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".
Hard to get in at first, but not long after you'll realize it's still the 90s classic body horror Cronenberg, which not just those weird biomechanic machines, but the conflict, rebellion, evolution, so on and so forth. It's definitely the most sexualized Cronenberg movie. Everyone in the film is so obnoxious, but ultra seductive, except the black dude. WTF is that acting? Is that a joke?
“手术即性”的概念确实够cult，也够吸引眼球，但是电影本身剧情乏善可陈。在喋喋不休的对话和概念解释之外，唯一亮点在于蕾雅·赛饰演的女助理与维果·莫腾森饰演的行为艺术家之间的手术过程展示。
当没有痛苦的伤害变成表演，手术的过程变成做爱，我们的生活还剩下什么？
走向未来？想多了，脑壳给你开两个洞
不太行，并不晦涩，但是执行没法还原或者说有效的表达好概念，最后变成流于假鬼假怪的自嗨。但是小K终于有演技了，表现还不错。看艺术片比较容易遇到的尴尬就是有佳句无佳章，也没有能控制观众情绪的能力，顶多属于一个桥段，或者是单纯为概念设计一个场景。但从文本变成视觉，变成电影，就需要很多东西才行，光靠演员玩先锋，硬造留白可不行。你说我要给概念打高分，就没啥意义了，毕竟拍的是电影。各演各的在这部片子里非常明显，简直是尴尬教科书。
organ——orgasm——origin
行，哪天要是写身体与权力的论文，肯定先考虑这一部。you can be open with me（物理）。除了不适合吃饭时看之外，不得不感叹柯南伯格真会拍v叔，以及，男主其实叫“sore tenser”诶。
在硬盘里放了一周才看的。讲的其实就还是那么一回事吧，没什么太新的地方，主题并不“未来”，所谓异化云云还是停留在官能层面，边缘群体等元素的设定全面而不深入，导致全片整体上流于形式，符号化明显。
在硬盘里放了一周才看的。讲的其实就还是那么一回事吧，没什么太新的地方，主题并不“未来”，所谓异化云云还是停留在官能层面，边缘群体等元素的设定全面而不深入，导致全片整体上流于形式，符号化明显。
这样的艺术何尝不是另外一种会被批判的艺术，也许这种艺术对现在的人类来说还为时尚早吧。这样的片子看一遍都是痛苦和煎熬，完全没兴趣去细细品味。
有人说，牛比导演的老年作品都是可怕的自恋呓语，还真是这么一回事。
演员的演技倒是不差，但是这个剧本这个摄制这些个道具，及其呈现出来的恶心的东西，我认为只有恶趣味才能喜欢
从来没有电影能把手术拍的如此性感，刀刃切割肌肤的禁忌恐惧与新奇的诱惑的体验是如此的迷人，柯南伯格的节奏感一向是大问题，在这里选择弱化情节，专注于迷人的动作与姿态还是很有效的，所以类似于圣女贞德的画面就显得如此自洽，充满了古希腊雕塑般的美感。
除了看不懂，还让人很不舒服。密集恐惧症的那种不舒服，对自己身体里是否有个不正确器官的不舒服。
当人类失去痛觉会怎么样？想起小时候撞破头打了麻药缝针，冰凉的金属在皮肤和组织间穿梭的感觉，new sex也就不难理解了。现阶段人类是无法完全掌控身体的，我们只能控制食物 睡眠 运动，然后期许身体的反馈。或许未来能操控器官，改造身体，anyway自然和人造都有其美妙之处。ps. 蕾老师美哭了
6.4分左右。
是我的艺术鉴赏力不够了 55555我的两个老婆同框了 蕾老师英语进步好大
同样是body horror 这部没有钛那么引起不适 可能是因为surgery is the new sex的理念 所有血淋淋的手术场面都充满了x张力 这不是在切割器官 这是在doi 这是艺术 这是人类思想与审美的前沿 当然这与Viggo和蕾老师的精彩表演有很大的关系 两人在里面so hot
“手术即性”的概念确实够cult，也够吸引眼球，但是电影本身剧情乏善可陈。在喋喋不休的对话和概念解释之外，唯一亮点在于蕾雅·赛饰演的女助理与维果·莫腾森饰演的行为艺术家之间的手术过程展示。
真变态，这样的人类，能消失吗？他们存在的意义是什么啊，恶心。没了痛感，不会感染，然后还有人长的一身耳朵，拿做手术，摘除自己身体里长的其他新增的器官，就和做爱一样享受了，靠，，，身体上的各种伤口就是他们的新的性器官，这，，所以，最终想说的是，人类通过改造自己的身体，有了吃塑料的能力，然后还遗传给了自己的下一代，成了天生能吃塑料的人，这是好事呀，让这样的人类多些，去消化地球消化不了的垃圾吧。还有一个部门专门打击这样的变异人，叫新罪行部。电影看不懂，不过给的不少，女主的胸真不小呀，还有那两个到处杀人的新器官的女的，也迫不及待的脱光光躺到那个解剖仪器上。不过没看到那个注册部的小女人露，有点遗憾。男主坐在奇怪的椅子上，吃不下食物，最后开始尝试塑料食物，他吞咽困难的毛病消失了，露出了满意的笑容，，，
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