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".
与《让娜迪尔曼》形成互文，无时无刻都笼罩着可预见的未来里的痛苦与重复，年度最恐怖之作。
“总有一天我会要个孩子的，但不是以我整个人生为代价，那样的话我会恨那个孩子一辈子的，我可能永远都不会爱他" 看的一身冷汗，这是一种沉浸式的、彻头彻尾撕心裂肺的疼痛，最后一刻我仿佛也跟着女主角一起晕了过去，但最可怕的是这也许也是我们的未来，所以这样的片子很重要，很重要
镜头贴的这么近，也许是为女性观众提供了代入感，但男性观众看起来会非常微妙，也许用第一人称视角会好一些。
一时的爽，换来无尽的痛苦，但这难道是应该一个人承担的么？！
当下的人们又有谁在牺牲和落泪，仍该叩问，仍该抗争。
几年来欧美各大电影奖项快被女权题材攻陷，这里面的确大都是佳作，然而总吃一道菜也未免腻歪，政治正确也得容人们喘口气吧。
她知道自己有一天会有孩子，但也确定不能以自己的人生为代价，还是女性能否为自己的身体自己的子宫做主的问题。有些纪实画面让人观看都感觉到疼。
“有一天我会要个孩子的，但不是以我的整个人生为代价。”
与NRSA相似的浅焦+特写 角色都处于长焦镜头下逼仄的空间之中 但相比之下Hittman镜头下的空间更加开放 有着存在感更强烈的环境背景和城市空间 而这部则几乎完全局限于角色的平面 面孔与面孔周围 情绪封闭在4:3的方块之中 而观看则是一个沉浸并共情的过程 性别的障碍被打破 HER pain 同时这种手法也抽离了时代背景 聚光灯打在角色一人身上 背后的布景处于阴影之中 尽管设定于上世纪的法国 但她也完全可以身处于任何一个年代 任何一处地方 而这一切也可以是“正发生” 而非仅仅停留在“发生过” 比NRSA更狭隘的空间也是因为Anne的处境相比Autumn来说更加的无助 相比整个国家法律的禁止 travel to NY似乎还是个简单的方式 我们永远需要这样的female voice
“有一天我会要个孩子的，但不是以我的整个人生为代价。”
{★★★} 比《432》逊色。但从什么时候开始《432》变成了一种标准？因为两者阐述的是不同的视角，相较更聪明也更凝练的旁观视角，这部电影的个人视角强调的是代入与共感。我毫不奇怪女观众比男观众更能理解它的优秀，但疼痛之外，她所遭受的冷漠与排斥必是与我们所有人相通的。
子宫是属于女人的专利，而生育权却不属于女人！
（以及，share一下，关于我要去一个堕胎是不合法的州学女性和性别研究这件事..）
我感到羞愧，但欲望比羞愧更强烈。这或许是很多年轻男女的内心读白吧。
还是法国电影更能让人沉浸，踏踏实实地讲故事，不贩卖焦虑，只是呈现，思考留给观众自己。
helpless，整个电影都揪着心，疼痛通过屏幕传导，必须捍卫堕胎权
好几个画面不敢直视，结尾很理想化，就像她坐在课堂里一场未来美梦。女性拥有子宫，在同为性上，男性隐身，只把证据留在了女性身上，为他们不遭同样舆论，便索性割开关系，说女子不洁，不贞，自己仿佛是受害者，是被女子的样貌诱惑了。这多可笑，又多现实的疼痛。
同类题材的看过《四月三周两天》，宗教的力量，社会议论的力量，各种交错在一起，现实中的女主承受的更多，电影里无法全部展现。上个世纪六十年代，这样的故事放在中国感觉能成立，没想到，西方国家也是这个德性，也可能更厉害。
禁止堕胎就是人间酷刑，肯定是男性发明的，因为其无法设身处地体会女性心境。像是《从不》的姐妹篇，但Anne显然更孤立无援，但坚定在她脸上仿佛一刻也未消失过
真的好无聊啊 后半段还可以 全片感觉非常陈腐 完全不像是和Titane同一年拍出来的片子
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