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".
超出预期；还是个很直白的故事，结尾就太直白了，不过转变还是蛮可以,尤其是小丑式大嘴；小女孩的演技嘛。。。不懂演技不敢说
表面和谐幸福的家庭实际上自私自利虚伪至极 母亲畸形狠毒的“爱”也让女儿“孵化”出了恶魔 把恶女的内心具象化制造出一道道恐怖戏码 深意与新意并存 算是今年目前最喜欢的恐怖片了
两星给修理工，So Cut But Sexy，My Love. 低配版的黑天鹅，人家是黑天鹅，这部是大乌鸦…..
小女主和妈妈的演技都是很不错的，女主妈有点像使女故事的女主
挺失望的，感觉改编的很奇怪，真人出演也是很硬拗
我觉得不错啊，儿童电影都比很多成人电影要好看
童话一般美丽的场景和角色，惊悚的片段，越看越有味道
北欧的恐怖片真是独树一帜，虽然结局还是有点不明不白，但整体创意真是强悍，演女儿的小演员演技真好，妈妈演员是可怕的感觉
北欧这类风格的恐怖片可以统一叫做字面意义的“白色恐怖”了，直面的都是现代社会最日常的议题。嗯不过，看的时候总会想，得亏你们这些国家福利制度完善，这点压力就……
其实电影寓意还是挺不错的。。。。女孩是妈妈的孵化品。怪鸟是女孩的孵化结果。但是这深度还是欠缺了一点。感觉好像到点上了。但是却没有深华
女儿的演技不错，而且好有气质好美，就是我想象中那种北欧带着忧郁和神秘气质的小仙女。
小时候一本《鲁西西传》看了十几遍、只要是和小伙伴一起玩微缩的过家家玩具都要幻想着要是能有罐头小人进去住就好了，电影拍的是一言难尽，三十几岁的人了为儿时情怀浪费了一个小时，毕竟受众群体是12岁以下的儿童…
呵……鸟人？？怎么不设定“7头”形？就想《南洋邪术》里徐锦江变成那个样🤔🤔
芬兰版奇蛋物语...主演换日本人的话也毫无违和的剧情..."尤其现代东亚父母和儿童不宜的摇篮曲"...
其实还是再说青春期叛逆和家庭教育给孩子带来的影响。
要恐怖没恐怖，伦理倒是充满全片三观碎一地，结局没全家去世等于bad ending。
我孵化了它，我现在不想要它了……但我还是会为它付出一切，包括生命，我明白它也是爱我的
画面上很北欧，清新与邪典齐飞，春花与血腥一色。主题有点类似于《妈咪晚安》，在成长的关键节点上，亲情的缺席所导致的黑暗后果。但本片在人物形象方面，要比冷峻的日耳曼民族丰满很多。特别是“Mother”这个角色，而一直在边缘游走的“Father”则非常完美地体现出家庭关系的非正常倾斜。阿莉是由谭雅孕育（孵化）出来的，作为谭雅的对立面，是谭雅潜意识与黑暗面的外化。最终，二人有回归统一。
明明是北欧电影却有种日本片的压抑沉闷，长期压抑的教育模式使得内心的怪物幻化成型最终取代原本的自己，顺从怯懦让人失望的小孩死了，留下的是妈妈喜欢的样子。
2022-06-18
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