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".
演员标签还是很重，感觉看完后对黛安娜更不了解了，她的痛苦、孤独充斥着整个片子，非常用力的描述她的痛苦、压抑，反而显得很不真实，其他人（皇室）的反应近乎于雕塑，毫无人味，这很不对，香奈儿花了大价钱吧。
3.散装的故事，显而易见到每一个行为每一句话都在凸显反抗主题，太刻意，主题也单调
小K好美，但重复的崩溃还是让人疲惫
浪费。前半看得挺投入，后半越来越差，转折时刻是大灾难。看完回想起来，喜欢的挣扎部分也是预设的，由现实的戴安娜所给到的，而非这部电影。设立历史人物镜像其实也挺喜欢，但为什么要让幽灵开口，为什么要让她成为转身的原因。。。配乐大体上还挺好，加一星。
妆发大约是全片最强亮点，小k表演不差，但从剧作而言，这个人物显得太单薄了，全程像一只脆弱的花瓶。
小k的演技很好啊，略微有些神经质的女人，只是结尾或许理想主义了，感觉没有压住。
无前史的截面切入就更要注重情绪完整，结果让斯宾塞漂浮在一个唯我真空世界里，情绪细节事件全面单一，想让观众如何去共情一个高定华服加身不停在对身边人提不合理要求的人？依靠自己的戏外认知再脑补？斯宾塞的心愿具象化难道真的只能像最后呈现的那样穿阿甘吃肯德基吗？同样的心理惊悚大特写表演片，连第一夫人都比这个好。唯有服装可看。
斯特尔特表现太好了！！远超预期，脆弱悲伤怯懦勇敢，角色转变的每个层次都有抓到，依然带有自身的独特气质，却让这个人物还能显的可信自然，这是电影明星的魅力，她与戴安娜最神似之处，就是那种在个人身上挥之不去的叛逆与不适
戴安娜真的总迟到吗?那女王脾气还真挺好的~。
当然，我尽可不感伤，毕竟那离我太远太远，我还远未到不喜欢华服美食的地步。
导演和主演都不太行，克莉丝汀斯图尔特虽然很认真，但演技下降了。
聖誕皇宮開大party，寂寞王妃drive her car
不论历史如何，影片的切点真的很好啊。说是套层也好，counterpart也好，极其工整地假借历史展开叙述。以出轨为引子引出性别置换的特殊语境，相当自然的女性主义。尽管稍后的对戴安娜对普通人生活的向往、以及当一个普通母亲的愿望的渲染实则有些无视王室的无奈，但还是包裹住了一层对僵化制度的反讽。
不再说她著名的死亡，又处处与她的死亡关联。应景的女性题材，皇室教条是社会给女性的压迫的夸张版，喜欢台球桌那场戏，复杂的对峙，既有愤怒又有理解，但有的人秉性可能就是烈马，驯马人会在战争中死亡，老朽的事物会衰败，而那匹马依然使人铭记并“震惊”。问题还是内容设计得有些简单了，隐喻显著，技巧套路。看完会明白为什么会选K来演，因为想要的就是她骨子里的劲，K就是这一代最不驯的女演员。
那段换装虽然是表现婚姻中多个重大时点和心境，服装师的堆砌炫技痕迹还是重了，一种“费心设计的衣服没用完集中摆一下也给冲最佳服装奖加点buff”的感觉。
演员标签还是很重，感觉看完后对黛安娜更不了解了，她的痛苦、孤独充斥着整个片子，非常用力的描述她的痛苦、压抑，反而显得很不真实，其他人（皇室）的反应近乎于雕塑，毫无人味，这很不对，香奈儿花了大价钱吧。
三星半。有一定质量，就是不知道她家里人怎么看，离真实有多远
个人心中年度最佳影片&最佳配乐，因为我真的感受到并认同那种生不如死的感觉。
知晓导演想表达什么，压抑解放blablabla，但看完只觉得无病呻吟，配乐也不喜欢。ks个人特色（长相姿态）太明显演传记片差了点。
克里斯汀斯图尔特虽然口音上不太接近，但影片把她拍得绝美。
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