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".
我只能说打一星的人，比如桃桃林林胆子真大啊。算是阅恐怖片蛮多的我还是有被吓到。。而且我好久没有被吓到了。。密恐者慎看，我觉得我大多的恐怖源头都是受诅咒后的密恐。缺点是时间线拍的有点乱，前半部分铺垫稍长，但是整体的恐怖气氛还是做到了的，而且不像昆池岩，从头到尾都是亚洲邪术神龛，文化上就很熟悉，也没有真的具象的鬼，更为阴森。
母爱成为最大动作线，但一点都无法认同哎。不过作为听得懂闽南语的观众觉得还是挺渗人的
4v人被你诅咒就罢了现在还上网飞，全球多少人分摊诅咒？诅咒无效咯！！！！
剧情没什么意思，双线叙事看着有点晕，伪纪录片很晃
像极了早年间网络上疯传的恶意诅咒邮件，制作组真是充满了恶意。给我点赞，诅咒自动反弹给制作组！
实话很吓人，排华语恐怖片前三没有任何问题！
太失望了，好好的片子让伪纪录片形式给毁了，请问导演要如何解释：在无第三人在场的情况下，非主角摄像机且不是监控视角的第三视角镜头？为了追求代入感而采用伪纪录片手法，但基本的视听原理都抛弃了，如何能让人入戏？求求各位恐怖片导演当自己的技术做不到逻辑统一的时候，还是用最原始的手法拍片吧！在我看来真正做到内外统一的伪纪录片只有《第九区》。
omg好爱闽南神秘主义天堂，氛围感电影可以删到90分钟，一开始给自己造势遮挡屏幕2/3吓得尿出其实也就马马虎虎啊，东亚人有事吗真的爱塞亲情蒙太奇有够干诶！？看看短评发现中国人真的有很严重被害妄想@sy w迪/毛宝宝
我的建议是千万不要看，《咒》就拍了个这？臭鱼烂虾片
并不是太恐怖，类似邪教的诅咒，想到了「灵媒」和「昆池岩」，最后导演或编剧对观众太不友好了，满满的恶意啊，尤其是揭开红布的时候！让人觉得不舒服！另外女主角太像海清了叭，双胞胎姐妹！那个女儿演的真好！没事儿别搞探险遇鬼直播，不知道会遇到什么……
😅，with HunchoWebster, Barium
非常难得，几个段落共同搭建一个“咒”的世界观，有理有据，相信了主创花的心思。吓人的节奏，还是被卡到点上。有血有泪有私欲有本能，正是恐怖片应该有的“佐料”。虽然还达不到头皮发麻的程度，7分。
吓尿，后半段不敢全神贯注看，但还是被吓到了😭😭那个村庄很有《中邪》的气氛，虽然剧情承接有点问题，但是氛围拿捏得太到位了，感觉DV视角又玩出了新高度，再配合各类毛骨悚然的民俗恐怖设定，好牛逼啊啊啊
虽然叙事清晰流畅度上有瑕疵，惊吓点拼凑的略有破碎感，但这片基本水准是绝对过硬的，没有令成熟理智的影迷失望。各种惊吓桥段拍的非常地道，心理暗示、视觉残留等小巧思也颇具匠心。只是预告片里实在不该把阿清嫂扑面那段剪进去，严重影响了大众观影后对影片恐怖程度的评估，那本是影片最大的记忆点。另外，主角一行三人在村子里的遭遇拍的真的很好，诡异感层层叠加，氛围极佳。
晦气？恰巧说明影片的成功，多次出现的符号咒语是温水煮蛙式的思想渗透。其中个人最喜欢的巧思: 和尚逐字(此时吸引观者紧盯屏幕)讲解咒语涵义，却附上符咒背景，巧妙运用了对抗色视觉补偿，精准的适时留白，睁眼闭眼躲不过厄运传播！
中式恐怖做到这样挺顶的了，要不是我看的心不在焉估计也被吓个半死
合着这个片子叫咒，它影片本身就真的是个给观众下的咒。真正恐怖的东西不在视觉上的恐怖，而在心理层面不可说的恐惧。一旦你真的信佛信神信咒，它就在心里种下了绵绵不绝的恐惧。
原来是那种不转发给十个群百个好友就XXXXX的诅咒，太贱了。还好我近视眼散光，随时可以把眼镜放下来一点模糊滤镜护体。道具布景做的挺精美的。
我觉得是最近几年看过最好看的恐怖片，值得满分，给未来的恐怖片提供了一个新思路，就是沉浸式观影，玩弄了一把观众后让观众冷汗直冒。看完之后感觉我需要去看新闻联播缓解一下我受伤的心灵
尼玛 除了密集恐惧有点到位 别的都是啥啊 一次失败的“伪纪录片”尝试 让人入戏困难
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