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".
升级版《感官游戏》罢了，柯南伯格用老套路炒自己的冷饭而已，看完内心毫无波澜。小k全程气泡音而且仿佛得了五官多动症一样满脸抽搐；蕾老师讲话的感觉就像吃播网红，因为麦离嘴巴太近而不敢高声语；V叔，一个表面是艺术家背地里游走于黑白两道直接的双面间谍？那句“我对传统性爱不是很擅长”看得人疯狂发笑。
这样的艺术何尝不是另外一种会被批判的艺术，也许这种艺术对现在的人类来说还为时尚早吧。这样的片子看一遍都是痛苦和煎熬，完全没兴趣去细细品味。
0612 比《钛》好一点但是还是属于拍出来就是为了让你不舒服的电影
三星半
K你怎么了啊，演技看得我捉急，雷老师可塑性真的很高
比钛好懂，比欲望号快车类型元素少，但是也没看特别懂
打开肉体的同时，思想也在被解放。疼痛，性欲，艺术，政治，最终升华到人类身体与意识的二元进化。作为科幻片，这个创意赞了，100分钟的故事还很初级，似乎只做了个设定，便戛然而止，但太多线索还亟待展开，柯南伯格要拍个限定剧，我肯定还是会追
为。。的实践。仅仅从这一点上来看，我们确
每一个情节都能看懂，但怎么合在一起到最后就看不懂了呢？未来的人类进化哪怕是糟糕的也是正确的，不可阻挡的？你以为的制作塑料人和有毒巧克力的人是错误的人，结果实际上警察和抵抗变异人的才是反派？另外男主到底是享受这样的表演和疼痛还是不享受啊我也没搞懂他到底是啥，
表演 异化 sex和surgery 越来越多雷同化的作品让我感受不到痛苦和恐惧了 body horror做的也不够 看得我疲倦
尽管现代医学十分发达，但人类身体的奥秘依然没有被完全揭示，那种好奇心和探索欲会激励着一代又一代的有识之士去不断发掘其真正的价值，并且最终为自己、为这个社会所用。大机器时代的便捷性使人变得越发冰冷，人类似乎不再需要通过这种人际交换去获得想要的一切，实现了一种虚无的自给自足；但那终究只是生活的障眼法，越是看似不重要的事物往往可能愈发宝贵，说到底是我们的选择造就了我们的未来，个体在集体中永远应该有一定的独立性，这样的人生才更加精彩。
除了椅子太搞乐之外 整个就是medieval hypermodern cyborg sex cult 开头我还觉得巴塔耶 最后已经飞了了 全是私货
而贯穿始终的行为艺术，更带来的是关于身体和意志的决定论辩驳。人类在未来究竟会去往什么样的高度？是进化迭代中新新人类黑暗起舞，或者罪行之下一行热泪里反射出的亮度……
观感为什么这么像NWR...叙事高度概念化，空间高度场景化，最后形成的表达是高度寓言化的，在一个社会构架和人的身体皆是支离破碎的境况中，唯有艺术和审美还在支持着现代性文化的框架，恰巧印证了本雅明废墟-寓言的结构。而柯南伯格，在最后用自觉进化者的眼泪，宣告了某种弥赛亚降临。一次没有加以论证的自我重复和升华。
一场美丽的绮梦，维果莫滕斯每一道皱纹都在吸人。关于人类的未来，惊悚又现实，是进化/医学问题更是哲学伦理问题。
you are a sight for sore eyes but where are you.
医疗剧粉无法接受这样不严谨的手术流程。。。
thanks, but no thanks
多给一星给大牌云集吧。N
与其说是bodyhorror不如说是biopolitics
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