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".
缓慢的叙事、克制的情感。坎皮恩的节奏控制能力太强了，重要的情节点到为止，但是也能让观众明白。前半程一直在铺垫，结尾大爆发，甚至让人不寒而栗。导演的调度绝了，摄影绝了，演员的表演绝了，全程沉浸感🈶️所有特写镜头都好有感觉啊～我可太喜欢了，怒给五星！
又是被网络账号哗众取宠毁坏感受的一部。实际上是难以预料情节本身，反而被导演精心编织的情感陷阱包围，最终意识到真正的话题内容所在，令人感叹这个构筑过程是多么合理。
不知道拍《犬之力》这样的电影，一个导演要准备多久？关于影像和情感的准备。
威尼斯主竞赛第三场，阿莫多瓦和简坎皮恩都老了呀。前半段看得我昏昏欲睡，剧情推进得太慢。总之略有点失望吧！
我喜欢这种尽在不言中的留白，简坎皮恩还是老辣，全程平静如水，直至最后一刻，让暗流掀起惊涛巨浪。本尼把这个角色粗鲁又脆弱的双面性诠释得非常精彩，值得一个影帝提名。电影中的一切皆是果。所有的因都在远山的犬影、铮亮的马鞍、带血的芦苇、洁白的皮绳中不言而喻。摘录一段评论说的，不知道最后那抽烟的时刻，是以身为饵的陷阱，还是猎人对猎物的怜悯，抑或是一瞬间的动情？
一场精心策划，还是过河拆桥？都是成年人，我想彼得一早看出菲儿的本心，妈妈以为是菲儿引诱了儿儿，其实我想是彼得请君入瓮。
被画面和声音吸引，无H可放心观看
ta不动声色地假意接受ta的示好，带着温顺的表情，ta沉浸在被接受的喜悦中，殊不知那一张丝毫没有沾染西部粗犷气质的面容下，隐藏着残忍而冰冷的杀意。非常有后劲的一部片子，但也确实从头克制到尾，这个风格让我想到了第一头牛。
一部控制力杰出的电影，和《钢琴教师》构成对女性与男性欲望与权力世界探讨的两部曲或拱形建筑的两端。表面上看是有惊无险地把注意力集中在彼得的母亲罗斯和她前夫的兄弟菲尔之间。菲尔嫉妒弟媳妇在家庭中的位置，弟媳妇则嫌弃菲尔的粗鲁，就像野蛮人一样（埋怨他上桌吃饭前不洗干净）。但是在谜底揭开的时候，我们发现最汹涌的冲突或情感张力是被掩护在表层之下的，是在菲尔和他的侄子彼得之间。在影片结尾并没有给出一个确切的解释，只是援引法医学的术语，说他很大可能不是死于炭蛆病。那么他可能是被彼得谋杀的。就像菲尔和他的“导师”布朗科·亨利的关系，二人也是师徒，年龄之间的差就像菲尔今天和彼得之间的年龄差，但是在一次夜晚肌肤相亲的意外之后，布朗科·亨利意外逝世。
对“有毒的男子气概”的一次阉割。欣喜的是，两位非美国籍的女性导演都拍出如此高水准的美国西部片，原本充斥白男视角的领域终于被冲淡了一些。
没看过坎皮恩 但跟我想的完全一样
拍得既残忍又极其克制，细腻别致，也许有新的男性气质在暗中慢慢浮现，但我觉得始终没有跳出传统刻板人设上。
克制隐忍最后一击确实也击中了我完美的“弑父”。
有的狗不是狗，是凶狠的狼。开头即点题，缓慢的叙事层层递进，通往最终真相。劳苦功高者死于非命，不劳而获者不择手段，只为使母亲“幸福”。没有看原著，很喜欢Campion的改编，荒蛮西部上演的俄狄浦斯和性压抑，Phil最终意识到了什么，拿起绳索要找男孩，却也无济于事，强悍粗犷，不拘一格。到最后，是棺材里一副薄薄的身材和体面却并不安详的容貌。杀人不见血的不是手刃野兔的少年，是比病毒更致命的少年心思。
卷福和克里斯汀邓斯特等几位演员为我们贡献了本年度最优秀的表演之一，角色之间的戏剧张力（和性张力）如同绷紧的牛皮绳一般，从始至终勒住了观众的喉咙，亦如身后的犬山一般，表面波澜不惊，实则暗潮涌动。卷福值得一个影帝，他把那个用“真男人“气质包裹起来，实则脆弱敏感且长情的菲儿演绎到入骨，他的爱是私人的，不可公之于众的，隐秘又美好的。相比之下，皮特的恋母则更为扭曲，所以本片完全不能草率的界定为同性题材，这是一部关于爱的故事，私有的、扭曲的爱，跟随电影的尾声，猎人和猎物互换，角色所承担的善恶属性瞬间翻转，观众恍然大悟，原来那副惹人生怜的外表下，竟有如此之残酷的内心，曾经的“作恶”之人终于死去，归于犬山。
很🐂 各方面的🐂 深柜当然抵挡不了干净美丽白衬衫的美少年
爱比死更冷。
我先预订一升眼泪。/开始还以为尼仔终于演了个黑化扭曲阴暗伤害他人的角色，结果他才是全片唯一正常人，外表再凶恶也没有伤害别人，内心善良柔软得像个小兔子。又让我心疼一把！这些配角一个个全tmd不配和我缺搭戏😡。
一开始以为是个「霸道总裁（牧场主）爱上我」的故事，而且以BC的演技，他一旦流露出「我缺爱，我也渴望爱」的眼神吧，还挺让人遭不住的。结果结尾大反转啊（就不剧透了）！但仔细一想，咳，世间的狗屁霸总们，You deserve it！让你们死于爱的幻觉就是导演最大的「妇人之仁」了
罕见的题材。讲述少年人的残酷。具体就是残酷的少年人杀死了长大成人的残酷少年。片子极闷，音乐是加分项，一直在暗示事情不妙。《断背山》后传。
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