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".
最后那段套娃真的有够cult。女主都无语了。
能理解导演想要表达的东西，但内容实在太少，做成一个短片来讲述就差不多咯。一开始其实觉得挺吓人的，但越看越满头问号。我其实不太喜欢将女性所处的困境如此符号化地表达出来，这样反而会弱化问题的根本。而且最后怎么没有安排女主一斧头把丈夫鬼魂砍烂！哼哼~大失所望！btw导演是拍广告片出身的吗，一开始真以为点进了汽车广告哈哈哈哈。
男人，集所有恶为一体的产物罢了，这个电影告诉我们要远离男人，不然会变得不幸。这不是恐怖片这是纪实片，看完真特么大受震撼
男人看着似乎各有不同，仔细看看其实都是一张面孔，男权社会代代相传，绵延不绝，只有主谋与帮凶
人体奇观大赏，代代相传的恐惧，生而为男，请你抱歉。PS：男男生子文可代（bushi。
看到拉斯冯提尔《反基督者》的影子。后半段垮了点，3.5
“what is it that you want from me” “your love”
什么狗屁电影浪费老子的时间，实在片慌才看的，看了别人说什么最后十分钟封神，我只想想呵呵，这部电影唯一拍的好的地方可能就是静物吧，自然风光啥的，除此之外，潜台词就是男人都是垃圾，男人没有好的，女人怀孕生育的痛苦都是男人附加的，excuse me?这种电影和那种仇女电影有什么不同吗？说了就是电影拍的是隐喻，烂片就是烂片。还有我觉得女主丈夫的死，女主确实有些责任。
片名叫“男人”好过叫“们”，或者叫“氓”也很不错。绿意盎然的生机景象，竟是充满男权梦魇的密室，这个联系和设定真的很绝望。房东、牧师、面具男包括警察都是那个自残裸男，看似没有攻击性，其实内心有个当宙斯的梦想，凶神恶煞的背面是一个献祭的女人。不过男人一个接一个分娩出彼此我没看懂，暗示他们是一丘之貉，阳刚之气代代传承？反正造成了足够的惊吓和危险（而且说是女人的臆想、女人的错）后，轻飘飘说一句：我只是想要你的爱。虽然最后闺蜜来了，但她的孕肚也让人心里一惊，仿佛她们还是没逃出生天。
这应该是我近几年看过最cult的片子了吧。她老公出场的第一幕我就知道了，无法控制自己情绪的控制狂，哈哈无能狂怒的男人。本来超级喜欢绿色，全片的绿让我看到这种水绿觉得有些压抑和惊悚。
今年期待值高的几部恐怖惊悚片真的也太意识流了。恐男佳片，看完只想说：girls，开车一定要锁门。
长焦镜头，背景的纵深虚化，有一种莫奈的感觉，加一星给某些情绪性的画面，氛围的营造，心理的递进，还有最后一幕是不是要成为名场面：女演员见到男人反复“新生”，就像男人反复说自己已改过，女人表情麻木轻蔑，也如观众对这种“把戏套路”的厌恶.
电影毕竟不同于MV或者行为艺术，只用象征就够了
男权社会下男性是如何一步步长成令女性恐怖的样子，到最后美名其曰得到你的爱，实际就是精神和肉体的双重绑架，女性恐怖片根本不需要超自然，真实男性就可以了
最后那段套娃真的有够cult。女主都无语了。
男的，脏东西会分身。手的一幕邪典至尊我要吓尿了！
81/100。加兰的镜头一直都好美啊，绿色杂乱的森林，绿草中破旧的房屋，暗红色调的房间，都让我非常喜欢。结尾的那场戏绝对是我今年印象最深的戏份之一。节奏不可避免地因为恐怖场景而有些杂乱，但控制得也挺不错了。用千人一面的男人来讽刺男权，我觉得是很有新意也很有力度的一种讽刺方法。另，加兰的恐怖从没让我失望过。
这部电影的解读空间是如此之大，大到所有的空镜头，所有的绿色景观；这部电影的解读空间又是如此之小，小到不知道为什么一句话能说完的事情能拍成一百分钟。如果你的镜头内容不为你的主题服务（或者说主题压根撑不起镜头内容和语言），那请问去掉bgm, 你还能剩下些什么。。
壮观可叹（本片和贝尔法斯特都向下发现了HDR风光片的可用之材）
提供了一个值得思考视角，视听语言也挺不错的，男的不行但男主的表演挺行。
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