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".
看之前除了知道是雷导作品之外一无所知，看完之后真的非常惊喜。雷导再加“本马达”编剧真就是质量保证。好一出借古讽今。一个男人声称爱上了一个和他同样爱好文学的人（且深信对方也爱自己），然而他找到她之后的第一件事却只是脱掉裤子强奸她（而且还秒射…fxxking kidding me？）；甚至他到临死前都还对上帝发誓那是两情相悦而非强奸。然而其他的男人甚至女人甚至整个社会都和他并没有什么本质的不同，虚伪而冷漠。
画面打斗好精彩，虽说剧本不爆炸，但是燃就完事了啊
审美的独特性毋庸置疑，但还是形式远远大于内容了。
影影綽綽，拿民俗文化做皮，以私人記憶為軸，雲霧環繞間，溫和卻又銳利地，勾勒出活在口傳和記憶中的近代中國史，和屬於導演自身的生涯自畫像。從開場一直shock到結尾，數次懷淚，卻又總落不下來，真的又好又有趣，就蠻難想象這樣的作品除了滿分還能打幾分，真的值得被所有人看見。
非常幸运能在大银幕看到这部片子/当中国近代史的洪流穿过邱福的身体 溅出的是一代艺术家的绝唱
一部深刻厚重的暗黑童话，电影语言独树一帜。
在纽约看的大银幕，之前铺垫有点冗长，中后段渐入佳境
本来看了卡司（主要是 Jodie Comer）和题材（中世纪 me too）就觉得只要不糊就谢天谢地了，结果居然这么完美。三段式 POV 式叙事把控得丝毫不无聊，刻意强调的不同视角把情绪与诉求表达得恰到好处，尤其是前两段的男性视角和第三段稍有些慢热的女性视角相辅相成自然地带入让人咬牙切齿又拍案叫绝。更何况中世纪末期神权重压下马上要喘息的人性时代的各个仪式、道具和伪善都表现得非常到位。pandemic 来首次回归 AMC 这万年老粉的陈年 reward 换的观影体验太值了。
在釜山电影节上看的，以为会是四川同乡会，没想到有好多韩国人。四川方言➕韩英字幕➕第一排的我，内战开始时候睡着了，文革时期醒的，谢谢电影清晰的时间线。
EP.11-14 《鼓屋敷篇》
《痴》是在讲他人，《椒麻堂会》讲的是自己的祖辈，是在写一种影像家史。是在有限的空间里，无限的想象力，重生到毁灭，两条叙事线的自然切换，人生如戏，舞台依旧。
没有原版好 该用心的地方还是很用心的该燃的地方也挺燃的
第一次坐在电影院看这么长的电影。简单的舞台剧布景形式下能够将典型的时代特征和发展脉络叙述完整，真挺不容易的。
补个分，看这段的时候真的有股很强的即视感，在外务工的丈夫跟家里断了联系，背着孩子的妻子去城中寻找丈夫，却发现丈夫已经另组家庭。
用手工作坊的棚拍形式来讲述一段正在被遗忘的历史，影像极富创造力（划破天空极为惊艳），在轻巧、荒诞和幽默中包裹着命运的时代悲剧，亦能映照至当下的现实。按照去年洛迦诺主竞赛的整体水平来看，其实拿金豹也是可以的。
一个看完会百味杂陈的电影，一个让人反复揣摩咀嚼的佳作，顿时说不出话来，感觉我要好好消化这个故事，他竟然是真人真事改编的，哇偶，太厉害了，太棒了
审美的独特性毋庸置疑，但还是形式远远大于内容了。
前两段的铺垫，把最后面的决斗弄得我血脉膨胀，想把司机弄死的情绪非常强烈。在最后一段真相中，导演似乎在诉说着，女性即使在自己面对着侮辱还坚强着自己的控诉，发出自己的声音，即使可能面对自己的生命危险。然而到最后的胜利，也只是把胜利的果实交给了男性，而女性只是男性的附属品，所以最后女主也只不过在这一片欢呼声中，无法寻得正义胜利的快乐。
昨天在影院看完，三个视角 故事情节层层铺垫，并在最后一章达到高潮，历史书没有给勇敢的玛格丽特发声的机会，人们只会为决斗胜利的男性欢呼 却不会关心真正受到伤害的女性。在这里我们可以看到一位善良 可爱 勇敢的女性，为玛格丽特鼓掌👏🏻
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