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".
8.5/10.
Entangled: Down Dog & Extended Mountain & Warrior II & Striking Cobra
众星云集，小李子、大表姐、梅姨担任主演。三星半，可以找来看看。但是我实在是没兴趣写观后感，这部从头吐槽到尾的影片的主题是“这一届地球人不行”，嘲讽了全世界。但是又很巧妙或者鸡贼地把握了一个度，就是让所有人看完都觉得是讽刺了除了自己之外的所有人。因此也有网友评价说，这部电影讽刺了讽刺。
千万别把这部电影当喜剧来看！这tmd不是我们当今社会的现象吗？全球变暖，冰川融化，越看越觉得毛骨悚然......
波米说这部电影建构了“新集权”框架——第四权力下放，大数据、流量经济、官能刺激绑架议程设置→后真相时代，信息战与认知战、转移焦点、“等反转” ——也是搭建在对人类这一认知之上的必然，所以彗星最终也必然落下。
这大气磅礴的运镜，细腻沉着内敛的气质，剧本的留白，一看就是大师气质，又是一部为奥斯卡量身定制的电影。卷福太惨，咎由自取，交心就是交命，以后对边缘群体可以防备，但还是多一些尊重吧。引用这届奥斯卡最火的一句话：At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you。共勉。
年度梗王，太好笑了！世界末日来了，有人想着支持率，有人想着流量，有人想着挣钱，有人想着做爱，只有科学家真正想要拯救世界。360度无死角的反美黑色幽默，《政局边缘》之后最带劲的政治讽刺，大表姐赞爆，剪辑赞爆！
美国最后的良心，加州人的绝望呐喊。一方面高等人支持社会达尔文，觉得你穷人奸懒谗猾不配受教育，一方面又抱怨你们这些人怎么这么傻逼，再这么傻逼下去地球就得毁灭了知不知道。高等人觉得自己找了不少红脖的笑话，其实将来回头看，拍这片子是高等人留给自己的笑话。
一开始以为是爱情伦理故事，后来以为是同性故事，最后原来是人性故事，搞得还挺复杂。。强壮的大人永远都不要小瞧瘦弱的孩子，因为知识才是最有力量的。这孩子内心还真是很“强硬”，外表的瘦弱只是表象，保护自己母亲的那份心确实值得称赞，但是这手段也真是阴险毒辣。从他对待兔子的方式就能看出他内心是黑暗的，而他对自己父亲的死之描述，也让人看后细思极恐。这片子拍的挺好，就是有点磨叽。
关于高速运转的集权资本主义世界最基本的秩序法则：相信“相信”的力量。红刀子进白刀子出，沾血的凶器象征爱与和平。荒诞对话间隙切至人物正侧面特写，表情僵硬，焦点涣散，两耳嗡嗡作响。亚当·麦凯创造出一种以明星光环为中枢的稳定喜剧频率，笑料被制成料包，先爆炒后熬煮，世界末日一片欢腾雀跃，良辰美景深处丧尸遍野。
其实结合断背山看这个片子就能看懂很多菲尔和布朗克的爱情细节，但是这个片子是个情感复杂的猎杀故事（菲尔和罗斯，乔治和罗斯，菲尔和乔治，彼得和罗斯，彼得和菲尔），一个猎杀一个，黄雀在后。
电影差评比较多的原因有两个，一是它讽刺了太多人太多东西，二是它打着喜剧的幌子，演员也在卖力地夸张的表演，但是出来的效果却并不好笑。好笑的部分都在预告片里了。一部喜剧但是不好笑，必然会惹怒观众。但是，这部电影最难得的地方是主创真的很悲观很愤怒，只是无解，能发现问题，但是没有办法，非常无奈
要是换一个时间点，我肯定只给三星。还能说什么呢？timing就是很重要。面对着荒诞的世界，影像里的一切，都那么熟悉。必须五星了
导演的控制力真是绝了，叹为观止！“话语层”处处做减法，用符号性道具、点到为止的对白、动作、自然环境本身、摄影机运动等极度细腻地刻画人物心理，高度克制和含蓄，而“故事层”实则暗流涌动，整部影片的叙事在“故事层”和“话语层”之间的张力过于迷人了，妙不可言！撩动梳齿发出的响声、形如张大嘴巴的狗的山、起伏的丛草，草把手割出的血……诚如豆友所言，真乃“草木皆兵”，杀人不见血！摄影、配乐、表演也都非常优秀！
优选之人的禀性总是会在自然中生长在社会中被消灭在冲突后消失。
近期最佳。外化的凶狠可能是伪装，内化的凶狠步步为营，掏心划肺。每个人物都丰满有趣，来有来处，只是这去处需要你好好分辨。
因为被前期的介绍误导，本以为会是像钢琴课一样描绘爱的角力，结果却是这样一个故事，有点意外，看到后来想起影片开头独白，原来开篇就已经揭示真相。看似柔弱的男孩慢慢露出他的獠牙，又一个Norman Bates式的男孩，真是会咬人的狗不叫啊，有点心疼Phil。
8/10。层出不穷的病态讽刺简直成了一出情绪爆炸的爽剧：将灾难描绘成喜乐的极端传媒，拿世界命运换股价升值的大数据资本家，传播阴谋论的键盘侠，戴着选举帽向底层支持者兜售反智主义的总统女士，面对闹剧般的电视节目，科学家除了对观众咆哮无计可施，凯特解决危机的绝望成为群众的谈资，酒吧里向不安的民众陈述政府为开采陨石资源而召回发射器的事实，却以破坏国家安全的罪名被套上麻袋，媒体推举出来的兰博尔博士则在突如其来的成名氛围下，肉体被陈杂欲望填满，臣服于主持人的露骨暗示，一度为政客假装关心大众的广告代言。影片经常插入毫不相干的吸粉短视频和海象的蒙太奇，意味着大众痴迷于偶像和跟风，却不愿意正眼瞧一瞧岌岌可危的现实。结尾的视效更是锦上添花，建筑空间和人的一切物品都漂浮成为宇宙碎片，为物质祈祷的资本主义世界走向毁灭。
断断续续几次看完了。整体感觉，意义大于可看性。我不是很喜欢前半段的镜头语言，感觉太刻意了，那种在冷静叙事和人物大特写之间的来回切换。后半段的可看性稍微了好了一丢丢。内容当然是扎实的，虽然是胡诌片，但是也下了功夫。片子讽刺美国的整套政治游戏和政客的虚伪，但说真的，某国人民还没跟着一起讽刺美国、然后觉得自己优越性的资格。如果说有什么整体讽刺、不分国籍国家的，大概就是，讽刺每个人都觉得自己很聪明、而别人是蠢货，每个人都是这样。唉。
行吧 为了河边擦身体和编绳子的戏我也能多给一星 一边越崆峒越深柜 一边蓄谋已久
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