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".
跟《女巫》和《灯塔》比，导演又进步了许多，视觉文本陌生感很强，情节简单。同样的语境，进入东北腹地就是我想拍的感觉。
作为莎剧原本故事，对比强烈，主角/北方人荒原历练，野蛮如畜生，雄性力量十足，艾格斯电影主题类似，围绕特殊环境下人/主角的惊人转变，身体肌肉及眼神变化明显，在巫师们的蛊惑下，从高贵王子堕落为复仇畜生，展开蛮荒地夺权，为亡父皇权的扭曲报复，报复变态心理改变命运与一切，所有人无一幸免被权欲吞噬和扭曲。兽性权力悲剧结果，堕入黑暗无尽深
能感觉到各种各样的哲学隐喻，比如肉体的价值，奇异的生长，新人类是否应该被接受，人的本质到底是什么，包括柯南伯格孜孜不倦的关于人对于性探索的边界。表演都很精彩，但柯南伯格大概是老了，有些戏谑反倒拍得没有那么震撼了。但柯南伯格eye fuck viggo，永不失败！
未来的人们身体长出器官，切割时没有痛感，有快感。
就是太糙了，不管是文本还是影像上，越到后面越看不出140分钟的必要性。
奥丁的渡鸦护卫左右，进行成人式化身芬里尔之狼尖啸，命运纺织者在仿徨之际预言指路，生死停留女武神瓦尔基里驾接踏向天界之门，接触血液洞悉世界树藤蔓缠绕的家族血脉……北欧神话迷会看得超爽。资本到位后导演在试听方面已臻化境，摄影与调色有当年刚看扎导的享受感。满足。
男女主身材颜值好，加一星。
看完有几个迷惑，第一个是这个片的成本为什么高达7000万？钱花哪里去了，看着还没有1000多万成本的绿衣骑士贵。第二是Eggers的灵气都去哪里了？前作里面大胆cult的元素和引人入胜的叙事都去哪里了，这个片里我看到的只是束手束脚和敷衍了事。PS，片长也有点太长，没有充沛的感情和充足的动机来支撑，显得片子又长又空洞。
没想到其实是《哈姆雷特》的又一版变体。但我并不介意简单的故事，可问题是始终无法进入。这部不像格雷《星际探索》能感受到的作者性和商业妥协之间的撕扯，而似乎更像是艾格斯自己并没有太多表达欲望…光剩下起范儿了。同样作为《哈姆雷特》的变体，《黑豹》在王子复仇之外，还更深一层地探讨了归属感和文化的认同，是个人与历史的悲剧性结果，走得比《北欧人》要远。艾格斯既然已经在这个古典的框架中加了一个“反转”，有毒的母子关系、被迫生下的孩子等等显然也可以有更多深入的空间，结果依然还是直奔《哈姆雷特》而去了……这么一来就显得妮可基德曼以及各种北欧神话的“启示”在其中的作用多少有些尴尬，也很直给。既失望又感到可惜。如此一来，全程的关注点也就只剩下E大和妮可上一部还在演夫妻，这一部却演了母子这件事上……
维金版女巫 with a small dose of hallucinogen
血脉偾张的北欧野性哈姆雷特。视听效果来说，完全能被铁与血被敲得头昏目眩。就剧本来说，非常的单薄。有种完全舍弃了“文明”方式的表达，以巫蛊、渡鸦跟狼的先祖附魅，以血淋淋的内脏呈现出纯粹原始的信仰跟力量。落幕时，嘶吼跟打斗停止的时候，世界一时都失去了感觉。
大银幕。失望透顶，和看一个超长预告片别无二致。属于两不靠，不伦不类的，很奇怪的一片，类型化纯度不够，爽感的获取被抑制，但另一方面有着这样的制片规模你又不可能做出一部完全作者化的电影。前面很多时候都在尽量避免分切镜头，弃用多机位拍摄，选用平滑的移动长镜头调度取而代之，但显然像最后火山口的叔侄大战你不可能还这么拍，你不得不去做更多的镜头分切来分解动作，否则不仅没有燃点，疼痛感也不强烈，情绪和动作的爆点终究还是依靠了分镜，所以到制胜一击时马上切至了全景。在拍法上我感觉艾格斯的本意是追求更多从容平缓的长镜头段落，但我认为大体并不适用，以艺术片的运镜方式来拍摄激烈的战斗场面值得商榷，主角的野性和怒气从未感染摄影机，全片的镜头都在诉诸一种平静的冷异感，摄影机与角色各自为战，渐次拉开了同观众的心理距离。
看完了！其实是三星半啦，但蛮喜欢最后的结尾所以直接打了四星。是心目中的神仙卡司🥰这种类型应该很小众？但我很爱！之前看柯南堡的电影就很爱，算上这次他和v已经四搭吧🥺
故事神神叨叨，节奏拖拖拉拉，内核空无一物，口音又别扭得毫无必要。
类生物元素只是表现的躯壳，内核形式更接近于《大都会》、《星图》那一类。人体与器官的剖切成了近未来人性的溯源点，相伴成人骄横的的方寸人心里，环境烙下了代价的图腾。
很有野心，把残忍和死亡的向往拍得如此浪漫神秘也是难得一见了。安雅迷死我了～
心肺经络家族树，野人屠村现女巫，奴隶球赛拼头槌，人体雕塑夜游魂，极恶亲娘毁童年，英灵武神三温暖，岩浆筋肉斗老叔；果然是哈姆雷特的正确打开方式，过瘾
纯白的电影。imdb评价高大概源于对政治正确的逆反？6
视听质感棒，画面内容丰富，几处长镜头厉害，个别画面有设计感，北欧文化和传说加的也算贴切，但北欧的壳，英戏的核，剧情一般般是对艾格斯而言，缺少女巫的惊喜，也少灯塔的癫狂，其实有在消解主人公的正义性，但看起来还是文明了些
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