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".
故事内核不错 前半段的分段式故事显得割裂 时运如此 都不容易
人類如果真的「進化」到失去痛覺那可以利用這個技能做什麼？站在宗教和倫理的角度，對自己身體改造到哪一個程度是對造物主和身體本身的不敬？在整體基調非常形而上的基礎上卻有個非常實在的設定：有的人進化到可以吃塑料了。這簡直像是編劇/導演給出的現代地球難題的最終解。觀影感受不適，但同時覺得很新鮮
BODY IS REALITY. LONG LIVE THE NEW ORGAN.
超出预期，用了罗生门的叙事手法，有中国特色的志怪故事，落点在揭露人性丑恶，物理惊吓有一部分，细思极恐的也努力做了，确实是上乘之作。
被名字耽误了的电影，网大真是越来越让人惊喜了
期待落空。全片应有的哥特cult感完全没出来。每个演员的表演节奏都不一样，镜头的感觉与题材也不符。以至于有一种奇怪的感觉，好像一个欧洲大佬（男主角）找了一些他喜欢的女演员，拍了一个他喜欢的题材。小K真的很会演紧张高潮脸，太适合被剪成鬼畜了！！片中的SM行为艺术，都令人印象深刻。不过说artist的次数过多，似乎产生了反作用。connection movie: 钛
通过割裂痛感而达成的G点，和《欲望号快车》同工，而以生物机械作为载体更新颖猎奇。人类以改变自己的体质来消化自己创造的土壤难以消化的塑料，这脑回路也是绝绝子。
真的好看啊！有点像围炉夜话，一个故事不同的视角得到不同的版本，零零碎碎的最后拼接出真相，却是人性的黑暗，好在天道轮回，恶人终得恶报
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1/4世纪前看crash其实是看James Spader的裸体，现在看这个，因为荷尔蒙少了，倒是可以感受一点点这位导演的黑色幽默了。
在我给《钛》打一星的时候，真没想到还有比钛还差的影片，浪费了这么多好演员……
第一部柯南伯格，可以说大开眼界。身体和感觉（痛感）的异化被定义为一种新的自然感知规则，并在这种新的框架内演绎“演化”。前半部分的节奏和氛围感极佳，结局的泪水是这种演化的开放性延续，似乎影片在此处才带给观众情绪的最高点。“人类”和“未来”也由此抽象为一种形而上学的概念。可关于Lang的一切戏份都有些与整体氛围割裂过大，情节和动机处理也变得极为简单，观感好奇怪。
复仇片，叙事借鉴了许多国外电影，又很像七八十年代的血浆片。本来挺不错，可惜把人性说的过于丑恶，没有美的点缀，丑又有何用呢？这个故事大打折扣
这不就是个辣鸡嘛，果然网大加恐怖，是真“恐怖”
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意外地还不错，国产《罗生门》。正经人谁半夜讲鬼故事啊？人心才是最恶的鬼。
没想到第一部戛纳居然是柯南伯格，虽然有些镜头让我恶心半天，有些却美的令人窒息，难以想象，这样主题下的画面居然也是美的
还行，1什么鬼怪害人，从来人心险恶；2智障的世界里骗子多
两颗星都是给蕾雅的，电影本身剧情设计太沉闷，科幻的外衣，科幻元素设计缺乏美感，甚至粗糙到傻帽。就想问，小K在这部电影里怎么回事？是还没从戴安娜的状态里抽离出来吗？
比《钛》要好一些，没什么深奥的，也不需要阐释，对性的戏仿并无新意。对于社交媒介（表演性）的嘲讽，对于人自恋的嘲讽，对于人亲密关系的怀疑，也都比较表面化。有一点加缪的冷漠，有一点卡夫卡的异化。其实与其如此，还不如干脆做成影像装置行为艺术，比如像博伊斯的《如何向一只死兔子解释绘画》那样。
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