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".
就反转和结局（指的是疑似讽刺现实部分）有亮点。故事硬伤挺多，很明显的编剧为了戏剧而戏剧化。光是反派打不死的老强等一些逻辑问题，包括先和老爹和解（导演和编剧的意思是再不插入这段就没地儿安排了），再急老婆之危这些。不过是娱乐电影，爆米花吃完就完了。
作为玛吉的导演处女作，视听是真的不错。加上改编自费兰特的原著，总体品质确实相当可以。但几处实在太过刻意，反而令人略微反感，而且直接在电影里谈论文学性真的挺做作的。结尾有些莫名，看不懂。相比《女人的碎片》又是另一种维度的无解。有没有孩子似乎女人都是碎片，要拾起完整的自我必须舍弃太多的东西。追求自我实现（和享受人生）和家庭责任之间有着不可调和的矛盾。当然这些也并无新意，势必是要不断重复的母题。孩子们都是魔鬼吧。
男主每次得手后，犯下的致命错误。
母亲的身份外衣如此紧缚，致使这场出走永远无法做到决绝和彻底。出走、堕落或回来的耻感如影随形，以此带来的分裂和撕扯加诸在她身上，必将更加尖锐，也更加钝重。
精彩绝伦了，又好笑又血腥，以及，好想去挪威！
节奏有点儿慢，太啰嗦，辜负了这么个商业的题材。编剧水平不行，30分钟弃剧。
写的太散了差一口气的，观看者只能与整体女性对于身份和生育的焦虑共感，实际上很难与女主共鸣，甚至不太能理解女主到底是怎么导致目前状态的。
酸爽扯淡型电影，小反转一个接着一个，能看得出，这个剧本似乎跟变形金刚女主角新片基本类似，缺点也基本类似，该不会就是改编的好莱坞大片，就是那个吧？岂不是套中套中套？
网飞挪威分部出品质量还不错，以传统黑色喜剧文本为底板，喷薄的血浆与恶趣味转折相得益彰，对戏内导演与演员身份的戏谑性解构饶富趣味，也是创新之处，可惜仅限开头和结尾。
说起北欧电影总是能想到那冷冷的笑话，怪异的人物性格，莫名其妙的沉默和北欧人包裹在高冷外表下滚热的心。本片作为地道的挪威片骨子里还是北欧风格却又拍出了不一样的感觉，这可能和导演特别是两位主演丰富的好莱坞经验有关。影片的大框架和元素无外乎是好莱坞常见的B级，cult，暴力血浆，再把节奏加快压缩到1个半小时可能就是一部徘徊在及格边缘的作品。恰恰是北欧影片那独特的风格给影片增色不少，或者说就是那种莫名其妙的一本正经的搞笑才是影片新颖的地方。夫妻相爱相杀又共御外敌，部分暴力镜头看着是真疼，结局好评。三星半
好在男女主的婚姻故事线是完整的，不然这个片子真的是屎尿屁加血浆，没比王晶的片子好到哪里去。三个蠢贼出现之前的节奏太缓慢，拍得也太无趣了，要不是豆瓣7.5的评分真的是坚持不下去。几处伤口撒盐、战斗老父亲、屎尿屁等小处理有点趣味性，其他的真是乏善可陈。
后面比较无聊，前面节奏还是有点慢了，感觉梗有点少，两人性格塑造不够矛盾主要集中在打嘴炮，他爹可真冤枉
前面一小段的婚姻危机拍得很好，后面就开始看得各种肉疼……讽刺面极广，但为了类型化而流于表面，或者说就是为了讨好观众而做的讽刺？如果最后掉进湖里的是老婆，基于前面的判断，估计老公会做出相反的选择。
是开头风格意料不到的有趣cult片，在荒郊野外的小木屋度假这样的桥段永远充满了惊喜，看到结局历史果然是由胜利者书写
我以为是法语。挪威啊。确实是那边的颜色。蓝蓝绿绿的。感觉我不会很喜欢。最近两天晚上看的都是血腥的。这个男的太烂了，虽然两个人都想杀对方，但是女的比男的强多了。几次救他。比如被强奸那个时候。男的幸灾乐祸女的被强奸，结果绑匪同性恋，女的知道男的被强奸还把它救了。但是这种鱼钩太可怕了……
黑色幽默的cult暴力的高效小题材，but风景真的不错。
即角色一次出清的太快，让后面的部分失掉了不可预见性，胃口就吊不起来了。
因为它能让你感受到希望
精彩绝伦了，又好笑又血腥，以及，好想去挪威！
有点多线头，暴力成分大过喜剧元素，喜剧还是X喜剧，共同经历过大事件的夫妻和解之路～
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