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".
我就记住了：开头一个吃塑料的小孩被谋杀，结尾一位老艺术家开始尝试吃塑料……而中间发生了什么已经记不太清了：几场表演，几次谋杀，一些身份不明的人，一些空洞到令人发指的对话（不知道为什么我一直觉得Léa Seydoux就擅长这种空洞到令人发指的角色，比如《法兰西》里的那位记者）……以前柯南伯格搞“肉体恐怖”，这部片里借了很多以前的梗（肚子上开个口子当作接口，顺便成为新的调情手段，完全是《录影带谋杀案》的想法嘛，40年了都快），但其中的肉体基本上不再恐怖，而是变成了一坨能指堆起来的海洋/实验室/垃圾场，在里面你不会找到任何所指……于是这部电影就成了一部彻底去政治化的美学尝试，在这点上也只能是及格吧。
随着光阴流转，成长中的我
影片展现出了一种将行动、行动的意识和由两者衍生出的外在于行动主体的他物圈在一起的“作品”，个体通过作品在绝对个体规定论（不论做什么我们都是普遍的个体）与行动规定论（个体的性质会因为行动改变）之间的对抗中消融了空洞的“未来”概念，取得了作为外来现实继续存在的绝对规定之真理性（任何意识都能无条件规定任何个体），个体从其中获得关于自身的真正概念，此时自身行动内容的一切环节都回到自由，自身概念与自身现实也因此相互脱离，“我”和一般个体就没有丝毫的相同之处，但整个过程稍纵即逝，宛如性高潮。
k的气泡音真的很让我出戏 柯南伯格的设定也是充满了年代感
一场美丽的绮梦，维果莫滕斯每一道皱纹都在吸人。关于人类的未来，惊悚又现实，是进化/医学问题更是哲学伦理问题。
从诗句中挖掘意蕴类比成从身体中开掘出内涵，属于典型的指物错乱，当然如果非要强行比较，身体和自然存在器官的自然美只是个框架，而展现人体内在行为艺术和自走型“塑料废物处理鸡”在柯南堡视域下都是艺术美，因为有理念加持，但也会因为被动过手脚的“物”，导致最终指向这个新新人类时，理念彻底崩溃，毕竟黑格尔的自然美与艺术美关系，并不是个走哪哪牛逼的自动机，绝望的结尾即悲悯又美且引人深思，三者不分彼此，不要作任何 价值排序 的忠告回响不绝，柯南堡用心良苦啊！
又一部柯能堡式奇观，异食癖与人体（器官）艺术齐飞，当我对能真正改变身体手段的认知还停留在穿孔 疤痕 纹身的时候本片已经将之上升到了进化高度
除了反反复复的身体恐怖之外，只剩下故弄玄虚的卖弄和敷衍，不说柯南伯格自己巅峰时期的作品，就是对比去年的金棕榈《钛》，也远谈不上碾压，甚至在创新程度上更有不如。
柯南伯格的科幻风格与过往作品保持着高度一致——笨拙的、庞大的、无用的、粗糙的、形似人体骨骼和器官的“仪器”辅助着人，而人在不断的追求异化又害怕异化……为坚持这样独特的美学风格+1星
全员BDSM满级，艺个术毛毛，一肱肌不行就开始臆想肚子里cooking，元素特别简陋，废墟体，拼夕夕品质塑料模型道具，最后硬塞一个困扰人类百年的污染解决的简单粗暴方案的主线出来，艺术人的脑子里都装的是啥？
好闷的片子……大开脑洞的设定，本来可以是有深度的故事，被讲的拖沓又老气，光有偶尔闪光的演技也撑不起来……
thanks, but no thanks
啊结尾，圣女贞德蒙难记吗..
很少看到一个电影中，人体器官像玩具一样摆来摆去，而这一切就发生在人类失去痛觉同时也失去意义与希望的未来。人类的进化似乎走向了一个迷惘的交叉点，有人抗拒变化，而更多的是拥抱与接受。有意思的是不知是器官的狂野生长推进了人类的演化，还是人类希望进化的信念促进了器官的生长。片子的设定怪异而新颖，特别是夜幕下报废的轮船象征着曾经的文明不复存在甚至出现了倒退，不过这一次拯救我们的不是英雄，而是我们从未意识到却始终联系最亲密的身体。美术和音乐非常NB，i don't like "Titane",but i love this one.
科幻版《钛》 （2022.7.4豆瓣6.3）
抛去生理性的厌恶来审视这部影片，这是一部深刻、颠覆性的身体宣言。柯南伯格贬损了人世俗意义的精神性，骄傲地呐喊到“Body is reality. Body is politics.” 他以身体为中心建构了道德体系和政治体系，新器官的生长不再是一种病理性的错乱，也不需要一种切割术来对抗身体的进化；相反，身体的进化就是正确的内在美， 是真正的精神性的体现，由此支持了器官改造手术的合理性（因为是出于自己意愿），由此定义了新的性爱。最后一个如同圣女贞德的镜头升华了整部电影，Saul彻底抛弃了过去虚伪的反抗身体的艺术，而主动接受身体的变化，这是多么颠覆式的somatic enlightenment!
在一个柯南伯格式的世界中，完美地呈现了艺术、性、政治、技术、后人类等主题的互文性与多义性。没有痛觉、没有感染，与巨虫般的床、椅连接，消化塑料的工业废品；人和物的界限不再清晰，肉欲和恋物融为一体，sex is surgery；充满性意味的切割衍生出新的美学，矫正与异化的张力造就了宗教式的狂热；当naturally unnatural出现，统治力量仍试图像割除肿瘤一样抹去异质性的存在；然而，身体虚弱、进食困难的症状已经昭示了人类如倾覆巨轮一般的命运，雅典的平静海岸、梦中的真切疼痛则是对普罗米修斯后裔的最后挽歌。较前作更为丰满，比《钛》那种概念组合好太多（怀疑那个耳朵人跳舞就是在阴阳）；如果简化为新奇性体验当然看不出哪好。
现在是下午五点半，看完后突然很饿。美学意义大于思想意义，即使是未来，没有肉体的生活也是无法想象的
绝不是一无是处，但看完头好痛。不同角色和不同场景之间的割裂感让整个设定都变得更加生涩，没看懂且就打算这么算了。
其实我更希望有更多纯粹的恐怖片、惊悚片、科幻片……而不是让这些杂糅在一起，什么也不是，观众看了也不爽。两根鸡肋换不来一根鸡腿。
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