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".
没看过老版还是吃故事这套的 塔罗牌最后一张猜到了倒吊人
瞅瞅奥斯卡最佳过誉导演的新片。★★☆/5.7
虽然被亲友提前剧透了剧情，但在看时不可避免地发疯（bushi。橘真琴你真的好在乎遥啊我的天，为了他去神寺祈福加油，和他一起坐火车到终点站（可我嗑凛遥诶咋办）//京阿尼明显在各cp一碗水端平上花费了不少功夫，导致最后的成片节奏稀碎、遥和凛争吵和决裂生硬突兀。好在精致的画面（特别是水流的真实感和人物穿搭等）勉强拯救回来了。开头的vlog视角代入感太强已经尖叫了，T^T我的free大家庭一直都要这么开开心心哇。//情怀加持给4星，期待下篇的最终大团圆吧。
看陀螺的作品美术和视觉永远是享受，前半段马戏团拍得那么细我觉得纯粹个人趣味，本以为他瘾就过到此而已了还好高潮没让我失望，但是剥离个人风格这一亮点整个故事真的是又臭又长……
服化道美术这些视觉部分还是很强啊。不过影片本身，更像是陀螺自己在还愿了，去重温一场旧梦。但这样的电影，在当下确实很少共鸣了。
观赏性很强的院线片。画面、音乐和服装都很美，有着浓重的宿命感和悲剧感。骗中骗的结构，以弱胜强又和《犬之力》不谋而合。男人们自以为掌握了一切，结果还是被女人abandoned, haunted and executed。男主原本是可以成为福尔摩斯那样的人哪！
太老套了！都什么年代了，这种故事不带点新解读又何必翻拍呢……这片子甚至过不了Bechdel测试。鲁妮玛拉和大魔王竟然没有互动真是太让人失望了，这简直是卡司诈骗好么◡ ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻
妥妥的两个半小时催眠片，没人物也没剧情，各种工具人走一遭，不知道为了啥也不知道演个啥，只能看卡司们切磋演技。非得让人把1947版的翻出来看一看不可。4
隔了好久终于有时间看了呜呜😭
自欺欺人的骗子终得报应，竟然还是个关于心理咨询的悬疑故事…没看过原版，单就这部的复古质感和黑色故事气质，挺吸引人，没觉得长，而且摄影很加分。结尾太急着去收了，不过当大魔王在故事中间按下录音时，大概能猜到结局
女性角色很有魅力，尤其是布兰切特最后的反击太酷。然而太冗长了，疲惫的心不想看漫长的恶有恶报的故事，想看善有善报和小动物跳舞。【老年
1、“他究竟是一个人类，还是一个天生的怪人？没人知道……”
终于把94奥斯卡的bp提名电影看完了！放低期待后发现还行，布景很精致，配乐承袭了水形物语神秘又怪诞的风格。前半部分在戏团里看得津津有味，离开戏团后的部分的人物动机很不明确，大魔王那么晚才出场，且害男主的动机没有能够很明朗，男主的演技撑不起这大男主戏。抽空把原版看一下对比对比。
最后突然被心魔附身是什么鬼 再一次虐凛遥🫠
游泳都可以有动漫系列，日本真的是绝绝子。而且一众男主，不追漫画其实看剧场版基本无感。应该是有很长的铺垫，从小一起长大的一帮兄弟，都在练不同的游泳项目，彼此之间有竞争，也有陪伴的故事。几乎都是帅哥组合，没有变腐也是厉害。单就故事性来看，不够。
【动画电影】久违的小游泳，不看遗憾看完后悔:(
没看过原版，但这版的故事真的太好猜了，可以说剧本显得无趣。而整部电影多余的角色极多，情节上没用的笔墨也很多。
只能说京都不愧是你，让我每句台词都想吐槽，每个cp都想炖
大多数发生于新时代的更新除了企图用先行的技术试着让它变得更繁复之外，很难有什么正向的效果；前半部分穿梭于暗黑嘉年华与各种密象倒是好看，并且符合想象；从中段开始走向莫名“中偶”以及让人失去耐心、冗长的叙事进程中。Toni Collette、Mary Steenburgen赢很大，Bradley Cooper怕是又倒退了，那个“小白兔”梗我给100分。
剧情太水了，摁头给吃齁死的糖，刚吃完就捅你一刀，节奏跟踩了狗屎一样，看在原番的面上才勉强三星，醉了
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