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".
极简主义的摄影，宗教般神秘主义的构图，彰显出强烈的隐喻和张力，每一帧的画面都令人折服。
剧场中的摄影机，
这就是那种明明质量很高但是你却喜欢不起来的电影，一是受不了如此之多的黑人出现在莎翁剧里，厌恶这种无处不在，不知所云的政治正确；二是受不了丹泽尔·华盛顿这张正义满满的脸，他演不了麦克白这种正邪两面派的角色；三是感觉看了一场舞台剧，而不是一场电影，虽然太多的画面美轮美奂#2022奥斯卡阅片倒计时#
三颗给Troye，另一颗给后期嘿嘿，真的很喜欢这个调色。
就是我看不懂，但是我很震撼的那种电影，光影美学非常上乘
原先没有抱太大期待，出乎预料
大屏幕看肯定更震撼，黑白光影对比的几何感非常美。故事的话，害，大概的已经知道了所以没有特别意外的。当话剧看可以。台词押韵，有的比较文学化，但是讲得太快反而有点搞笑了。不知道慢点讲会不会观赏度更好且更方便听懂。没看过原作的我是这么理解的：人都有黑暗面吧，就怕诱因。一步错百步，最后覆水难收。这不悲剧才怪……
戳爷这个角色拿捏的挺好的，其他的就一般般了，属于青春狗血片。
好明媚的夏天，好明媚的感情啊！
为什么学长和弟弟兜兜转转还是没有遇到😭😭😭
戳爺張揚自我的個性從來都是一以貫之的，這在他的作品中隨處可見。但是演電影不像出唱片，動動嘴耍個酷。電影中，故事情節和演技缺一不可！
20220209le。乔科恩+丹泽华盛顿，黑白影像，舞台剧风格。麦克白的故事再怎么拍也拍不过黑泽明，都省省吧。
ja！你说说你 那么帅的脸蛋 既然下海了能不能敬业一点尊重搭档好好卖腐啊！！可以的话 想看jafirst继续搭！
我基本一句台词都没听懂我的天，被吃爆米花的人包围全程不断，中间还睡着一次，醒来就看到麦克白正在扎国王脖子…还有就是Ross这个角色是干啥的没太看懂，救了Banquo的儿子吗？
打开两次2倍速看，搞不动，弃疗；想问，是不是因为主角黑，才用黑白片
船戏依旧发挥正常，太带感了，但是！为什么！Leon和pob 一直在错过！！！最后也没有在一起！！！！！
这种婚后生活可以拍1000集吗谢谢，俩人越来越自然越来越甜了，看了后面的花絮感觉小一好容易害羞，ja总是一脸淡定hhh
拍得蛮小清新的，bgm过分密集，还顺便cue了一下ts和ldgg。戳爷这个美少年也太1了吧。
套用友邻评价Spielberg版西区故事：导演，没有东西拍的话可以不拍。以及这是在纪念碑谷？
在格斗中占据上风的麦克白，因为去捡掉落在地的王冠而死，他的王冠飞了出去，掉落在地，是预言中的宿命，却也是由自己的欲望而主动完成了预言。
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