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".
OLivia is everything ~ 女性視角鋪天蓋地，可，普通大眾已經被培育完整的“男性角度”的敘事結構，起承轉合，情緒處理讓此類片無法走“更遠”。一些女創作者也許想的比大多數男創作者更多更深，更感性或者更不把觀眾當兒童。但，現實是殘酷的，只有抵抗現實，需要更多女創作者，流媒體買更多，電影院上更多。
养育过孩子的人会被影片的情节唤起各种不适，经常在不可理喻、暴跳如雷、惊恐委屈、追悔莫及间不停切换。当然也有亲慈子孝，但谁也不敢说正面情绪和负面情绪哪种更多。对影片来说，要探讨的恐怕不是亲子关系，而是强加的女性角色的枷锁。莱达逃脱了母性的现实枷锁，却也逃不出自己心中的围笼。7
3.5 女性应该拍电影的原因之一。近距离手持在亲密和共情中切入神经质的焦虑，娃娃与女儿如同定时炸弹。男人存在，却是静立远观的背景板、无用的安慰剂，和举止张狂的威胁。非常期待Maggie未来的作品。
剧情的发展有拖沓，剪辑要是能重制一下就好了。
C-. 简单的故事，幽微的情感，却完成得捉襟见肘而一地鸡毛。科尔曼游荡，科尔曼崩溃，科尔曼回忆，再用看似压迫实际毫无情感意义的特写镜头串起来，就成了本片。希望导演们能明白，表达微妙复杂的情绪，不是要全程怼着脸才能拍的。
真正的现实主义女性电影，呈现的是复杂的女性形象以及只有女性才能体会的两难困境。
明明早已標過，為什麼沒了？記得當時很震驚，沒想到安是安非他命。比起艋舺之流，這才是真正的壞胚子電影。片子拍完沒多久阿兜仔譚志剛就車禍去世，阿國毒品槍炮竊盜各種前科，最後因綁架罪入獄11年，兩個無知少年的現實人生竟也走上不歸路。少年們，何時才能安。
女主这种脸型就是不显年轻的类型，而且手臂肌肉松弛的象六十多岁的，她怎么好意思强扭成年纪反差观的？看的替她尴尬死了
音乐很有意思。野生“人类学家”的田野观察，并且把自己的情感史融入了进去。孤独、敏感、细腻、饥渴的中年女性更年期危机，理解起来还是有点难度。
常年住在希腊度假留自己孩子在美国的公寓管理员父亲 抛妻弃子私奔的背包客父亲 打个电话就不管孩子的年轻父亲 有钱又有年轻美貌妻子的大家族父亲 翻译学家出轨父亲 只要这些父亲能做到自己该做的那一点点 世界就会好一点点
挺透彻的恐育片。费兰特元素频出（娃娃、海滨度假修罗场、混乱的家庭、两组关系的映射等等），那种内心戏特别足的费兰特调调也被Maggie把握得很好，Colman令人心碎的表演无可挑剔，别的就没太多可说的了。可能是需要考虑下各种设计在“到位”之余如何更加“有效”。
难得找到的画质感人，不过故事还蛮有feel的，高捷首做大哥，少年死于年少，罗大佑和伍佰的歌赞。
当不断后置的悬念也宣告失效，除了大特游机与不断闪回还有什么能帮助我更好地共情人物；
悬疑感营造不错，但其实不算悬疑片。一开始就告诉观众女主身负重伤倒在了海边，然后小岛上的庞大家族好像有不可告人的秘密，接下来女主还有些匪夷所思的行为，比如偷了小女孩的娃娃，玩具娃娃体内还有不明液体，再加上穿插了很多女主回忆过去的碎片，让我觉得这部电影一定有很厉害的转折。然而没有。这就是一个抛弃孩子的母亲见到别的母女时产生焦虑和矛盾的故事。虽然没有等到想象中的转折，但知道真相后也能理解女性作为母亲的不易。
#2022金馬奇幻影展# 3.5 榮幸看到修復版的世界首映，原聲帶太優秀以至於全片最搶戲鏡頭是林強跟羅大佑的特別演出，太純正的台灣黑幫電影，音質跟顆粒感真的太棒，依然看到很多影圈熟悉的大人物：陳松勇、李天祿、游安順、高捷，但裡面的人被問話都死不開口，西咧靠北膩😍😍😍🔪（勇伯口吻）
靠表演撑起来的电影，关于责任关于婚姻的探讨都流于表面，最后母女间的和解也显得突兀。
做了母亲，后悔了。胶着几十年，内心对社会充满了反噬性的潜在敌意。社会对女性的不公，是绝对事实，却也难免一部分先入为主的主观臆断。上升哲学，本质上是人生观的差别。而我们认为，爱与理想可以共存。
主题很有价值，一位母亲在母职责任和追求自我之间无法平衡的矛盾，拍得也不错，就是有些细节看不太懂为什么要这么设计。
三星半，影后表演加一分吧。
有一个被卷入黑道是非的爸爸，一个当警察小队长的老实舅舅，这两个70后无知少年，一个死在河边无人问津，一个继续苟活。台湾的乡土黑道，看老片子才有感觉。高捷也因此片开启漫长的黑道大哥生涯。最后的日记有点矫情，为了林强的50s唱歌镜头而看，罗大佑真是活力四射。
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