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".
如果把所有意指符号都很清晰地堆砌在观众脸上，那么这部片就既不算是诡异浪潮，也称不上心理恐怖，而是很无聊的形象政论吧。不过，如果能把这部片子介绍给大陆男宝看看也是不错的，起码能让他们理解一下女性对男性的恐惧从何而来，然而大陆女性要面临的问题可不是人家西方后现代社会那样简单。
镜头构图美得让人心醉，随手可以截图明信片那种。女主角对前夫的心理阴影用形象生动到血腥残暴的方式活灵活现地撕扯出来，对男人毫无任何怜悯地批判。竟然是位男导演拍的，令人肃然起敬。
论亚历克斯·加兰怎么处理 “男性凝视” ，给了你血淋淋分叉的手掌还不够还要给你套娃式的分娩体验，A24引领邪典先锋当之无愧！
人体奇观大赏，代代相传的恐惧，生而为男，请你抱歉。PS：男男生子文可代（bushi。
男人看着似乎各有不同，仔细看看其实都是一张面孔，男权社会代代相传，绵延不绝，只有主谋与帮凶
我的理解是，不管他们是什么职业什么性格，都是同根生，本质上是一样的
Alex Garland作为男性导演首次拍摄女性电影，还是太浅薄，所以倍显无聊（当然，女性可能会更感同身受）。大量无用沉冗的镜头，过于单一的摄影和调度，以及令人不安、随机出现的配乐，对于氛围营造和剧情推进都毫无用处。很像《我想结束这一切》（女主都是Jessie Buckley演的），但可解读性和情绪把控远不如它，美学也略弱于它。Jessie和一人分饰多角的Rory演技不错。控制、暴露、暴力、伪善、保守、无脑、羞辱，男性劣质层层套娃，一星给最后的cult场面（虽然《停尸房收藏》已出现过男性生子，且cult迷表示没有特别被shock到）。然后就是，我就想看个走心不偷懒、聪明有创新的恐怖片，咋这么难？（叹气）
提供了一个值得思考视角，视听语言也挺不错的，男的不行但男主的表演挺行。
love how fxxking weird and absurd this is. （评价一定两极（男人去死
单从技术层面分析，A24与亚历克斯·加兰这次完全可以凭借《Men》在2022恐怖电影界「独领风骚」了。极致的视听语言与几乎完美的恐怖氛围营造，称其为「盛宴」亦不足为过。前半程用「文艺片」手法铺垫，带有强烈「创伤感」的人物塑造及镜头感、配乐都非常高级。最后的爆发亦「精彩纷呈」，恐惧催生出恐惧，暴力孕育出暴力，十分钟的视觉呈现几乎可以封神。从内容上看，电影带有强烈的「恐男」特质，但相比较其他低级、刻意、无趣的刻画与塑造，《Men》赢在了视听语言上。至于其传递的主题与私货本质，和其他同类作品并无两样，说粗俗点，都一个B味。三星全给技术组，内容一星不值。
女主哈珀在乡间庄园里发生的故事
前面壁纸一般的空镜，绿意盎然，美轮美奂；配乐极简的做到了空灵神秘，仿佛来自另一个世界的召唤；套娃重生契合达尔文的泛生论-既获得性特征以“微芽”，“泛子”存储，并孕育，并随之遗传到下一代身上，“剪刀手”和“大肚子”一直遗传，直至haper男友出来，不知是否有意无意，最后应该是某种觉醒；苹果象征伊甸园禁果，又涉及到“原罪”的概念，诱惑和性既是人类替亚当背负的罪，但明显导演是反问式的，裸体男应该就是亚当的象征，男性犯的罪（自杀也是罪）由女性背负，世世代代的；另外游戏boy，牧师，房东以及警察都象征男性（父权社会）控制，粗俗，蔑视没错了；最后的女主女友的出现，算是一种对以上种种的fuck off…信息量挺大，又很模糊，意向性表达，融入恐怖元素。再加一句，A24的金主是个怪咖趴…
三星过低，四分有点高。隐喻很好，各种电影只是提出问题不解决问题，看不到出路已经想摆烂了。
Alex Garland作为男性导演首次拍摄女性电影，还是太浅薄，所以倍显无聊（当然，女性可能会更感同身受）。大量无用沉冗的镜头，过于单一的摄影和调度，以及令人不安、随机出现的配乐，对于氛围营造和剧情推进都毫无用处。很像《我想结束这一切》（女主都是Jessie Buckley演的），但可解读性和情绪把控远不如它，美学也略弱于它。Jessie和一人分饰多角的Rory演技不错。控制、暴露、暴力、伪善、保守、无脑、羞辱，男性劣质层层套娃，一星给最后的cult场面（虽然《停尸房收藏》已出现过男性生子，且cult迷表示没有特别被shock到）。然后就是，我就想看个走心不偷懒、聪明有创新的恐怖片，咋这么难？（叹气）
每个女性都能从女主身上看到自己真实的遭遇，啊男人真都是一个逼样，当我们拿起斧子，不再服从，不再内疚，开始反抗的时候，我们将不再恐惧。
两性的设定就是男人对女人的恶，在这件事上男性背离正义，女性献祭生育
太喜欢A24这种奇怪兮兮表达方式，而且把女(性）权表达得不让人反感，真喜欢
3.5 摄影牛逼 隐喻生硬 故事太弱；看到不少呼应冯提尔的地方；丽达与天鹅那段的对话让人想到茨维塔耶娃的：她等待刀尖已太久（观影时错记成这个但似乎更贴切：她已在刀尖等待太久）
提供了一个值得思考视角，视听语言也挺不错的，男的不行但男主的表演挺行。
3.5 摄影牛逼 隐喻生硬 故事太弱；看到不少呼应冯提尔的地方；丽达与天鹅那段的对话让人想到茨维塔耶娃的：她等待刀尖已太久（观影时错记成这个但似乎更贴切：她已在刀尖等待太久）
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