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".
渣男是真够渣的，但是，爱让人更勇敢了，不是吗？
当中国电影还小心翼翼地试探着什么题材能拍，什么题材是禁忌碰不得时，印度电影已经百花齐放了，尤其最近好几部LGBT题材，拍得又自然又商业，票房和口碑双丰收，不要歧视去看看，因为真的还不赖！看介绍是小说改编的，八九不离十是作者的亲身经历了，真想看看原版小说，因为说实话电影其实还差一点点🤏感觉。
其余部分拖沓无味充满了小成本但完全不质朴而只剩做作的运镜和戏多的配乐。至于男主怎么从一个弱鸡游客变成深受重伤还能徒手暴打 N 个 armed agents 的美国队长，这不重要。可取的是希腊的破败混乱氛围和 rally 事发时的慌乱压抑倒是 capture 得非常接地气。
cast还行，一路逃命的公路片，前期男女主秀恩爱，然后车祸，陷入政治kidnapped阴谋，跌跌撞撞逃到大使馆求救无奈外交官也在该kidnapped事件中干预想让男主干脆沦为事件中“倒霉”的人，可惜男主开挂各种反杀最后从四五层楼左右的停车场找好时机跳下来，瓦解绑匪的阴谋释放人质。整片节奏不错，喜欢这类逃亡惊悚型剧情
气氛营造的还不错，只是演员们显然没有攀岩的技术，整个场景也是假的。
那女的好像缺心眼 …男的更缺！
比较有创意 就是有点墨迹 可能是要凑满90分钟
极限求生全程看得手心冒汗，但小喽啰无效愚忠加蠢笨，惊险镜头全是近景不舍得特效太掉价了
并强令其余三人沾血，
攀岩本身就带有足够的紧张感。不过这种感觉在两方开始对峙后停滞了。非常奇怪的是女主也随着无法移动变得没有作为，要不是几个反派自作孽，耗也能把女主耗死。
看了许多许多评论都没有提及该怎么应对反派，面对这种擅长柔道擒拿格斗 力量又超常人的反派绝大多数人都在逃避怎么应对这种人，绝大多数人碰到这种反派都是待宰的鸭子
性少数群体和女性在印度面临的困境，本来是可以好好挖掘的题材，偏偏要东施效颦去学Call me by your name，然后就搞得很做作很小家子气。不过喀拉拉邦风景真是太美了，疫情之后想去旅行。
全程希区柯克式悬念？网飞这次有仿A24配乐的嫌疑，请来坂本龙一操刀配乐，古典惊悚感直抓头皮，很棒。
吃女主的颜，柔美又坚定~很喜欢这种极限运动的元素中间穿插的美好过往也令人唏嘘…男的真的坏的令人发指，无下限了都感觉像没人性的变态
拿“攀岩”来演逃命的题材，非常有趣。但是受制于成本的原因，观感跟《徒手攀岩》比起实在是差太远太远，太多的局部拍摄，减少大量的俯拍来掩饰资金不足的问题。带来的问题就是视觉不够刺激，还有真实。感觉就是单纯在墙壁上做动作的感觉...有些桥段有种为了演而演的感觉，还有一些行为逻辑有些硬伤...为什么非得要攀岩来逃命...为什么非得要为了真相摄像机非得不肯跟对方...有点无语...凑合吧，只能说还行。
你尿尿就尿尿，非得去悬崖边上，你不知道你朋友什么货色啊
那女的好像缺心眼 …男的更缺！
什么破电影，精虫上脑引出一连串的脑残情节！！看了五分钟就没兴趣了！！！！
当中国电影还小心翼翼地试探着什么题材能拍，什么题材是禁忌碰不得时，印度电影已经百花齐放了，尤其最近好几部LGBT题材，拍得又自然又商业，票房和口碑双丰收，不要歧视去看看，因为真的还不赖！看介绍是小说改编的，八九不离十是作者的亲身经历了，真想看看原版小说，因为说实话电影其实还差一点点🤏感觉。
女主攀岩躲避追求，利用4个男的互相猜疑反杀取胜。情节还算合理，反派乔许有点丧心病狂加蠢笨。
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