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".
坠爱的东亚民俗主题，虽然有点晦气但不妨碍我喜欢。
至于导演的野心：一字宇宙
觉的晦气并不代表就信了，以前收到“不转发就死全家”这样的短信你会信吗？不也只是单纯觉的晦气么。但这还不是最重要的，最重要的是摄影机的调度实在太烂，视角混乱。导演没有能力驾驭伪纪录片的形式，仅仅是为了配合这个晦气的创意，舍本逐末，可惜了这么好的民俗设定。
现在的云南还有大和尚？黑心商家让你怀疑任何宗教。
观影全程不害怕，看完了去刷牙发现牙龈出血，下意识去摸牙时到真给我吓一跳。
这么多年终于等到比《中邪》更棒的华语恐怖片了！！！！剧本写作非常完美！！！年度电影！！
午夜凶铃似的传播、感染，看谁信了邪。对于伪记录式恐怖，我是完全过滤的，但影片结尾的诅咒，就像面孔上溃烂的百双眼睛，像密密麻麻的齿龈，密布的恶虫要往脑子里不安地钻
女主作死程度令人发指，以至于很难和最后和女儿的深情告白共情。恐怖程度就和灵媒、中邪差不多吧，噱头在于最后那个分摊，说实话挺无语的，搞这个吓唬谁呢？
不要盯着那些经文看!
就是感觉去西双版纳不用隔离真的不错TAT 海清老师考虑去演一下恐怖片吧。
女主有几个角度太像马广媚了，搞得我好出戏。。。论吓人的话其实还不如金广发那个《元组·肉艳》哈哈
夺笋呐夺笋呐，我就看个电影还能让介娘们儿给诅咒了。
女主有几个角度太像马广媚了，搞得我好出戏。。。论吓人的话其实还不如金广发那个《元组·肉艳》哈哈
这么好看刺激的恐怖片打低分怎么想的，从头到尾喘不过气，特别是闽南地区出身看这些拜拜仪式简直是更毛骨悚然，演员表现都特别好，说实话故事有点抑郁，就是“无论如何也逃不出无法被救赎”的设定，真的吓死我了今晚估计睡不着了….
片子还是能吸引我看完的，2个比较喜欢的地方，一个是鬼打墙，一个是利用视觉暂留让人在白色屏幕上看到那个符咒。
5/10 把大家叫出来，就为了这点事啊。 DV在拍煽情家庭录像混剪素材时还挺合适的，但这不伦不类的手持（动机、剪辑、配乐）到底有什么意义，就为了拍几段《逃生》pov复刻吗
每次到了关键画面，我就遮住画面🤣绝不给机会让导演诅咒我🤨
富强、民主、文明、和谐、自由、平等、公正、法治、爱国、敬业、诚信、友善！
技術面美術跟配樂尤其出色，是真正會貼近台灣人生活且真正可怕的各種場景(陰森的廟、城市邊陲的老公寓等)，而女主角蔡亘晏演技令人驚豔，我知道類型電影甚至是如此商業的恐怖片很難有獎項會青睞，但演出真的是值得一個最佳女主角獎的等級。搭配著有點莫名其妙的八字咒語之行銷，加上電影本身的質量以及必定會病毒式擴散的口碑，今年的台片，《咒》肯定要是重要的一筆。
看完觉得还是有很多硬伤。段落和段落衔接生硬、恐怖的地方很多都是生起。但恐怖片最重要就是气氛！气氛做足120分钟，哪怕观众关掉电脑/走出影院立刻骂街，那也是电影的胜利。
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