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".
我看如今互联网上恶魔已经横行，这种诅咒完全是比不过囖
除了预告片里有的那个，其他基本完全不恐怖，对于节奏的把握实在是做得很不好，以及互动算是创意吧，但也就不知道骗谁。。。强升华又，有点硬尬了。
本片與《絕命派對》相比，最大的進步在於，完全脫離了西方恐怖片的概念，更多的來自於台灣神秘傳統（一個混雜了怪奇軼事，歷史，想象，空間時間交錯的世界）。除了取材於台灣神秘的特殊文化所虛構的大黑佛母外，編導亦把各種密宗，印度，東南亞的符號圖像和引述，起乩，中邪的奇怪手勢放進台灣的深山邪教中，一方面地豐富了恐怖內容，另一方面則突出製作上的考究以及反復強調對傳統文化應保有敬畏之心的主題。除了以奇怪的祭品，陰森的聲響以及黑暗中的光線等視覺描繪突出了大黑佛母的可怕之處，更令人恐懼的是，是當恐怖真相逐漸揭露之時，逐漸有一種心理上的不安出現，面對大黑佛母的無計可施，無疑更能強化了這種焦慮不安氛圍。
雖非新奇的形式，但氣氛超讚、美術一流，所有鏡頭、細節的設置有極高水準。
比预期中稍好一点，伪纪录片形式几乎从来没有令人信服过（密集飘忽、莫名其妙的机位和媒介变化，遗传到摄影天赋的小女孩，无源的景别调整与正反打……简直比《灵媒》还要严重），但剧作上对结构和人物动机的处理为电影增加了一条隐蔽的暗线，也令它形式的拙劣变得稍微可以原谅了一些。然而，导演不肯真正将署名权出让给角色，再加上佛母露脸之后又一次画蛇添足的设计，导致影片剧本上的巧思全都化作徒劳。如果将电影理解为主角为了传播而拍摄的蹩脚“真·伪纪录片”（当然，这在伪纪录片领域也早就不新奇了）、一部纯meta found footage，那主角在美术和特效上的造诣可真是高得过头了，为了救女儿，她六年下来怕是没少下功夫吧……
同样是Bright sky的入口，Sarah进去时我看到了希望、Tony被送回时我感到了绝望。但转过头来一想，我们多多少少都在疫情的笼罩下有些沮丧，不同的是，有的电影浓浓鸡汤味道，而有的却填满了最真实鲜活的情绪跌宕，说到这里又叹了一口气，绝望便也添了几分。（ps：好想念一个小时就可以逛完的利物浦和A23的小房间）
4分。手持相机近景特写拍摄还是很考验演员的演技的，镜头直接怼脸脸上的微表情一览无余，对于朱迪来说，这片里她的完成度十分高，印象最深的是凌晨那场戏，那种抑制自己情绪崩溃的表情，真的不忍心看。即使后面飞跃疗养院这出戏真的有点偏离了，但整体而言还是一部可看性十分高的电影，同样是新冠题材的，以小见大的功力可见一斑。
恐怖片在豆瓣评分普遍这么低看来就是因为这些傻逼了…
友情提示观影途中不要轻易跟着台词读出来哦 😈
期待太高，驚嚇有限，即便在故事過半時已經猜到了包袱的底，卻還是喜歡柯孟融的敘事詭計設計，不討好觀眾，與觀眾之間形成了一種奇妙的互動，將偽紀錄恐怖片的類型做了進一步的拓展，將觀看行為也納入成為電影的一部分。
镜头设计让人困惑。前面多处我的脑袋里都不断思考着“这个镜头哪里来的？”然后倒回去找镜头源，以及车载镜头的表情大特写切换有什么必要吗。但好在后面40多分钟氛围极佳，剧情上也玩了小把戏，还有对视觉的小把戏，导演能在一部电影里想到这么多元素已经很厉害了，很喜欢佛母的设计。
特别难过，最近每隔一段时间都会想起在印度仁爱之家照顾的那些老人，想到仁爱之家的大铁门能不能挡住新冠啊？那些老人能不能挺过这一关啊？那个大铁门，期望能够护佑住里面成百上千的老人。等疫情过去，要回仁爱之家问问sister这段时间的情况，看看那些记忆里每天乐呵呵的老人现在的状况。
好看，就恶心死你们这帮看盗版恐怖片还嫌晦气的大撒币。
晦气党们，有没有一种可能，咱们这样的盗版观众，根本享受不到来自正版的诅咒？
恐怖片不恐怖那就太搞笑了。符合且高于预期，没有讨论价值和争论空间的作品只能说太过平庸。况且，能让一群张扬个性特立独行的小唯物们喊出社会主义24字大明咒，这第四堵墙打得好，而且打得很有必要
不推荐。包裹着伪记录恐怖外衣的亲情片，其实还是伪记录恐怖片的一些惯用套路，而且调度和剪辑有不少不讲究的地方，好在恐怖元素比较乡土和东方。不过，可能刚好不适合我吧，最后有一种小学时候收到诅咒信的感觉，明知道是假的，但还是很膈应人。满心欢喜看一部电影，却好像吃了一只苍蝇，晦气。
像是一趟催眠的旅程，一步一步深陷故事，但我果然不是一個擁有喜愛恐怖片體質的人。
有病吧，诅咒观众？！跟观众来这套，有劲吗？谁看谁倒霉？还连上你最亲的人？你拍这个片子是为这个？臭sb！咒你大爷？！这要是跟影院花钱买票看的，准得有人把影院砸了。
电影本身没有对得上我的期待，只能说是很新奇、挺有趣、还不错。
让大家看到了疫情之下那些不被人知的残酷，女主演的不错，情节偏压抑无聊。
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