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".
Anya太美了。但是为什么这个主角看得让人那么烦躁，明明在《乔乔的异想世界》里很让人怜爱啊。然后剧情就真的挺难看的。
前面好于后面，视觉比较出色吧，光影绚丽转场华丽，略带伤感和小惊悚，没有惊喜。
不喜剧了，但视听上还是埃德加赖特，炫目又迷人。镜面、鬼魂等意象包裹着一团女性主义内馅，啥解读都不用，就是简单粗暴地往观众脸上猛砸。反转开始时一度翻白眼觉得崩了，可结局处理的却还挺好，甚至让我看得差点落泪。 虽然不是最好的，但我永远爱埃德加赖特。
可以看出受阴风阵阵影响很深，但是想塞的太多，显得太乱，风格也不纯粹了，60年代的美也没看到。安雅好美
反转大可不必，而且还把前面的剧情搞得很矛盾。多一星给配乐和我嗑到了
马马虎虎可以看，女主没的说很不错，片子最后确实有点夸张了
一个灵媒收到房子里鬼魂的求救，却误把凶手当作受害者，最后感化凶手并将其加入自己的通灵库的故事。
emmmmmmmmmmmmm我觉得还是不错的。。anya确实美
感觉埃德加赖特的才情消耗的差不多了，果然不能只在电影中寻访电影的想象
[CGV대학로] 从家到宿舍那段的flow （结尾走秀的衣服是不是没钱了）
我非常喜欢托马辛麦肯齐和安雅泰勒，能看到这两个人出现在一部电影里我还是很激动的，但这一点依然不足够让我给这部电影打四星，前几天我还非常认真得像喜欢的女孩介绍了血与冰淇淋三部曲，并且和她一起重新看了《僵尸肖恩》，介绍了一些埃德加赖特的特点，我对这部电影本来有更高的期待，辛亏我当时没说一起看埃德加赖特的新片
女主前半段就是我，迷恋那逝去的迷人的60年代。然后转而告诉你，60年代摇摆伦敦的暗面，包裹了对女性身体的剥削、谋杀、死亡。性解放时代的背后是性剥削。谋杀一段仔细看看得出来是反杀，其实我猜到了后面走向，但看到两个女主拥抱在一起还是无比感动。塑造了两个很好的女性形象，我喜欢那个女杀手。/60年代还是好美，视听很美，看得无比沉浸
大型交通安全片之过马路要看来往车辆 大型社交安全片之别他妈喝陌生人递给你的饮料 给安雅两分
画面四星，但故事就三星半，也可能是我没看懂。。。一开始以为安雅是女主的分身结果不是，然后我又以为是她妈，也不对，看到结局的时候才想起安雅第一次报地址的时候已经说明了身份了。。。（但是还是没太get这个故事要说个啥。。。）PS女主和安雅仔细看真的有点像！神奇。另黑人小哥演的好做作。。。
『用迷幻的裙装掩盖糜烂的正装』女主学服装设计的，背景也在伦敦... 你要说是《黑白魔女库伊拉》我都信，只不过比迪士尼黑一点点罢了...内核呢就像《前途似“镜”的女孩》+《镜中人》|顺便其中被人津津乐道的“丧尸？” 我觉得更像是那个都市传说《瘦长鬼影》 Slender Man 怪物形象
英国老鬼吓人，故事格局不够。
中国式的灵异事件，不同的是人家拍的怎么就这么高级这么艺术呢。。最后的反转也是一个不错的一翻。加一星。。桑迪代表着60年代英国？看着辉煌，实则千疮百孔。桑迪即是凶手，也是被害者。
这也太好看了吧...没想到现在的retro都是80年代都不够用的，得60年代才能解决问题了。音乐1000分了...奥斯卡不看着办吗？？？
心猿意马，旨趣相拆。结局设计可厌近于可怖。
起初以为是个平庸的恐怖片，却被结尾的张力深深打动，这是一个杀手搭建的灵魂之牢，梦想被扔进绞肉机粉碎的全过程。其实更适宜直接改编成音乐剧，只要音乐不难听，托尼奖稳拿。
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