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".
后半段想象力挺好的，但是就整体套路到3000个好莱坞的级别
没想到有一年能看金棕榈比看温子仁更惊悚。故事很阿基多，拍得比较铅黄，但搞到最后反而乏善可陈，作为人（？）的反派太万能且看起来体力怎么样都大幅超过普通人类机能后就会看起来很像超英电影，于是爽感有余，痛感不足。而温子仁通过平滑调度来营造的Jump scare也没出现多少，以至于氛围上不去下不来，偶有亮点，但大多数时候一直在比较尴尬的地方游移。3.5归3吧。
难以形容温子仁脑子里都装着怎样令人震惊的一个个恐怖故事。
大略看了看自己的觀影記錄 突然明白每週一百多頁的閱讀同學都看完了可我覺得每天都讀了但真就讀不完是為什麼 哈哈哈
温导新作最惊艳的是Annabelle Wallis的形象，年代戏女主角的面孔在铅黄电影的恋物凝视下由羔羊转向魔鬼，古典恐怖风格的打光和妆容再造出木偶般的骇人眼瞳。故事的悬疑设置在拥有既往类型套路的预设基础上没有意外的反转和突破，警局屠杀一幕调度控制依旧出色。老旧鬼屋，孪生邪魔，被剥夺孕育权利的母体，雌雄同体，镜像之屋，向着陈旧文本致意的哥特情结苏醒，以疼痛和血浆的展陈回馈经典氛围的体验。无法割除的肿瘤，一如根植在社会意识大脑深处的性别阶序：共生潘多拉魔体内影子世界的复仇之路成为女性在现实生活不断被抑制被规训所积蓄怨愤的怒火喷溅。母性掩盖的神圣谎言之下，本能一旦从文化禁锢的冬眠和潜伏状态脱笼而出，杀戮四起，无法遏制。睡吧，你的梦是我的乐园，你亲手铸造的怪物，身披黑衣穿过阴影疾行皮囊腠理之间。
看见警察调查文件的时候那一堆U盘，怎么总感觉温子仁又在挖大坑😂
时间过得好快 还记得这片子从立项开始就卖关子好像就在前几个月一样 因为实在是经不起一点剧透 剧本都没怎么打磨就开拍了的感觉 也不知道是本来就一般的温被你们吹过头 还是海王太香所以回不去初心了
不要粗暴对待精神疾病患者。对精神外科手术的控诉。因果报应。凶手像蟑螂一样迅速逃窜。
后面警局真精彩，诡异的行动模式，故事简单粗暴
1因为被剧透为啥国内能过审加上说是科幻片，剧情基本猜得七七八八了。结果真的没有鬼……恐怖体验直接打骨折。2妹妹这个角色太可爱了吧，又耍宝又勇敢。真好啊，姐妹情深。3大家吹得太过了，这部真的好普通。戳不到我。可以看看，但真的没那么神。
这个电影值得一篇柳叶刀的论文，以后骂人脑子有病得小心点了，转个头就是双面杀手，但是Gabriel这飞檐走壁手刃数十人的技能哪儿来的，另外那把匕首很好看
暴力，血腥，惊悚和悬疑度一个不落，个人认为算得上近几年值得推荐的恐怖片之一了。这部片完全可以再次说明温子仁的能力所在，尤其在类型片领域内，他的风格和镜头只属于他自己，尤其是那几场残杀的片段，丝毫不遮掩，那些特定的场景还有杀人手法，带有一种仿佛梦回《电锯惊魂》的凋零破败。一想到温导监制的那几部片子，真想指着那些导演，让他们学学温导是怎么拍的，就算剧情烂一些，说不定还能靠镜头博取些观众的好感。
屠杀和幻境太惊艳了，在营造气氛上你可以永远相信温导，至于故事略虎头蛇尾了，恐怖片的短板，没办法。
每个人心中都有恶魔，而女主的这只是外化的，你能将它暂时囚禁但不能杀死它，因它永远与你联体共生。除了能量不太守恒，整个设定都很完整又丰富。被恶魔侵蚀的哥特风女主，蜘蛛侠加百列会中国功夫，CG不够流畅，反倒给反派的动作戏增加了一种僵尸式的机械酷炫感。从胎儿吸取养分又让人想起罗丝玛丽的婴儿。之前以为的精神分裂原是肉体分裂。不管是视觉形象还是惊吓点都还蛮耳目一新的，配乐带感，前半段女主的房子掀开房顶一层到二层的动态俯拍恐怖感惊人。警探和金发妹妹全程调情还挺好玩的，就是这结局…………明显真是一顿乱改。
大开杀戒那一场有借鉴《双瞳》吧，寄生胎设定感觉也是源自《鬼伎回忆录》，温子仁还是氛围那一挂，啥时候能不那么多嗷嗷叫就好了
就是看到一半已经猜得七七八八，但还是觉得好刺激。那种明知道没有鬼依然被老套的套路吓到的刺激。。镜头视角用得好呀。梅一个人在家里害怕的跑来跑去的时候，用的是俯视的视角，仿佛有个人在跟我们一样，用上帝的视角看着她跑。还有她丈夫被杀那一段。大中午把我看得发毛。那个沙发慢慢弹起真是心理暗示太可怕了。还有杀老头那个床底视角（我这辈子都不想有空心的床底！！！！）视角刺激就更加了。梅在监狱那一幕，堪称异形的变相致敬。而拿着匕首在警局大杀四方又觉得这仿佛在看动作片。。
看开场的时候我一直坚信这一定是戏中戏，不可能拍这么烂的。。。这么无厘头的片子，现在温子仁还需要亲自拍吗？
观感很棒 揭底的时候 那种爽感堪比看怪物电影大boss出场 血腥刺激
运镜和调度依然是同类型中的Top级，转场和配乐的运用，气氛的营造和渲染，依然是其他惊悚恐怖片导演望尘莫及的水平。各种血腥屠杀般断手断脚的场景，很是到位和过瘾。
看了删减版给7分的人你们快去看完整版！！！不论从那个角度来说都是绝对的年度最佳，观影过程简直不要太爽，温子仁永远的神！
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