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".
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温子仁又回到了得心应手的领域，故事的反转想必很多人猜到了，但它依然是个很绝的点子，这概念这气质这音乐，仿佛电锯惊魂和死寂路子的延续。温子仁善于在恐怖片里结合不同类型元素，让吓人的段落不落俗套，于是就看到了隔空有眼，猛鬼跑酷，猛鬼疾速追杀，这种酣虐的段落。其实脑内的段落还可以再玩转一番。按照温子仁的标准，这个故事的主题和寓意有些流于表面了，但按照一般恐怖片的要求，温子仁还是可以傲视的。
Happier Than Ever是我过去一年最喜欢的专辑，我要以标记Live大电影的方式来表达我的喜爱。而且这次升级的编曲以及交响乐团的加入，让整张专辑的音乐层次更加分明，感官升级。
流着泪在舞池里彻夜狂欢，我想这是这张专辑，这场演唱会给我带来的感受。你能感受到她面对年少成名内心的挣扎，也能看到她用伤感的情绪与唱腔说自己happier than ever，which is ironic。有一些弦乐其实是自作聪明，然而她还是保证了很高的完成度。
西景镇明明是给旺达上了一堂课，而不是让她变得更疯狂😭👊👊你让她在西景镇收获的成长、人们的牺牲都变得全无意义😭👊👊
大管大弦的therefore i am全场最佳 甚至搞了一首到云盘😋
的确有山姆雷米味……迪士尼化的b级母亲节主题电影……从整个剧本来看漫威真是越来越烂/懒了
虾米没了，年纪大了，没咋关注新声代了
疫情期间的演唱会 没有足够的粉丝流量基础也不敢这么搞
P.S.简中译名意义不明，话说光是这种R级片引进去给“未删减版本”做增长的商业行为就有点反智，真不知道爱奇艺是怎么想的...
太燃太劲爆了！可是结局竟然把我最飒女神Wanda写死了？！全剧就为了救那个小女孩？即使让这个可怜的母亲穿梭宇宙又能怎样？？？女主让我联想到万物之主的女娲，美强惨😭这个剧情还是非常weak牵强，但是依旧好看，年度最精彩！【英国电影院都是躺着看，位子也宽敞，体验感满分💯】
万物皆可多元宇宙，整体还不错看，少了乱七八糟的回归亲情主线。让人惊喜的反而是gore和jump scare的运用，让这部邪得恰到好处，夏日避暑好去处。
提取了分轨音频。DL: 链接: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1XyjJw1izG5Vog4B1sEvSxg 提取码: i2qu
漫威看多了也就那意思 multiverse玩好几部都比不上人家十几秒的快闪
整部电影从头打到结尾，一直在打架，特效都快溢出屏幕了，卡玛泰姬的分镜处理不错，光照会的分镜是谁画的，建议开除😅
后脑勺隐隐作痛，故事很完整，但是套路也多，一开头就能猜出来梗。
或者说执行的编曲为了贴合碧梨的声线和歌曲本身 将很多东西都削减了
说实话在女子看守所扒开头皮那一瞬间还真是令人头皮发麻。我想了很多种方式共生，只是没想到是这样，血浆动作暴力该有的都有了，我挺喜欢//我只是觉得如此坚固的姐妹情有点莫名其妙，比较一开始铺垫不是这样的
每次尖叫灯玻璃都会碎掉，你不是加布列尔，你是永远长不高的奥斯卡
没有一首歌喜欢 不好意思了！
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