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".
这是恐怖片嘛?这也算不上血浆片吧。除了玛丽莲唱歌那段好听点，这片讲的是个勾八，关爱老年人X生活?
一个工业流水线产品，像黄片一样；还以为模仿惊魂记，宗教，电视，电影，性欲各种元素掺杂，性欲满足不了杀人来满足……俩老东西哪来这么大劲头，几个年轻人打不过老东西，无脑白痴人设
属于藤本树会喜欢的烂电影！有坏女人！还不止一个！
因为杀人狂是老人的缘故吗？节奏是一种诡异的慢。血腥场面非常乏味，反倒是白天的几个日常画面挺好看，模仿古早欧洲文艺片情调。导演估计想另辟蹊径来着，题材也挺深刻，就是老人的岁数太大了，走路都打颤的身子骨就算还有性欲，也绝对没体力杀那么多人。总体不好看。
A24好会整活！这分比《soho区惊魂夜》低，我不答应！
冲着恐怖的话 和温子仁差了若干个《遗传厄运》
血浆，嫉妒，性爱录影带。剧情有点单薄，七个人相继死得那么快，令人怀疑是编剧和导演催着他们去投胎。后面有剧透，不想看可以到此为止了。剧透的隔离带｜镜头调度上有几个桥段值得玩味，点睛之笔有两处：一处是六个人晚上在屋子里老黑弹吉他，梦露女唱歌的那段；一处是导演女朋友被两位成人女性所感染，顶着男朋友的反对最后还是穿着sunday内衣和老黑拍的那段小电影和她映射在镜头中的倒影。
在剪辑和情节设计上未免太复古了，完美复刻b级恐怖片（单纯说剥削似乎也不是）和学生惊悚片作业中劣质与呆笨的特色，美学上来说拍得还不如《刺心》。对老年性欲及野心的纳入当然很亮眼，但考虑到被这部电影底色决定的猎奇化表现方式，你就很难说它真的亮眼，真能找到价值的路径只有被宗教与文化元素包裹起来的phycho——所以说真的非常复古。
题材不错，就节奏太慢了，好像还有续集的2部值得期待
2022年第109部：应该比不上农夫女儿们的故事。
一个jump scare吓到了，突然插眼睛恐怖得很，然后穿了喜剧元素，有点好笑。前面的转场镜头很棒，很多致敬经典镜头～
本身不算恐怖，楞得甚至有些好笑。但电影的两个冲突是最恐怖的：嫉妒与对立。这两个冲突又有共同的核心：衰老，衰老使人沉湎过去，嫉妒新一代人拥有的一切，观念上也无法再接受新的思潮，甚至开始痛恨那些自己眼里离经叛道的东西。
不算无聊，但也不是很有意思。
题材不错，就节奏太慢了，好像还有续集的2部值得期待
还不错，对70年代虐杀电影的复古挺用心的，开场是一个谷仓框出的4:3电视屏幕，中间用分屏、片中片和重复蒙太奇切换，突出老少两条线的对位，车灯溅血、爬床、对峙几场戏类型感十足，比芬奇、亚当计划之类的炒冷饭有质感多了。此类电影可以看成一种影像鬼屋，包袱都是老的，但氛围、质感到位，就会带动你娱乐。我反倒觉得主题挺失败的，因为真实生活的残酷远胜猎奇的“老妖”，米娅高斯分饰两角恐怕也是规避演员剥削的手段。
过三星。你能从中找到很多同类电影的影子，但不是无脑拼贴，反而糅合得挺不错的，有股浓烈的复古味儿。在反派人物的形象塑造上并不扁平，毕竟人人都有对时间流逝的恐惧感。除了老夫妻猎杀桥段的不足信外，其他还行。另：用枪托砸手那一段看着挺刺激的，让我想起了科恩兄弟的《血迷宫》。交叉剪辑和分屏玩得挺好。
另类恐怖片，只是没太大意思。比起其中的杀戮，真正恐怖的是衰老。至少是这个视角下的衰老。
摄影蛮有想法，有那么些希区柯克的意思，衰老这个主题也蛮引发共情。。从救命解药记住的米娅高斯，这么有辨识度和可塑性的妹子，咋这么多年都还一直在恐怖片里兜兜转转叻？。。
这应该是近些年看到最猎奇的恐怖片了，弗洛伊德说性和攻击性是人的基本动力，被这片完美诠释了（不是
题材不错，就节奏太慢了，好像还有续集的2部值得期待
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