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".
没想到是以巫女的视角看人类的悲喜，不断转换身份之间，竟然有点泰伦斯马力克的味道，本以为是一部氛围独特的恐怖片，没想到基本算一步文艺片了，3星半
四星半 这哪是惊悚片或者恐怖片啊 这是独特风格的女性史诗，除去部分血腥镜头 整体像英式古典小说一样唯美细腻… 两代女巫 都是被迫走上非常人的道路 一个在复仇的道路上一去不回 但能怪她吗，其实不能 另一个在一次次探索中找到了自我 经历了从古至今大部分女性都不得不经历的一切 高光的时刻是男儿身的那段时间 撒在身上的阳光都是格外温暖的
太阳升起，我的身体像一条河流，流淌了许久，却仍在原地。这是一个灼烧着、痛苦着的世界，但或许还能感受温情的火光。
一个懵懂女巫的成长和自我认知之旅，用她自己残忍的方式感受着土地阳光和河流，感受着笑容和眼泪，感受着友善和敌意，感受着愉悦和愤怒，感受着性、爱情的痛苦与美好，感受着欲望与恐惧，感受着绝望与仇恨，感受着孤独，从而学习和了解着这个世界。散文诗一般的镜头语言和台词，不过中途看睡着了。
年度十佳预定
you won’t be alone, 看完却是无穷尽的孤独感
对父权的抗争很浅显，但镜头是如此动人。像河流一样生活
但我还是不喜欢恐怖片呜呜呜。
重拾人性的故事 当然是踏在鲜血之上 ps 女巫生理结构设定很有趣
魔幻的人世间，不过那是欧洲女巫的魔幻人世间。人类是什么呢？人类是这世间的尘埃吧，我们这一生太短暂了。
小清新文艺惊悚片，什么女巫啦变身啦都是点缀而已。
影片一开始猫咪在草坪上玩耍突然被神秘力量捉走，伴随着撕咬和咀嚼声，猫咪又安然无恙的出现，采用贴地式跟拍模仿猫咪的视角，悄无声息的透露出影片借尸还魂的设定，故事也因此展开，导演借用女巫的元素通过不同角度审视着西方封建社会男女两性关系，既美好又血腥。故事情节和叙事方式安排巧妙，导演充分利用这一题材展现了女性精神的成长，内维娜同女巫之间的抗争可以说是本片的亮点，讽刺了男权社会对女性群体的压迫，大量的抒情镜头诉说着背后的真善美。当然，这部影片还有一定的独特性，将生物内脏塞入自己心房中，不禁让我想起了国内的《聊斋志异》中的《画皮》，也正是因为这一点，使这部影片极具东方神秘文化色彩。总的来说，不论是在设定还是立意上，还是不错的，但就我个人而言，这部影片在一定程度上称不上是恐怖片，充其量是一部文艺片。
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当无法通过外物得到共情的状态之下，如何学会笑，学会哭，学会感动，学会不接受，学会如何自处，又或者当以无尽的生命去体验各种人的时候，又会以何种心态陷入循环，女人>男人>孩子空白的生命也知道无限趋向于高位或者纯粹。
父亲这个角色演得厚重，让人越发难受，看完只能一声声叹息。
定档了，但这个阵容就蛮杂的（不过我喜欢?）看预告还可以唉//虽说是叙述女巫成长，但整体还是男性视角，题外话:以为carloto是演女巫爱的男孩没想到是女巫本人，felix才是那个lover，但是这种纯净懵懂的状态梦回a cara que mereces
我一看到related生命之树这种推荐语我就该断了看的念头的。
我喜欢电影里的一小段话: 每天能去某个地方见某些人，这是很值得感谢的事情；有认识我的人正在某个地方关心着我，听着我的倾诉并回应着我，也是值得感谢的事情。
2.8，韩剧剧本不妨碍relate到泪流满面
“没了记忆还是人么？那是僵尸……”所有的体面和尊严在阿尔兹海默症面前都荡然无存……发病时有多无力 清醒那一刻就有多痛苦
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