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".
前面节奏稍慢了，后半段开始明晰起来。爱战胜孤独。
8。设定很棒，我看有人说像一条狗的使命，真的笑了
最近很火的两部女性恐怖电影，男人和此片，前者是带有愤怒的一腔热血的对于恐惧的申诉，本片是保有善意的温柔的对世界的触碰，我是更喜欢此片的价值观，大部分是优秀配乐的功劳，是一部很催泪的电影。
变成女巫前作为人而活着的那段经历，反倒成为了无所不能的玛利娅的“弱点”。那些人类世界里由时代和社会问题导致的悲剧，即出身就被决定的“命运论”藏在了另一位女巫的身世和经历里，这样的悲伤真的就只是被电影悄悄带到了一点点，却依旧看得我动容。
3.5 语种优势的低语和画面匹配度极好 很舒服 由初生女巫的视角看人 看阳光 看流水 看情感
开头猫主观视角搞得挺灵气，剩下的新意就是用女巫装13啦。
我们总想把生活打造成一个完美的产品，殊不知自己只是一份普通的材料，既然是材料就好好燃烧，温暖到家人，也好。
当我们死去后，会不会以另一幅面孔而接着存活呢！而骨子里或多或少残存着些许上辈子的性情与特质呢？
恐怖外衣之下，女性成长启示录，这样的女巫竟然让人充满同情。
你看清你自己了吗？你是魔鬼吗？成为了女人，又成为男人，学会爱，快乐，笑。可世界依然在灼烧着，痛苦着，一边痛苦一边爱，这就是人类。不要做人类。（镜头配乐更优秀，我太喜欢了，全部。）
很有诚意的文艺恐怖片，风格也非常独特，把女巫类电影拍出了新的高度！
年轻女律师阿尔斯海默，
2.8，韩剧剧本不妨碍relate到泪流满面
几乎放弃了讲故事，冲突点都服务于氛围，尤其是背景音乐，像是在引导我进入冥想，感知到的只有愈发痛苦，太痛苦了，痛苦到只希望快点结束让我醒来。
这就不应该有恐怖这个tag，只是讲了一个女巫的人生故事罢了。片头就让我们有了心理准备，会体会不同生物的视角来看世界
感觉随便拉个路人都演技非凡。不停的善恶转换，美到极点，也恶到极点。最后老女巫哭着问：怎么对你而言就这么简单？发人深思。为母即刚？还是这个世界、这个人生原来就这么简单？当没有其他选择，就是唯一？
她是女巫，是女人，是男人，是狗，是小孩。她是万物。
记忆或许承载了大部分生命的意义。小到刷牙洗脸，大到升学工作，我们的不堪与成就，辉煌与没落，都是记忆告诉我们的。当这个模块失去了作用，我们又要寻找新的生命的意义，但可能我们在没有能力赋予它意义，绝望随之而来。我们孤独无助得像个巨婴，一切都没有道理可言，一切也没有规律可循，再认不出照顾我们的家人。只能凭感受活着，每天的一股暖流，一阵耐心，是一种无形的陪伴与搀扶，虽不能定义它，但知道它存在。这部片子中女主病情迅速恶化，像龙卷风一样席卷着自己和家人的生活。直击我心灵的是一股恐惧，恐惧自己是那个被拖垮的人，更恐惧自己是那个拖垮别人的人。
爸爸问：是七点起床的吗？今天做了垃圾分类吗？有没有说不要这样，我爸爸会非常讨厌的？瞬间泪目，眼泪跟着流，感动又心疼。希望大家都健健康康。
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