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".
梅拉尼导片的风格还蛮统一，但较之前作并无突破。
见证梅拉尼·罗兰从演员到导演的蜕变，这部疯女人我强推，2小时的观影体验，见证了女性之间真挚的友谊，但又闻到了一丝丝的姬香
what is荒谬 谁tmd才是疯子
正常与疯癫，医生与疯女人，禁锢与自由，看清自己，看清一切。
怎么就塌房了… 怎么又盖好了… 折腾了一大圈小m还是没有魔法… 如果全家人都归零归归归归零之后只有她有了超能力那一定很有趣（。
有一段蒙太奇脱掉束腰的片段很好，束腰这种建立在男性审美上的产物对女性身体就是伤害，这么多年了，对女性的压迫从来没有停止，哪里都一样
3.5分，沒想到是第二女主當導演，恍惚是真人真事改編，19世紀末法國女人還無緣無故（或者說非我族類之“標準”），送入不人道的精神病院, 女人無法掌握他們的命運，是父親，是醫生，懲罰她們的是體制，是所謂的假科學，簡直是等同中世紀把無辜女性女巫化
是不是想成长为一个一流女演员，都要至少演一次疯魔？
还行吧。剧情一般般。只是感叹那个年代精神病院的诊治手段太恶劣了太残忍了。
惊悚个毛线，与其说这是一个见鬼或者通灵的故事，不如说这就是一部100%抗议父权社会压迫残害女性的故事。影片一开头，女主家吃饭的氛围就像刚参加过葬礼的模样，死气沉沉的，刻板保守的父亲统领着整个家庭，饭桌文化说明了一切。有独立思想和反抗精神的女儿被父亲送进了所谓的疯人院，里面实际就是一个残害妇女的监狱，最后软弱的弟弟鼓起勇气把姐姐救出了黑暗的牢笼。不过我也想说，女主经常看见鬼魂，鬼魂出来溜达的也太勤了吧！这通灵跟吃白菜似的，有点儿戏了吧？当然，这个问题不影响整片的主题。影片整体氛围比较压抑，只有最后15分钟掀起了反抗的浪潮。还有我不想说梅拉尼.罗兰有多么美丽，但是她的气质真好！我给4星7.2分！
每个地方都有过可怕的年代，但归根结底还是人性使然
一部欢快至极，老幼咸宜，看完含笑又带泪的迪士尼动画长篇就这么出来了。
肉体会被禁锢，但信念与爱能让灵魂重获自由。“你走吧，我自由了。”
片头那镜头一直跟着女主背影走，突然就切换到她父亲，又突然切换到她正脸，这镜头手法……可能这就是能让某些文艺装逼豆瓣猪打高分的原因吧……
那是因为他们是谎言是罪恶是孱弱，而我们是永恒是自由是真实，我们的生命是舞蹈，他们的生命只是一段表演
对比开片镜头与结束镜头，女主角的心境都不同了。欢笑声、海浪声盖过了一切情感。
舞会的调度可以做得更好的，空间还很大，喜欢最后的信和兄妹的剧情
画面非常唯美，感觉故事没有讲好，有些俗套，但值得一看。
很感人 真的拍的很好 看完很有感触 非常棒的电影 最后的那封信 哭的不行了
但片子过于冗长乏味。
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