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".
法国的“裹小脚”时代，只是不管哪个地域哪个国度的封建时期，受迫害最深的，永远是女性。镜头尺度挺大，疼痛感强烈，一部女性专属的恐怖电影。
作为一出电影拍得挺失败的，看简介原本应该表现的是在一个堕胎等同犯罪的年代，女性意外怀孕需要承受的痛苦。但现在给我的感觉女主一点都不可怜，毫不爱惜自己，跟人乱搞不做保护措施。虽然法律可恶，但她的一切都是她自己一手造成的。
去年在罗马看返校，今年威尼斯影展看瀑布，都是王净。一众从二十年前偶像剧熬成电影咖的老熟人，幸好华语电影还有台湾，幸好还有女孩子们之间的友善。
没有太多新意但足够直接。画框、景别、调度无一不在加强逼仄感。片名起得极好。最棒的是那句台词：一种只攻击女人的病，把她们都变成家庭主妇。个人认为在第一幕的铺垫中需要强情节把女主逼向更无路可退的境地，结尾的高潮效果会更强烈。去年的这部金狮比金棕榈给得靠谱多了。
雌性是被上帝钦点的第二性，是背负苦难和责任的群体。如果科技改变不了这一点，人人平等就是最明显的笑话。
信念 勇气 饥渴
同类型看完还是 四月三周两天 更好，这部有点白开水了。
3.5 又是女人之苦(血腥 小女孩心态变化抓得挺好
三到四星之间。镜头语言很粗糙，但很巧的是很应这个电影。拍得真的很痛。(子宫这个生理构造就很反女性好吗！！）
全程守护天使视角
女人，再不去反抗，这样的未来就在不远处等着你们。
我不希望这部影片广泛传播，但是又想让人直观的感受这恐怖。
帮助，这就是我想要的
长期以来，繁衍后代、相夫教子一直被默认为女性的责任，随着女权觉醒，部分妇女争取合法权利，允许堕胎就是其中之一。迄今为止，世界上仍有地区禁止堕胎，不论胎儿的由来和未来，将生育视为女性的事。看似是在捍卫生命，保护新生儿的来到这个世界的合法权利。但实际上，这就是对女性生命和基本自由的权利，无情地践踏。这部电影以女学生独自承受意外怀孕，堕胎无门，生活受到消极影响，最终选择用无法保障生命安全、非正当的手段引产，展现了迫害“正发生”，维权“需发生”。
今年初冬看回归故里的时候，发现法国同样也有一段令人难过的保守时日，要等待，坚韧地对待现实，会变好的。在发生无限靠近个体，为只会攻击女性的疾病而痛呼，为价值目标下被牺牲的个体而记录，这种选题永远非常珍贵。
{★★★} 比《432》逊色。但从什么时候开始《432》变成了一种标准？因为两者阐述的是不同的视角，相较更聪明也更凝练的旁观视角，这部电影的个人视角强调的是代入与共感。我毫不奇怪女观众比男观众更能理解它的优秀，但疼痛之外，她所遭受的冷漠与排斥必是与我们所有人相通的。
比《阳光普照》崩得还快，比《内特拉姆》还要想当然还糟糕。充斥着“嘿我来告诉你们观众一个隐喻你猜接下来是不是依然是这个隐喻？”的聪明劲。真正的“人性反转＋生活体悟＋台式苦情”短视频拼贴。爆笑程度＞99%春晚小品。“我在这边看你表演已经忍不下去”（当然不是贾静雯的问题，是钟孟宏的问题）。
女主好漂亮 看了影评说会很血腥可怕 但个人看下来除了肉疼没别的感觉 从女性视角去拍这些确实会让人有更直观的感受 全程比较流水账吧 有感觉但没那么有质感 也没剖开来讲
隐去男性的“作案”过程而专注于女孩怀孕后十二周之内的心理状态，导演的克制压制了三场戏的痛楚，就像她的哭声和痛苦嘶喊也被那个时代遏制住了喉咙，白描写实的长镜头拉长她与每个人相处的细节，看她怀孕想和她来一发也没事儿的男同学，避之不及害怕违法的室友，偷尝禁果多次但运气好没怀孕的朋友……为什么遭受身体爱欲磨难之苦的总是女性？我们从未拥有过自由支配身体的权力，法国60年代用法律锁住女孩的子宫，我们现在用实打实的铁链锁住，最富庶之地的县城竟成了一块铁桶，你们都有罪，可笑的是，那女孩却用身体一个接一个生孩子，替你们受罚。
《女人的碎片》《女性瘾者》这一类片子可以让男性也直击生理疼痛，从而哪怕有一丝超出一般人的共情能力。
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