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".
除了画面调得像素太糟之外 整体值得四星 变态科学家改造机械生化人最有感觉 最狗屁的就是从头到尾那个无聊的录像带
此系列还以为终结在三部曲了，没想到重启之后还是那样惊艳！第二、三个故事很精彩！
其他的part都差点儿意思...
两星半吧 达不到前两部 但比三要强多了 最后一个故事拉夸 强行搞事情
01老鼠人 02亡灵复活 这个还蛮常见的 比较喜欢03科学怪人那个故事 各种人与机械的尝试 04屠龙少年终成龙 吸血鬼终成采血工具 少年好不容易厮杀到天亮 却因为身上沾有吸血鬼之血碰到日光爆炸这个点还挺玩味的
但凡用点心也不至于想出这么烂的主线和4个无聊至极虎头蛇尾的短篇故事，垃圾
这个系列最好的地方就在于，大多数创作者都明白，伪纪录恐怖片老生常谈的“真实性”、“临场感”都是在为乐趣服务，他们应该看重的是的是“伪”带来的娱乐性，而不是“纪录”带来的的限制性。
算是今年看过的电影里面比较好看的了最喜欢第一个ratman的故事，其次是邪恶博士进行人体机械改造（感觉借鉴了弗兰肯斯坦的军团）
有点意思……第一个故事的鼠人好粗糙～实验室那个故事再次揭示，科学家疯狂起来，世界就会毁灭……
致命录像带系列永远不会让人失望～这次的主题是vhs录像机主题，好复古的感觉，最喜欢第二个，配乐气氛都好棒，一个人和尸体在风雨交加的灵堂～简单又极其巧妙的小品恐怖故事，然后就是第一个故事，中间穿插的压碎机广告太有趣了，local58的感觉，然后就是第三个，好像豚鼠系列，可是没有复古的质感，第四个无聊，串联故事场景还不错啦。
1.鼠人2.殡仪馆守灵3.科学怪人4.吸血鬼
其实编排及氛围搞得不错，但导演有些保守了，应该与时俱进，《致命录像》就好，不用非要写实成渣画质的录像带效果！毕竟高清时代，1080p、2k、4k……就连运动相机视频画质基本都可以。而这特意制作的“录像带”效果，真的影响观感。
耶！看到了这个系列的第四部！开心！几个故事都害可以，不算特别惊喜，但也挺过瘾了。变态科学家的故事挺有游戏感觉。吸血鬼反杀那个也害行。
01老鼠人 02亡灵复活 这个还蛮常见的 比较喜欢03科学怪人那个故事 各种人与机械的尝试 04屠龙少年终成龙 吸血鬼终成采血工具 少年好不容易厮杀到天亮 却因为身上沾有吸血鬼之血碰到日光爆炸这个点还挺玩味的
喜欢storm drain 很喜欢the subject 尽管是最跑题的一个故事 滤镜真的带感
比小时候看的录像带更血腥！但创意上基本是暗网都市传说汇编
第三个故事真是生化危机本机了，真海森伯格！
但到了大砍刀机械人和凤梨亿齿人就只有等待虐杀的悬念和视觉享受了
感觉和前几部比都没让人眼前一亮的感觉，第三个故事感觉是地狱旅店和弗兰肯斯坦的军队结合体。
第三个故事算是全系列最佳之一，前三个故事相当不错，最后一个扣分
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