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".
已把预期降到最低居然还能叫人更失望 只剩画面服化道好看与考究. 别扭的“诗体”台词都不说人话了, 生硬的叙述与剧情质量感觉都比不过随便一集<维京传奇>剧集, 难为了卡司
不愧是视觉导演出生，有些场面确实不错。很喜欢影片塑造的原始暴力感。不过这爹妈人均神经病的王子（或者说贱民）复仇记，怎么看着这么像《鲁鲁修》……？安雅出现的每一帧都是靓爆镜的存在。
是那种饱含着动物性的人性，粗莽炽烈却被缚，永不熄灭且永远无法熄灭。审美真是绝了。
半小时弃，牛鬼蛇神的无脑杀戮，蛮荒时代的阴森恐怖，兽性的肆虐，人性的泯灭
I guess this is what peak testosterone looks like...killing people and fucking women. The casting is exceptional, though it inevitably feeds into racism (as it probably was back in 600AD: the bastard is black-haired, everyone else blonde. Desirable women and bearers of kings can also look like Björk, no?
短评的好评像极了淘宝刷单的评价和微博流量明星的控评现场
亲，有句话叫做“冤冤相报何时了”。这边建议您了解一下呢。
i like it，毕竟看到了碧玉的短暂出场。王子复仇+俄狄浦斯+女巫+仲夏夜惊魂的混杂体验，诡谲而疯狂的北欧传说为整个故事镀上一层神秘色彩。不过E大怎么呆呆的？
新瓶旧酒乏善可陈，影像风格倒是颇有诗意。符号化的，冲突性的，疯狂而神秘的野兽派，莽中有细。
作为莎翁原型故事的原型，拍口耳相传的folklore故事，神神叨叨的豪横调度和怎么横移推拉也不怕露怯的长镜，不但是有带投资了之后的任性，更有栩栩展开历史画卷重温导演悚人民俗美学的意谓，在那个土鳖懊恼特土鳖的戏剧核心上，真是现实不得不往预言上靠，这么一看，所谓现实主义神话传说，那不就是民俗吗......
『 7.5 好莱坞最近怎么这么喜欢王子复仇记，导演风格和A24的邪性还是那么强烈，电影院的电影，这也是国内外口碑差别的原因之一吧，其实国外也是高口碑低票房（配乐存在感好强-Robin Carolan；都找了斯卡斯加德了，还是多说说北欧语言吧，好久没看基德曼演的了，肉眼可见的老，安雅就是照的女巫来的）』
是那种饱含着动物性的人性，粗莽炽烈却被缚，永不熄灭且永远无法熄灭。审美真是绝了。
说实话，相比起这样的大制作大阵容，同样的故事或许用 [麦克白的悲剧] 那样的载体更能让Robert Eggers大施拳脚，观感上的去风格化相当明显。
简单来说就是一部充满悲剧色彩的北欧版王子复仇记。片中部分镜头跟《麦克白的悲剧》有相似的格调，即想刻意复刻一种来自莎翁剧作的戏剧感。要说导演前作《灯塔》里强对比的黑白光影视为加分项，本片夜伴时分的低饱和色调同样诱人迷恋，浅以为它准确赋予了复仇性格——不是激烈的红，也不是冷酷的蓝，而是阴郁的紫。不过要说到迷恋，怎么可能不痴想在绝美逶迤的自然风光下，水雾氤氲的温泉里跟安雅·泰勒-乔伊来一场巫山云雨呢。
我觉得吧....看看帅哥还是行的.其他就算了
终于又有一部年度私人最佳了！！！这种沉浸其中的观影感太久远了！！！
声效很强，剧情不评论。总体乏味，既然改就改的彻底一些么。
最好的对中国元素的融合
个人风格复刻哈姆雷特还可以，但是小手机着实感受不到氛围
梁朝伟真的太帅了，而且完全不是那种纯反派，文武也是个爱妻号，可惜有因必有果. 陈法拉太美了. 居然还有元华. 剧情和bgm简直精彩，本来带着偏见去看的，看完就觉得这不是欧美片，是合拍片的感觉，满满的中国元素，结合太极的以柔制刚，水元素也是玩666. 最后神龙大战，中国龙打败西方龙.
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