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".
这应该算得上是完美犯罪了，影片的细节很好，最后一刻死者出现的时候，前面的所有细节一下子涌上来，有点后知后觉的明白了一切。两边的角度，各有各的可怜，也各有各的可恨。
愿救我的灵魂摆脱刀剑，救我的佳偶远离犬之力
五国联盟合拍...这个有意思 ....
平平无奇的日子里因为某些不可控的变量加入反而朝着瓦解的方向快速前进，多少故事都想在这种疯狂的进程中讲好一个人的毁灭史，偏偏毁灭这个牛仔的是一只兔子，一切坚不可摧的伪装都在本能的互相吸引中全面瓦解，于是这个善于庖丁解牛的好猎手，终于遇到了捕获自己的那个猎人。
观影很长时间，我对本片都是困惑的，里面人物略显畸形的人物情感，是在暗示同性恋？乱伦？某种更羞于启齿的情感？全片的这种暗昧不明是对情欲相当高级的表达，值得品味再三。克斯汀·邓斯肯我仿佛看到了《忧郁症》时代的她。
这应该算得上是完美犯罪了，影片的细节很好，最后一刻死者出现的时候，前面的所有细节一下子涌上来，有点后知后觉的明白了一切。两边的角度，各有各的可怜，也各有各的可恨。
电影没做过多交代，表面上是乔治依赖他，其实在心理上他依赖弟弟。
摄影可谓帧帧如画，调度和镜头堪称一绝，冷静而克制，故事细思极恐，讲了一个伪装者的悲剧。表面是探讨男子汉气概，事实上还是在讲人性。
不知道拍《犬之力》这样的电影，一个导演要准备多久？关于影像和情感的准备。
好流畅，已臻化境，这已经不是电影，是一缕香魂无断绝。视角找得好，人物也择取得好，这应该是依赖于原著的强大，简坎皮恩也表达得好，她的那种温柔优雅的对于权力对于性别的嘲笑，那种深刻的无比贴近的对于人物痛苦的感受，真是好厉害。看之前我没想到克斯汀邓斯特有如此厉害的戏份，她的表演冲击女主角都绰绰有余，是她对于这个角色的诠释，才好像成为了本片的一汪湖水，她折射了整个压抑的故事，沧桑与纷扰，绝望与不毁，都像光一样折射在这湖水里。
浪费了时间 误以为是好片 硬撑着看完了 片名也莫名其妙 实在欣赏不了
7.5分，Phil自渎和最后喂烟抽的戏好极。全片很平，看似无风无浪的水平面，而底下暗流涌动，暗流是人的潜在情欲（占有、控制、保护）。
乍看是男性气质危机，其实是商业文化与农场文化之间的冲突.
人物是隐性的，暴露在外的都是不同的情绪，愤怒、悲伤、绝望，再由此重新拼凑出每一个完整的形象。正因为这样人物都是单纯的，比如固执张扬的Phil，歇斯底里的Rose，但作为农场异己份子的Peter却一直在隐藏，一直在不动声色地监视/目击着一切——他想重新拥有「人」的感官记忆，那就必须与恶魔做一场交易。
每场戏都挺好看的，但有点发散了，明明几个配角没必要这么多银幕时间，后半段两个男人的深入互动才是重点，但这点又太直白了，体现在更依赖事件了，更好的是一直收着，但似乎也没啥更好办法。
弟弟绝不是蠢笨，他的人生哲学应该是“不干己事不张口，一问摇头三不知”。
8.5/10。①普遍崆峒的1920s西部美国：崆峒的深柜牧场主男主性格古怪而暴躁，他爱上了名义上的侄子（也是gay，但并无血缘关系，性格阴柔），同时他因厌女而各种霸凌侄子的母亲，于是为了复仇，恋母的侄子利用男主对他的爱谋杀了男主。②一种「压抑而激烈」（对应了文本上男主「被压抑着却又汹涌欲出」的情欲）的氛围的营造：表意有力的精美而高水平摄影（色彩/光影/构图/置景/等）；缓慢克制的叙事与表演节奏；经常只说半句的台词（缺点是这会导致形式与内容的对位点不够清晰）；「情绪克制的画面+充满紧张感的配乐」的各种片段。③几段情欲段落处理（剪辑配乐调度等）地很好很贴合②说过的气质。
很工整不难看 剧情舒缓有冲突点也还蛮吸引人看下去 而且视听非常不错 很多画面一看就是大导演的手笔 就是2022年了 还在看深柜的故事 对于我来说太没有什么意思了
如何在没有一句台词之下仅凭调度、镜头、剪辑与表情就营造出仇视的对峙与喷薄的情欲出来，简·坎皮恩在这部电影里做到了近乎完美的示范～
很不错的故事，压抑，空旷，尴尬，又有趣。一个阴谋的借刀杀人，一个鸠占鹊巢的故事，但是又有缓慢的淡淡的欣慰。
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