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".
ISP表示很不满足，说实话，主cp腹黑主攻vs傲娇认真受
最致命的是西条第二次为准太跳的西班牙舞时内心的独白：“但是 现在开始你看到的我 是没有任何剧本 一心只爱着你的 纯粹的西条高人 感情抢在理智之前催动肢体 像是溺水的人笨拙的挣扎（附上 在看第一季的时候西条高人的演技是属于理智派的 所以这里可以是西条为准太做出的改变 西条真的好努力＞＜）越是爱着你 越是无法表现出理想中完美的自己 我感到着急又不甘心 不过蠢太 我就是这么的爱你到无法自拔!”
剧情片就算了吧
整体感觉是完成度不错的命题作文，弗朗明戈代表相互之间的成长，情感到位了。
感情细腻的佳作，高人终于从那个一直被动接受爱意的一方变成了努力表达爱意的一方，蠢太还是那个纯情大狗狗好可爱哦，监禁那一晚吓死我了，以为又要像上次“高人被绫木睡了，蠢太对他说你要是下了这张床我就再也不追你了”一样，还好这次两人没怎么闹别扭。
OVA的剧本就别搞剧场版了……（虽然尬舞真的不行）……
😢觉得脸有点点点崩掉了捏，不过还是有冒出粉红泡泡。
神秘，寓言，自然主义，视觉和听觉的完美结合。柏拉图理论。
很走心了。没了脖子的黑线再加上外国风景整个展现出很柔和的感觉。
佛罗明戈舞，柳橙花etc.
洞穴内摇曳的探照灯，湿润的穴壁，生命垂危的老人，旷野上的牛羊，飘散一地的插画。一种天人合一的感受。#Film Forum#
3.5 得到了一个宏大的图景体验，仅此而已。哦，没有睡。
跳舞的部分做得是真的尴尬，偏偏还是贯穿的主线……但是后四分之一是真的很好看，无论爷爷和千代的感情还是西条对东谷的感情都做得很好，还有只存在了不到五分钟但是可以脑补五年的音乐制作人和总制作人的cp。片尾曲确实好听，最少在东谷看完戒指内侧文字之后音乐慢慢响起真的会让人有一种被触动到的感受。爱真是脆弱又坚强的东西啊。
探险世界第三深洞，消减叙事让位于纯粹的画面表意，以及绝美的风景和狭窄深渊的高难度摄影。并行探险队探测和当地牧羊老人，进入-远观-探索-苏醒-呼唤-接收，在自然雾霭中实现交流。沉睡的自然洞穴被外来者唤醒，正如电视机里的流行文化成为通向世界的唯一窗口，和“洞”一起成为相互探索的连接点。
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正儿八经的“再见，语言”，人类学影像，素材的编排我觉得并不是特别高超。但是，这群人花了九牛二虎之力下到了洞的最深处，可是那里有什么呢？啥也没有，就一个小水坑，这个还挺shock到我的，太人生隐喻的感觉了。
好水…..跳舞部分画的好奇怪……蛮无聊的就是
BJIFF2021-07，今年北影节最后一场，也是最疲累的一场，这就是当今的“沉浸式”探洞嘛，一次无趣的直播。
高含量跳舞内容和（不标准）西语都怪尴尬的 可是 还是好喜欢两位哦～ 人高对蠢太原来比我想象的还要重要诶 有被感动🥹
快乐永远是这么短暂 在这里小情侣两人成长了 终于是双向奔赴了 爱就要表达出来 不说不知道 还是很喜欢 两个人的设定太带感了 西班牙这个番外很特别喜欢～
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