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".
卖相到位，看个视听都值，没给A24丢脸。表达感觉还可以大胆一点，跟制作显出的野心相比，似乎还是保守了。
仿佛在玩打了鲜艳MOD的老滚5，小狐狸可爱到想要。
闷片爱好者也被无聊到了 开头还可以 后面实在无聊到爆炸 故弄玄虚地讲了一个简单的故事 摄影很美 配乐很邪 总体来说就很cult
影像太强大，从一段幻梦坠入另一段幻梦，可一切并没有组成一个整体而显得乏味 3.5
凌厉狠辣地穿透了一齣又一齣主体为对治自身的大限而沉溺其中的fantasies, 剧终的“大彻大悟”即是最深的幻見，人类通过不断求索而终于为自己营造的无从察觉的执着和障碍。绿骑士最后一句台词无情地嘲弄了这终极的fantasy，这恋物式的拒认。这种嘲弄同时指向了所有观众。形神俱佳，精彩绝伦的作品。
“现在砍下你的头”
3星半，寻找荣誉与勇气的路程，展现的是一个男人的成长史，A24特立独行的影像风格与空灵缥缈的配乐有点小史诗的味道。
配乐和取景都不错，缺点在于这里面出彩的都是非人的事物。
目前IMDb评分6.0/301票，字幕已完成，转战下一个
129分钟45秒 23.976fps 流媒体WEB 电影比较晦涩难懂，看到最后才会明白，高文爵士赴约的经历其实就是骑士精神塑造的历程。
但总的来说，这是我目前最满意的一部亚瑟王和圆桌骑士相关的了！
我们寻找红色 却总是终归于绿
【2.5】依旧拥有A24的独立调性：一种纵使风格千变万化但仍以优秀审美和求异心理所延续的精神。可惜本片不成体系的符号植入过多，节奏亦在拖累，让本应赏心悦目的风格之旅在某些时刻显得无比滞重。大卫·洛维的能力自然是不高，说句俗套的话叫只有佳句而无佳章。回头看去，《鬼魅浮生》更像个美丽的意外。
在中国不会有市场的片子，东方人对圆桌骑士不感兴趣。这内容和思想不能用电影表达，谁会去电影院静悄悄看一个没有故事全是教诲的东西呢？画面很美，光运用到了精致，但这是电影更需要台词和悬念。很强烈很深刻的印象是国王的王冠总让我觉得他是个草头班子，金属片子，造型丑陋，貌似不小心会戳了身边人会蹭破头，视觉非常难以忍受！不推荐！
用美丽的电影语言告诉我们一个向死而生的童话故事。
故弄玄虚的东西，不是谁都能搞出来的！强氛围，诗意，无敌摄影和服装道具化妆，你们都看不见吗？不要跟我说节奏和剪辑的问题，21世纪都20年代了，做点新的尝试——符合当下艺术标准的传说故事改编，总比追求四平八稳好的多吧！如同上世纪80年代斯科塞斯拍耶稣基督最后的诱惑，David Lowery拍一个失败的有瑕疵的骑士才和现在的人类更为接近，壮哉！
“小森林”般的生活收养了一只狼和一只狮子，简直太完美了。
一具精美的尸体。修饰得再美丽也不过是了无生气的东西。
So charming this movie, what a life journey.纵使太多神话隐喻不懂，但洛维从鬼魅浮生就练就了一身艺术风格，令人着迷的时间体格，更别说还加了我最爱的神话原型。不就是一个畏畏缩缩的男人嘛，贪慕荣耀却贪生怕死，畏畏缩缩也不慷慨大方。还有导演关于绿色的说教，color of rot，color of life。直面生活的勇士，需要在壮志赴死的时候抽出生命的绿腰带。
这故事看电影时经常看到美国家长给孩子做睡前阅读。
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