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".
我觉得不错的一部电影。害人自有报应，只是这个报应太惨烈了。男主说的是对的，是你三番二次地暗示了我，所以才有那一次的行为，且并不过分，仅那一次就让一个美好的家破妻亡女死！如果男主是多次性骚扰，说他是渣男，告他是可以的，那一次算吗？所以才有后来的天怒！这种报复说他是有计划的预谋？还是天道轮回？我的看法是天道。试想她兄弟父母之死，男主有能力毫无破绽的实现吗？审一审两个作案的凶手就知了，女主曾经说过辨别磨茹有无毒菌父亲是好手，结果就是这个磨茹要了父亲的命！难道是男主所为？强壮的救生员哥哥溺水而亡，隐密的被救人又是谁？没有下文，以男主的身体素质在这方面想要加害她兄弟不太可能的。然而女主在哥哥母亲遇害前都发现了男主曾经在现场见过，是巧合还是偶然？还是报应？我觉得就是天怒！结局，或许就是男人主的报复！
马尔克斯有一篇短篇小说《纸做的玫瑰花》，仅用祖孙二人简单的日常对话叙事冗杂的故事。不去直接描绘故事本身，把真正要传达的故事主旨、始末、悬念一一隐藏，仅用表面上波澜不惊的文字传达内里暗流涌动的真相。并用意向反复比对：纸玫瑰与真玫瑰。看完小说，你会发现作者好像什么都没有说，仿佛是一篇剧情单薄、枯燥的作品。实则不然，这恰恰是精彩的文字游戏，冰山叙事，不详写，不解释，精彩的故事藏在看不见的地方，需要你有耐心去理解、融入。早恋、出逃、怨怼、反抗，全部藏在这平常的文字当中。本片亦是如此，只描写表面上的风平浪静，把阴谋、悬疑、真相藏在故事的脉络纹理间，而且也有自己的意向——猪。看似沉闷，其实汹涌。既然文学作品可以用冰山理论进行写作，那么电影同样可以运用。只不过这样一来，无法讨好观众罢了。
有部分尚可的动作，节奏，画面质感，镜头语言等，前半部分铺垫稍长，且对后半部分的塑造作用有限，总体归于尚可一看。
残酷的诗意。有些人追求的极致的艺术就是他人的痛苦。想想希特勒，他就是一个美术系落榜生呀
就是一个很离奇的故事，到最后也不太明白想要表达什么。关于颓废关于死亡，也许都和日落一般终将会归于平静。那就在迫近之日到来之前，了却完人生所有的遗憾，然后在沙滩上在水中，安稳的等待着末日的到来，结束自己这草草一生。
还有这男的，明明自己有问题，脑子里全是黄色废料……以下不展开了
这个导演好厉害，其实很平淡的剧情，且这个结尾算得上狗血吧，却引我入胜，想一探究竟。还想问英国人是有多喜欢叫人love😅
縱使喜歡這片的影像以及調度，那故意欺騙的劇情一開始還算有趣，第二次就有點無言了。
呵呵，男人控制不住自己的言行导致了家庭悲剧把锅甩到女主身上，还觉得自己报复有理？？？有病。
最近这种white privileged迷茫痛苦看多了，真是有点反胃
#TIFF21 第36场 so weird but not boring
略微沉重，有那么点蝴蝶效应的味道，一言一行都注定了后来的惨剧。感觉好像没做错，又觉得好像都错了。
前期的悬疑和多线配上这个结局就变成了故弄玄虚。
在2021这个烂片大年里，这算上佳制作了，成本都花在刀刃上，几个老演员表现都在线上，逻辑也没大毛病，女主角这个金手指开得有点大，尤其腹部中弹后，还在自动步枪扫射之下还能反败为胜，五米外被霰弹枪打飞，弹丸都奇迹般集中在胸口防弹衣上，还能驱车追缉救命恩人，想起好莱坞的政治立场风，减分了。
快餐情景警匪片。说实话，开始的几个警察没有警惕被灭情有可原，可是最后回来这俩，目睹地上一堆弹壳一片狼藉甚至还有尸体的情况下，依然没有及时进入战斗状态，是不可理喻的！
《天怒》是不易看清楚看透彻的一部悬疑伦理剧其最终结局是开放的：作家和女子亲人的悲惨遭遇，可能是巧合，也可能是谋杀。故事中展示的话题其实很多，只是表达地含蓄
开篇人声配乐好，21岁生日礼物的枪首尾呼应，酷盖女主非常主旋律，寸头，自购复古左轮，结尾射杀转轮非常仪式感，往帅了拍。
感觉咋咋呼呼的场景切换和开枪的背后衬托的还是无聊而平庸的打发时间的看后即忘的一部电影。
乔·卡纳汉的新电影《警察局》，一改之前作品直男、硬汉的纯动作片性质。以《黄金三镖客》和《肮脏的哈利》等东木的老动作片为灵感，致敬了《紧急搜捕令》。整体格局更小，重点刻画西部无人区的荒蛮与黑色，比较复古，看着有种科恩兄弟《老无所依》的感觉。但是放在现代网络背景下，有些剧情并不符合情理。“Yeah, well. You in the cop business. So that makes you a murderer. But I'm in the murder business, so that just makes me a laborer. You see how that works?” / 2022.2.5 家
-10000000000000000000000000000000。使用豆瓣三年半以来看过的最迷惑的电影没有之一，根本不存在任何能称为情节的东西，最后所有主角全都疯了，我也疯了。
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