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".
长评审核通过又被移除了，估计是因为提到GH了吧，我太不敏感了。也懒得重新发了。就节选一段自己长评里的话吧：倘若要选择某种类型片来代表台湾电影的话，那么无疑是家庭片了。甚至可以说台式家庭片几乎贯穿近现代台湾电影史，从侯孝贤到杨德昌，再到李安，台湾一代又一代的电影人都非常精准地抓住了整个东亚社会都无法绕开的核心矛盾，即以“家庭”为单位的精神困境。于是，台式家庭片已然成为台湾电影的传统。以至于在去年的GH中，竟然同时有两部电影在题材、内容上完全撞车。只是在豆瓣评分走向上与《瀑布》恰恰相反，《瀑布》从5.9一路逆袭到了7.6，而《美国女孩》则从8.0逐步下滑到现在的7.5。这似乎也从侧面说明了观众的某种倾向性。
画面表现力毋庸置疑 不过作为前传有些魔改得过头了
还是不错，就是这个老少配……还好不是真人电影~
还是不错滴。画风和游戏很像。剧情人物都不错，该有的都有。
#58thGH最佳新导演/最佳新演员 不太像美国女孩的女孩。姐姐对于思想差异的反抗仅仅停留在家庭的叙事空间里，在学校里没有任何有效的表达，呈现的仅仅是一个自怨自艾的少女，且也没有明显的变化，所以姐姐这个角色的塑造是失败的，没有能够引起观众的共情。母亲身患癌症，她的状态处于理性和失控之间，导演也没有把母亲的角色表达清楚，在模糊之间再一次将整个家庭关系变得不紧密且混乱。因癌症而错乱失衡的家庭情感在外力极少的情况下爆发得极为惨烈，就变成了无端的情绪冲突爆发，显得极为缺少张力，混乱且吵闹的观感会在后期显得极为明显。（其余见长评）
拍很沉重的议题拍得相当轻盈，是成熟的作品，但总觉得差口气。大概是文化冲突版的《爸妈不在家》或是家庭成员更多的《瀑布》。但论巧思细腻不如前者，论提喻象征不如后者。影片完成度相当高，每个人都面临自己的困境，但他们的心愿皆未达成。母亲患有癌症，家庭成员的纠葛也似癌细胞般在家庭成员间扩散。在经历苦难时，原始状态就是理想状态。所谓的自由、个性，不自觉间便被平安、牺牲、相亲相爱这类简单的理念或愿景所慢慢“吞噬”。
1.特效和动作很喜欢。2.剧情是比大亨的.......剧版好点.3.英语日语两版配音建议听.会发现不一样的有趣的东西.
3.5 有可能因為自己內心的期待值所以迎向平淡的劇情有點小失望，一個家庭在SARS 背景的那個年代下，家庭的壓力及當時會有的煩惱，情勒和壓力，青少年女孩對環境及家庭變化的心情，感覺沒有講到太深入有的表面淺淺的敘述，和幾個部分的情感著重，莊凱勛有演出很經典那個台商爸爸的感覺。SARS 那個年代我大概跟那個小妹妹一樣小吧，那個小妹妹好可愛☺️
有女导演对于情绪刻画的细腻，但是整个过程一直在周而往复，人物在其间没有什么大的成长，对于很多的描绘随着进度条流逝，也只停在了那里。林嘉欣是个好演员，也是作为三十岁的成人观众的我最心疼的一个角色，希望本片原型的母亲还好好活着而且和女儿们和解了。
还行 还行 故事完整 一切都好
虽然我很喜欢witcher这个游戏，但是对这部作品完全入不了戏。第一印象就是演员给人一种捧读的感觉，制作组基本不是为了讲故事而是为了加入各种元素组合在一起想让观众爽一爽。不然短短几十分钟就一下上场了好几十种怪物，喝药涂剑油青草试炼女术士，反正一股脑往里塞。做到了形似，却缺少神韵。
看似是文化冲突的故事，说到底都是少儿一夜长大的样子，像极了八月里张小雷的炎热夏天！
曾经的妈妈得有多心高气傲啊，带着自己的两个宝贝，想给她们带去更好的未来。以片里妈妈和芳仪这种关系不可能只是回国这件事促成的，在美国肯定也是争吵不断，两个人隔阂很深。后来妈妈拖着残破的身体回来了，自己的情绪也给家里涂上了怨念。面对大女儿的厌恨她会后悔吗，面对丈夫的逃避她会悲哀吗，面对死亡的威胁她会恐惧吗，面对小女儿的不舍她会自责吗。最重要的人是有任何人在关心她的这些情绪吗？所以你说为什么会有母亲这种身份，是不是谁当谁是冤大头。
1.特效和动作很喜欢。2.剧情是比大亨的.......剧版好点.3.英语日语两版配音建议听.会发现不一样的有趣的东西.
没什么意思，游戏没玩过，混时间，为什么波兰的森林里开头是一家子黑人啊，剧里这么搞也就算了，动画片还不能纯正点也是服了
看似讲述传统中国家庭的矛盾与和解，实则是对中国家庭观念的刻板印象与 SARS 背景的叠加，以映照当下 COVID 疫情。至少于我而言，片中的家庭不是我的经历 @Netflix
把角色名字换一遍这就是恶魔城大电影，强行换了个猎魔人皮
有黑人角色减一星 女术士真是永恒的搅屎棍
只觉片中的各种吵架太真实了，恐怕要不了多久，这样的母女和父女场景都要在我家上演，夫妻就更不用说了，开胃菜而已。。。青春与叛逆，三十年前我还大言不惭地说从没在自己身上感受到过。。。终究是虽迟但到
没看懂人类是怎么和女巫联手的，尤其是召唤怪物那一段，不是要成为人类公敌了吗，不然全灭了猎魔人，拿谁来对付怪物呢，把人类智商写的太低了？
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