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".
只是由山羊变成了鹿而已 换汤不换药 并不克苏鲁 起名人皮脸也没什么问题 剧情无聊到屡次睡着……等了那么久等了个寂寞 2.5
前半部分剧情太慢，后面Boss死的太快，节奏有点怪。
但总觉得
整体氛围阴暗压抑加分，怪物本身并不像其他怪物恐怖片一样吓人。
题材不错，画风也比较喜欢就是太暗了，这个剧情和运镜哦...
恐怖片惊悚片最核心的意义就是要让观众身临其境，但不管是这个莫名其妙的东西的出现，还是剧中人物的行为逻辑，都幼稚且脸谱化得可怕，这种降智让人无法相信这是个会发生在正常世界的故事，一旦观众出戏，再恐怖再感动的场景也只会让人觉得虚假。
沉闷到jump scary都不能让人提起精神。它的感觉就像看别人玩游戏，不是自己玩，乐趣少一半。
画面干净扎实，特效镜头不多，但故事始终围绕主题，效果好。
为了恐怖而恐怖，剧情分了几个点，但怎么也连不起来。
不是没有亮点：在黑暗中轻轻叩门的声音、阴郁早熟的少年还有在理智崩溃边缘但依旧试图保护孩子的父亲。但引入原住民传说却缺少原住民参演作为注解、怪物的战力飘忽以及变身之后恐怖氛围开始直线下降，导演还有颇多要学习的地方。
前期铺垫很长，怪物出现的方式模范异形，偷袭加吓唬观众，到了大决战就是站桩式处决。。。怪物就是个弱鸡
男主害死了弟弟？？还是他爸选中了弟弟？好像是两次漠视弟弟的死…没错了
屎坑电影，光是看到我们大卫杜楚尼跟tiktok出现在同一个电影里，已经让我心淌血~
非常黑暗且压抑，最后一场戏氛围感营造的不错，就是这怪兽就这么简单被女主杀了?还有结尾的意思还有续集，只能期待吧!
女主又负能量又圣母，小学生在家养怪物养的挺好，非得掺合一下，整死一堆人之后厉害了，把哥哥也整成怪物这回开心了，剧情空洞怪物敷衍，宣传了一年就这？
氛围感一流，雾气蒙蒙的俄勒冈小镇，森林与湖泊间隐匿着的矿洞怪物，导演太会拍空镜，以至于美得不像恐怖片。鹿角怪物的设计很好看，有toro这个怪物狂魔的味道了，但也仅此而已，靠着最最最让我讨厌的jump scared勉强让我维持住仅有的精神以不至于睡过去，剧情松散降智，能感受到导演似乎想表达些什么，但是又不清不楚的，弑父是看到了，my mom is dead 也看到了。Lucas他爹把自己关在阁楼一段甚至还挺感人，除此之外再没别的了。愿世界再无葫芦娃救爷爷，一个一个送的恐怖片。
[视][19.10.24想看]导演<黑色弥撒><逃出熔炉>，小男孩像<神童>2019，陀螺监制，怪兽部分一直不错，微血。两个破碎的家庭，西方对父辈的执着，有点烂尾。今年还有奈飞剧版<鹿角男孩>
so 女主角有童年创伤，她看到小男孩就产生了额外的同情心，不顾一切要去拯救他，哪怕要对抗拿了好几个人头的嗜血怪兽，而怪兽也刚好在碰到女主的时候就变得格外虚弱，本来一爪子可以打飞女主她弟的力量，一下子就没了，轻松被女主扎成蜂窝，然后这电影想说救赎与自我救赎，爱与被爱，我只想说换成我，老娘童年被创伤成啥样，我命还是要的，我绝对不会这样奋不顾身，看到女主那句i have to save him就忍不住翻白眼，我可去你的吧，个人英雄主义有时候真的蛮傻逼的。
看直到黎明游戏直播的时候我就觉得陀罗绝壁会喜欢温迪戈好家伙嗯！
想到斯蒂芬金的一个短篇小说，一个小男孩的父亲喝了啤酒之后的变异故事
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