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".
每个当领导的都是谜语人，每个大导演都要会拍谜语人电影。原来欧洲也有太白见秦分之类的预言和会看龙脉的方士
有几个场景我特别喜欢，但是没有英文字幕的情况下看太吃力了。
华盛顿宝刀未老啊 太帅了太有气场了！台词非常优秀 看他演戏好舒服！
诗性表现主义摄影和莎剧很搭 《午夜钟声》珠玉在前
第一次看麦克白的故事，感觉自己太无知了，因为我看别人的评价都是说这是一个太熟悉被说烂了的故事。那我这个第一次看这个故事的人的感受会不会不太一样。首先完看的版本没有英文字幕只有中文字幕，真是太可惜了，我根本不知道别人的翻译准不准确，那些台词又太难听懂，我怕我没有看到一些很精彩的台词，毕竟这是一部台词太重要的电影。但还是可以感受到一些古典美。然后就是电影的构图很赏心悦目，就是现在说的，随便哪一帧都可以截下来保存，可能这也是这种电影的特点，跟电影描述的时代有关。配乐也不错。然后就是这个烂俗的故事核心，怎么说呢，就虽然我是第一次看麦克白，但也觉得这样的故事已经被讲过无数遍了，一点新鲜感都没有，甚至有点觉得为什么这种故事的电影，浪费资源，可能也是这部电影拍的没什么亮点的原因吧。
女配真是几句台词和几个肢体动作就秒了Denzel Wanshington和Frances McDormand
如果只是把莎翁的剧本一板一眼影像化而没有呈现什么新的东西，那这样的电影又有什么看的必要呢，唯有享受台词以及两位主角的表演了吧。7/10
最近又给学生讲了一遍麦克白，再来看这版电影。配乐，摄影，Washington的演绎，看得我起了一身鸡皮疙瘩 。
一眼看去立即会想到劳伦斯奥利弗的几部莎剧改编电影，同时外景是塔可夫斯基式的，城堡是德莱叶式的，建筑内光影有点费里尼味…唯独没看出来哪里像科恩。莎剧原词卡在“日常腔调”和“舞台腔调”之间魅力略微流失，演员话剧式表演被放在特写镜头里所有小动作和控制不到位的表情都被无限放大，科恩正反打则完全失去了曾经的魅力。这版改编看似风格化（然而kitsh）但并未给出什么值得深探的视角，我唯一能试着尝出的新味道大概是“用衰老来解释对权势的痴念贪执”。总之较为失望吧
仿佛看了一个舞台剧，黑白片也不显得沉闷。喜欢配乐，另外表白弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德，如果不是三封了，也许阿姨还能再来一个奥提
不懂就问，莎翁时代英国有黑人吗？黑白演员混合的白人故事就特别别扭。
科恩兄弟单飞了？不光单飞，科恩大哥的构图怎么有点学韦斯安德森了？不管怎么，绝对没有黑泽明大师的版本那么惊艳和张力十足，这个版本有点偏于简陋和仓促。
当然不会不好，但是i want something different, something more. 麦克白值得翻拍，但是真的不好翻拍...尤其是中间的故事呈现方式实在是有点平。不过还是值得一看的！尤其是开头巫女与结尾决斗的处理，非常喜欢，加一星。BTW 看完了以后疯狂截图，光影太好看了！！的确是一种近似伯格曼的体验。
除了布景，该版本麦克白在女巫的两个“文字游戏”被揭开之后并未呈现出丝毫动摇，而是一条道走到黑似的面对任何结局。这已经是不小的改动了。
Cineplex. International Village. 无数次感慨这个舞台设计，灯光，摄影，造就了一幅美好的视觉观影享受。大部分场景都是单人表演，跟舞台剧比，电影可以通过拍摄角度限制观看空间，以及做出不同角度的拍摄，还能制造出更繁复的特效。非常喜欢仰望那个三角的设计，也喜欢开窗冒出的无数纸张，还有很多逐渐隐去的雾气，在庭中夫人的独白，用火把的打斗，等等。啊，真是美丽的剧，值得找个人不多的下午坐在电影厅里静静观看，全程连爆米花都多余。眼睛太忙，忙着捕捉每一帧的美轮美奂。视觉人必看
意外地缺乏冲击感，也许与节奏有关。动作编排或成最大亮点
镜头语言和转场极佳，演技饱满，背景音和极简的布置给冲突带来很强的张力。可惜本科读文学时没有专门选读这部戏，在电影院看没字幕有点生涩难懂🥲
2.干练，自超现实的场景陈设，至字正腔圆的台词编改，在景别的变化，人物的走位，场景的转换中用很是简洁的手法勾勒出麦克白本身的力量。
同样是以麦克白为蓝本，麦克白夫妇的表演远不及《蜘蛛巢城》里的三船敏郎和山田五十铃。
把麦克白浓缩到光和影和表演，to the core，好适合学生看
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