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".
不是溅一脸血就悲壮了，也不是念几句咒就神秘了。看剧照还以为是什么史诗级大片，结果就是在村子里玩玩狼人杀还有跟斯巴达一样卖卖肉🤦♂️（看Anya在船上独白忍不住笑出声）
未来的人们身体长出器官，切割时没有痛感，有快感。
还是更喜欢钛。作为被柯南伯格启蒙过“新身体新人类”的自来水看到汗毛林林的个人风格再现时还是要倒吸一口冷气！
人类未来新的做爱方式是手术，切肤后用金属摩擦骨头可以获得高潮somehow感到很靠谱。 （这一星砸在KS身上，不明白这种演技为什么还能接到片邀）
故事母题其实还是在讽刺吧，像前两作一样，用民俗传说的忠实纪录去讽刺传统良俗，毕竟最后确实也没有在认同主角这个人物所做的任何事情哇，甚至安雅在船上镜头一切无力回天的时候真的会笑喷。那具体来说，可能大众失望的原因还是“太符合期望”，like妮可基德曼在这片子里演的还是老公死了好出门的○○，雀食是看下cast和故事简介就能大致想象出来的简单剧本。但总之作为罗伯特艾格斯的初商业作，其实把控的已经算不错了，这种画面和质感也不是只靠预算就能堆出来的(详情请阅隔壁花两个半小时才拍了个序章的太空歌剧版哈姆雷特)，而在一直高水准的画面质感下，偶现些让人印象深刻的镜头，而且氛围一直也控制得蛮好，已经很不错了。千言万语化作想看大银幕的心声，妈的怎么还没看过一场罗伯特艾格斯的大银幕，希望有机会555。4.5归4。
跟《女巫》和《灯塔》比，导演又进步了许多，视觉文本陌生感很强，情节简单。同样的语境，进入东北腹地就是我想拍的感觉。
有些失望，最期待的生命政治的故事线，顶多算冒了个泡。整个故事浸没在晦涩艰深的低语中，以一个艺术家的先锋尝试，去找寻new sex。艺术的先锋，社会语境的割裂，器官的崇高感使得电影脱离了body horror的经典表达。他似乎走到了《钛》之后的那部，已经试图在政治 神秘的窄缝里，但就如莫滕森死神一般的装束里柯南伯格依然是悲观的，这条后人类的新路，有了声响却再度落入概念的窠臼
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大型Rammstein mv，岩浆上打架，不占个高地是什么样的后果已无需多言
在商业片里保留个人气质（黑白摄影、像祷告版的台词等）是吃力不讨好的事情，不过整体呈现出来还是比较迷人的：那种中世纪的邪典暗黑、像寓言一般的火口对决，再加上导演挚爱的神话改编，配上无与伦比的北欧自然风光，再加上一点影迷热爱的长镜头运镜，如果时长再短半小时就更完美了。
实不相瞒 觉得很好看！充满阳刚 野性 原始和神秘气息。晦涩又让人欲罢不能。这才叫电影 比隔壁那个妈的多元宇宙好看太多！艺术造诣高下立见啊！
以为是一部粗戾狠辣的黑暗史诗 结果是一场印象·北欧？
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视听质感棒，画面内容丰富，几处长镜头厉害，个别画面有设计感，北欧文化和传说加的也算贴切，但北欧的壳，英戏的核，剧情一般般是对艾格斯而言，缺少女巫的惊喜，也少灯塔的癫狂，其实有在消解主人公的正义性，但看起来还是文明了些
看完有几个迷惑，第一个是这个片的成本为什么高达7000万？钱花哪里去了，看着还没有1000多万成本的绿衣骑士贵。第二是Eggers的灵气都去哪里了？前作里面大胆cult的元素和引人入胜的叙事都去哪里了，这个片里我看到的只是束手束脚和敷衍了事。PS，片长也有点太长，没有充沛的感情和充足的动机来支撑，显得片子又长又空洞。
影像是真的美轮美奂，王子复仇记拍的一点都不燃…大爱北欧风，可惜剧情实在平淡
最后一幕柯南伯格说圣女贞德 而我又看到了拉奥孔 只不过是能消化毒液的拉奥孔 对于超越人类肉体的人类而言 痛与不痛 喜悦与悲伤 外在与内在都是混沌而陌生的 （蕾真的性感到流泪 虽说整体观影感受是期待了个寂寞 美学到位却缺少彼此间的连接
月夜下的驰骋、火光中的交战，在视觉上依然出色，并全然着迷于它所构建的世界；那里只有无尽的杀戮，也同样寄予遥望着信仰。无论是与《麦克白的悲剧》还是《绿衣骑士》比照（用经典、寓言装点这类），它都可能拥有更简单直白的讯息，并书写着它对所谓“史诗”和维京年代的理解。从《灯塔》和萝卜，再到Alexander Skarsgård与这里，或许演员们需要Robert Eggers，来激发他们的能量和另重鲜见的趣味。【《灯塔》后期望A24推画册剧本，这里是希望有设定集】
为什么我看的像个半成品？？？打算出系列电影？
這部電影故事的難看程度就像亞歷山大下降的顏值一樣，個別鏡頭還不錯
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