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".
7/10，混入了太多议题了，再加上大段大段的台词，容易让人找不到重点，也难以细细回味。
索金和基德曼都卯足了劲要冲奥，匠气十足，从始至终无法入戏。我自问，是讨厌索金吗？随即想起自己看茉莉和七君子时并不反感；是觉得基德曼演另一个人太尴尬吗？但她演的伍尔夫让我全程惊艳；是对影视人的故事无感吗？但《摄影机不要停》是看一次哭一次。好了，不是我的问题，是电影的问题。
流媒体定制小片子，甲方在上，成本受限，所以功力只显三成？
好莱坞现在只能拍意淫以前辉煌时刻的伪纪录片吗？所有对于女性的思考都非常肤浅模式化喊口号，也许这就是美国梦吧。
“小杜小杜，说一下此片迷影到了哪些影史经典？”“后窗，姐妹情仇，窃听大阴谋，等到天黑。”……其实拍的并不好。各种传统惊悚元素组装得既显白又生硬。比如足不出户的心理问题，并没有表现在被迫外出后的精神萎顿或行动障碍，相反跑得比谁都欢！最后的翻天逆转在暴力层面上也是毫无铺垫莫名其妙……两星半。
一般般，心疼Lucy，但确实是个boss ass bitch
索德伯格也是相当赶潮流了，新冠疫情+大数据时代+Metoo，把这三大热门话题融合成了一个90分钟故事，拍得有速度感有反思，女主单枪匹马挑战强权也算copy自己的《永不妥协》了，至于对《后窗》的致敬打破了从偷窥者视角切入，而是以被窥看者作为主角，正好暗示了信息时代每个人都面临了被监控的命运，片中有两段让人后脊发凉:一是女主虹膜信息被授权只是因为同意了某网站条款，二是犯罪者轻易通过定位和搜索记录成功拦截女主位置。
A / 用《放大》击碎《后窗》直达《审判》。声与画一开始便分离为两条线，前者为闭锁却仍然向过去深潜的人物内在，后者为跃过外部世界封锁的渴望——它们在一个身体跌坐的姿势中碰撞，在想象的召唤中让多重记忆叠合，从而促发人物的空间突围。但索德伯格显然并未天真到让人物畅行无阻，而是将她放入了更为散乱的迷宫中——把《删除历史》里金钟罩般的科技公司拆解成细碎的隔间、回廊、楼梯、数据库，把地面红蓝相间的广场拟态为破碎的星条旗，来往的行人彷如被放进matrix般亦真亦幻。好在声音最终勾连起了那些上手的武器，夹缝空间中物的网络亦是庇荫与反抗的根据——而她依然保有在一片狼藉中，打开那扇门的勇气。
反杀之后开门接过花束那里的设计很妙，可惜电影整体水准受限。
（看看我会不会是豆瓣第2011个围观今年影后表演的观众）
控制规模、场景、投入，控制得非常有效，拍出的电影情节比较紧凑，完美使用了希区柯克后窗的套路，从窥见案件，到掩盖犯罪，是一个情节链条自动跑了下来。
有技巧有隐喻有思考，但是文本实在太单薄，撑不起来，缺点难以忽视。
就别说对国外观众友不友好了，就想问问漂亮国年轻人对这题材有感吗？完全是几个人圈地自萌的东西，不知道拍这样的电影有什么意义？拍也就算了，毕竟啥不能拍，问题是颁奖季影片，奥斯卡入围，这得堕落到啥程度？还有，妮可基德曼的脸到底怎么了？
大概是疫情场景下看到的有趣的片了……小品，小剧情。看看装修也挺好的😆
觉得索金的剧本还是有点门槛的，这次我被拦门外了。不喜欢。
暴风雨前的宁静，喜剧背后的悲伤。这档节目的最后一周注定不平凡，观众看到的是他们最好的一面，而背后的故事才更让人心酸。
史蒂文索德伯格太高产了吧 女主战斗力还是可以的 人工智能时代的恐怖片和我们距离好近
剧本很巧妙，涵盖的内容也很多，妮可仿佛又焕发青春了。艾伦索金的片依然对非英语国家的观众不友好。
近几年老这么拍传记片 且抓住一个小细节小情绪抠啊抠 再也找不回当年看朗读者和changeling 的感动了 谁来结束这个时代/前半段实在是昏昏欲睡 后半段突然明朗起来 挣扎与桎梏也有了理由 仿佛看见“演员的诞生”里固执的章子怡 又好像看见“浮生路”里几近偏执的肥温 ；中途一度不清楚只因为妆还是打针的原因 妮可的脸僵得不行 去看了原主人公的照片只得噗嗤一笑 豁然开朗 ；成片质量一般 但看完全片一扫疑惑与冗长 是完全值得二封的表演。
妮可的表演很棒，将女主的性格完全展示了出来，最后发现丈夫出轨到忘词那段是高光，但影片还是有点混乱
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