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".
从想法到执行都平稳运作的电影 关于家庭暴力与校园暴力的寓言故事 将施暴者的恶剥离为一个单一的个体化身 恶的离去意味着家庭情感(父亲)与校园生活秩序的回归 也可以看成对于父亲暴力的去势 Ethan Hawke角色被多次暗示的背景故事也应证了这一点 杀害与埋葬的分离即是两种暴力带来的伤害 they were killed before they are dead 属于是完成度不错也有一定现实意义(虽略浅显)的当代恐怖片 这样的片自然不嫌多 另外拿pink floyd配乐是个不错的想法
几次失败出逃与最终反杀的关联有点太勉强不够巧妙，为了这口醋有点不值得等中间一小时寡淡无味昏昏欲睡的饺子。想聊原生家庭的病态传承这个话题其实挺好的，但这条线聊的太过隐晦又流于表面，所有观点直接抛出结论不给出论证过程，想必对让世界变得更好也起不到太大力度的积极作用。这片子口碑还不错的原因想必是因为最后十分钟前的剧情已经把观众的期待拉到最低，最后忽然来一个绝地大反杀直戳观众爽点，又意外又痛快，几个小包袱又让前面的无聊貌似有了些许意义。冷静下来想想，小伎俩而已。
这个音效弄的我被吓到了，妹妹演的气质好棒好喜欢
好多桥段致敬小丑回魂！结尾小男孩反杀好爽！（小演员演技棒棒）配乐好评！
本片更接近披着恐怖惊悚片外衣的变种爽片，因为事实上借助各种灵异设定脱困本质上是一路超车且犯规的，不过气氛和紧张感处理的确实好，可剧情硬伤和问题也颇多特别是插入个哥哥又是侦探狂热迷又是眼皮子底下杀人这种nt情节完全多余，但以恐怖惊悚片角度来说综合算是这几年的优质作品
导演这次发挥的不错，剧情还是稍微有一点点乱。以前没事 现在看囚禁电影感觉很压抑 总联想要是被锁上十几二十年 生下七八个孩子 多绝望得
低幼弱智版恐怖片，一个毫无水平和悬念的电话时空阴阳链接，最低级最简单最无脑的托梦特异功能成为了破案的线索。前半段一度令我认为导演另有高深的安排，原来真的是我高估了，这6.8分有点虚高了吧。
爽到，两个事，1.美国人仍然是最会拍电影的一批人 2.美国的年轻人仍然是最有反抗精神的一批年轻人，因为是类型片的原因减一分，一般来说越是节奏慢的片子越难拍，因为大部分观众如果没有没看到他们想看的，就会直接走出放映厅或者点击关闭按钮，然后去到朋友圈或者像豆瓣的某个社区，发个吐槽烂片的帖子啥的，这个片在节奏方面还不错，不会让人觉得无聊，另外就是类型片总会存在一些无法比较突兀的设定，对于一般的观众来说并不影响观看，但是有的人就会想为啥只有男主能听到电话铃声，为啥他接电话，搞小动作的时候从不会被反派逮住
一个小孩团结大人失语的故事。妹妹太可爱了！
除了节奏随意，全员演技捉急外，对这片子最大的疑惑是：这真的是个恐怖片吗？
现在孩子们爱看这样的青春奇幻成长励志剧？ 爸爸因为妈妈自杀了而痛揍也展现遗传母亲预言能力的女儿？（当然除了铺垫悬疑最后对剧情几乎无用）孤勇小学生借助鬼来电勇斗连环变态杀手？（过于黑暗 只有最后爽一小会儿 坏人也坏的非常突兀莫名其妙）
这兄妹俩太可爱了，5保1雀氏妙，幸好结尾没搞花里胡哨
第3617-死去的小孩比变态杀人狂还吓人。如果没有他们的帮忙，这小孩的反杀就太牛了。
设定有点潦草，角色的动机也有点不明不白，不过电影本身拍得挺好。
在觀感上，除了些許jump scare，更像是有驚悚元素的劇情片，骨子里是在講原生家庭中的暴力與創傷的傳遞。
揉进青春成长内涵感觉可以的，与恐怖内容是搭的，并且很有趣，哥哥妹妹的形象也很动人
没想到只是个变态杀人狂，而且还是个耳朵不怎么好的？？？哈哈哈哈
做个真正善良的人，连亡灵都会帮你，还有什么理由不勇敢，奋起一战。
2022年第138部：低配版《小丑回魂》，但总体还不错，关于男孩的勇敢战胜恐惧的故事总是让人动容。
开头有些King小说的感觉，后面靠通灵解决了问题，包括反派的动机与面具的意义都没说清楚，也不够有说服力。
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