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".
结尾黑的可以…
难得听到拉佩斯讲自己的母语😂Ooops挪威语不是瑞典语
除了节奏有些失衡，让故事的观感不那么流畅丝滑外，你要能接受血浆屎尿屁横飞的话，这电影还不错
母亲和自我两个身份来回拉扯。一个拥有强大自我的人，无法完全把自己交给母亲这个身份，但又不能完全割舍掉母性。影片一大半时间都在误导我们，营造大女儿死了的线索，最后才揭晓，女主的痛苦来自她身上的两个东西。她是对以往自己做的事情感到愧疚，但真要再选一次，估计还是会逃离。
缝合怪，没什么惊喜。感觉导演的水准浮动还挺大的
如果两个人出了问题这么解决能重归于好的话我也愿意。
各种元素都具备，反转 喜剧 血浆 好看。
电影#079
母亲和自我两个身份来回拉扯。一个拥有强大自我的人，无法完全把自己交给母亲这个身份，但又不能完全割舍掉母性。影片一大半时间都在误导我们，营造大女儿死了的线索，最后才揭晓，女主的痛苦来自她身上的两个东西。她是对以往自己做的事情感到愧疚，但真要再选一次，估计还是会逃离。
非常血腥，女主很强大，男主老爸的台词很搞笑。
在糟糕的日子里，救彼此于水火的不离不弃，让祸成为福之所倚。
Noomi依然是打出一套血路 然而回回不一樣 挺好的 擺脫女殺手的形象
唯一理解她的是威尔
只有开头结尾有意思，其他部分真是无聊
贼：又蠢又坏又TM好色成瘾，真可以。
这是一部越往后看，越好看的电影。必须承认的是，影片前期是稍微有一点闷的，直到丈夫准备杀妻开始，故事便开始渐入佳境，人物不断的增加，故事不断的反转，不断的铺设前置剧情，加上很多让人会心一笑的桥段，让这部电影好看到飞起，甚至一些血腥画面，也被喜剧效果影响，并不会让人产生生理不适，而是更加佩服导演和编剧的精彩设计和脑洞，不过后面男主父亲那段，处理的有些刻意了，毕竟男主女主是可以救下老爷子的。另外，男主是真的惨啊，他的脸真的是不要命的被打啊，同时三个匪徒竟然不是要上他老婆，反而要上他的桥段，真的太出乎人的意料了，而那几个桌球是如何带入厕所的，真的好有画面感，真的是惨到太令人想笑了！
虽然知道是屎尿屁，但也不能爽就完事了呀，前戏乱套，结构无趣，可恨的是连根事后烟都没有，片子的BUG和各位傻逼角色的各种脑残行为已经不是可以随便笑笑说一句“啊呀，没关系，反正是一部爽片。”就算了的程度了，一个反派出门前手里拿着猎枪，出门后竟然用小刀去威胁女主，类似无脑桥段到中后段几乎五分钟一个，极度影响观看，要说暴力、血浆、重口味，那真还差远了。整一个四不像。
四级反转，坑爹的衰仔导演和演技浮夸的演员妻子的逆袭之路。
3.7分，一開始以為就是人畜無害的北歐喜劇片，看到中斷才發現壓根就不是啊，活脫就是暴力至上拳拳到肉的劇情片，實話說邏輯漏洞還是很多的，很多時候都覺得主角們是不是被打傻了一點兒思考能力都沒有，但念在看的爽，就這樣吧
改编还不错，拍出了费兰特内在的紧张性和犀利的揭露温情面纱的能力，当然不是所有人都有胜任母职的天性。19年在博洛尼亚交换时那边的导师提到费兰特这本原著，就很好奇，去年威尼斯电影节开始就盼着出资源，到现在看到电影，新年第一片。每年这些新片出来，都是生活的盼头，因此不害怕时间流逝。ps.女主跟我同一个专业，translation studies and comparative literature 😅
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