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".
平庸剧本+巨星卡司+视觉爆米花
怎么办，又把我自己看生气了。浪费了高司令和大本媳妇，也浪费了我的时间。
See? They're all the same.
一种男性视角的女权主义，女导演拍片子可能不会把女主角放到如此任人摆布而不会反抗的田地
当普通女性观众都觉得莫名其妙的时候，你就知道了这部电影的受众群体是谁
深深的猩红和浓墨的绿，后半部的效果确实让人三值狂掉难以食用，残肢血浆男体繁殖可能是唯一的亮点，Harper最后面对的依然是自己内心的恐惧，不过是在恐怖片的八股形制里人工受精了一颗厌男的种子。
可是，我不想啊！我不同意啊！我不乐意啊！
这剧情我也是醉了，反派完全是作死啊，除了场面真没别的事情了
i'M nOt LIkE oTheR mEn
虽然又是老套的网飞流水线动作片，但还是希望下次能看到像这样新鲜的卡司。“我能嚼口香糖吗？”
曼谷 维也纳 布拉格。主角表现相对碟中谍等三大特工，比较弱（敌人也弱化了），两次被骗，两次被抓，且没有危机预警。
起初是在看妈的宇宙前的贴片预告和Men这个标题吸引来的。当时就在疑惑为什么用复数的Men，结果看了片子后面的那段高能片段之后就完全理解了，男人的toxic犹如病毒一般无限重复和复制，like vicious cycles keep repeating itself，这也是为何村子里所有男人都长得一样的原因。还有一点女主老公自杀之后的手部脚部伤口和后来村子里的所有男人的伤口一致。
PS
网飞是把大数据电影玩明白了，当红顶流2男+1女，坠机追车街头枪战，打情骂俏走马观花都给你来一遍，剧本有就行，类型片元素给够，危机感这种东西比桃总的ass存在感还要低。续集也确定了，观众和片方也在某种程度上达成高度默契，一边骂着俗套一边续订，被大数据吃的死死的
太老套，除了场面能看，其他都分外偷懒！感觉罗素兄弟对每位演员说，有个冤大头给我们投很多钱，我们简单演一演，剩下的都分了。每个人都显得心不在焉……
因为高司令和美队看的，开头有点看不进去，后面情节就越来越好了，倒也没评论说的那么差，换了很多国家的场景，比D+出的网大质量好，在列车上打斗的那段看的肾上腺素飙升，最后结局很意外😂😂
拍出了女性对男性极端化特质的深层恐惧，但最后的和解是作为一个女性不能接受的
裸男象征男性自然权力，致力于“播种”；警察象征男性政治权力，拥有法律强制力；牧师象征男性宗教权力，擅长道德控制。此外房东外表老实内心狠辣，男孩的行为暗示着男之初性本厌女。总结一下本片的意思是：在自然和社会中男性对女性享有权力，日常生活中男性对女性两面三刀，且骨子里就怀有厌女情结，这样的男性代代相传不会改变。电影对此的呈现十分形象，也十分猎奇。但比起加兰的《机械姬》《湮灭》《开发者》，本片过于直白，也过于浅显。
We humans are so pathetic, especially men.
又是一部十年后会进入邪典电影课的作品。开前半段还以为后面谜题揭晓会和导演两部前作一样埋一个高概念的科幻梗，但到后半段才明白这作走的是女性视角的心理惊悚片。最后十分钟真是绝对够邪门的WTF时刻啊，让人不禁感叹A24这个小作坊式出品方能够保证的绝对作者性。
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