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".
由于天才的字幕组选择了在过曝的黑白影像上用白色字，于是，对台词只见首尾的我，从不曾如此期待洪尚秀的推镜头。推吧！推到人物黑色衣服上去吧！让我看见台词吧！
洪常秀影片的魅力很大程度上来源于对日常状态下人物“情绪异动”的瞬间把握，又是一通尬聊闲聊无聊偶然街角长镜惯用的洪氏黑白叙事调调且御用小姐公婆总是拿奖到手软。
我想在海边光着身子跑来跑去等待朝阳。
评分那么高我却完全无感。应该是剧本不行，啰嗦。看在主题好的面子上给三星。20分钟弃剧。
Jodie又贡献了出色的演技，虽然不是粉但是很看好她越走越远。羡慕人家就是敢拍。
洪现在量产片子纯粹为了炫너무예뻐吧，无语了一部赛一部匮乏，一些前作魔力消失得无影无踪。瓣高贵影迷对其他独立导演吹毛求疵对洪百般吹捧的两幅面孔真是腐朽到惹人发笑
前半部分打了三颗星，从那老爷子新冠开始女孩打求助电话开始不一样了，小景别手持的压迫感令人窒息
我们看的每一部洪尚秀的电影，好像都是关于他的纪录片的一个片段而已；当他的电影与他混合成为了一种特殊的存在，其所携带的魅力也变得无穷大。
洪尚秀的自我指涉已经到了可以精神性转的程度。
烂片。其实根据前面铺垫，逐渐对片中小说家从一点点讨厌到部分共情，但她可拍不出来最后这么恶心的片段！别把自己的低俗安在女小说家头上！透过这个导演拍摄的女演员们，可以感知到他的狭隘和猥琐。而，侯麦，永远是站在尊重女性和平等的视角上的。奇怪近几年追捧他的都是什么类型的人。
整部电影像是自然喷薄而生的，天然去雕饰。不过还是展露了一些导演对于电影和小说的思考。金敏喜是点睛之笔一般的存在。唉，什么时候我能有金敏喜一半的气质呢！
又是黑白，又是金敏喜好高。电影也戴口罩了。
请正视存在的问题 不要只提功绩 听到了吗我的国
第一部洪常秀，四星半-五星。观感有些奇妙，平常而不平庸，回味悠长。电影内容是小说家的电影，可这部作品算是电影家的小说/散文，洪常秀自己的。洪常秀以一种自然且随意的方式讲述着这个跟小说家有关的事情，却在最重要的“电影”上刻意忽略。他拍的很自然，我看的也很自然。
抛却自结构的审视和玩弄之后，洪的电影已然成为关于纯粹发现和创造美的作品，在淡然和平静中由内而外析出并封存美的结晶，怎能不为之动容？
讲述新冠疫情的《help》
对金敏喜的推崇达到了一个崭新的高度，且没有一丝令人反感。小说家与女演员成为彼此重叠的影像，赞美对方爱上对方的同时也完成了对自我的肯定。金敏喜一人看完电影后的失神表情令人回味，她两的关系再次走向某种不确定。洪常秀总能在看似重复的母题与手法间再次表达出微妙而有趣的差异，的确厉害。
看到他们的防疫措施我只觉得主角没感染都是主角光环
金敏喜在这部电影中更加迷人了，洪常秀这是在塑造他的缪斯。
讲述新冠疫情的《help》
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
