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".
彼得萨斯加德还有意大利那个女演员怎么老成这样了？！震惊。。
2022年5月5日，GV Suntec。 音乐好听，剧情不太投入，我还是很困😭 现在工作日不适合看电影
半个月的下载没白废,悲壮的黑帮少年题材电影,写实的程度让人揪心
5/5 @ Golden Village Suntec City
全程担心女主会被打。女导演的切入真诚又尖锐，将不讨巧的人物设计置于镜头下 - 以the lost daughter讲述出走的母亲。
剧本不错，音乐铺的太“过”，回忆和现实的两层空间转场等用的中规中矩。“削果皮”是和孩子情感的链接，这是作者私人化的原创标识，是她个体情感的记忆；玩具娃娃道具作为叙事支点用的也好，女人在事业和孩子之间的两难选择也没有过分说教，只是呈现了不同于多数人选择的另一个视点。
我看完觉得跟《驾驶我的车》正好对应，一个西方一个东方，一个女性一个男性，一个文学一个戏剧，最后都跟自己和解。话说终于在片里认出了一堆熟人，还有女主的几件浴衣好看的。
美国中产知识分子反思“自我”和“母职”矛盾的故事，切入点很西方，这在中国大多数女性思维里是不存在的问题。电影用平行叙述的方式展开，散落了很多潜意识的碎片剪辑，奥利维娅·科尔曼表演的不错，是一部真实且话题严肃的电影。不过越真实越显得过于像日式的“私小说”，对有触动的人效果增幅，对深处电影话题探讨外的局外人观众很可能无感。三星半。
扣曼演得实在太好了，浑然天成，毫无表演痕迹。
D / 既封闭又自我的电影，很不喜欢，能把手持特写电影拍的这么无法靠近人物，导演水平也是够差的。
今年份恐婚恐育！原来原著作者是Elena Ferrante。题外话，我一直无法判断这个故事发生在哪里，不知道为什么这一点始终非常让我出戏，包括里面每个人说话的不同口音。
# 78 Venezia # 能把这么多戏精放一起然后呈现出如此平凡无奇的效果也算是导演的一大功力所在，神了！
上周五看《从零开始的女性主义》提到托儿所不是所有婴儿都能入托，周六下午去一个残障女性职业展去听重症肌无力女性的生育，晚上去看《暗处的女儿》。不同的女性，相同的生育。但这么多活动下来还是想说，求求你们，别生了，没有生育，就没有伤害。
削不断的果皮，烂不了的情。Maggie 从《堕落街传奇》里的戏中戏过渡到这部真正的处女作还挺得心应手，用娃娃肚子里的惊悚悬疑积液重新激活了 “遇到曾经自己平行情感” 的这种异样的陈旧题材，玩儿的好。
总结，不婚不育不仅保平安更保幸福
“雨很大，像天在哭，雨一直下，像我的悲哀，好朋友要走了，留下我一个人。”两位主角，谭志刚在拍摄完后不久便在车祸中丧生，而颜正国，后来也因为各种罪名入狱，少年吔，安啦！罗大佑和林强太帅。
意不在说教 重在呈现 度把握的刚好 视听拉满 全员尤其是老小leda演技在线 处女作拍的既自如又到位
海滩上的年轻母亲 潜意识里丢失的女儿 主动遗弃或被动丢失的布娃娃 镜像关系里外 女性群像的切肤之痛 对女性来说 或许母亲身份本身就是一部分自我的丢弃
“成为母亲我很后悔”这句离经叛道的话为主轴，刻画了一位母亲的曾经现在的内心纠结洒脱和一世的折磨。好角度好故事好人物好刻画。玛吉非常敏感细腻，电影完全展现了。科尔曼的表演甚至比宠儿还好。
# 78 Venezia # 能把这么多戏精放一起然后呈现出如此平凡无奇的效果也算是导演的一大功力所在，神了！
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