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".
开始时，慢节奏，最后梳理了一下故事。有些事，是自己的想当然。有些事，复杂又清楚。
中规中矩 倒是想起当时读原著的回忆了 某棚景一键魂穿岸边露伴（ 想知道那谁是不是为金10男O打雌激素？？？bushi x
不懂日文，就不敢说读过原著。按此道理，反而更愿意接受一个电影版。虽然仍需要字幕理解对白，但视觉的丰富，以及三味线的奏唱，还原着意境。川端康成原著的故事，无需复述。拍成影片，必定经过导演的理解再加工，就很难不被指摘。可这又何妨？这次的氛围很好了。奈绪的美演绎了驹子，迷乱了岛村，也迷乱我。最后，从驹子的角度再理解一遍已经发生的。解释了“迷乱”，诠释了性别、阶级不同而产生的错位。爱与不爱都被冻在这雪国了，那里是另个世界～
多人pov强过昨天的last duel，构图及善用镜头边界有那么一小丢阿巴斯的意思，虽然但是也依然就是个麻麻的观感，角色于你桥不扬长，于nao没弊短，可惜了一次合作机会（nao这个扮相真的优酱附体
就知道不好拍 果然温开水 完成任务一样极速地交代 让人想问 你们在干什么？
奈绪的表演太流畅了 干净又漂亮 没看过原著 一知半解
对七八十年代虐杀cult片的致敬，像是德州电锯杀人狂和十三号星期五的结合体，黄片摄制组的设定也是很有嬉皮腔调，前面基本就是危险预警，鳄鱼袭来和脚踩钉子这种都是初级段位，最劲的还是虐杀者身份的反差感，鲜血染红车灯，老妇翩翩起舞，这还真不愧是A24。与血腥场面相比，还是衰老的肉体更为惊悚，衰老肉体还想大搞特搞那更是惊悚得无以复加了。
小说基本就是主人公跟艺妓的聊天，这都能拍一部电影还是明星演的，还挺好看，证明电影的形态本该多种多样，而我们渐渐只剩一种电影了。唯一比小说升华的地方就是结尾加了一段驹子视角对整个故事的讲法，算是对川端康成原著的一种解读。
我同意老年人床戏才是本片最恐怖的地方，不过这个主题其实还挺现实的呀。
反恐怖片。一种新情态洗刷下的秽暗时代意象重构，通过倒(正)置性欲与屠杀在“电影”中的比重和定位完成对意大利电影侵略后老去的清教情结的怜悯和回望。铅黄色黎明之后，里根时代也到来了。
花季少女为何屡遭黑手？
这本小说，就不太适合影像化，比较难拍吧。
奈绪演技收放自如！隐忍的爱付出的爱，每个人都有难忘的爱，用旁观者着就能看到的切片构成故事，这种信息的错误，无法表达的自分，气氛到位了，还有什么不满意的吗？
岛村会不会喜欢上叶子，岛村喜欢上了驹子，啊岛村会不会喜欢上叶子，岛村没有喜欢叶子
所以女主是喜欢行男吗？日本人的思路还是没跟上
这电影很日本，表示看不懂。。。
铺垫了老长，结果杀戮戏份草草了事…… 唯一亮点是血色车灯下的舞蹈吧。
拍出了原著的蒙太奇感和混沌感。看到叶子和驹子同时出现在温泉旅店时，突然跟岛村共情，产生了类似莎士比亚《仲夏夜之梦》里的那种眩晕感。嘿，love shuffle，低温环境下的魔幻。但是没有喜乐，只有心酸。像是片中总在重复的“徒劳”。是徒劳啊，驹子总是活在别处，叶子苦于错付，岛村始终在迷茫。高桥一生的确还挺色气的。奈绪的演出好厉害！
岛村的角色形象非常接近，可是少了最后的银河又有什么结尾可言呢
在我眼里，你是完美本身。就像绚烂的夏花，也像极了满月。
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