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".
开头琐碎缓慢不知所云，到结尾忽然震惊坐起，今天起床还在回味琢磨。“犬之力”可以理解为我们说的阳刚之气：影片中的三位男主角，Phil文武双全又粗鲁爹味，其实是在掩盖他作为深柜的自我厌弃。George作为富裕农场主的小儿子，温柔木讷得和农场环境格格不入，在哥哥面前相形见绌，所以在遇见心爱的女人且得到爱的回馈时惊喜落泪，也不在乎女方是图他的人还是他的钱，只想把她豢养成衣食无忧的金丝雀。Peter举止娘炮动辄落泪，常被大老粗们嘲笑，本质上却是一把兵不血刃的温柔刀。他们当中到底谁更具备阳刚之气？所谓的阳刚之气究竟是雷霆万钧还是不堪一击？女主角也很值得玩味，在那个女性没有出路的年代，她的所求不过是有自己的姓名和价值。真正让她绝望的恰恰是丈夫的精心呵护，而对她冷嘲热讽的大伯却是更懂她的人。人心多么斑斓。
浪费了时间 误以为是好片 硬撑着看完了 片名也莫名其妙 实在欣赏不了
太单薄。老是迈不过BC美音的坎，他吐字太干净了，总觉contrived。但满意Phil的手又脏又糙（我不能接受这种角色手干干净净）。烧花竟然是全片最喜欢的部分，看下来觉得我脑子里的版本更加toxic（对，我嫌还是太温柔）。这故事有一百种拍得更有趣的办法，可惜
在看前一个小时的观众，怎么也不会想到后一个小时他们看的是这个东西
深柜人士活得最挣扎，也最容易被人利用。卷福屁股加一星。
沉重而悲伤，菲尔看不到出路的人生，毁灭于执迷。片子能把这样一个“恶人”塑造得让人同情，很厉害。
这是一部关于女性如何凝视男性的电影，男性对于自己的内在世界是如何自处，又如何看待自己对于力量的追求，无法被抹去的对强大&安全的诉求，如何被转化成爱意，如何被隐藏，又如何被揭示，原著想必功不可没，Benedict贡献了他的荧幕最佳角色，他就是Phil，不再是卷福or奇异博士，他成为了一个活生生的牛仔，他的爱无处安放。另，Jonny Greenwood是多么珍贵的音乐家，永远值得期待！
深柜人士活得最挣扎，也最容易被人利用。卷福屁股加一星。
整体观感不错，故事结构紧凑耐看，喜欢这部片子的音乐设计。反杀的结局真的挺猝然，看不太懂，但还是感觉到一种雄性特质（男性的、蛮荒野性的）的消逝。
看起来硬汉实则孤独的深柜牛仔、看起来柔弱实则锋利的纤细少年，将有毒的男子气概和有毒的刻板印象表现得淋漓尽致。
坦诚地说这不是我喜欢的那类作品。要不是想刷完所有提名，可能我都不会坚持完前30分钟。不得不说杀人的手法很意外，不过节奏太慢太慢，“不相关”的段落太多（可能需要二刷来确定它们是否可以被删除），很难定义影片的类型。
8.5/10 大银幕。今年目前为止我最喜欢的新片。超西部片，也是希斯特斯兄弟之后最好的历史西部片，和前者一样极富现代性的类型文化反思。每个类型都有其先验的文化意义，西部片是(男人的)神话，更是长久以来被男性导演们所主导、推动发展的类型，那是被男性确认过的范式和规则。本片是把原始的类型意象极大程度的从自身惯例中剥离出来，又最大化的消减类型元素，而突出的是细致到毫厘的心理洞察，对于观众则是心理负荷信号，最后这也直指主题价值。slowly rising，纸花、木梳、皮绳… 阉割、伤口、病毒… 我感受到的是简坎皮恩的心性和耐力，看到了她的智识。西部片涉及到男子气概、性别角色、同性情结这些都不易过时，身为一位女性电影人她也可以在这个类型留下自己的足迹。本尼的这个高压角色可能会让他拿到第一座小金人…
一个阳刚男同被娘炮收拾的故事，我男朋友看得很生气，我看得有点爽。
但看一场好戏上演，就像兔子落入少年的陷阱一般。
其实不只是性别，还是时代的角力。男版色|戒，这次轮到易先生去死。
影片中提到了著名的“图坦卡蒙的诅咒”，这一细节无疑十分重要。图坦卡蒙早在18岁青春年少时就死了；就像Phil在Henry死后便再也没有真正活过。除了流传甚广的谋杀说以外，还有一种说法是，图坦卡蒙死于细菌感染。结合影片剧情，我们更能理解简·坎皮恩援引这个典故的象征意义。
一头雾水。每个角色都obvious到牵强的程度，只有本尼真的演得克制又让人心疼。感觉故作高深，节奏很慢，慢到前两个章节睡着了两次…可能有些细节因为没字幕的原因没有完全跟上吧，反正就真的get不到。西部的景色还是很美的。
女导演拍摄男性题材果然与常规的叙事习惯有所出入。这部与《圣母》有异曲同工的魔力，不同观众会对主人公和他的侄子看法相左。这两个人物承载着矛盾复杂的性别意识，主人公是外表粗犷却内心柔软的同性恋，侄子则是外表阴柔却内心阴险的异性恋。最终由侄子击败代表父权的主人公，相当讽刺，不止是对父权制度的一记耳光，也无情地讥讽了大男子主义。这种刻板观念统治着整个社会政治结构，既压迫了女性也束缚了男同性恋，被压抑的同性性向与恐同意识往往是相通的。
220326 - ……啊？……就，啊……？奥斯卡，没有足够的片子就别凑数提名了，放过我吧…………
章节的递进，人物表现越是微妙细腻，氛围宏大至紧绷。观影状态略显压抑，多给一星缺爷。
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