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".
（6.5/10）今天还在说活力四射林漫威，这晚上看个新片又是他的原创歌曲。这种“老”迪士尼的调性不必多言，观众都有概念，因此这也是一部那种在影院同很多人一起观看会十分愉悦的作品。做得不够好的一点，第一幕铺陈的冲突太尖锐，勾起人十足的观看欲，但却没想到这么一个迪士尼式的大女主后面的主动性这么差，这种落差上次见到似乎是我家Merida。值得商榷的一点，所谓人物的那条弧光，多数会从内在与外在两个角度延展，但有一些编剧会大胆地将外在弧光复归原位，让观众去体察更为细腻的内在演变。这次看起来也是如此，但效果并不理想。魔法的复归并不自然，也许让其彻底消失倒是符合影片前面展现的历程。值得深究的一点，我们知道迪士尼向来偏爱传统牢笼中的异类，这次却营造了一个异类的牢笼囚禁普通人，这种倒置可以发展出无限可能。
梅拉尼导片的风格还蛮统一，但较之前作并无突破。
前半部可以后半部略拖沓 要不是Lou的颜和Melanie的气质 真难得看下去
略无聊 女性主义该有点新意才行啊 镜头调度非常不行 梅尼总想跟女同沾点边但又不想拍完全的女通讯录
亚马逊这样的巨头，确实给中小成本舞台，但也让作品统一着色，没有毛边和性格。
如果科学与理性对唯心主义是粗暴反对，电影预设一个科学与理由的对立面同样很粗暴，非要逼一批根本不相信世界有鬼神的唯物主义者低头，并加上一些言之凿凿与亡灵对话的细节，这令人哭笑不得。这跟纯粹的鬼片不一样，本片是骑墙派，一方面认同科学的严肃性，仅仅是对科学的教条与规训加以嘲讽，另一方面又叫人相信世界上有鬼，只有很少人看得到鬼。鬼怪要么有，要么没有，不可能是薛定谔的鬼怪。也许电影更想表达的是“人们不应该过于武断”，以及医护群体与病人群体的权力不对等、男性与女性的权力不对等，或者批判精神病院的“私刑”、某种法律与道德的彻底沦丧，这些立意都很好。但大方向有偏差，电影没找准自己的定位，让人没办法静下心又将其当作一部人性彼此救赎的文艺片。剧本太糟糕，以为会是第二部《容基耶尔女士》，实则不及后者一半高明。
情感，事件比较寡淡。唯有主题算是亮点，但是表现精神障碍的古典电影也不是没有。总的来说发挥的不够好。
开头的场景真好看。
表达了对父权压迫的控诉，就是表现得似乎有些生硬直白了。
如果她出去后，能把整个邪恶势力铲除，把她救出来就好了
梅拉尼导片的风格还蛮统一，但较之前作并无突破。
比呼吸好太多了，最后舞会环节动人心弦，算是法片里不闷的了，双女主的感情线推动得很好，画面也非常美丽，属于法片里我很喜欢的
看到了，也不要说出来，你越说得真实，越会被认为你疯了。不管是亲人还是陌生人。
男权社会下女性自由思想的觉醒，电影挺不错的，结尾女主逃离疯人院、女性“疯子”的互助还是挺让人感动的，而且电影的部分镜头拍得很美。
摄影比较高级，很有艺术感。故事不是很吸引人……
能够通灵的女主被送进精神病院，最终在护士长的帮助下成功逃离，涉及了不少流行的主题，女性的互相帮助，女性受到的精神压迫等，但笔力不是很到位，欠点火候。
以前的精神病院太可怕了，精神病人反而是有人性的，正常人往往无人性，到底是谁才真正有病呢？结尾处为什么不能两个女两个人一起跑呢，还是女2的道德标准迫使她自己留在了精神病院？
这部电影惊悚的原因，是因为它真实。一个正常的具有知识的女人是如何被逼到崩溃的边缘，以及在这样的环境下维持所谓正常的精神是多么困难的一件事。在这样的世界里，天赋被当作疯癫，善良被当作软弱，虐待被当作治疗，伤痛被当作病症，知识被当作巫术，欲望被当作爱情。曾经具有知识的女人被当作女巫架在篝火之上，后来不能像绵羊一样温顺、不能好好穿着塑身衣的女人被关进疯人院。对疯癫的识别为将个体排斥出社会、剥夺她作为人的身份提供了正当性，如同对那条404锁链的解释。太阳底下无新事，朋友们，很遗憾我们没有很文明，也没有很现代。
自由是甜中带苦，意识觉醒的古典之美。难以相信我们现在仍正经历相同的事，压制，束缚，偏见，人类几百年的发展依旧是停滞不前。不冷静不听话就是疯子，就要被浸泡在冰水里。也很喜欢女主在两个场景解束腰的节奏对比和象征意义。“很容易明白这个古典故事在当代的意义和指涉，通过超现实元素来消解这种感觉”
到底誰才是真正得瘋子？ 看似正常的人，才是真的病人～
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