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".
用各种方式来隐喻男人对女人的迫害。最后一段男生男的连环套是全片亮点了，暗示男人都是一脉相承的，虽然他们表现出来不同的方式迫害女性，归根起来都是想要统治、控制女性。我作为一个男人，觉得父权社会是这样的。我们这个社会需要的是平权，不是女权。
生孩子那段是不是可以理解为“父权复制了一个又一个男人这样的怪物”，现在女性环境就和电影里一样：live in the fear
基本上包揽了身为女性来自男性的恐惧感，不仅击穿了家庭和社会，压力同样来自公权和教化，愤怒的丈夫、傲慢的警察、好色的牧师、贪玩的孩子、窥私的路人、糊弄的房东、酗酒的食客，七宗罪算是凑齐了，且不乏名场面，比如男性之恶三位一体，循环孵化自生自灭，从某种层面上而言，还是蛮有想法的作品
很适合暑期看的不用动脑的大片，确实挺爽的，罗素兄弟虽然弱智但肉搏枪战大场面很利落，高司令一枪一人头，干练得有点小帅（至少不粉色ken了），反派美队小胡子之后可以演鲁迅了。
Super hero 想变super villain ，于是罗素兄弟给美队安排了一整个九头蛇。高司令业务能力强到堪比超人，暴力安娜可太美了。打戏争取每场打出花样，可就是很无聊
emm,想说的确陌生的男人大多在我的记忆里面都长得一样。连环生那段有点意思
Captain America FUCK YEAH
动作场面是真的可以，但是也就动作场面可以了。。。然后给我双美各一星。
三星半
很想成为小女孩，先被美队挟持在怀里，然后一头扎进高司令胸口，还能得到可爱wink。
拍了一百分钟，可本质上和各个平台泛滥着的靠挑起性别对立收割流量的短视频们没什么区别。就很偷懒。
故事老套、毫无新意；各种刺激片段的堆砌，直至麻木。美队连脸都没露全，什么破小胡子，太丑！更别提噶好的身材也没咋露，所以，毫无看头。浪费人生两小时。
以神秘色彩包装的心理剧，更多的是创伤而非恐怖，让人想起一些西方古典戏剧，而不是当代恐怖片。在婚姻生活中，你看着所爱之人产生了畸变，他想要被爱，可你对他所有变化视而不见，最终变成你不认识的怪物。导演用生动作呕的视觉意象传达了婚姻中男性的不同面，它们甚至是迭代的。让我佩服的是，除了结尾的夜景，大部分时间发生在光天化日下的温馨景致中，但畸变是不知不觉中滋生的。
我太爱A24了 我太爱Alex Garland了 选角也太精辟了！在戛纳和几百人一起看 一起尖叫 一起噫也太棒了吧 这氛围是疫情后两年没看过真实肉绽惊心片的伤痛后遗症带来的应激反应！！再次试问带有社会批判意义的片谁不喜欢呢？这Men就该翻译成“男人” 女性被跟踪、尾随、暴力对待每时每刻都在haut她第二性的灵魂 这片子是对厌女绝佳的呈现 女性观众在观看的同时被迫带入两种维度的恐惧感 这种回到现实依然瑟瑟发抖的感觉 是Men让你无处可逃的铁证 有一个五星给我最爱的A24❤️
拍了一百分钟，可本质上和各个平台泛滥着的靠挑起性别对立收割流量的短视频们没什么区别。就很偷懒。
奈飞这几年拍了太多这种显示其人傻钱多的无脑大片。毫无逻辑合理性可言。
从婚姻到社会，女性挣扎在男性恶意之中，或仅是在幻觉中被迫害妄想？不是很明确，主题也因此让人迷惑，喜欢摄影和色调延续自湮灭，不喜欢这个讲故事的方式，导演没有太强调怪奇故事，而是外化一种恐慌的心理状态，配乐还不错
罗素兄弟自打离开漫威后拍的作品真的是一言难尽，有点江郎才尽的感觉。顶级卡司也救不回来这令人乏味的剧情，前半段节奏太慢，很是无聊，后半段全程动作戏应接不暇，而且也没什么亮点，包括最后两男主的打戏也很是敷衍。而且把反派塑造的有点愚蠢，真的是浪费了高司令桃总还有安娜的表演。可惜了，就跟去年网飞大作「红色通缉令」一样，请得起演员，故事讲不好也白搭！
无法抵抗高司令的盛世美颜和矫健身姿，好帅！ps：网飞一如既往请最贵的班底拍最流水线的动作片，就真的很浪费
A24总是能把娱乐性拉高，老题材新视听，真是，越看到后面越开心。影片直接把隐喻一口血喷到观众脸上，想不理解也难
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