像是Kaufman的劇情，再配Garland的美學，太拼貼了🤯
前二十分钟吓趴了，每当这种时候就想抓几个胆子小的女性朋友跟我一起看。。。
丈夫房东裸男儿童牧师警察 连环孕育分娩时刻：跳楼被扎穿的胳膊和摔断的腿，都是死去的丈夫 拿起斧子
男主演员选的好好，长相很普通 可以变成任何角色 直到小男孩和神父那里我才看出来…里面所有的恐惧都是最最真实的女性日常面对的恐惧 结尾高潮部分非常精彩
如果看之前知道是机械姬的导演，我大概不会打开了。
A24真是打情色擦边球和拍心理惊悚的邪典热衷者，这部不论细节，主旨隐喻很容易看出来，因此诡异程度没那么深，部分场景确实观感极度不适，各种部位生出下一个男人真是恶心至极，但男人生孩子真是期待一波～
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