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".
上个月看的 看完电影就又去看漫画了orz 虽然感觉跳舞的气势完全不及在漫画里表现出来的 也总是用空镜抵消跳舞动作 但大体上还是很开心地看完了
大量中远景，几乎没有特写镜头，全片无台词。朴实无华的记叙，但两条线的穿插和场景的调度又别具匠心。不落窠臼，耳目一新。#BJIFF2021 9.21@深影
很一般唯一亮点是 让说西班牙语真就说了西班牙语
观看本身趣味满满，但执迷于一一得一一二得二一三得三一四得四一五得五的粗暴对应关系，实在不胜其烦，李安都不忍心重复这么多次。
如果是剧集聚焦的是蠢太对高人的追求，那剧场版注重的就是高人对蠢太的奔赴😭双向的爱真的太感动了！
歌还行（烂片出神曲？不过还没到神曲的地步），隔着屏幕感受到了尴尬……开始怀疑当年我为什么会追tv动画啊！
如此纯影像纯概念的片子，喜欢的人是会赞美其精巧，不喜欢的人是会睡着。
片子最大的败笔是虚焦！虚焦！根本不能当风景片看，从第一幕画面中心就是虚焦的，后面每个开阔山野场景都有或近景或远景不同位置的虚焦，眼睛不断收缩调整还以为自己的眼睛出了问题就很难受！片子内容还行，到达洞的终点，牧羊老人的生命也走到终点（不过嘴部还在微动就很破坏观感）美嘉一号厅屏幕右上方有一个小蓝点越注意到越注意到，一度以为是摄像机鬼影想着这也太业余了…倒也不闷开始铺垫阶段比较催眠不困也给整困了。这洞到底也有充足氧气有点不可思议一度为队员担心，摄像机机位存在感让人出戏。美嘉前排地下身能感受到微微的风，在洞底匍匐的画面有了略微妙的4D感
看到瑟雷斯先生跳西班牙的弗朗明哥舞，震撼到了，優雅又熱情，節奏明快……
就很喜欢耽美的地方，可以看到两个相互拥抱和治愈的灵魂。用最热情的西班牙舞蹈去表达自己的爱意，不用内敛，肆意地去散发魅力，然后狂热地在黑暗的小巷，昏黄的灯光下doi，再一起拥抱着迎接清晨的第一缕阳光(虽然不得不说有点伤身体)。
就是跳舞的动画略有点尬，不过脖子下面的黑线终于去掉了，谢天谢地！
秋分时节宜睡觉宜膜拜固定镜头大师，忌抖机灵忌诋毁艺术
属于更适合影院观看的一种类型——无论是至静至美的摄影，还是窸窣可闻的声响效果，以及契合主题「洞」的概念，面对银幕画框的「洞」，在无限沉静的慢节奏中体悟“洞穴”从暗处豁然的清明感，观者可以在洞穴千年的大梦中感受宇宙维度的生命之须臾（映照在岩壁上的光影明灭绝美）；从广弘的自然视野慢慢收缩到具体而微的个人，视点悠然流动，并随着摄影机取景位的变化，逐渐生成双线交融的“叙事”剪辑感。
虽然舞蹈和西语让我感觉有一丝敷衍和出戏...但情感方面还是挺戳我的。他们都逐渐学会了爱，真好。
洞里每天都在往未知探索，洞外老人缓慢走向死亡。结尾洞的画很妙。@11thBJIFF三里屯美嘉
实际上表意非常清晰，就是一个关于“入侵”的故事。影片中小城镇被美国文化的入侵，探险队对于洞穴的入侵，病痛对老人的入侵，三者是互文且被刻意的用蒙太奇手法并置的。作者对人类的探索欲与征服欲进行了深层次的思考，并且得出了一个非常虚无主义的结论：征服与探索的终点必然是灭亡，死亡与探索的终结，电视上的美国歌舞与洞底燃烧殆尽的美国杂志，以及最后那场吞噬一切的雾，是非常文学且工整的对位。整个观影体过程如同一场冥想，半睡半醒间洞穴内的镜头甚至在主观形成了更为抽象的影像体验，上一次有这种体验还是锡兰的《小亚细亚往事》。
绝美爱情，哭了，高人蠢太会一直一直在一起。
天啊啊啊啊啊啊!!东谷准太和西条高人到底是什么神仙眷侣啊 真的被他们的浪漫与真情折服啊 好感动 拜托一直出他们的系列吧 真的好喜欢他们!!!😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
像是构建了一场人类与自然的装置艺术，洞穴里的光影设计和好几处视角切换都是大师手笔，对自然的探索和人世的无常构成超验般连接，最终化为沉沉雾霭。大银幕绝佳观影体验。
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