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".
每次一想到女主那么害怕还不忘举着摄像头我就好出戏啊，不能吃喝只是说不能从嘴入对吧，那不能注射葡萄糖吗都自己扎了🤣
从小人的视角看疫情下的一切。不能和中国医生比，本质上要体现的也不同。但小人物的个人情怀更容易引起共鸣。
谁说看正版的才算英雄
但评论我真的很迷，大陆电影观众原来已经退化到这个程度了：一个虚构恐怖片的吓人创意点居然能被批判“晦气”…这种人也就配看《雷锋的故事》接受正能量的熏陶了。
哪怕没有这些傻逼我依然给满分，因为这是华语恐怖电影，中国的鬼片真的看一部少一部了
导演一定是在致敬空手指和莲蓬乳。。。虽然早就猜到那个咒语是诅咒，但是看到最后还是挺心酸的，要是能让小孩诅咒减轻，其实也挺愿意帮他分担。。。。。个屁啊，要怪就怪你爸妈作大死
本来还以为结尾肯定又是人在装神弄鬼，但本片做了暧昧的处理，没有把鬼神元素给否决掉。这在国产恐怖片中是非常难得的。
不要盯着那些经文看!
算是恐怖片里还算不错的吧，但能不能不要再伪纪录片了…一回新二回旧三回四回老掉牙了都。
护理院的视角，护工与住户，疫情中被忽视掉的群体。反思或者说直视那些疫情中那些悲剧。我标记了很久，但恰好在这个时间点看，别有感受。另外，我们大概永远拍不出或者不能拍这种东西。
所以打低分的能找出除了《僵尸》之外，十五年内比《咒》更好的国语恐怖片吗？找不出来就闭嘴少狗叫，何况对氛围型电影而言，影院和电视屏幕的观影体验本就天差地别，这也是为什么惊悚题材容易成黑马，《咒》完成度相当高，如果这不能算作优秀的院线电影，其他恐怖片就该直接埋了。少诋毁其他中文地区的影视作品吧，那并不会让我们凭空诞生好电影。
我真的好惊！看完头痛脖子痛，现在就想抹掉关于这部片的记忆。纠结视角和伪纪录的形式很可笑，这就是女主搜集到一切视角的素材，并剪辑而成，放给所有观众观看，并让所有观众分担诅咒的长视频啊！打破第四面墙可不仅仅存在于影片内部哦。她连佛母的脸都敢掀开，剪个片子帮佛母增加供奉也是小事一桩啦。
富强、民主、文明、和谐、自由、平等、公正、法治、爱国、敬业、诚信、友善。
詛咒即祝福，祝福即詛咒。劇本亂（尤其不同時序的穿插常令人納悶，未解點多，人物邏輯困惑〔如阿清師〕，現在110分鐘片長感覺也是扔掉很多、努力壓下來的結果，通常恐怖片不會這麼長），不過作為一個形式走得比內容更激進、也更應關注之作，對於每一場戲的官能與節奏處理（真正嚇人時刻其實很少，更多是懸吊著的高壓緊繃感），放在近年台灣為數不少的民俗恐怖片系譜下是一時之選；想想柯孟融從當年輔大大一拍短片《鬼印》爆紅，中間歷經顛簸（《絕命派對》反應不佳，《鬼音》沒下文，而恐怖片成就後有晚輩程偉豪《紅衣小女孩》系列樹立標竿，西進發展不如同輩陳正道成功，大製作《打噴嚏》命運多舛⋯），在奔40歲前也算奮力交出一個終有迴響的代表作。偽紀錄片，特效比例頗高，邪教元素夠邪門。密集恐懼，噁心元素，視覺詭計。
感觉在看海清演恐怖片……这个电影怎么诅咒观众啊！！！中间那段视觉残留带来的冲击真的让人不适了。作为恐怖片而言手法确实很牛。
现在的云南还有大和尚？黑心商家让你怀疑任何宗教。
还可以啦，因为受到了友邻的提示，没有“上当”！感谢友邻！同理，不要喝来历不明的饮料！
他们说 要看完再评价
算是恐怖片里还算不错的吧，但能不能不要再伪纪录片了…一回新二回旧三回四回老掉牙了都。
觉得看恐怖片晦气的sjb还是不要看恐怖片了，觉得晦气还特意找盗版来看是不是脑子不好
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
