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".
迪士尼动画历史最差之一，外婆的形象太脸谱化了，非黑即白，没有中间地带。
1/10@川沙大光明 座椅还蛮舒服的，及格拉美唱唱跳跳弘扬老一套家族价值meh （反完美主义 / peer pressure/ 回归平凡之路这类议题都是蜻蜓点水）最好听是西语歌，画面仍想象力及格但框架中庸，引起兴趣的反而是政治背景
家里所有人的伤人和洗白，都在莫名其妙的一瞬间，唱首歌就完事儿。家如果是原罪的话，为什么我们还需要要不离不弃？可以看看《为何家会伤人》的案例。如果不是歌还行，应该只有1星。
为什么能看到上帝就应该被尊敬，而能与死者通话却被认定为精神病患者。这些根本就没被当成患者来看待，不过就是试验品，一切都还是个未知数。被送进去的人被慢慢逼疯，掌权者也在肆无忌惮中一步步走向疯狂。最后，女主好美。
光影很美，女主很美，更喜欢大提琴配乐，哀伤，让我想起《她比烟花寂寞》。
“那种写有关于灵魂的书也是为了讨人好奇而已”
看完不禁感叹这个社会给予女人的禁锢实在是太残酷了。想起了Virginia Woolf的书A room of one’s own。
整个画面就很高贵，Eugénie和Geneviève搞姬好不好😍
一部压抑精致的女性电影，自由意识觉醒.“我们是自由的，坚强的，永恒的”.
我想，在今天那种信仰某种同一性（无论是神圣的货币、支配他者的权力）的人的眼中、感觉中，那种不包含多元性、异质性的维度的“点”是否会失去探索对象世界的丰富多彩呢？
我不恨男权社会，或者男人，不值得去恨。但我越来越明白，工作中的挫折、35岁的瓶颈，跟我没有关系，只是跟我的性别天然捆绑在了一起。
“今晚很难分得清谁才是疯子”究竟是那些道貌岸然的男性还是被压迫驯服逼疯的女性 全程观影体验都很压抑 因为折射到现代社会距离这些也才过了几百年不到而已 而苦难却从未停止过 全靠这些女性之间的守望温暖支撑着 梅兰妮的节奏把控得特别好就是结局急转直下依然是法式be美学 虽然我也不懂这种操作是什么意思 咱就是说您双女主都拍了就不能一起策马私奔嘛 虽然你的肉体在疯人院但我们的灵魂在海上起舞 灵魂和肉体总有一个在路上呗
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老哥迷信鬼屋企业家族，有点好看有点好笑，老鼠黍和花Elsa，不过本来无限潜力的超能没多有趣，倒是用Spengnish强力confuse其他multilinguals。林曼米生拼硬造的歌一贯难堪，唯一好听的《两只蝴蝶虫》还抄了Lily Allen半首
最近几年不只动画领域，也不止迪士尼一家有以下种种的堕落了，华而不实，政治正确，条条框框，虚情假意，按需拍片等等愈演愈烈，悲观失望的情绪我想世界范围内是有在扩散的。
Bruno在隔间的餐桌给自己画了个餐盘让我破防了🥺
深深震撼，曾经的男权和父权，所谓的医学实验。让我突然想到了治疗网瘾症的那所学校。什么是自由的真正意义。
尝试代入女人们的视角，被剥夺，被压迫，被虐待，被侮辱的人们的视角
三星半 以前得了精神病不可怕 可怕的的是进精神病院 以为女主最后会爆发大杀特杀 不过还好逃出去了就是好结局 心疼护士长一秒
精神病院里的老套故事，最后还来个极限一换一，理解不能…
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