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".
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是徒劳吗？ 所以驹子爱的是行男吗？所以驹子的一生是徒劳吗？
桥老则老矣，演这种有钱又有点丧的文青还是手到擒来啊。即别人的故事是别人的故事我只是个开麦拉（。还真是。驹子日记那段跟看电影似的，但就算打破第四面墙火场里她还是朝叶子的方向跑过去，最近的距离是擦过肩膀。ps奈绪真是楚楚动人啊，眼睛总是湿漉漉的。
7.5/10，战争后遗症下的人性扭曲和时代伤痛，通过最原始的性来表达，即满足不了我就杀掉你。简单粗暴、痛快淋漓、复古恐怖片元素齐全，最后一句台词真绝，让我一瞬间以为是喜剧片。
《雪国》原著剧情就短的几乎没有啊，虽然对剧情不抱有期待了，但是对画面和氛围充满了期待。文字的“行间”能表现出来多少呢？
开始看评分6，抱着烂片看一看的态度，以为又要对A24失望了。结果后半部分发现居然还不错。技术到位：蒙太奇剪辑，经典片段致敬，恐怖血腥镜头，首尾照应衔接，耶稣宣言，配乐都很到位！而且这么血腥黄暴的片子居然还道出了个“人生苦短、及时行乐”的鸡汤。可以可以！
不懂日文，就不敢说读过原著。按此道理，反而更愿意接受一个电影版。虽然仍需要字幕理解对白，但视觉的丰富，以及三味线的奏唱，还原着意境。川端康成原著的故事，无需复述。拍成影片，必定经过导演的理解再加工，就很难不被指摘。可这又何妨？这次的氛围很好了。奈绪的美演绎了驹子，迷乱了岛村，也迷乱我。最后，从驹子的角度再理解一遍已经发生的。解释了“迷乱”，诠释了性别、阶级不同而产生的错位。爱与不爱都被冻在这雪国了，那里是另个世界～
不知怎么，可能大家都觉得拖沓叙事混乱。但我这两年的心境，偏偏爱上这种娓娓道来，不紧不慢的风格，不得不说日韩在细节方面的拍摄真的很能够触动人心，可能小众，可能平缓，没有非常大的矛盾冲突，但就是这些，一点点渗入血液。
奈绪演技收放自如！隐忍的爱付出的爱，每个人都有难忘的爱，用旁观者着就能看到的切片构成故事，这种信息的错误，无法表达的自分，气氛到位了，还有什么不满意的吗？
也感受到文学和影视作品的隔阂…明明应该再处理得更好的。
没有看过原著。故事在最后终于讲清楚了。摄影好美哦，好喜欢片中的摄影美学，让你仿佛置身其中，透过窗，透过屋檐，通过某人的肩膀等等去看。
有一些改编不太喜欢，司马辽太郎应该不会这么写，大概是导演编剧跟庆喜有仇把他写的那么夸张？平助不是土方砍死的，池田屋杀阵好敷衍，是我看过所有新选组有池田屋场景最敷衍的一个版本，山崎烝的话痨，乡下版土方小碎步的走路方式总觉得很不土方，总之导演刻意要加一些喜感的元素反而很画蛇添足，局长
铺垫了老长，结果杀戮戏份草草了事…… 唯一亮点是血色车灯下的舞蹈吧。
怀念那个血肉横飞变态怪胎满嘴粗话满屏奶子屁股的录像带年代
对于原著的还原性真的还挺高的 但是川端康成笔下隐晦的情绪和情愫 都被影像化了 这点我不喜欢 但更让人容易理解
在A24早年的片子里，很多空镜特写都是必要的是有意义的，但现在，越发得感觉产出为了风格而风格，使剧情发展十分缓慢。故事还行，老cp看着都两百多了，身子骨还这么硬朗，可能就是凭着这股不服输的精神吧。
如同岛村描写脑中从没见过的西洋舞蹈一般，片中的人们（岛村、驹子、叶子、行男）都是在自己的幻想中追寻着徒劳无功的情感
这本小说，就不太适合影像化，比较难拍吧。
电影与现实的分界探讨不及NTR血染得深刻，好看到 pop'em eyes out 眼睛是真的会爆，鳄鱼夜宵，烂面心梗，后坐力碾头杀，关注老年人健康X生活的重要性……恭喜 Ti West 凯旋回归大银幕，好鬼开心
就感觉 演员整体都选小了一个size… 不是尺寸上的… 奈绪一定能拿演员奖的
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