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".
聪明人的孕期焦虑好恐怖 home像是绝望中的唯一绳索 可深陷绝望连这根绳索本身都需要犹豫发呆一下 三星半吧 前面略微无聊 无聊中的小俏皮让人从瞌睡中轻松一笑
应该是今年最看不下去的戏了，也不是说很难看，就是太无趣了，人物无趣，情节也无趣，关键不认识也不了解背景真的很难欣赏，get不到主题，看得出来妮可演的是很不错的，最后他们表演完出字幕离婚我竟然看哭了。。。
在索尔金的作品中不算上乘，唯一的亮点是结尾露西的那个晃神
断断续续三四遍才看完，几度看不下去。
前面挺有意思，有点想希区柯克 电话那个电影，她为别人求救未果，就让人联想后面她自己会不会遇到危险。然而到了后面……what the what ? 结论：人工智能可以的，是人不行……好吧。
电影就像一道奥数题，看一遍就明白了，就失去兴趣，看三遍还不明白，一样会失去兴趣。这个就恰到好处，第二遍看完，通透，完美。
短评中的勤能补拙 绝了 真的是what a week. 最后的十五分钟很精彩 前面有点too much。三个演员的提名也证明了。对于演员来说 提名就是认可。
如果你爱一个人，送个小度吧，如果你恨一个人，也送个小度吧…
3.5 “i navigate male egos for a living, bud”
谁共情了 我共情了 感慨这么好的一对分崩离析……
耳目无限放大的数位时代后窗+凶线，索德伯格能玩
虽然我也只在television history课看过几集I Love Lucy，但是巴登和Desi Arnaz真的完全不像，反而看之前无法想象的Nicole Kidman在化妆加持下还有点Lucille的影子（声音模仿也有努力）这部和同为传记片的乔布斯模式比较相似，截取短短几天时间辅以大量闪回，不过闪回处理得不好（不如不闪）结尾给了个分量很足的Oscar moment
桌面电影的一次外延，算是桌面电影昙花一现后必然出现的尝试。片中出现了疫情，但不必然；还出现了智能音箱，也不必然；还出现了#MeToo，同样不必然。但种种元素堆合后成功质变，勾勒出极具有当下感的“科技让我们更遥远”的世相，我喜欢这一点，以及女主角geek风的大房子。运动镜头尤其是追逐镜头很带感，使用了潜伏类恐怖片的视角，还有效仿VLOG的倾向，最终呈现出特工片气质。反杀设计得不好，毕竟女主角不是真的特工，严肃变儿戏了，结尾还是该向桌面电影取取经。
索金太牛逼了！真的是螺蛳壳里做道场，屁大点事儿都能写得如此细致动人，最后的反高潮太漂亮了，女主角这个角色就是为了奥斯卡影后写的吧，且妮可基德曼也演绎得特别入木三分！只是这个剧本实在太拉仇恨了，真的就像索金在影片中暗戳戳讽刺的那样，好莱坞只有三种编剧：蠢货，王八蛋，和我艾伦索金！
相较于前半段对于女主身份人物关系和悬疑氛围的营造 后半段完全由冲突和恐惧支配的剧情显得有点草率了 时代感特别强
很俗套的一个故事，被加了一个AI设备的外壳，再加上一个好导演，就好看了。编剧细节处理的不错。本片可能是今年最容易被忽略的一部小成本影片。
虽然我也只在television history课看过几集I Love Lucy，但是巴登和Desi Arnaz真的完全不像，反而看之前无法想象的Nicole Kidman在化妆加持下还有点Lucille的影子（声音模仿也有努力）这部和同为传记片的乔布斯模式比较相似，截取短短几天时间辅以大量闪回，不过闪回处理得不好（不如不闪）结尾给了个分量很足的Oscar moment
举头三尺有admin，如鬼魅般存在的环绕声，已是无声胜有声。
非常冗长，剧本还是没有打磨还，两个多小时的影片至少可以剪掉半小时，剧情可以更紧凑一些！
为什么妆发上不下点功夫呢 🌚🌚
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