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".
小清新夹杂些许血腥，取景地很美，配乐也很棒。竟然看到了曾经的gv男优演丈夫…
“当和男人在一起时，你是炖菜、是茶水。对于男人而言，你居住于他们的掌心，你是水，涓涓流出，围绕着男人。 当和女人在一起时，你是一面镜子，对于女人而言，你是玻璃……” 很出色的文艺片，以女巫的视角透视困于群居中的男女，最大的反派也许是孤独。浓郁的氛围、文艺的旁白，手持摄像的失焦为整部灰色影片陌上一抹朦胧。满星推荐一下，节奏比较慢，尺度比较大，慎重观影。
女主最初变成普通的妇女饱受虐待和物化，难以忍受。后来变成男人，因为喜欢娃娃而又遭受到了所谓男子气概的排斥...与其说玛利亚是嫉妒女主能够融入人类社会，不如说这个社会就是畸形的无法接纳她们单纯的“异类”。
6.9 很浅显直白，一旦设定了一个女性可以成为任何其他人那么接下来的安排就是变身的角色如何设定的问题，所以对变身的过程存在轻视，比如这个变身本是把身体掏出来才可以进行的为何毫无痛苦？进食的存在意义又是什么？并且进食在影片中占比还挺多，在符号和内容上，导演的平衡能力挺符合其身份的
是的，现实中，男人面对那样的女患者是不会停下脱裤子的手的。
对父权的抗争很浅显，但镜头是如此动人。像河流一样生活
设定不赖。
有别于马利克的诗气 电影搭配了一个新颖又猎奇的方式讲述了感受生命与万物的内核故事
为什么我觉得女主表演差强人意呢？算是韩国电影女演员较差的一位。以及这部电影全程让我很害怕 我想健康的活着 想让我家人健康的活着 保佑🙏
女巫和狼人的传说，佛教的轮回转世投胎，没能“跳出三界外，不在五行中”，欲望和情感仍然没有脱离人类的道德伦理范畴之外。
导演对生命与人生的探讨其实没有什么新奇的方面 最但最厉害的地方就是他用了一个女巫的视角来呈现一切 女巫的生命是无限的 他可以变成任何他想成为的人甚至是动物 所以在无限的生命中女巫最有资格审查人生与生命
镜头、光影都很美，很多画面都可以截下来作为桌面，探讨依然是女性成长、女性觉醒的问题，但是个人觉得如果要用这种拍摄方式的话，做成散文集或者诗歌集不是更好吗？最后女主通过经历了女孩-妻子-母亲的身份变化才认同了自己的身份，这是在影射不生孩子的女人不完整吗？
很温馨 父亲和女儿 女儿和母亲 家人间的光就像最明亮的仙后座 奇怪的是同样一件衣服 生病前觉得土 生病后觉得美 「不要打我 我的爸爸会伤心 我的女儿会伤心」
爸爸的部分太感人了，父爱和其他的男性之爱一样无言无踪无出口，自然规律让人长大，阿兹海默让大人变小孩，可是孩子都懂，谁最爱她。人和人之间没有什么不可沟通的，只需要静静待在一起感受就好了，有感情自然会流动。男人真是可爱。
9分，父女间的对手戏很好看，徐玄振把早老症患者的病态、痴呆与疯癫也演得真好，生病前有多骄傲，生病后就有多崩溃，还好她还有爸爸，那个在她年少时缺席的父亲，终究还是像仙后座那样在人生的最后给予她照顾与指引。
女巫的人类体验，女人，男人，女孩，妻子，母亲，孩子的纯洁打动了女巫，也让她学会了爱，诗一般的台词很适合夜深人静的时候独自观赏。
太现实，太悲哀了，然而所谓的爱，并不治愈。
老妇玛利亚的亲戚肯定是弗莱迪克鲁格吧
是我自己的问题，情感接收器部分失灵，就觉得…好像没那么感动，内心还有点想吐槽
镜头晃得要把我脑浆摇出来了。一位愚蠢邪恶女巫相当正常人最后做了妈妈的成长史……我愿称这类影片为邪典影片中的青春疼痛非主流，看得我一头雾水
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