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".
且不说王冠珠玉在前，并不是每个观众都熟读并背诵英国皇家那些事儿的好吗？上来就指望观众共情是不是太贪心了/色调好舒服
虚幻与现实交织就如裙子上的外套一样，唯一让人醒目的是夹克和伤口的血红色；除了男权对女性的压迫，很多的是否是灵魂在时空牢笼中的困境。摄影师这次真的开大了，甚至有点找到打开马利克的方法了
挺好看，这部传记片的风格是心理电影路线，大胆的加入了很多幻想，比如吞食珍珠、与16世纪的安妮·博林王后神魂相遇，尤其是濒临崩溃边缘那段MV式蒙太奇，拍出了枷锁桎梏的压抑，也拍出了希望。
啊，请自由飞翔吧，斯宾塞。
@STHLM电影节 本片又名闪灵皇家圣诞节。可能因为对戴妃没有太多先入为主的印象吧，个人觉得K演得还不错啊。音乐好优秀
“这个国家的女人自以为拥有自由，只不过是做着自由的奴隶。” 我可太喜欢本来在幻象的现实（古堡/童年住所）里想要自杀的斯宾塞，但被安妮博林的幽灵安抚，最终让刑具（囚锁自我的珍珠项链）代替自己跌下楼梯。致所有被斩的头颅、银币上的女像、所有古堡里的公主、所有在厄舍府倒塌的疯女人。今年看过最好的历史戏说。
排场肃穆华贵，服化道都无可挑剔，女主扮相美艳动人，梨花带雨楚楚可怜。就以电影表达来理解戴安娜王妃的失态是不够的，甚至会觉得查尔斯王子说得没错：你就像一个没被宠够的孩子，我们必须有二种面孔，对公众的一面要尽力负责。也许是戴妃的生平太被英国人熟悉了，影片就不在观众的同情面上进行铺垫了。但对海外观众来说，会觉得王妃的抑郁不可理喻。
她只是内心渴望爱的小女人。却成为困在笼中的金丝雀。海报真美啊
运用各种方式进行过度的情绪堆积，却毫无故事和人物。看完只会觉得戴安娜是个"spoiled kid"，这才最可怕。胶片真美。
ps·KS的每一句台词都念得气很急，让耳朵很难受。也可能是我耳朵有问题。
不如干脆拍成惊悚片。
“Fuck doctors. What you need is love. Love, shocks and laughter. Plenty of it.” 克莉丝汀·斯图尔特完成了她的演出。
倒觉得不必拿来和《第一夫人》作比。Jackie的动力来自幕与幕之间流转的讲述的动力，这种不顾剪辑时序和影像“真伪”的讲述不断地将观众推远，并将自身呈示为一尊宛如Citizen Kane般的形象，历史的形象。她最后甚至在“批改”记者的笔记，谁能说电影就不是被“批改”的结果呢。《斯宾塞》则在大量按部就班的推轨中抻长对历史的厌倦，以至于要将扮演Spencer的KS兜一大圈再还原成KS，它宣称历史是“需要”被扮演的——却是为了更好地返回现在。是自洽的但……这有什么表达的意义和必要吗？一种死去的电影，用角色的话说就挺currency的吧。
基本上就是，Sally出现的每一秒钟都是对我的恩赐
戴安娜真的总迟到吗?那女王脾气还真挺好的~。
前面大半段在情节设置以及暗喻的精巧感方面处理得很不错，浅显但依然颇有力道。那些压抑的冰冷的对称感，几乎是独角戏的处理，其他人都化作监控镜头一般冷硬的背景板，却都是窒息要素的一份子。
综上外因，故事在窒息后的释放和终究未能到来的“未来”才显得格外宣泄与感伤，热衷于的表达风格和对味的影像品味，私心推崇的作品。
每个人都有两幅面孔，在对应的场合就要演好自己的角色。小K很OK，满屏英音+皇家风光+舒缓钢琴曲很搭。
很大胆的戏说，将黛安娜的内心挣扎浓缩化外在化寓言化，成为所有被禁锢被压抑的女性追求自由找回自我的象征。
总票房240万美元，连小k的片酬都远远不够，失败的冲奖作！
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