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".
唯一新颖的地方，可能只是因为是丹麦拍的，丹麦很少拍这种战争回忆录。但人物处理太草率了，特蕾莎修女似乎能看到一个很深很暗的影子，但真就跟个影子一样一晃而过，没啥特别之处了。
不同於好萊塢的拍法，片中幾乎沒有主角，導演力圖還原事實，但比紀錄片又高級很多，比如黨衛軍歌曲和丹麥兒歌「串燒」的拍法…
四十度的大热天儿喝是枝裕和牌温水，和我们身边的“社会调剂”、“邵氏孤儿”像是直接把你扔冷柜里，哪个才是电影啊？
英国皇家空军这么不专业吗？一开始炸错三个参加婚礼的女孩一个司机就已经很可恶，还让他们执行如此任务！！人命是疏忽大意可以原谅和挽回的吗！！！纳粹可恨，不专业的军人着实可恶！
战争从来都是政治家的工具，作为个体我反对所有形式的战争！
后面有点大同小异，不过我们还是要世界和平，电影3星题材+1星
开头就暗示了大英皇家空军是瞎子。上帝是不是在捡铅笔，真的是戳心。
2022-07-15故事一般，要素过多，有点失望，面具不恐怖还丑，区块链恐怖片。
掩埋在地下室的小孩从有声变成无息，也没有等到上帝的出现。
第一次看以战争误伤为主题的电影，观影过程太伤了，不敢一次性看完。俄乌战争背景下，大家真都该看看
小心海鸥
唯一新颖的地方，可能只是因为是丹麦拍的，丹麦很少拍这种战争回忆录。但人物处理太草率了，特蕾莎修女似乎能看到一个很深很暗的影子，但真就跟个影子一样一晃而过，没啥特别之处了。
可怜的小朋友和男女主角，如果是电影不喜欢这样的剧情，最后男女主角死的纠结。不过历史的话，就另当别论，上帝与恶魔同在
🎬《我眼中的阴影》🌟🌟🌟🌟
9.7.2022 | @ Regal Majestic | 在没啥恐怖片的七月初重新上映，所以横向比较还算可以？故事还算可以，讲得也还行。一点点的jump scare就够满足了。（扒着指头等NOPE的就是我了）
一部根据真实历史事件改编的电影，能拍得如此失败，也真是少见。二战结束时，英军的误炸，导致近百人死亡，大多是孩子。如此事件，客观地平铺直叙，也会拍得让人震惊。该片导演却无谓地给故事增添了不少东西，视角又不断地转移，还一味地煽情，影片的叙事弄得乱糟糟的。如无必要，勿增实体。此片导演还真需要认真思考一下奥卡姆剃刀的原理。
剧情太弱了，比《小丑回魂》差的不是一点半点啊；不仅是电话的意象old，作用都是一个，一点惊喜没有；如果当幻觉讲某几个孩子的提示根本胡扯，开门密码和砸墙不可能；ethan线就没展开讲；妹妹是蛮可爱的，但故事线就没用；这最后🍊破案结局扯到以为是➖鈡独占结尾……
片尾的长镜头使人能够想到小女孩喝粥的宿命结尾。
影片的核心：勇气与成长。
虽然有点小瑕疵，最后没有交代那个修女钻进去水里后的结果如何，也没有交代那个被淹在水里的小女孩结果如何，但依然不妨碍这是一部好电影
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