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".
乏善可陈 边打游戏边看的 故作高深 可以预见到反转 演员演的还挺好 就是剧本沉闷也没有什么出彩的地方 如果看透故意深沉的那点儿所谓寓意 就是毫无新意的再翻拍而已
三星给杰克吉伦哈尔。老吉在大特写镜头里面连着飙十几分钟戏不带喘的，真的能让人忽略剧情设定里的很多bug。但看完就左想右想都不对，警察涉嫌杀人竟然不停职，报警热线接线员对着其他部门的人大呼小叫，其他就不说了。但是老杰演技真的值得看，影帝预备役了。
可以理解說在緊張的案子面前很容易判斷失誤引發心理問題等等，但是看完還是覺得說，太難了很難不被影發心理問題
表演很好，但是故事细节禁不起推敲，最后主题揭露得也不够深刻。
喜欢这样的个人秀，纯演技发挥，没有看过丹麦原作，但并不影响观赏本片，各种配音绝了，都是超强发挥。。。
成片的起承转合就很网飞，Jake的表演值得一看
我的天，COVID-19 特别版小成本制作 Gyllenhaal 脸部特写尝鲜舔屏特别辑
一個半調子的PTSD警察遇到心理有問題的娘們，扮演上帝還不明情況瞎指揮的鳥事。心理有問題真的就別上班了真的！
吉伦哈尔的演技个人秀，各种大幅度情绪转换和面部微表情，经历特写镜头的轮番考验，90分钟应该说是极限了，很难再搞得更长，情节和角色的构架也不太支持更复杂的设计与逆转。价值观层面过于强调结局的教育意义，连被剖腹的男婴都不死，是不是也太过分了。三星。
电影中有一些剧情可有可无，查了一下发现是电影的新增设定，丰富乔•贝勒的生活，森林大火的背景应该是为了营造紧张氛围，贴切现实中的事件。
和丹麦版比较下感觉更胜一筹，演员表演更加具有张力，剧情衔接更加紧凑，老吉和猫王孙女的表演都很好
以前不怎麼喜歡吉倫哈爾，這部片子真是不錯，就耍他一個人。不過那幾位聲音配角也真是不錯。
我愿意看90分钟的特写在Gyllenhaal的大脸上，虽然已经快残了，但还是让人心疼。
大背景逻辑几乎没法信，911接线员发现警情从头到尾都是自己处理？自己的专业知识，自己的私人关系，甚至自己的个人情绪，都是影响报警电话最后结果的因素，有点太儿戏了吧，所以报警还得看运气是谁值班接的电话？全片独角戏配上吉伦哈尔有点癫狂的人设，讲道理其实不太容易沉浸，有点尬，再加上报警女懦弱胆小的性格甚至有点倒胃口，哎，费劲。。
已经看了这第三部Jake Gyllenhaal倾情主演深夜不睡觉持续打电话疯狂anxiety-driven的电影了，很感激Jake，可以演出这么多anxiety，看完就觉得自己的anxiety不严重了
紧跟一下police brutality的热点 不容易 不过这剧本实在一般
看完话剧来看电影，因为不太感冒小语种就不看丹麦的原版了，直接上美国翻拍版，去年拍的新鲜出炉、男主又是我男神！剧情整体都是一样的，加了山火的故事背景和男主家庭戏，以及感觉男主性格变得更暴躁了。男神真的演技炸裂，颜值也在线、40岁了怼脸拍特写还是那么帅！通过电话声音出演的各位也是演技炸裂！PS这剧情其实有点点穿越去怒火重案hhh
我最近这是什么手气啊……氛围很好，前面一半搞不懂什么事就不想快进，整个故事通过打电话来展开也不让人难受。吐槽：男主在片子里一言不合就开喷，挨喷的有脸人不是胖子就是女人，大家都还好好地哄着他，也许是因为大家都知道他正在艰难时刻？最后男主不仅心碎人救心碎人，还洗心革面重新做人。总之：当白男真好啊。
大背景逻辑几乎没法信，911接线员发现警情从头到尾都是自己处理？自己的专业知识，自己的私人关系，甚至自己的个人情绪，都是影响报警电话最后结果的因素，有点太儿戏了吧，所以报警还得看运气是谁值班接的电话？全片独角戏配上吉伦哈尔有点癫狂的人设，讲道理其实不太容易沉浸，有点尬，再加上报警女懦弱胆小的性格甚至有点倒胃口，哎，费劲。。
电话线上找不到出路的可怜人，911指挥中心里找不到出路的接线员，破碎者拯救破碎者，愈是痛苦愈是纠结，本来不那么喜欢吉伦哈尔，但他表演实在挑不出毛病，抑郁，暴躁，痛苦，愧疚，焦急，软弱，能清晰地区分出他的情绪来源，层次感非常好，张力十足，全片没有动作戏，没有性感花瓶，但小成本拍成大制作的感觉，网飞出品的正片上限又被推高几分。
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