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".
做作，听到魂魄喊救命简直笑出声。不喜欢选角。可惜一个好故事被搞成这种混杂各种烂俗元素的青春片。
埃德加·赖特拍了一部属于他的《好莱坞往事》，奇幻惊悚设定下的复古大巡礼，希区柯克遇上波兰斯基，对老套的故事用精妙绝伦的视听手段和出色的叙事、剪辑进行重塑，把惊悚配乐和劲歌金曲合成一起的想法更是让人拍手叫绝，恐怖重场戏的氛围营造和对于镜像的运用都到了最最顶尖的水平，值得收一套4K。
3.5分。 赖特在这部电影中，展现了自己对于长镜头调度的能力，这和他以往的很多影片都不一样。在血与冰淇淋三部曲时，赖特主要靠的是剪辑的技巧，凌厉快速的剪辑，让影像在得到信息量叠加的同时，生成了丰富的寓意。这部恐怖片却并不打算如此，影片中很少能看到快速剪辑的画面，而是在流畅的推拉摇移中，让我们感受到悬疑和惊悚的味道。 另外就是赖特对于镜像的反复使用了，从一开始，这种镜像共生关系，更多是女主角的逃离心态，越到后面，越是展现出她对于现实的皈依。换句话来说，怎样让人感受到现实比幻境更吸引人呢？那就让幻境更加恐怖点吧！这看似简单粗暴的逻辑，既是赖特作为邪典片导演的古怪趣味，但同时也解释了女主角如何从对幻境的割舍不开，到对幻境的释然面对的过程。
1960年代的霓虹恶魔。开头以为是又一个库伊拉的时尚产业剧情片，埃德加赖特的血腥暴力随着剧情愈发密集到来，却完全没了以前的癫狂和黑色闹剧。最终可能只是告诫追梦女孩们，怀旧深处藏着的黑暗底色，Downtown非但不能让人解脱，还意味着太多坏东西。
心碎1960s。在繁华的大都会里，每一天都有追梦的女孩在一点点“死去”。
Rescue rangers! ；迪士尼就是有本钱；ugly sonic的人类牙齿真的让人难以接受……
前兩幕是言之有物的當代鉛黃電影，關外女子的入世記，冰冷的現實與看似美好的過往年代，悠長聲樂與紅藍閃光之間，被殘酷交融驚醒的南柯一夢。而最後一幕的反轉看似顛覆前面主題且“沒有必要”，但實際也是收得很漂亮的，同時也擴大了整部片子的主題，其實並非是“前程似錦的年輕女子”的覆滅，同時也是“一個時代”的覆滅。一些看似是因為創作者沒品疏漏的小伏筆也收得很好，兩個女主角的演技、魅力都不分上下，還蠻想二刷的一部電影。4.5歸5。
故事是中规中矩的故事，但是梗太密集了以至于不停反思这里是不是一个反讽……
原来这东西还真有老动画..?迪士尼自家的版权就是可以瞎玩梗，真好啊。
保守派圈定了安全的范围，也决定了影片的上限，用一场铺张浪费的香艳歌厅秀伪造“禁忌”。摄影机上天入地，视野的范围却始终狭窄，泛滥的镜像如加粗的字体般画蛇添足。看看《本能》看看《艳舞女郎》吧，被摆弄的人物再声嘶力竭，也不过是空壳一具。
1：没有血与冰淇淋系列那种荒诞又好笑的感觉。2：前半段看着像是《布鲁克林》X《午夜巴黎》，小镇姑娘和60年代幻想。后半段特么直接低配版《闪灵》= =3：结尾过于迷惑，前半段花了这么多功夫营造60年代女性在不公环境中梦碎身陨，还等着看《可爱的骨头》呢，结果后半段直接反转，还不是末路狂花那种反转，只是一个疯子杀人狂老太婆= =。4：安雅泰勒乔伊美翻。
打开D+，没带任何预期点开这部新片，反而非常好看，好久没有笑得这么开怀！ 迪士尼再次大秀版权，各家IP大杂烩，卡通人物彩蛋玩到飞起，观影过程中惊喜不断，甚至自黑也不放过！手握最强版权真·怎么玩都行
时装元素和悬疑惊悚的有机结合 大都会的不眠之夜又埋葬了多少不为人知的秘辛；静谧的伦敦夜景值得在片尾作为特别提及
迪士尼疯了，好怪，真的好怪，我也想看Batman vs. E.T.。
情节不太行 但是细节设定蛮有意思的 中年发福Peter Pen哈哈哈
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers!
视听上还有可圈可点的地方，但就故事而言还是太拉胯了，埃德加·赖特的期待在于不走寻常路，而一旦正确起来，一板一眼，蹑手蹑脚，实在没什么花样看的。
算是灵异惊悚片，映射追求五光十色明星梦的女孩在大都市的真实现实，只是女主的神经质突出了些，感觉她疯是迟早的事，今天不疯，明天也会疯。最后那好笑的服装秀、还有女主那丑男朋友，zzzq也不至于到如此吧。。。可惜了年轻版和老年版桑迪，表现力都不错，如果结尾是老年桑迪把女主杀死，老房子又多一个怨灵，跟着镜头转换新的一天，又一个来伦敦寻找梦想的女孩敲开门，这个故事会显的有趣一些。
怎么美国最近的动画电影都喜欢这种模式。松鼠大作战，童年回忆。
3.5。故事老套，埃德加·赖特更像是在玩形式，红蓝对立，主面与镜面对立，角色“本我”和“超我”之间的互相撕扯。
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