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".
更像一部和自己的对话，寻找自己生命的真相，不是其他任何人告诉你的，而是你真正感动的价值所在，与内心消极抗争
血腥版小森林，小女巫版成长的烦恼，我好喜欢旁白絮絮叨叨的说“哎呀哎呀”
当你身边最亲密的人，在社会上也十分优秀的人，突然失去记忆失去自理能力，你会如何去做呢？又会如何对待这份感情呢？在这个浮躁的社会，人们没有去珍视情感的心里，都是麻木的，都是不仁的，网络面前都是张开圣嘴的人，在我打上这段文字的时候，你可否想过，我就是拿着屠刀的盗贼，请社会还给我们思想自由，我不想在做没有感情的傀儡—导演李玉超
挺有意思的女巫片儿，揭露了女性，男性，巫性，人性。。。
生命的延续是最可贵的 而又是最本能的
披着恐怖片外皮的文艺片，原片沉闷得让人看不下去，转而看的别人的解析，导演是从女巫的角度来探讨生命和社会的议题，恕我欣赏不来这么深奥的表现方式
这能叫电影？不就是拼凑的乐色吗，我就不信有人不快进能看完这东西
可是没有谁会是一张可以反复重新刷上新色的空白，女是女男是男的世界是灼烧的，痛苦的。至少让世界来点女巫吧！或是任何不相信谎言的东西，不要“然而”。
确实可以称得上史上最治愈系恐怖片,当下人们都在逃避生而为人的痛苦和无奈,却忘记了生命本是一场奇幻的旅程,如何体验皆在自己的选择和坚持。
“没了记忆还是人么？那是僵尸……”所有的体面和尊严在阿尔兹海默症面前都荡然无存……发病时有多无力 清醒那一刻就有多痛苦
蛮寓言性质的一个故事 很文艺的风格 镜头语言很美 完全不是恐怖片吧
镜头、光影都很美，很多画面都可以截下来作为桌面，探讨依然是女性成长、女性觉醒的问题，但是个人觉得如果要用这种拍摄方式的话，做成散文集或者诗歌集不是更好吗？最后女主通过经历了女孩-妻子-母亲的身份变化才认同了自己的身份，这是在影射不生孩子的女人不完整吗？
味同嚼蜡。意象堆叠看似高级，说穿了不过是一些简单而又刻意的成长比喻，干燥乏味。
“当和男人在一起时，你是炖菜、是茶水。对于男人而言，你居住于他们的掌心，你是水，涓涓流出，围绕着男人。 当和女人在一起时，你是一面镜子，对于女人而言，你是玻璃……” 很出色的文艺片，以女巫的视角透视困于群居中的男女，最大的反派也许是孤独。浓郁的氛围、文艺的旁白，手持摄像的失焦为整部灰色影片陌上一抹朦胧。满星推荐一下，节奏比较慢，尺度比较大，慎重观影。
文艺片，角度很有意思，体验不同性别，年龄的人生。
算是《钛》的复制品吧，几乎任何方面都很一样。
悉尼电影节SFF第3场，后半段节奏就有点奇怪了，前面很不错，画面视听也很好，女巫在人世间走一遭，体会人间的极悲与极乐。
故事本身乏善可陈，为了煽情而煽情。徐姐演技还行。
非常新的体验，但是的确不大喜欢大段旁白，我觉得旁白是想象力和生活体验以及编剧能力弱的一种逃避。
假装恐怖片的文艺片。血腥残忍的设定，随意杀人然后霸占别人的人生，缓慢沉闷的呓语旁白，想要讨论什么却也只是空洞，最后女人都生孩子的结局，绝了。
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