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".
男人的决斗真令人窒息，丈夫看到了名义的胜利，却和正义、真相不相关。女人不言不语吞咽耻辱，朝堂上声嘶力竭争取声音，Jodie演得很有分量
刚开始以为是潘金莲故事，中间变成了罗生门，最后才是上帝的审判，人性的多面性和复杂性一览无余。在特殊的历史时期，人类的封建蒙昧做法还真是无奈的选择，看的让人揪心。最搞笑的是马特与大本演一对冤家对头，小马哥还给大本下跪，估计会笑场吧。
这个冷酷、血腥，认为只有「男性给予女性快感时才可能受孕，而强奸不会」的荒诞中世纪，依然活在当下。那场决斗结束后众人的欢呼、司机被吊死、马达被簇拥，而唯独真正的受害者被忽视，一如当下#MeToo 事件中互联网上的各种反应，便是最好的证明。不过拍得真的钛老派了。
Alex Lawther演的真好，比一众主角演的都妙！Adam Driver真的是靠观众缘活跃在银幕上…老雷从流水账开始拍，一路匠气十足，拍到最后终于有了该有的张力！
13.10.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 媒体场点映。Jousting还是很爽的，弥补了今年没去Renn Fair的遗憾。以为是又一个罗生门，结果是一个完全没有反转的彻彻底底的#metoo故事。说好的unreliable narrator呢？！用这样的结构设置来讲故事，这不是杀鸡用了牛刀吗？有点失望。不过用山羊胡来遮盖屁股下巴，这一招不错！//再往深了想想，为什么我对这部metoo片本能反感，大概是因为这片的导演和两位编剧都是男性，而各处的男性凝视又格外显眼吧。现在网上的男性影评人（包括IGN）纷纷给出高分，我倒是很好奇最后评价的性别分化会是什么样子。
可能是我看到过的，由男性导演拍摄的最为真诚贴切的女性视角了。在这个“女权”被当作“财富密码”的年头，这种非口号式的非符号化的表达就已经是对于女性的极大尊重。多人物视角的形式虽然已不新鲜，但影院的大荧幕极为有效地放大了精心设计的细节，也多亏了优秀的演员，让我有了沉浸式的观影体验。这是其他屏幕做不到的，一个微小的动作或神情，稍微走点神就会错过，也白费了剧组的付出。原来除了动作片科幻片等大制作，叙事片也可以很适合影院啊。
m21303：朱迪·科默其实挺有古典风韵！看她演技得看《Help》。这娃不是他的，哎！浪费了中世纪好题材。
剧本非常好，同一场景在不同视角下台词的微妙差异揭示人物看待问题的方式。经过扎实铺垫直至最后决斗死了一个人，分量远远重于鱿鱼游戏过家家式的决斗连带上之前死的几百个人。
最后的的决斗有点意思，一切道具服装要为剧情服务，否则就是画蛇添足，比如剧终的女性主义观点。
一般，感觉还行，从不同角度叙述同一件事情，提炼出对女性社会地位的思索。
另想疯狂吐槽的是，这么干净这么瘦这是大本？？？返老还童了？？？为什么不用这副肉体拍蝙蝠侠？？？想起了《普罗米修斯》的法鲨，是不是金发就显白显年轻啊？？？
7.7 她的结局看起来还是那个时代十万分之一的女人都不一定能享有的。罪犯死了，老公死了，婆婆肯定也比她早死，有儿子相伴，做一个自己喜欢的庄园，这一切因为她的勇气。影片里最大的不妥还是弱化了男权带来的伤害，反而让你觉得还是女人在为难女人，婆婆和友人等等。描写女人的刻薄胜过男人的虚伪，所以平衡缺失，最后三十分钟倒是点题。
救命🆘白发大美人美得我居然没认出来是大本！
156分钟中性侵案部分篇幅只占一半，两位骑士间恩怨到底真相是什么? 因为这部分女主没有参与，是否意味着呆蒙和老司机之间各执一词没有真相? 而女主出现之后，她的叙事就天然正确。剧本作者就像上帝一样。女权没这么玩的。
刚开始以为是潘金莲故事，中间变成了罗生门，最后才是上帝的审判，人性的多面性和复杂性一览无余。在特殊的历史时期，人类的封建蒙昧做法还真是无奈的选择，看的让人揪心。最搞笑的是马特与大本演一对冤家对头，小马哥还给大本下跪，估计会笑场吧。
西方版罗生门，剧情什么都不重要，我们也不关心是不是强暴！影片主要是反映当时的社会情况，这一点还是有所用！那个时代什么法律，什么法庭都是狗屁！神职人员凌驾于所有法律之上，拥有逍遥法外的权利！什么时候西方拍一部主教强暴幼童被实名举报的故事才刺激！
老天是公平的。强奸的人表面忏悔，但过于精明死不承认。莽夫爵士为了脸面，以命相搏，最终还是死于鲁莽。夫人总认为自己是唯一的受害者，别人都不是真心对她，一切都是她的努力赢得了胜利。但是最后所有人都知道她被强奸时有快感她撒了谎，所有人甚至她自己看到自己的孩子就会想起那个瞬间。他们每个人都深信不疑的感觉是自己的努力在控制着局面，但没有一个视角能够称得上真实。唯有老天最公平每个人都受到了应有的惩罚。
叙事的艺术，这才是复调叙事正确的打开方式，这才是正经的史诗质感。打四星是因为第三段故事并没有达到预期的那种说服力和震撼，感觉老雷还能做得更好。
光影质感超级好，巴里林登成为一个极致之后，这两年拍的中世纪逐渐走向了另一种影像风格的极致。和The Green Knight 同样是非常美的中世纪电影。
一个暴躁易怒，一个花心自恋，但是每个人在自己的故事中都近乎完美
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