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".
隐喻比较直白，对抗完美家庭的压力，女孩人格分化为乖乖女和怪物鸟。
电影给我的感觉。起码还流畅吧，不是太尬。挺多剧情对话还是挺符合儿童片的感觉。
魔由心生，一代孵化一代。立意不俗，执行差点儿意思。
全片暖色系的背景却用了灰冷的色调调配，在惬意的色彩包裹之下，呈现的依然是芬兰电影独有的压抑氛围。母亲博客中看似和谐幸福的原生家庭，却是危机重重各怀心事。一家四口如同复刻般「虚伪笑容」的背后，隐藏的是一颗颗自私功利的心。母亲畸形变态的所谓「爱」如同一张大网牢牢的将女孩锁住，无力挣脱之下借由「蛋」孵化出内心的「恶」。影片节奏非常不错，隐喻与氛围感极强，对于女孩内心挣扎的刻画细腻出彩，开放式结局也耐人深思，算是精品。
3.5星，其实是3星的恐怖片，但我喜欢它的摄影运镜、美术指导以及从一而终的克制。导演有点过于担忧观众看不懂她的表达，把所有的隐喻都拍得很直白，少了能够深挖和回味的part。
多么讽刺，
故事感觉有点简单了啊，所有元素和情节都点到为止，没有太恶化的表现，妈妈也没有歇斯底里，爸爸和弟弟完全打酱油，最后故事也戛然而止，没能留下太多印象的电影
[视]R血，预告配乐不错。体操开局，自带BT属性，有伤退役望女成龙为母系铃。带面具的弟弟，带眼镜的父子，乌鸦埋狗，中场换别墅，迷你城堡经典物件，教育理念碰撞<瞬息全宇宙>，直播元素，镜子墙纸。一人分饰两角，有意往精分方向发展，模糊时空逻辑，结尾倾向回归怪兽类型，开放结局，裂唇，断手，拾人牙慧，李代桃僵，为人母，人为母
看着奇奇怪怪的家庭，一家四口，可能只是将矛盾和人性的恶放大了的普通家庭。还挺新鲜的片子！
恶意的孵化，每个人本都是天使与恶魔共存，真正孵化的人又是谁呢？影片中自私的母亲才是真正的孕育者
影片的氛围营造得还可以，温柔滤镜里的诡异。
摇篮曲听着瘆人 里面的怪鸟好比女儿分裂出来的另一个自己 不受控制且善妒 过分追求完美的妈妈把女儿逼成了怪物
作为成年人来说真的满场bug，甚至角色和剧情也都设计得很极端，但作为童话和他想批判的唯分数论来说，丢掉脑子也是看得下去的xxx就挺适合让家长看的hhhh
童年回忆吧～看过漫画书，大概内容已经记不清了，只记得这些个人物。罐头小人粗糙了一些，服装和选角上应该更加精致一些。就是老师的势利眼太过了吧，鲁西西一直成绩那么好，突然有一次考试失利，怎么就一下子成老师眼中的差生了，难道平时成绩和平时印象都不在吗？一次的分能改变所有印象？这里太不现实。不过最后在小人开起直升飞机救人的时候还是内心澎湃了一下，差点哭出来。
借一个恐怖故事的外衣，讲述成长故事。很多父母以爱的名义播种在孩子内心仇恨的种子
还挺有趣，前半段完全可以把蛋与孵化看做女孩自身的压力与焦虑的缩影。
挺悲伤一故事 女孩死去 鸟怪取代 没人在意女主的感受 这样家庭下的孩子都是悲哀的
构图、美术很干净，透露出一种简洁的美感。
恶魔的侵入是如此顺理成章，剧情不拖沓不造作。恐怖外衣下，揭露的还是原生家庭问题，在这样的家庭里，黑暗战胜了纯真。很真实，我很喜欢。
观感很奇怪，又说不出哪里奇怪，不过这鸟应该是女孩阴暗面的化身吧
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