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".
伪纪录片形式有点意思，常见的恐怖元素都有，除了几个画面恐怖又恶心，别的就还好。然后本来以为跟影评区提到的真实事件有关，结果没看出来有什么关系。女主一堆蠢操作害死好几个人，亲妈当的还不如寄养的爸。祝福是诅咒，爱也是诅咒。看完觉得晦气，因为觉得封建迷信晦气，也说明电影完成度是不错。再说了，本身就是邪教那套了，我唯物主义者怎么可能让盯着看就看，让跟着念就念，让拜拜就跟着拜拜…总之，邪教害人！
6.0/10。两男一女组成视频博主团队去邪教仪式的禁地录制所见所闻，结果两男主和女主的父母全部死于非命，女主也因此精神失常。后来则是一个温情（？）的亲情故事：女主为了女儿开始打起精神，四处找人试图解开她和女儿身上的诅咒，最终结局算是开放式（？）。影片是典型的伪纪录片（第一人称手持、伪自我纪录、伪访谈、手机竖屏录制、监控录像、空间上的突兀跳跃等）式恐怖片。总体来说虽不能说不恐怖但恐怖效果中规中矩（而且集中在后段，前段甚至昏昏欲睡）。结尾扣一星（要是恐怖也就算了，现在不怎么恐怖还咒观众出事，只觉得晦气）。
很多人都因为被晦气到了所以打了低分，其实被晦气到了也就是被吓到了吧，那么恐怖片也就算成功了。民俗宗教元素串恐怖片真的很有代入感。里面有经典元素让我觉得蛮酷。招魂、驱魔人有多少分，这部电影就该多少分、甚至更高一些。
如果全片都像预告片形式还是很不错的。空洞。与爱玲。
本来冲这个降头减一星，但是看到那么多只打一星的，我就给个五星了:)
还真是个伪伪纪录片，但凡信仰的设定没那么大杂烩，吓人的程度都能翻几番。
这电影看得人真是觉得晦气，俨然就是一个不转发就倒霉的老梗，非得弄出那么多噱头，为导演的阴暗心理扣星。
有模仿清水崇的xx村系列吧，保持观望第二部，吓是真没被吓到，抖机灵的核心梗也无感。
全程伪纪录片的形式有点刻意，不如部分纪录片、部分上帝视角，那样可能会更自然，但邪神崇拜的部分太邪性了，非常好！诅咒观众的部分真没什么，这届观众太不行了。
对原型的家庭分崩戏期待值过高 结果拍出来依旧比中邪高明不到哪去 虫子符咒鬼上身 与观众联动等恐怖元素的堆叠也并无新意 时间线混乱 亲情的文戏拖沓又俗套 厌烦的情绪冲淡了恐怖观感 对不起导演我看的盗版又差评不要诅咒我
一般般，无聊的封建迷信，也没什么恐怖吓人的地方，不合我口味。女主有点 刘若英+ 海清 的感觉。
民俗部分还行
久久不能平静的电影 全程手持第一视角镜头和女主与镜头外观众的对话让人不断深陷剧情之中 重复的符号和咒语镜头不断地给观众留下心理暗示 最后一口气揭秘加反转女主诅咒观众揭开大黑佛母的面纱那空洞深邃诡异的脸简直太生理不适了
中间撩头发的做法女突然冲过来那里最吓人！吓得我把手机摔了！呜呜呜，一定要和别人一起看恐怖电影，分担不幸hhhh
通讯录观赏该片be like ：刘若英？这个爸爸我可以！俗套啦…男二我也可…好吓人…啊啊…就这？
满心欢喜看一部电影，却好像吃了一只苍蝇，晦气。
啥啊……伪装纪录片你倒是设计好啊，那有的地方根本就没有摄像头，那画面哪来的，漏洞百出。而且这句话本来就是闽南语，自己听不懂去找一个云南的和尚来解释？？其他都是恐怖片常规套路啊，必备作死三件套，不管多危险小孩一定没人看，不管多恐怖，SB一定要探洞，渲染了半天，最后看一个挖空的紫水晶洞再配点尖叫……
女主是六年前就被佛母看上了吧？所以她身边的人都死了，是她故意把诅咒分享出去救自己？直到没啥人能分享了，于是想起把女儿接回来，拍视频剪辑给网友，欺骗大家是为了救女儿，利用大家的同情心祝福女儿，其实是在骗大家分享诅咒。然而她发现自己慢慢爱上女儿了，而且佛母开始放弃她，盯上她女儿了，所以她才要去献祭自己释放佛母救女儿？
整体吓人程度做得蛮不错的 最后的佛母像揭露有够震撼
看了一个评论笑死，看盗版的你 还想得到正版的诅咒，想什么美事呢 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
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