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".
BJIFF2021# 8.5 杜比的音效和色彩有加分，前面一直都没get为何探险队对洞穴的下探过程和洞穴旁的一位老人的最后生命状态要做平行，直到影片过半后的一组平行镜头恍然大悟。洞内下探到后半深部，从底部镜头给到强光手电照向洞底水潭，木屋中医生用手电照射老人的眼睛确认生命的状态。探索即是生命之源，外寻天地之边界，内探生命之无穷，用追求纯粹的影像和声音将二者结合是一次极其超验的生命深度探索之旅。
3.5。只能说预期完全错误：前半个小时对于山谷生活以及老旧黑白电视的精细聚焦，让人以为导演会用自然主义的手法在更广阔的维度探讨“洞穴寓言”。显然，生命流逝与洞穴探索过程的耦合虽稍显灵气，仍不免感叹美则美矣。声音当然做得非常精细。相比《四次》，导演放弃了在单一镜头内运用横摇做推进叙事的分镜，让整体美学更为统一。
不跟18年的剧集做对比，依然很好看，我超想知道有生之年会等到真人版剧集和剧场版吗？
虽然舞蹈和西语让我感觉有一丝敷衍和出戏...但情感方面还是挺戳我的。他们都逐渐学会了爱，真好。
虽然舞蹈和西语让我感觉有一丝敷衍和出戏...但情感方面还是挺戳我的。他们都逐渐学会了爱，真好。
没之前的好看 西班牙语真的很好笑哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈肚子都笑痛了 但车是很好看啦 最主要的是！阴影线条没有了！
跟剧版连起来就懂为什么蠢太会缺乏安全感。高人对蠢太来说太重要了。所以无论漫画还是电影版我都很喜欢西班牙篇，感情上了一个层次。还对应了之前埋下的伏笔，以及为什么当初蠢太这么喜欢高人。
情节画面比较简单，而且那么推进感情的几段舞蹈为什么不画出来？！
很浪漫，这剧场版真的很浪漫。在遇到你之前，我觉得世界是无趣的。我爱每一种花，因为对我来说都一样。但你出现了，自此我便有了偏爱，有了心之所向，所以非你不可了。
神一般的剪辑，将垂死的老人和洞穴的勘探做了蒙太奇处理，巧妙的剪辑点和微妙的细节变化，向你展示视听技巧的魔力，这个导演一出手，果然是大神！
这故事是非常想快进的，坚持只因为高人还是那么好抱
#11thBJIFF# 矿灯投射的昏黄光线在潮滑的岩壁上碰撞游移，竟产生了比戈登·威利斯的“阴影美学”更加惊艳的视觉效果。火烛状的光斑凝缩成一个奇点的时候整个人仿佛要被吸到银幕中去。老者手背上起伏的浅静脉想及《镜子》中在日光曝晒下渐渐消失的水痕。
好奇怪的剧情 😰 一边玩手机一边看才看得下去
#2021北影节# 前半较好，叙事脱去了情节而仅剩下了连串的指向性动作，当地的人文和不见底的深洞构成了奇妙的总和，洞内的黑暗被运用的美丽异常。但当作者执意总要在洞内探险之间切到外界关心一下老人死没死时，全片就不可避免地进入了单调与滑稽。这同时摧毁了洞内的结构，后半部分零散的洞中景象与结尾的图纸没有出现任何联系。
亚洲人当然可以跳，展现自己的风格，心意和爱意。
我几乎没怎么看过动漫电影，这一部算是因为之前无意中看了抱胁动漫才来看的剧场版。剧情分手那一段着实有点莫名其妙的，但这里相比动漫加入了一些“救赎”的意味，本来只值得我三颗星的，但是因为太喜欢西条高人又又又加了一颗星。电影后半段更精彩些，不论是高人跳舞那里还是最后戒指上亲手雕刻的mi tesoro看得我眼泪居然有点忍不住。高人的人设真的挺特别，感觉傲娇属性里带着真心，关键时刻为爱勇敢🥹谁看了不说一句绝
【3.5】建筑般的叙述结构，令近乎纯质的影像另有一层严谨的地质学肌理。
#78Venice评审团特别奖 [声音] 国际首映
cp好好磕，但剧情挺拉胯的。
BFI看的第一部电影，开始被画一般摄影惊到了，逐渐厌倦导演对风景画面的控制，巴士送来的勘查小组，随着进入洞穴声音摩擦着，像回到妈妈体内一样睡过去，醒来时老人去世绘图结束。映后谈上女性导演说，我们在十年的拍摄过程中逐渐发现人和风景的界限消失了，正如探索这个洞的时候，分不清上和下，前和后，我们似乎正生活在这样的limbo里。
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