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".
到底谁是疯的呢，所有精神病院片子都可以问的问题。三星半
连个鬼都没有 还用女人裸体 虐待女人博噱头
舞会的调度可以做得更好的，空间还很大，喜欢最后的信和兄妹的剧情
3.4 伴随着大提琴的风声，今晚很难分清谁才是疯子。
Girls help girls and fuck the patriarchy. 主演之一就是导演有被惊喜到，又被法国女演员蛊到了。
精神病学历来是个有意思的事情，古有火刑架上的女巫，近有精神病院里的疯女人，却从来没有听说过疯男人。总归一点只是男性对女性的规训，和中国女人裹小脚是一个道理。主题是个好主题，不过导演私心虚构了一个真的有超能力的女人，不然估计女主只会和古往今来所有的同胞一样，被禁锢住永远没法脱逃。
从世界各地攫取和再加工当地文化，迪士尼算是找到了制作动画的捷径，显然一次《寻龙传说》的失败是不够的。其实迪士尼的想象力还是业内顶尖的，动画里有很多灵光一闪的地方，设定和概念都很有趣，然而强行合家欢的结局暴露的是迪宝宝陷入叙事匮乏困境的现状。
当银幕前的女性破除万难勇敢奋力地走向幕后，这样的故事一定比她单纯当演员那些更值得被讲述、被看见！
电影画面唯美，稍显压抑。
永远可以相信迪士尼的动画，剧情普通却充满温馨，动画音乐依旧优秀，《Surface Pressure》这首歌最好听 @AMC Waterfront 22（11/23/2021 晚首映）
阴暗、寒冷、深深的无力感。
证实了我关于“迪士尼音乐剧电影在豆瓣上自带评分debuff”的猜想，音乐和美术都是业界顶尖级别，各个唱段的分镜和场景设计太绝了。大道至简，本片关于“gift（天赋）”和“give（给予）”的双关阐述得非常到位——“奇迹来自于爱，来自于给予他人和自己自由”，以至于并不需要繁复的冒险打boss就能完成这个主题。由于是螺蛳壳里做道场，所以非常适合直接改编成音乐剧，但也正因为如此才让习惯了公路片套路的国内观众（尤其是上映前打分带节奏的资源党）抛出了大量低分。对“真善美”的共鸣不需要让步于“我喜欢别人都给差评的事物”的恐惧，五星。
自由是甜中带苦，意识觉醒的古典之美。难以相信我们现在仍正经历相同的事，压制，束缚，偏见，人类几百年的发展依旧是停滞不前。不冷静不听话就是疯子，就要被浸泡在冰水里。也很喜欢女主在两个场景解束腰的节奏对比和象征意义。“很容易明白这个古典故事在当代的意义和指涉，通过超现实元素来消解这种感觉”
看到神就是奇迹，看到鬼魂就是神经病。就是想让我们闭嘴！
在男权环境中，girls help girls 。
舞会太精彩了，绝了，推荐推荐推荐，女的也很风流！！推荐哈！很好看！！
为什么能看到上帝就应该被尊敬，而能与死者通话却被认定为精神病患者。这些根本就没被当成患者来看待，不过就是试验品，一切都还是个未知数。被送进去的人被慢慢逼疯，掌权者也在肆无忌惮中一步步走向疯狂。最后，女主好美。
女人如果拥有超出男权社会所能掌控的力量，那她就一定会被打上“疯子”、“极端”的烙印，你知道的，剥夺一个人话语权最有效的方式就是让她做的一切都变成偏激的、没有理智的。
作为法国片，难得不拖泥带水。女主虽然不是美上天，但是带观众入戏能力一流。本想做家务电影，但是认真的看完了。二女主感情铺垫不够导致后期的情节不信服。总体好看～
那个年代女性真的是被压制的太严重了 父亲对亲生女儿都能干出这事 真他吗不是人 女主也真的是够钢的 撒个谎就能出去的事就不干 女人帮女人是对的 女人还难为女人的真的是太傻B了 法国女演员真的是敢露 但是看着一点都不色情 演的挺好的
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