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".
那小孩看似文文弱弱其实狠到心里去了，把生病动物的皮毛泡水里感染Phil受伤的手让他得炭疽而死，我说为啥要给手部特写呢，以后再没人和母子作对，Phil这种看似嚣张跋扈的主儿就这么被算计死了，所以说做人别太嚣张跋扈
8.5/10。①普遍崆峒的1920s西部美国：崆峒的深柜牧场主男主性格古怪而暴躁，他爱上了名义上的侄子（也是gay，但并无血缘关系，性格阴柔），同时他因厌女而各种霸凌侄子的母亲，于是为了复仇，恋母的侄子利用男主对他的爱谋杀了男主。②一种「压抑而激烈」（对应了文本上男主「被压抑着却又汹涌欲出」的情欲）的氛围的营造：表意有力的精美而高水平摄影（色彩/光影/构图/置景/等）；缓慢克制的叙事与表演节奏；经常只说半句的台词（缺点是这会导致形式与内容的对位点不够清晰）；「情绪克制的画面+充满紧张感的配乐」的各种片段。③几段情欲段落处理（剪辑配乐调度等）地很好很贴合②说过的气质。
哪怕知道你想说啥也未免太装逼了，耐着性子除了风光美也实在看不下去
谁会真的跟这种二傻子电影较劲呢，客观一点讲就是自恋且乏味。以后不会再看这类东西是它最大的好处。
千万别对后辈爹味十足，他正是暗中对着你吐信子的小毒蛇。
现在的主海报很劝退我，以为只是卷福的个人秀，其实看完不是的，麦菲的表演，让我觉得更胜一筹。
电影由小说改编过来的，剧情没有小说那样细致，所以看起来云里雾里。或者用同性恋表达两个自我的表述不那么恰当。
简•康平的作品看得不多，但感觉她似乎总是用现代的眼光审视着身处前现代的人物。坦言讲我并不认为表演有多么出彩，但我看到了超越大部分同题作品的细腻，这是导演的心性。“犬之力”在我看来是一种少有人所具备的视角，心思肌理复杂到一定程度，定是非同凡响，无论善恶。特别想知道当彼得把带有病毒的牛皮递给菲尔时，他心里在想什么？对于这个由羞辱过他到逐渐接纳甚至教导他的男人是否理解大于复仇？倘若不再给出一定的指向，只是留下线索与结果，我想定是一部更值得反复咀嚼的作品！
Tiff2021。不错的character studies。演员们演得奇好，但感觉剧情上似乎差了一口气，卷福混蛋和mean都不够彻底，弟媳带来的小屁孩儿儿子又不够心理变态阴暗。要是两个角色再极端一点，一个psychobitch mommy dearest mean drama queen、另一个是青年汉尼拔风格的阴冷带微笑的变态虐待杀人狂，不知会不会对戏剧张力有所帮助，而且里面的homoeroticism也是点到为止。感觉简坎萍自≪圣烟≫后的作品越来越妥协安全缺乏玻璃刺了。还有题目与其叫犬之力，不如叫先前的中文标题≪犬山记≫，片中也有交代为什么是犬山 —— 张开狗牙的荒山也更锐利些。
挺精致，挺细致的，演员也都好，氛围好，节奏稳。不过有些情节和细节的设置还是有点明显，我看着觉得不够精妙，不够有天分。反正片子不错，但是给我的刺激比较少，让我老想走神。
在人声嘈杂的餐桌上，牛仔们自顾自高声交谈，唯有他发现了桌上精巧的自制花朵。在一瞥间于脑海中定格一抹难忘的印象。像是不经事的青春少年，不由自主地欺负自己心中格外在意的人，想要引起他的注意，或者希望他能对自己印象深刻。空旷的西部，让无序的思绪也变得空荡。他的秘密是藏在树洞里的杂志，而他的秘密是藏在腰间的长巾。自他骤然离去后，他的秘密变成了那条放在床底的长绳。戛然而止，无疾而终。
这是个鬼爱情，这明明是场谋杀
看坎皮恩的片，需要给小朋友辅导数学作业般的耐心。
风吹草低，阳光斑驳掠过山谷，健硕奔腾的骏马，被辣手摧毁的干花，令人溃灭的琴瑟对抗，湖泊里涌动的肉身，被无情解剖的野兔，男性气质与女性气质的辩证，与绳索纠缠的血手，马厩里氤氲的烟气……从头至尾隐忍不发暗潮涌动，最后才汇成惊心动魄的惊涛骇浪。字字句句都美不胜收，字里行间又无处不在细腻地勾勒欲望，以及在欲望中令人窒息的溺毙。
孝死，干得漂亮！用两个小时看这么闷的片儿，如果结尾不死个把人，我真的要暴走了。
表面看似柔弱的Peter实际上冷漠无情，Phil虽然外表冷酷不羁内心却愿意为了喜欢的人付出至极，极度克制与极度的张力，以为是另一部《断背山》，其实却是一个复仇故事。
牛年推荐《第一头牛》，狗年推荐《犬之力》。坎皮恩真沉稳，有条有理地把人物挨个塑造起来，非常复杂的感情也讲得有条不紊，即便不能全部共情也可以充分并放心地去相信它的存在，正如人都是复杂的。氛围感也做得特别好，两次看到那个山，原来完全不同的感觉，菲尔和彼得一起看的时候那片光影逐渐显现的那一幕，真的是充分表现了自然光影的神奇。如果这是特效做出来的，真是做了特效非常应该做的事，充分发挥了电影的奇观性，令人感动。可怜的男性气概啊，一定要以贬损女性和pua他人来彰显，就单薄可笑以致可怜，所以当抽烟一幕发生时，是有种轻微的以小博大、智取翻盘的快感的。菲尔是典型的充当受害者而不自知再去充当加害者。彼得对生命应该是挺冷漠的，在他眼里的纸花和活兔子应该都是差不多的东西。
天呐 有必要在现在这个时代刻画这样一个故事吗？太狠了。而且如此扭曲人性的故事有必要拍来给大众观赏吗？原著小说背景是在印第安人和犹太人的黑色背景下还情有可原，现在时代环境下不知道改一改？
刻意的对比和符号表达，完全不如几场值得铭记的，女性导演视角下新奇，才华冲出屏幕的「性张力」时刻（那凸起的带油的马鞍！那粘在裸体上的泥土！那遮掩自慰的白布！那水中浮动的兽皮绳子！共同点就是：没有爱，只有性，特直接，女人好可怕，喜欢了）撼动人心——若没有这些，这片就太过平庸：类似去年的《最后的决斗》，好导演的生产性输出，mediocre，挺好，挺累，没意思。
我从未见过男主角这样傲慢无礼之人。电影开场10分钟，到了餐馆那场戏，他吼那个琴师我是真的忍无可忍了，实在看不下去，直接关了。
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