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".
第一次看马其顿电影。巴尔干A24，马利克梦呓，还有这么点意思，不过意思不多
三星半。还不错。人类在疾病面前真的太渺小了，所以心态要好，尽力享受当下所拥有的，就算没有辜负这短暂又平凡的一生了。
两方面力道都差点意思，一个是女巫身份作为一种在父权社会里所有不被接受的女性特质的隐喻，主角诗意的自述以及老女巫的报复行为只让人觉得这未免也太新自由主义了叭，硬要凹那种“在残酷世界里人与人之间也会有超越这一切的感情的可能性” 的设定也很单薄，也就是女主丈夫轻吻她的利爪，妇女在劳动之余的戏谑，电影画面很美，但是和里面的残酷无关，残酷就只是残酷的
就是现在连魂穿都要以女巫作为视角了吗？可是有没有想过，穿过去了后不把女巫的人物属性带过去会好看以及合理以及drama吗？
被女巫剥夺声音的孩童，长大后化作女人，男人和少女，体验不同的生命角色！老女巫流下了伤心的泪水“为何会这么简单？”人类固有的对子女本能的保护！这个世界太痛苦太恶心，然而然而………非传统恐怖片，带有文艺宗教色彩，男权与女权，生命和人性的探讨！又或许什么也不是！
4分 很不喜欢这种披着恐怖片外衣的文艺片！
这个题材真的太难过了，尤其是反过来，爸爸照顾阿尔兹海默的青年女儿，爸爸真不容易妻子去世了，优秀要强的女儿这样，一个疑问，这些责任不是该美国的丈夫来负么，一开始干嘛不联系丈夫呢，也没说离婚啊，女主演技挺好尤其是车里喊不认识女儿了该怎么办那里。
徐演员淡妆真的好美。看这样的电影总觉得心脏痛，你我都知道每一面都有滑向更坏地步的可能。
劳米拉佩斯作为这个电影里最大牌占据海报最大画幅 其实戏份不多 这几年劳米拉佩斯产量很高 偏冷门偏文艺 质量也高 电影本身非常克制充满诗意感 内在的故事也就是家有女巫长成记而已
流动的女性意识，泰伦斯·马力克拍恐怖片的话估计就是这样了
懵懵呓语，最后只是为了得到别人的爱和成为“伟大的母亲”。
“人不能因为毫无负担地出生就能毫无代价地成长或死去，每一个瞬间都是在欠债和还债。”出生不能被选择，我们只能选择每一个当下如何去过。是啊，谁又能知道自己在命运中会抽中哪张牌面呢
我们羞于在家人面前袒露脆弱，这不是因为我们足够坚强，而是因为我们总觉得自己不够资格被爱。
年度十佳预定
继承之人是终极的不再孤单
然而我们终将孤单。但那对你很容易。
玛利娅最后说：“怎么对你而言就这么简单？为什么？”
披着恐怖片外衣的文艺片 女孩的成长故事吧 耳目一新 很棒
泪崩了…太难了…前面有多体面后面就有多伤心…和父亲撑了这么久…终于女儿和丈夫回来了…一下子放心许多…看的时候总是想到自己要是患了这种病该怎么办…唉……其实挺难过剧中父亲打她那下的…看来久病床前不仅无孝子…时间长了谁都控制不了情绪，理解但悲伤而现实
由想像的“自我”，转化成作为“他者的他者”的“我”。深藏体内触不可及的语声（Voice）的独白。有趣的蜕变记录。音画适宜。
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