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".
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……
年度十佳。竟从若有若无的海浪声之中、仿佛因经历核战争而斑驳不已的墙壁之间看出了一种诗意。与去年的金棕榈影片《钛》形成奇妙的互文：本片讲技术驾驭人，从未来审视现在；《钛》讲人借技术以改变社会关系，以现在畅想未来；两者都以body horror为表现形式。或许《钛》的未来就是《未来罪行》，有一天，当人类不再处于进化的中心，我也绝不会惊讶。好想在大银幕上看。
没有去查编剧，盲猜也是非英语国家的吧，通篇短句搭配上众多小语种国家的演员使所有对话都简洁凌厉，和镜头中大量的黑一样有吞噬力。
这个色彩和设定太挑战人的生理极限了，但探讨的主题我非常喜欢。人类早晚要用身体去感知自己对环境犯下的罪行，并且失去之所以能被称为“人”的所谓主体性。故事的寓言感很强，就只是结束得实在过于仓促了，再一看这个时长，确实还是先天不足。
Hard to get in at first, but not long after you'll realize it's still the 90s classic body horror Cronenberg, which not just those weird biomechanic machines, but the conflict, rebellion, evolution, so on and so forth. It's definitely the most sexualized Cronenberg movie. Everyone in the film is so obnoxious, but ultra seductive, except the black dude. WTF is that acting? Is that a joke?
这个脑洞真不是一般人有的，怪异，不适，大受震撼，这种未来概念又能被理解。这部电影可以看作是艺术与死亡最直观解读，艺术的灵感与器官的生长，艺术创作与身体解剖，切除器官与性爱的表达，艺术创作的疼痛，都很直观地表现出来。只不过非常有嘲讽意味的是，这种表演艺术迟早会把所有的器官掏空，直至死亡。身体变成一种表演和消费的奇观，生命的意义只有虚空。
越来越觉得给电影打星没用，同意很多打低分的朋友说的缺点，但就是喜欢啊！！
很怪异但是还是不够怪异。
在身体改造方面极具艺术性。未来，器官毫无存在的必要，只会滋生细菌，后患无穷。人类与人工合二为一，在保证了生存的同时，突破身体的极限也成为了艺术表达的强有力方式之一。通过米开朗基罗式的重塑，人类探索了更多元的生存可能性。可是所呈现出来的效果过于平淡，不尽人意，最有冲击力的段落竟只是耳朵人跳舞。跟同样讲述突破身体机能的《钛》比起来几乎不是一个量级的，差距有点大。
？？？等级不够，看得我好难受，并且很排斥…
可能我对克制的柯南伯格不太接受。人物内在过于追求高概念设定，还没想好这个未来是怎样的“实在”表演就结束了。物种进化和继承从自然理论过渡到人为嵌入，假如没有警察的线会好很多，他根本和vigo对不上戏嘛。我还挺喜欢极具想象力的new sex方法
这样炸裂的设定加上柯南伯格擅长的身体恐怖元素想想都会很好看，然而观感却是晦涩又无聊，感官刺激仅仅是悬浮的表像，还不如蕾雅·赛杜的肉体来的实在。
boring and pretentious
我觉得这是千禧年后柯南伯格给的最直的一部作品了吧，把故事套去警匪片都可以，但主要核心还是肉体异化，这是最柯南伯格的地方，几乎可以让我忽略故事。完完全全的柯南伯格爱好大集合。
现代感官刺激将过剩，未来人类开始寻求内在器官新刺激了？！
一星给女演员的波波，指环王好垃圾啊，这是什么剧本😅
个人还是挺喜欢这部，感觉是水准线以上的柯南伯格。在身体异化这个他擅长的母题之外，其实还另有政治寓言深意，从这个角度来说还挺JG巴拉德。不过缺点也是概念多而细节少，不知道导演是不是就没打算拍细节。展示完成就结束了。
柯南堡每十几年赶一次时髦，80s的《录像带》讲点媒介病毒，90s的《感官游戏》讲点虚拟实境，这次讲无痛非进化，本来以为要对药物下手，结果只是提供个背景材料。表面上换汤换药，未来罪行压根没拍出什么耳目一新的东西，这个paradox of evolution还是自己抄袭自己用了《感官游戏》的两派对立，现实派、虚拟派是有的，但什么长器官派不长器官派、吃工业垃圾派不吃工业垃圾派就比较无趣了。用的道具也还是那点土得掉渣的内脏虫虫软东西。其实单纯讲进化、接入、体验、性瘾，前面两部已经拍得够好了。就身上打洞这点这个用滥的标准柯南堡性暗示，他还怕观众不懂非要大白话讲出来。这几年憋着不拍科幻好像也没啥长进啊
大卫柯南伯格又一次走到了时代前列。
求求小k别再演戏了😭
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