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".
墨迹了一个半小时就为了电光火石间捅出一刀，敢这么拍类型片，有魄力
原来是个深柜故事，卷福冷酷的外表下其实是个情种来着
在工整中偶尔展现细腻，犹如一个粗犷的西部牛仔在那个年代偶尔会表露细微的“禁忌”情感。
剧本，画面，镜头都过于精巧工整了。所有的符号线索都留到刚好让你留意和看懂的地步。绝对适合观赏学习，但是缺少一些直指人心令人沉醉的生命力。
这应该算得上是完美犯罪了，影片的细节很好，最后一刻死者出现的时候，前面的所有细节一下子涌上来，有点后知后觉的明白了一切。两边的角度，各有各的可怜，也各有各的可恨。
太失望了。无可挑剔的画面，无聊的故事，只有音乐让螺丝拧紧。不懂为什么要分段。
扣0.5🌟配乐暗示性太强了，喧宾夺主，扣0.5🌟本尼的演技，其实也不是差，和DDL比差一点点，其他都还好
没看过坎皮恩 但跟我想的完全一样
好几处摄影和片段简直不能再美了~
很工整不难看 剧情舒缓有冲突点也还蛮吸引人看下去 而且视听非常不错 很多画面一看就是大导演的手笔 就是2022年了 还在看深柜的故事 对于我来说太没有什么意思了
影片中的所有人都是父权制度下的囚徒。男权统治的权力关系，造就了压迫的双重结构——对女性的压迫（厌女），以及对有女性化倾向的男性的压迫（恐同）。“有毒的男性气质”（牛仔制服、凶暴桀骜、邋遢粗俗）是菲尔在深柜中挣扎和对抗禁忌欲望的铠甲，带着自欺欺人的表演性质。而彼得“我会变成什么样的人”（恋母弑父）的问题，则隐藏在电影中的每一个事件、每一个场景、每一个角色背后，直到坎皮恩不动声色地为我们找到答案——她在语焉不详但充满触感的特写镜头中收集着证据，并伴随着格林伍德编曲的黑暗和声，彻底将它揭露出来，疏离且悲凉。
他过于刻意地表现那些社会标准下约定俗成的男性气质了，真的太刻意了。因为找到了彼此而觉得不孤单，很喜欢这个农场主老二和饭店女老板之间的感情。小男主很有意思，他是属于真正强大坚定的人，真正强大坚定的人不会在意自己的形象是强大的还是弱小的，心狠不需要用外表证明，行为就足够。这个谋杀太漂亮了，或许男主是心甘情愿地死的呢，或许他已经厌倦了这样活着但又没法停止这样活下去。非常喜欢小男主。
我从未见过男主角这样傲慢无礼之人。电影开场10分钟，到了餐馆那场戏，他吼那个琴师我是真的忍无可忍了，实在看不下去，直接关了。
新西兰拍的电影是不是就没有外景不好看的 文火慢炖的剧情配合恰到好处的bgm 最后再给你致命一刀 导演这功力不服不行
年度最佳。不自禁地和CMBYN相比，窃以为这片更加克制和隽永。视角不仅来自于一方，更来自于两个看似无交叉却终将交融的维度。很多角度都非常学院派，会是奥斯卡的大热。
很久没看过后劲这么大的好片了——越咂摸越有味道，简直回味无穷。好电影都有有一种魅力，那就是让你看完还想再看，《犬之力》就是这样的电影。
暗藏晦涩的情愫与谋杀，压抑收敛的精妙表达。多处心理描写细节回想才能发觉，人物特征没有表面上看的简单，后劲足。
与其说影片讲了个复仇故事，不如说是一个弑父故事。且这里的“父”并不是一个典型的男权形象，正相反，他恰恰是个备受压抑，乃至于要通过扮演一个强悍直男来协调认知失衡以完成自我保护的角色。这也让“弑父”的动作具备了更浓的悲剧色彩。
在看前一个小时的观众，怎么也不会想到后一个小时他们看的是这个东西
导演真的太克制太含蓄了，又是同性又是谋杀的，换别人拍分分钟给你拍成爽片，但我们的导演愣是连个拥抱亲嘴都不给你看lol
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