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".
前面拍的很好，结尾莫名其妙烂尾。（如果在搬家处结尾，镜头原地不动目送搬家的车远去，黑屏进字幕，就完美了）
其实导致影片类型不停变化的原因都是贾静雯，但贾静雯到底在闹什么名堂实在令人费解，最后就是看一部片子好像在看好几部片子，并且哪一部都没头没尾
基本和阳光普照是一样的内核，这部反而更加拨开云翳，值得肯定的是钟孟宏坚持的人文关怀。而阳光普照里所有的问题也一并延续到了这里，真的不明白这么简单的故事为什么要花上两个小时来赘述，如果去掉那些自以为精巧的“暗”喻、刻意去指引观众凝视的镜头，整部电影明明会更加有力量。过重的人为痕迹，暴露的是剧作的虚浮，观看者即而被拒绝在大楼之外，双眼始终蒙着那层蓝布。现实关怀最怕看客无法共情和导演自我感动。
已经习惯钟导的节奏了，看得十分亲切。电影最后女儿幸免于难，其实与导演听说的那个故事结局不同，《好莱坞往事》式的温柔。现在6.4，看看得奖后会不会升。
不知为何总感觉类型跳跃，《阳光普照》也是，内心的阴翳被过度放大为令人出戏的恐怖质感，或许和配乐有关？
单亲家庭、中年危机、衰败中产，这些元素以贾静雯的思觉失调贯穿构建起来，整体偏向于电视电影的质感。而疫情这个时代外壳，没有发挥出很好的作用。贾静雯的确非常适合饰演成熟职场女性这类角色，例如《我们与恶的距离》里宋乔安。
失调的家庭生活，柔和的光线与并不刺眼的色调之下却是一个在内部溃烂是家庭关系。原本以为只是一部更内敛更狗血的家庭惊悚苦情剧，直到发现贾静雯有病的时候，我内心欢呼“GOTCHA MOTHERFXXKER！”
1.个人观感好于豆瓣6.5分带给我的较低预期…（看到豆瓣评分随评价人数增加而越升越高，为此欣慰一下）；2.奖项信息…（已删除，此前看过相关新闻报道，才知道现在已成不可提及的内容，更没想到的是因为记录《瀑布》的提名获奖情况导致注册豆瓣账号十年多的我第一次被禁言一天）；3.-…每次那個聲音一出現，就很像一台很吵雜的機器，鑽進我耳朵。有時候它會自己走掉，但很多時候，它會持續著，讓我覺得很煩躁，想要摔打東西，甚至傷害自己。一直到剛剛，我終於知道那是什麼聲音了。-那是什麼？-瀑布的聲音。-瀑布？-剛剛妳在講妳爸爸的事，那聲音又來了。我告訴我自己，這次我一定要離開它，我心裡想這麼做，但是好像永遠都做不到。很意外那個轟轟聲它突然離開了，我開始聽到河水、溪流的聲音，原本以為是機器的轟轟聲，但不是，那就是瀑布的聲音。…
事实上，电影的叙事顺序一定是顺的吗？并不如此认为，母亲头脑中闪现而过的念头，或许并不是未知先卜的征兆，而是事情早已发生过了。有没有可能，女儿溪流遇险早已发生过了，母亲在电视中看见女儿被援救起来已是幻想造成的结果，而真正的结尾实际在母亲对桌旁的女儿说，可能是癔症幻想出来的女儿，对她说：“不要问我好不好，我会努力好起来的时候”就已结束，而病因反而揭露在结尾？这不是没可能的。女儿、母亲、父亲三人之间的关系，假设有隐喻的话，能不能看作是台湾的年轻一代、台湾、大陆之间的关系呢，父亲的自顾不暇多少照应着大陆在抗击疫情时的自顾不暇，母亲对父亲的依恋，以及必须走出对父亲的眷恋，找得到象征的，如母亲依恋父亲时一脸病态，母亲努力走出父亲对其影响之时，台湾的疫情有所缓解，现实层面对照着台湾抗疫付出的努力。
开始误以为是精神错乱，后来发现是时间的错乱。为什么钟孟宏总能把一个温情脉脉的故事拍成恐怖片。
7.6/故事朴素，配乐清新，演技在线，情感动人。DON’T SWEAT IT!
有几个桥段很有意思。但总体我还是很不喜欢钟孟宏，感觉他的作品漂浮在人生真谛和狗血八点档之间，漂浮在煽情做作和朴素动人之间，整个让我非常不适。
整体的电影色调是那种很舒服的明亮感，画面很通透，人物打光很足，故事是传统讲述和细腻表达，不过整个框架太平缓，没有太多的冲突，总觉得少了些强烈的主题，延续富有特色的清幽配乐，贾静雯和王静演技可以的（里面口罩大小不合适，总是不贴合面部；台湾的房产中介这么良心的吗，让人直呼666。）
瀑布、疫情、单亲妈妈，成品出来都是表面的联系，到结尾真的是强行把瀑布按进剧情里，贾静雯演的很好，其他都有点苍白。
多0.5星是经历过幻听和老旧楼房外立面加固围挡人士的共情分，能够清楚说出自己的那个声音就是在拆除围挡重新透亮，这一点真的被戳到……但是怕了魏如萱，那段描述她脑海里声音的表演差点儿让我弃片……
我很喜欢。无论是表演，内容，抑或是剧情，和温吞的节奏。
压抑的人生，却偶有温暖点缀，阿姨的帮助，主任的好意，同学们的慰问……谁的人生不是满目疮痍之上，有些光影的投射，让人生有点奔头，不然也让人太绝望了。
毕竟现实中四处暗涌，实在算不上什么瀑布，最多也就算块破布了
7.5分。瀑布是一种坠落。中产生活的母女俩在疫情期间遭遇母亲失业并生病，之前的高消费生活无法维系，只能由奢入俭。好在天无绝人之路，母女俩也十分坚韧。母亲找到了超市理货员的工作，高房贷的房子卖掉后，买了小房子居住。生活虽然不如从前，但压力小了，母亲的病也渐渐好转。这片在疫情时代和经济下行的当前看会更有感触，大环境影响个人，如果实在无法向上，像瀑布一样坠落也无妨。毕竟虽然坠落的过程是痛苦的，接下来的道路会更加平缓。何况，母女俩的关系还比之前更好了。
在母女關係中的人才能共情吧。賈靜雯最後那句呼喚值10000分。
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