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".
配乐音效灯光摄影都很不错，很值得学习。本来因为预告中巨人的出现而被吸引，结果巨人镜头太少了，有些可惜。全片和《迷失Z城》的味道一样，很想在大银幕感受这种光影与声音的魅力。
高逼格的文艺，摄影很棒，表演几乎挑不出毛病。怎么说呢……只是我格局不够欣赏不了
观感近似于《银湖之底》，拆开来都巧妙得不行的设计，放一起就是显得无聊。
画面摄影服美音乐都很不错，但拍的就是放慢了2倍速讲一个老土的故事，跟2015年那版的麦克白有一拼了。
(6.5/10). 和Ghost Story一样，是关于时间和死亡的引导冥想，但不如Ghost Story来的更有诗意。镜头和光影都美轮美奂，但故事是我比较不喜欢的那种寓言故事，就像第七封印，没看懂就一头雾水，看懂了又流于说教。中间的环绕镜头，主角变成一堆枯骨是神来之笔，像是一次不净观冥想，然后镜头慢慢环绕回去，影片仁慈的给了第二次机会，也预示了结尾的处理方式。中间夜宿凶宅帮小姐姐找头的一段，颇有聊斋志异的神韵。结尾让人久久不愿离开，但过程多有煎熬拉低了印象分。总之就是一个存在主义视角的故事，绿衣骑士象征所有人避无可避的终极命运，未知死焉知生，直面死亡恐惧才能更好的生活blah blah，像是欧文亚隆的直视骄阳。这类影片的问题是，它提了一个类似于绝症的终极问题，影片本身却远远算不上一剂猛药。
[视]微血微露，导演<老人和枪><鬼魅浮生><彼得的龙>，亚瑟王圆桌骑士，圣诞公路片，坎妹一人分饰两角，<猎鹰与冬兵>女反，<对马岛>狐，摄影不错
应该是目前看过A24片里，感觉最莫名其妙的片了。
其实寓意倒是不难理解，但为了构图及画面节奏拖得实在难受。尤其很多地方处理得不好感觉就是满满的装逼感而没有共鸣。两颗星勉强看在画面上加到三星
服化道很美，就是不知所云，like:原来这辈子就这样那你抓紧砍死我
看完倒是想到抖森在2013 Nerd HQ里引用的那句“人皆有两世，第二世始于你意识到只有一世”临砍头那段意识流好评
醒着的时候会觉得拍得好漂亮，但大多时候昏昏欲睡………结束时仿佛过了一生那么漫长。
三星半，动物们可太美了，自由的他们才是快乐的他们。
论如何利用电影在豆瓣实现自我满足
为啥找个印度人演高文。。。画面音乐都一流，就是过程略无聊了，还不如更往奇异惊悚上靠。。
故事没看懂。对这个传说也不了解。演员们的演技都是一流的
不知道该说什么，一点也不冗长，奇幻的剧情，让我这样一个对高文爵士与绿衣骑士故事一无所知的观众根本走不开。
女主摔倒后，编剧似乎得了脑震荡，故事情结就不在线了。
形而上的说法：如何成为大写的人；通俗点的说法：妈宝成长记。视听语言美丽，巨人部分略感动。
很蠢很蠢的影片。真以为只要弄两只动物拍拍就有人买单了。。。
而女主让他们在一定的“人类保护下”自由。
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