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".
（豆瓣真空期补标9月末-12月）死亡的意味在影片伊始便悄然蔓延。
卷福演的真是好，抽烟喷烟那两下，真是绝了，还有那些眼神，太牛了。少年的梳子是在什么电影里看过吗，总觉得有印象，但是想不起来了。西部片演的这么回荡，真的是难得，
怎么回事，导演是不是还没从剧的创作状态出来…？平淡到睡着。过于平淡让绿木的配乐也显得很奇怪。
最凶狠的力量不在于显露出的外形，它不动声色的存在于阴影之中，静候时机，一击致命。导演习惯用符号和象征来进行故事的展开和转折（兄弟合睡的双人床，扼断兔子脖颈的咔哒声，芦苇上的滴滴血斑，留在床下仍静待使命的绳索），用镜头移动和视角变换给观众留下谜面以探究谜底（开头结尾的窥探视角，结尾的俯视掌控视角，走秀看鸟窝的旁观者注视视角，动情时刻的旋转视角，水中的皮绳和破溃伤口的微观视角）所有的起承转折都用镜头展现。配乐及音效紧扣观众情绪发展，靴子在地板上的响声声声叩击心脏，大部分的旋律是属于Peter的，阴柔至极的提琴声。这是一部需要调用全部感官来观看的电影。卷福和科蒂的对戏超精彩，至阴至阳的碰撞，情愫缠绕在来回的烟圈之中，叹服。
很久没看过后劲这么大的好片了——越咂摸越有味道，简直回味无穷。好电影都有有一种魅力，那就是让你看完还想再看，《犬之力》就是这样的电影。
简导的女性视角细腻，但又深谙男性的双面性，片子暗流涌动的气氛和伏脉千里的细节令人感叹：这部片没拿bp也太可惜了，学院你们不配
第一次看每句台词都是废话的电影，乏味到无话可说
Jane Campion到底怎么获得Gilles Jacob万千宠爱的，小说这么多信息都想放进来结果啥都没说清楚，浪费了Benedict Cumberbatch和Jesse Plemons这么好的表演，唯一优点也就是节奏了，人物召之即来挥之即去，画面乱成一团，故事没劲就猛塞音乐。Thomasin McKenzie怎么哪儿都有她？
男性之力，包括强权之力和强壮之力。本片凸出了男性的强权之力，也顺带辩证地观赏男性的强壮之力。男权体系之下，阴柔与出柜都成了绝对禁忌，对心灵的长期囚禁造就了阴暗世界的传承，男人与男孩也便成了镜像一般的存在。故事内核方面，与戛纳大热的《钛》殊途同归，热衷于把控世界的阳刚之气，放不下对强权的臣服，涂炭了人本来的爱与善良，杀敌一百，自损三千。欧美的学院系统好像越来越关注人类个体情感的自处，这比一味追求“价值正确”要高级很多，也进步了很多。
Jane Campion的回归，仍然觉得她是先于时代的完成意识；在更多聚焦女性议题和辩论的今天- -那是她几十年前就在做的- -所以如今要完成的，是解构与重塑其它类型的故事。看之前两个最大的“担忧”：选择新西兰的取景，以及换角的危险，都得到了远超预期的惊喜。孤独、自我厌弃、伪装、以及身份焦虑…属于每个角色的情绪，都在不动声色的故事进展里暗潮涌动，并等待着燃烧。直到最终幕，Kodi Smit-McPhee证明了自己多么值得一次肯定；他的能量，也并没有随着过早成名和超英片的选角，消失殆尽，而是有种刚好开始的精彩。
The death of the power of man. 男子力的死亡。不能面对自己真实情感的男人死掉了，死在了自己的伪装出来的男子力上。导演化身为那个看起来文静的，弱弱的漂亮男孩子，不动声色的杀死了男子力，伪装的男子力。
如果从导演技术角度来说，绝对是今年最佳，简康平对女之性和男之性的理解，在所有导演里绝对没有雷同，我甚至找不出相似的主义来解读她想表达的东西，她从80年代拍电影开始就超前所有人，现在也还是。
拍得既残忍又极其克制，细腻别致，也许有新的男性气质在暗中慢慢浮现，但我觉得始终没有跳出传统刻板人设上。
没看过坎皮恩 但跟我想的完全一样
3.5-4 太晦涩了。一个深柜为了伪装自己。为了自己所爱的人。不仅离开了所谓的文明的世界。让自己处在蛮荒，从此也活成了爱人希望成为的样子。从头到尾并没有所谓的叔侄恋。不管是本尼在草地上拿着方巾DIY的肉体欲望。还是惊讶于彼得马上就能看出来是疯狗的山的精神上的向往。其实都指向没有出过镜却一直存在的亨利。为了这个秘密，自欺欺人的活着，终于，变成了脾气古怪的男人。嘲笑自己的弟媳。大有一副我不能得到快乐谁也别想好过的------太监脾气。最后被反杀，才让人发现原来所谓的疯狗般的力量不是他。他一直是脆弱的。是看似最无害的那一位。
匠气十足，简直是把一切情绪隐忍到了不可压缩的地步。。伴着西部的风景，形成了一种独特的风格。每个人的角色都蛮饱满的，特别是那个少年的演员，长得就是那种又阴柔又变态的样子，看的人脊背发凉。这是一场缓慢的杀戮，喜欢BC在小房间里一脸苦大仇深地谈琴，喜欢邓斯特那几场半醉半疯的戏，一点点，一点点在没有高潮的剧情里高潮。
菲尔干扰罗斯练琴那段挺有巧思的，拍出了无形之中巨大的压迫感。别的场景没太大印象了，感觉是一个很无趣的模范生写的八股文。几个主要角色都很扁平，我感觉导演太着重表达情绪了，但又没能让情绪以角色为根底生发出来。所以给人感觉所有情绪都是飘的，对我而言没什么感染力。
坎皮恩还真是牛逼。文火慢炖，结果完全不是想象中的味道！前面非常舒缓地铺垫，生怕她拍烂尾，结果最后一刀相当辛辣。卷福的确颠覆性演出，超过了《模仿》，有望奥奖影帝；其实我觉得柯蒂是欠把火侯的，只是很贴角色；克斯汀也不错
分四次才看完，三分之一的时间整个画面黑成炭，两个丑人一个人渣一个变态的“隐忍又克制”的情愫真不知道看点在哪。观影体验极其折磨
3.5 很有趣~~~但也仅仅是有趣。
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