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".
Jackie是有机的，而Spencer像是一张粗浅的心理问卷。
虽然是套路性的东西，但没有不合理的东西，接受起来很轻松，院线上映至少也能拿个6分吧，唉~加油
这部片的观感完全取决于你有多熟悉戴妃与你有多喜欢小kk，如果很熟悉戴妃且不喜欢小kk，这部片可以考虑pass，反之这部片必看，因为导演摄影太会抓小kk的颜了。这部电影其他奖我不好说，但妆发必须得有提名，小kk能看起来像戴妃，九成得感谢妆发老师们的努力，他们的妙手之下能让静止画面中的小kk有几分戴妃神韵，可惜小kk的仪态太差了，她只要一动，LA大妞就要从这层王妃皮里跳出来了，加上小kk真的不会演弱势的人，她的眼神太闪了，在大特写捕捉下，展现的不是柔或者弱，而是虚。所幸的是，这种不适集中在前半，如果忽视后期剧情降智，表演还可以。这部电影很有导演前作Jackie的感觉，但对戴妃的描写，我并不认可，那个时间点的戴妃已经不是影片想塑造的状态了，整个剧情更像是浓缩她这十年婚姻走过的心路历程，但做的太肤浅
后厨满满龙虾，惠灵顿牛排
我觉得斯图尔特十分努力，但是跟我同去的美帝当地朋友也说有时完全听不懂她的英音，并且我们都觉得她演的太像没有两个孩子的大学女生了。
这电影好看得一阵儿一阵儿的
优映这是要转型做广垫让播的片子了，挺好的，虽然带上了镣铐，舞姿依然惊艳
她对于这样的贵族的意义就类似男人练习射击用的雉鸡，羽毛漂亮大脑空空，是用来维持形象的，而不是被当成一个活生生的人，如果学不会用双重思想来生活，就会陷入迷失和混乱中。服装和摄影都太美了，Sally Hawkins的眼神好苏哇
看过《王冠》第四季，再看这部电影版，感受完全不一样。电影非常压抑，小K饰演的戴安娜不只是敏感神经质，还有幻想，偏执狂。小表情小细节非常非常多，可惜的是，三天里的戴安娜，很难让人产生共情。非常可惜
看来应该欣赏他们别的片子，比较一下。
毛骗团队的作品即使去挑剔他的演技台词布景服化，但是，要永远相信他的剧本。很完整的一个故事，也是渐入佳境的一个故事。
草地上的稻草人是过去，曾经的我在阳光下放飞自由；
電影有點像「閃靈」和「四百擊」的結合體，也有點「黑天鵝」的味道。電影如同一個十分暗黑的童話。必須細細品嚐。結尾處可以說是點睛之筆。服裝，攝影，和配樂皆為上乘。小K今年奧斯卡拿定影后了。
# 78 Venezia # 满分！果然这就是敢和沙丘同场竞争的霸气所在，斯图尔特值得给影后了，把身处皇室的痛苦压抑，为了自由而奋斗抗争的状态演到极致，不，这不是演，她已经和黛安娜王妃融为一体了，她叫斯宾塞
轻喜剧，虽然就认识一个刑冬冬，但其他演员也都不赖
看前半小时的时候就开始在灵魂拷问自己为什么要看这部片。。。暮光女这不搭的气质加导演的谜之西宫娘娘烙大饼的幻想就不说了 这整个故事的内核真的好尬好没意思
A. 太惊悚太焦虑也太悲伤了。一栋庄园（和它代表的制度）如何压垮一个生命，我哪里是在看皇室婚姻，我明明就是在看《闪灵》。用魂穿库布里克的对称构图和推拉跟拍，去构建仪式的牢笼，追踪逃亡的路径。视听上的双重压迫像两小时的panic attack，也正因如此，窒息后的释放和释放后终究未能到来的“未来”，才显得格外宣泄与感伤。史钊活女士的表演和这种沉浸式的精神体验相互成就，看到最后你会真的相信，她就是戴安娜。2021.9.4 Venezia
轻喜剧，虽然就认识一个刑冬冬，但其他演员也都不赖
不知道历史上真实故事是咋样，但看得出来皇室生活和丈夫的出轨让斯宾塞被压迫的踹不过气，在艰难的反抗……斯图尔特的演技在肉眼可见的成长
戴妃还真是Fine China，华美却易碎，渴望被呵护。
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