剧情介绍

  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".

评论:

  • 弦涵 2小时前 :

    60 分钟后的剧情靠背景音乐各种加持推进

  • 居修雅 2小时前 :

    以俗套的爱情故事为主线,夹杂着有关隔代思想矛盾和地域文化差异的表达。潮汕地区特有的拜拜,邻里之间的攀比与祝福,母子间激烈的争吵,这是一部属于小镇青年的电影,源于导演和编剧生命体验的私人影像。但是人类的情感是相通的,尤其喜欢最后手机拍摄的坐飞机在西湖出游片段。让我想起初中时妈妈带我去游乐园玩一起坐过山车时她紧张的样子,原来天底下的妈妈都一样,有时候“不讲道理”有时候又温柔可爱。前半段稍微有些生硬,后面渐入佳境。

  • 卫美红 4小时前 :

    一个不是被汕头人拉着绝对不会想着来看的 意外的很好看的电影!看温情也很有地方特色!

  • 周耘志 6小时前 :

    少见的潮汕方言电影,市井气,生活流,将潮汕本土特色都呈现于镜头中,大家小楼,排队洗澡,三姑六婆,邻人嘴碎…由封建守旧的原乡潮汕,与搞钱神话的特区深圳,形成两代人无法消解与面对的情感矛盾,很有现实意义。最值得夸赞的是男主妈妈,演得真好,那股出于泥土的表演,简直就是每个潮汕妈妈的缩影。整部电影最后的情感升华都在妈妈游杭州的vlog,非常真实、动情。

  • 学夏兰 0小时前 :

    整个故事的灵魂人物还是妈妈啦,妈妈的演技弥补了很多电影技术上的不足,故事变得更朴实。女主虽然长得比不上明星,但也是挺耐看的,那么问题来了,长得漂亮高学历经济独立事业有成的女孩,活脱脱一现代女性模版,为什么能看得上这样的传统家庭..

  • 凌格 5小时前 :

    好久没看过那么舒服的电影了,有湾湾文艺片的味道,娓娓道来的,不紧不慢的,充满生活烟火气的,温暖的,舒适的,熟悉的,但又是真实的。那些随口而出的对话,那些街道,那些美食,那些音乐,穿进每个毛孔直达心灵。很喜欢。讲了几年,约过几波朋友了,今年,必须到汕头扫街。

  • 卫屹杰 4小时前 :

    听说男主爸妈真实他爸妈来的,一家人都这么会演戏吗?

  • 仪新雪 4小时前 :

    田螺弯弯为仔死。

  • 强诚 6小时前 :

    这部电影想打破外地人对潮汕的刻板印象,潮汕老一辈虽然封建,但是现在已经有很大的变化了。他们虽然更喜欢本地人,但更希望自己的孩子能幸福。影片很真实的还原了潮汕家庭的生活习惯。老奶奶和黑妞是本篇的笑点,只有听得懂潮汕话才会觉得好笑。没有刻意的煽情,真情实感的流露让我潸然泪下。

  • 卫燕 2小时前 :

    整个故事的灵魂人物还是妈妈啦,妈妈的演技弥补了很多电影技术上的不足,故事变得更朴实。女主虽然长得比不上明星,但也是挺耐看的,那么问题来了,长得漂亮高学历经济独立事业有成的女孩,活脱脱一现代女性模版,为什么能看得上这样的传统家庭..

  • 府曼衍 5小时前 :

    用十分朴素的方法讲了一个十分朴素地故事,搭配起来刚刚好

  • 却晨菲 1小时前 :

    三星半,和两个潮汕妹子一起去看的,从影院出来她们又给我讲一些电影里的梗,以及现实里这对情侣的结局,生活高于影视,生活会给出答案。

  • 危学名 2小时前 :

    能看到这个团队的进步,期待他们下一部作品

  • 操傲易 4小时前 :

    2. 最后潮阳老乡说男主像369,谁是369啊?

  • 刀一雯 3小时前 :

    4.5 很丰满的电影,有地方风土人情,有立体的人物和真实的情感,导演拍出了家长里短和人情温度,选角好,“妈妈”很灵,支持

  • 九书君 4小时前 :

    很真实,拍摄的方式很纪录片,带给观众亲近,不过剧情确实平平无奇。人物角色方面,妈妈的塑造非常好,反而女朋友的刻画有些扁平。配乐不错,但过多使用反而让人不适。

  • 才曼珠 2小时前 :

    这样说可能不太好 但确实是我最近些年看过的电影里面 演员颜值排Bottom10的了 更悲催的是演技也基本上跟颜值成了正比 唯一值得称赞的是片中所有的潮汕元素 还比较新奇有趣。

  • 振龙 5小时前 :

    特意带潮汕朋友去看,母亲一出场朋友就在感慨:真的好像我妈!导演选角很成功,的确是我们心目中典型潮汕阿姨的形象。片中发生的故事也是真真切切的日常,传统与现代的碰撞,守在原地还是走出去,接受外省儿媳的过程其实也是与人生自我和解。有笑有爱的故事,喜欢!

  • 年槐 6小时前 :

    来了深圳一个月之后看了一部潮汕电影,来了南方才知道原先的很多戒备其实并不需要,相通的事物(送礼时的推三阻四、老乡之间的相见恨晚)扑面而来的是亲切,城市和原乡之间的撕裂被语言不通的喜感和习俗化解。套路式的爱情被潮汕化,演变成两代人之间相互服从习惯的故事,静静地感受生活后能看上这样一部电影,不悲不喜就是对每一天最好的勉励…

  • 千如冬 4小时前 :

    成熟的叙事技巧,所有埋梗都能照顾到,有生活纪实,有不失时机地抒情。对潮汕男女不同状态的真实刻画,原创歌曲加分多多。妈妈的表演更是赞👍🏻。这样接地气,有完整叙事,有丰富细节,有地方文化色彩的原创方言电影越多越好!

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