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".
“决定权在你父亲手上，应该说曾经在你父亲手上”。从女性观影角度来看，父权的压制、环境的迫害的压抑感十分真实。但凡作出与旁人期待不符合，就会认为你有病。电影里的女性在男性眼中不过是实验品、发泄处、一件可交换的商品，但偏偏不是人。舞会就像把控制着这些肮脏想法的外衣剥去，让他们有肆意发泄的端口。反正她们是神经病，没人在乎，说出去也没有人相信。
其实仔细想想，Laâge和M的感觉有些相似。还是值得一看的
虽然技术方面还是没话说，可是内容也太普通了，完全无法共情，合集了很多没有记忆点的歌曲，60部纪念作也太差强人意了……比第50部的《魔发奇缘》还差了一个《寻梦环游记》。
不知道为什么这么抑郁的片子看然居然觉得豁然开朗
略无聊 女性主义该有点新意才行啊 镜头调度非常不行 梅尼总想跟女同沾点边但又不想拍完全的女通讯录
为什么能看到上帝就应该被尊敬，而能与死者通话却被认定为精神病患者。这些根本就没被当成患者来看待，不过就是试验品，一切都还是个未知数。被送进去的人被慢慢逼疯，掌权者也在肆无忌惮中一步步走向疯狂。最后，女主好美。
制作精美的没话说，颜色绚丽音乐好听，故事就稍显老套了些。@橙天Luone
设定不错，立意不错，但是展开不够，人物太多导致每个人都没有特别深入，甚至连主角都很单薄。尤其是几个兄弟姐妹其实各有各的问题，但是最后老奶奶一句话就轻松解决，有点虎头蛇尾，开头很吸引人，结局却轻飘飘的。歌曲良莠不齐吧，有的好听，有的一般。最近迪斯尼比较注重家庭关系的故事，不像九十年代没完没了的公主王子恋爱，挺好的。我喜欢这个发展方向。
形式很魔幻，内核其实很真实。一个人是因为有用才值得被爱的吗？非常喜欢女主，真挚热忱，终于没有中二病！
我太难过了，我能为你们做什么，我能为我们做什么？什么是女巫，什么是疯女人？在我们背后有多少女性伫立，有多少强大的女性化成守护灵？我们的身体，我们的灵魂，我们的故事，一切是怎样发生的，又将如何被讲述？“为什么相信上帝没问题，相信鬼魂却不可以？”也许上帝和鬼魂分别是阳与阴的两面，共同组成一个更高的维度，那地上跑的，大声宣传的，主宰着所谓的光明；那不被允许讨论的，暗处流传的，也将默默延续。痛恨一部分人控制另一部分人的所有道义，中世纪精神疗法、政治的武德、政策的制定………希望更高维度的世界得以被呈现。
爸妈一言不合就把女儿送疯人院这真是亲生的吗？在feng县事件以后来看这部片子，别有风味。究竟谁是疯子？疯子剥夺人的所有权利，成为猥琐泄欲的掩护色罢了。
我想，在今天那种信仰某种同一性（无论是神圣的货币、支配他者的权力）的人的眼中、感觉中，那种不包含多元性、异质性的维度的“点”是否会失去探索对象世界的丰富多彩呢？
可以对比《飞越疯人院》看，看看主角的表现的差异，看看评论的差异。
“疯女人”是被制造出的，时至今日它也仍是操控和剥夺话语权的最常用、最便捷的手段，即便不至于到“疯癫”的程度，仅仅用情绪不稳定、歇斯底里之类的污名就可以轻松抹杀女人和她们话语的可信度，还常常借理性、科学、研究来粉饰。医生们以“研究”为名对疯女人凝视和赏玩的一幕，与《小姐》里“绅士们”来听读书的一幕多么类似。耐人寻味的是直接实施压迫折磨的人也同为女性，而这些女性拥有的所谓权力和地位实际上也从未真正属于她们自己。
揭开疯女人的黑色面纱，现出男权对女性的碾压
人性的压抑是共通的，故事挺好，两位女主都是散发着光彩，成熟性感
当银幕前的女性破除万难勇敢奋力地走向幕后，这样的故事一定比她单纯当演员那些更值得被讲述、被看见！
看过就知道，这是惊悚片吗，这是女人的血和泪。
女巫 女精神病 女拳
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