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".
6.5分。抱着看一部精彩的恐怖片的心态，结果又是一部文艺片，前一个小时太文艺了，杀人都这么有诗意，不时的快进⏩我真的受不了这种慢摇慢摇加背景音乐要死不活的节奏。终于到后面有所反转，人性与爱阻止了魔咒继续
血腥版小森林，小女巫版成长的烦恼，我好喜欢旁白絮絮叨叨的说“哎呀哎呀”
文艺片，角度很有意思，体验不同性别，年龄的人生。
题材很新颖，不以恐怖为主题的女巫电影。借女巫的几次“生命”，讲述女性的宿命。画面美得不行，故事却残酷得滴血。
观众窥探他人的人生即是女主角窥探他人的过程
41 三星半 如果你只是单纯的想看一个恐怖片 别看它！ 女巫用不用的身份去体验生命与自我 成为任何人 再成为自己的宿命与成长史…
倒不觉得里面的女性主义思想多么的高明，但是女性在这个世界上就算是化身女巫却一样伟大。
然而我们终将孤单。但那对你很容易。
很特殊的观影体验，因为女主物理失声，所以几乎整部电影都是女主的心语，这也导致了错位感，因为刚开始女主并没有那么成熟。
倒不觉得里面的女性主义思想多么的高明，但是女性在这个世界上就算是化身女巫却一样伟大。
啥玩意啊 恐怖程度还没抖音上打码的恐怖片解说吓人 女巫一个接一个的上身 旁白就是自言自语 看得让人想睡觉
一段奇妙的观影体验，女巫是我最喜欢的题材之一，意识流的拍摄手法，一个女巫的人生体验，夹杂着对父权的，女权的探讨
挺好的，就是镜头晃得难受。以及完全不能以看故事片的逻辑来看。
找不到工作的人都成为「作家」了，拍不好电影的人都去拍「文艺片」了
说它是恐怖片吧一点没啥恐怖和特效，说它是情节剧吧情节太单薄仓促，说它是伦理片吧又太假，毕竟做村夫村妇还是做魔法女巫这个选择题太容易。没劲的电影，
处女作拍到这种程度算还可以吧，可惜规整到有点无聊。并且大部分时间给我的感觉是：一个不得要领的马力克学徒费力不讨好地组装着似是而非的元素，最后出来的效果是艾格斯0.8——一个致命的问题：哑女的“心声”究竟从何而来？但若要问是否有一些瞬间接近了马力克，回想起对液体（河流、牛奶、血液）的处理，我会说：是的。
徐玄振和安圣基的表演加分太多，故事本身还是韩式煽情的套路，也就是把阿尔茨海默症的群体聚焦在三十多岁的中年人身上非常有创新性。
谈不上什么恐怖片，就是稍微有些重口味的意识流文艺片，志异民俗类的。虽说是个女巫的成长，但没有太过刻意强调女性身份，这样一来突出的就是些人性的共通之处了。影像音乐都可以，台词太文艺了，容易催眠
一起抵制泰伦斯马力克的脑残粉，真的不想看这种装逼作品了。
成为男人，成为女人，成为狗，成为世间万物。感受生命，感受爱，找到那一个足以对抗命运的勇气。出乎意料，血腥又文艺。
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