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".
用很多细节展现戴安娜对自由的向往，音乐和画面都很考究，不错的一部作品。
缺乏交代来龙去脉，就显得女主的动机非常突兀。说真的，《王冠》第五季啥时候出啊。
以及开封菜
2.5 一切都很无趣。。。从形式到内容都突出一个“做作”，反倒衬托出被各种怼脸特写的k的一种相对真实、挣扎与无力感。
3.5。有几处确实挺逗的，剧本稍显平庸，但秒杀那些低端国产网大还是很轻松的，包哥照样牛逼
延续《追捕聂鲁达》和《第一夫人》的创作理念，导演再次颠覆传统人物传记片。融入心理惊悚类型元素，不加掩饰地向库布里克致敬。不过这些小花招没能提升原本薄弱的剧本，始终局限于人物心理研究。也有可能是和真实人物相隔太近，没能在有限的素材上发挥出改编的创意。似乎在反王室制度和女性平权之间摇摆不定，LGBT情节显得太过刻意。人物塑造方式虽有争议，但是抓住人物原型中某一点无限放大的演绎方式和这个另类传记题材的气质很匹配，甚至和演员本身的经历遥相呼应，斯图尔特值得拿到一项奥斯卡提名。
拉雷恩的拿手好戏，靠一些尚未模式化的小巧思（也可以说是小俗套）点缀而成的伪作者式传记片，像是用工业糖精和香料制作的精致糕点——味道或许也还可以，当然仅是做到这种程度对于很多传记片导演已然是奢求了，也因此，就像《第一夫人》里波特曼为人诟病的情形那样，在一部要求演员模拟现实人物而非作为文本角色的电影里，苛责演员的演技显得没有太大必要。
很少一部电影让我看得如坐针毡，巴不得赶紧结束赶紧走人。一星给服饰，别的都太无聊。
替KS捉急。明显未婚妻和经纪人“电影术”水平都………这样的一个商业和艺术都不可能成功的烂剧本接来给自己找麻烦。赶紧去接个好导演的戏吧……不然就……再不操练演技，真的就………哎！说回电影，这位导演是想把所有女人都演成要爱的神经病没错了！这条幻想出来的“女性之路”怕是男女都不肯买单了吧，在最爱艺术片的地方连院线都上不了，赶紧回家去反省吧，我本来以为是法国片商都……现在看来是制片编剧导演都……。还有就是mv画面感太强，跳舞那段更是。这样的剪辑，各方面技穷的表现啊！哎………
演的其实一般，但努力了。KS比起她前男友灵气才华不是少了一星半点
2021.10.08 LFF southbank
这部片的观感完全取决于你有多熟悉戴妃与你有多喜欢小kk，如果很熟悉戴妃且不喜欢小kk，这部片可以考虑pass，反之这部片必看，因为导演摄影太会抓小kk的颜了。这部电影其他奖我不好说，但妆发必须得有提名，小kk能看起来像戴妃，九成得感谢妆发老师们的努力，他们的妙手之下能让静止画面中的小kk有几分戴妃神韵，可惜小kk的仪态太差了，她只要一动，LA大妞就要从这层王妃皮里跳出来了，加上小kk真的不会演弱势的人，她的眼神太闪了，在大特写捕捉下，展现的不是柔或者弱，而是虚。所幸的是，这种不适集中在前半，如果忽视后期剧情降智，表演还可以。这部电影很有导演前作Jackie的感觉，但对戴妃的描写，我并不认可，那个时间点的戴妃已经不是影片想塑造的状态了，整个剧情更像是浓缩她这十年婚姻走过的心路历程，但做的太肤浅
如此惊艳又那么渺小~
缺乏交代来龙去脉，就显得女主的动机非常突兀。说真的，《王冠》第五季啥时候出啊。
电影里与现实中的斯宾塞的距离，我无从得知。电影的空洞和矫揉造作比注满全片的音乐更大声，则明明白白。赞助服装的那个大牌应该满意了。安·伯林的鬼魂谢谢您：不要借我过桥。斯宾塞拍拍安·伯林的肩：前辈勿恼，他们也是借我过桥。
能被《王冠》任何一集秒杀 黛安娜的眼神里更多是脆弱不会是凶狠 Chanel的植入非常跳戏
《巴里·林登》式的打光和《闪灵》式的室内布景和镜头移动轨迹，《斯宾塞》展现出的上述种种特点使得导演拉雷恩不可避免地会被观众不自觉地拿去和库布里克相比。与其说《斯宾塞》是一部人物传记片，不如说更像是一部心理恐怖片。斯图尔特这种“令人跳戏”的神经质表演虽然招致了一部分影评人的诟病，在我看来，这种美英演员在气氛上的格格不入，恰恰和戴安娜王妃和英国王室的关系还有格林伍德谱写的配乐中即兴爵士与巴洛克复调之间的关系达成了惊人的一致。人民当然喜欢王妃戴安娜，但人民更喜欢一个抱着肯德基炸鸡桶的，作为一位拥有自由意志的女性和母亲的戴安娜。 7.5/10
全剧都像是小k的精神病秀。小k的颜我一直很喜欢，演绎也是非常的用力了，但是这个角色真的不适合她。蹩脚的英腔十分矫揉造作，每一句台词都带着气声让人如隔靴搔痒一般难受，在剩下一众英国知名演员的陪衬下更是相形见绌。故事核心也更像是太阳报上的一则八卦，满足窥探而已，人物根本站不住。
还挺不错的，多线叙事，有低配版疯狂的石头那味了，主要是演员都让人很惊喜
小K用气若游丝的口音把戴安娜演成了她一生竭力想否认的psychopath、freefighter 这解读就让人挺无语 但是既然都决心要如此反叛了 为什么把电影里的马桶p掉当主海报 留下她抱着马桶痛苦干呕的华丽背影不比一件空洞的高定礼裙更冲击吗——既然是传记片 怎么不敢刻画她最真实的一面啊？
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