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".
太长了，九十分钟的体量比较合适。结尾还是挺不错的，这种救赎戏码永远对我有效。双女主的颜值是我已经在脑子里帮她们写好浪漫番外的程度。
看着太心痛了，girls help girls但是还是会有mean girls hurt girls.
像法西斯集中营的女疯人院，其中却有多少是真疯了呢，大部分都是被家庭社会遗弃的人，在里面被实验、被虐待、被玩弄，最后女主角通灵的本领换来了护士长大无畏的友情，是啊，女人何苦为难女人
比想象的好很多，尤其开篇很多画面蛮美的。后面就比较草率，转折太快，人物也没怎么深挖。
诚意推荐。尽管故事结局不是我预想的，但总体还是很不错的。无论是故事内核还是外在架构，都很不错。尤其是画面拍的太美了，感觉像是在看19世纪的法国油画！而且配乐也相当给力啊！女性编剧和导演的原因吗？讲述故事的方法和视角很细腻，环环相扣，想一口气赶紧看完。是自我意识的觉醒，是对曾经所谓“科学权威”的质疑，是进步，是自由。好喜欢法语文学啊，真美！
家族成员的心理问题和深层忧虑全归咎于女性家长的“控制欲”与“逼得太紧”，这种父权诡辩经典得让人白眼(家庭不圆满、孩子不幸都是女人「天生」控制欲的错)。而被影片略去的事实是：这一位被指责为根源所在的女性家长是如何在丈夫缺席的情况下，以一己之力组建家庭并带大了三个孩子。
观感是好的，看到许多人说节奏慢，但我个人还蛮喜欢这种循序渐进的节奏，每个电影都有自己的呼吸和脉搏，整部电影给我的感觉就是一首古典乐。美中不足的是女主通灵的设定过于超脱荒诞，和严肃的大背景产生了脱离。
所有“疯女人”联合起来，武力值完全够掀翻这座医院，把狗逼男全部踏在脚下了，然而仅仅是以一换一，疯人院仿佛无事发生……
自编自导自演 梅拉尼可真有才！对女主偏爱有加 御用一向不负厚望啊 这才是我喜欢的怪力乱神类 主题加分 光影音又在线 强推力荐
画面美则美矣，故事惨也真惨。自以me too运动之后，女性电影蓬勃发展。女导演也越来越多。不过这社会不是西风压到东方就是东方压到西风，国家间如此、性别间如此、阶层间也如此，哪里会有绝对平等。故事本身节奏较慢，后期估计导演编剧也没有解决方案只能潦草收场。
太可怕了，如果我出生在那些年，怕也是会被关进疯人院。其实这个题材很好也很有价值，反思体制性的迫害，当男权与父权无法理解也不尊重女性的多样性时，就连医学也成了残害的手段，但是如果选择一个更现实性的切入点，而不是通灵，也许可以拍得更好，
看見瑪利亞和看見鬼魂有什麼區別？傅柯《瘋癲與文明》的具象化。
老少咸宜实为创作的枷锁。其实这个设定还是搭起了很好的文本框架的，无论是政治结构、历史话语还是社会分工都有很大的演绎空间，结果被PG挟持到了最乏味那个走向去，彻底瓦解了编排这些能指的意义。幻想一下如果是（曾经的）吉卜力来拍可能还会更有趣…年迈的我如今再看迪士尼，魔法褪去大厦将倾，彼此成全的幻梦在风雨飘摇中苦苦支撑，大人们心知肚明：有些东西塌了是无法重建的，再建起来的也绝对不是从前的复制品。一曲终了，最后的回味徘徊于“哀我童真不复”与“哀这现实太残酷”之间，无味也无所谓。
就这样，我们获得了自由，获得了强大，获得了永生
为什么能看到上帝就应该被尊敬，而能与死者通话却被认定为精神病患者。这些根本就没被当成患者来看待，不过就是试验品，一切都还是个未知数。被送进去的人被慢慢逼疯，掌权者也在肆无忌惮中一步步走向疯狂。最后，女主好美。
“女性应激也不可以发怒。发怒就是歇斯底里。歇斯底里就是一个莫比乌斯环，是异化、污蔑和戕害女性的无限恶性循环。”
观感是好的，看到许多人说节奏慢，但我个人还蛮喜欢这种循序渐进的节奏，每个电影都有自己的呼吸和脉搏，整部电影给我的感觉就是一首古典乐。美中不足的是女主通灵的设定过于超脱荒诞，和严肃的大背景产生了脱离。
女人的觉醒还有很漫长的路要走，但却从未停止
被关在疯人院里的女人，精神和思想无往不是自由的。她们仍可以在海上悬空，跳舞。
可怕的的是，这样的事情还在眼前发生，以疯癫来欺压女性的世界，从来没结束过。
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