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".
和麦肯齐的长期呆滞相比，安雅的表演又一次得到印证，即便拿到的是那个更泛滥的角色，堕落舞女，她依然能很迅速地用一双灵动的眼睛赋予其人格魅力。
畅快淋漓的悬疑电影，一人穿梭在两个世界之间的视觉设计非常惊艳，关于角色身份设计的情节反转也做到了意料之外情理之中，有太多细节值得铺开叙述，我只能说已经有很长一段时间没看到如此精彩绝伦的悬疑电影。
Edgar Wright的嶄新嘗試口碑毀譽參半，劇情上較遭人詬病例如反轉後劇情無力承接命題，但囊括一眾很難會難看的元素（復古、迷影、霓虹）結合對鏡像的運用，Edgar Wright奉獻一次視覺和聽覺的盛宴。
花地骂得好。
结尾的处理得扣分了，太潦草。其实相比性别议题，我看到的更多是导演埃德加赖特本人对这部影片的个人投射，很容易就想到几年前他被迫放弃执导《蚁人》，尽管他为那部电影的剧本投入大量的精力。本片里的Sandie同样在追逐梦想的道路上面临放弃自我，讨好恶魔的境地，像噩梦一样环绕在两个女主身边。我相信赖特依然对当初《蚁人》未能成行而耿耿于怀，这些年的魂牵梦绕，为《Soho区惊魂夜》提供了不少情感支撑。
2.5 埃德加赖特 从上部电影开始编剧水平就一塌糊涂 还以为是午夜伦敦结果是致命女人 你再这样下去我真的会失望
Edgar Wright就是那种你可以无条件相信、并且至今还未令你失望的导演。当电影的视听足够优秀，我对故事合理性的要求就会淡化，本身这就是亦真亦幻的艺术。但这其中的边界在哪里、达到如何的质感水平就可以去弱化对剧本的要求这一点我还在探索。感谢公司让我有机会在影院效果里欣赏此片，这种视听感当然最适合影院。在Jojo Rabbit之后第二次看Thomasin出演，这里的眼妆和服饰都美多啦~安雅妹子也一如既往地美且吸睛。还有就是我最爱、最爱的伦敦啊！那可爱美丽的Soho区啊！一起看的小伙伴跟我说了句解封之后一起去伦敦，如果能实现那真是太好。每一次看到伦敦的影像都太想她了，导演是不是也对此地爱得深沉，才有片尾里那好几张soho的空镜呢。
一直在一星和五星之间跳跃，不愧是你，Edgar Wright。声画过载严重剥削了这个电影🎬
这片看完我都要疯了。女主应该是有Schizophrenia，至于她怎么看到的60年代Sandie的故事幻象的，并没有交代清楚。也许这片子想要表达的是London是个复杂环境，来到这里不要迷失自己。最后，好想把Ellie房间外面一闪一闪的红蓝灯牌拆掉，天天这么闪怎么睡得好。
抄了好多《未麻的部屋》的构思，今敏太惨了，你们就不能换个人抄吗？？
为什么大家都被吓到 我笑疯了 Edgar wright奸笑（？）的脸力透银幕 恶趣味一脉相承 爽是爽的 sam claflin一出现我就知道没那么简单 果然
与现实掺杂在一起，精神病人的异想世界。
看得筋疲力尽，救命。
期待了一週的電影！我以為是個女權片然而⋯⋯
作为看铅黄片长大的人，这个片有非常丰满的铅黄要素，但缺少最关键的那个——似宗教的神秘氛围，扎根在欧洲人文的阴翳，突出一个引人入胜。当然时代需要创新，但作为赖特粉，渐入佳境后的展开让我感觉在看Doctor who。配乐也很致敬，但远没有goblin的电子乐在你的背后吹拂阵阵阴风的爽快感。最喜欢真凶最后上楼梯那段的特效，满脑子都是未麻的部屋
从主题（inspiration、mental illness与spirituality、historical burden的缠杂关系）到声画（赖特的强项）、角色都很精彩，尤其前一个小时。但情节上又是“开头结尾有了画面，发展部分没想清楚于是硬来”，vision的过度反真实处理导致观众中途抽离，是这种没想清楚的症状之一。当然，这种硬来与“uncanny导致抽离”也是1970年代恐怖电影的特征之一，或许可以当作赖特致敬的表现吧——至少比温子仁的手法高超多了。总之，2020年拍出这个水平，值得推荐。
与现实掺杂在一起，精神病人的异想世界。
畅快淋漓的悬疑电影，一人穿梭在两个世界之间的视觉设计非常惊艳，关于角色身份设计的情节反转也做到了意料之外情理之中，有太多细节值得铺开叙述，我只能说已经有很长一段时间没看到如此精彩绝伦的悬疑电影。
真的是为了安雅泰勒多给两颗星。
只有刚入梦境的时候还有点意思…镜面表演实在太好玩了！但后面这拍的啥呀 双女主的惊恐脸比剧情更可怕好吧（贬义） 差点没认出荆棘女王 她的表演才是真的吓人（褒义）
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