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".
整部电影都无不充填着传教者的伪善，但我在塔米菲的妈妈去世时妈妈归还的大衣和从妈妈遗体中摘下的眼镜时落泪了，这种悲伤一直延续到电影结束，甚至延绵自我写下这段话，全片最真切的情感莫过于母亲对女儿的爱和循循善诱
故事和呈现只能到3星，额外的一星是给劳模姐的表演。劳模姐演得比加菲好，但是故事呈现得太平浅了。
可以看看宗教对美国人的影响，另外逐渐迷失积重难返的故事很能理解，就是最后渔翁得利，感觉很不甘。
忙着看色彩搭配和室内装饰：大开间、低进深，超大采光，层高二米八，开关高度一米四，墙壁线条造型典雅；浅绿、嫩黄、淡紫、纯白……自然色系很清新；而且众多场景的色感都很有特点，比如超市、街道、会馆等地；家具、灯具都很不错，就是隔音太差，前功尽弃。
颁奖季传记片一般也就看个表演，电影没有特别出彩的点。
劳模姐可是我喜欢的女演员之一，因为她够美够强。被【茉莉牌局】、【斯隆女神】女士圈粉。我在想她当初为何会接这个本子，有点傻白甜、恋爱脑的女主，当然塔米菲代表了很多渴望被爱、身心全部交付的女性，不过我看的时候走神想得更多的是：同样的皮囊，居然因为气场、神态、穿搭、三观，由内而外的一套改变，感觉完全换了一个人，说明除了美术的服化道以外，其实一个人外在是可以改变的，而且空间很大。
7分。看到了基督教是如何贯穿人的一生的。劳模姐演得不错。
能量太足了看得我很edgy，不了解背景故事看起来可梦就觉得很架空吧
劳模姐终于棒回一座小金人，这应是对她多年来勤奋工作的奖励。
中规中矩的流水账传记片：Tammy是可爱的，但他们夫妇俩做的事却不可爱，相似的道貌岸然还出现在大洋彼岸的张庭夫妇，薇娅夫妇身上，不过宗教换成了“美好生活”罢了。
完全流水账式传记片，虽说劳模姐表演很卖力，可是剧本苍白到都没法给这个角色注入灵魂，演员卖力又有什么用呢？以及结尾演讲的那几句是要雷死人哦
#Sundance 22 full stars voted
两主角都演得挺好的，但是传记片成了得奖的快速通道，让人觉得每年演传记片的都是在走捷径抄近道懒得去挖掘新故事，看的人也审美疲劳。这几年得影帝影后的大多都是传记片，提名里面大多数也是。没什么新鲜感了，故事很一般。
藏在浓妆后的劳模依然光彩照人，不过题材不太有共鸣。
tammy faye因信仰而幸运，逃避于信仰之中，陷落于背弃信仰的指责，最后被信仰“救赎”~这其中的成长与变化比娱乐史上给她的标签重要的多~最终的最终，理解了自己的母亲，其实是人性的救赎~而信仰，才终于回到它本来的位置~
最后唱歌的那一段很打动人心，感觉就像走马灯一样，冷清的现实舞台和绚丽的幻想舞台，就好像Tammy faye的人生一样起起落落，曾经年轻的她，爱情，事业，风光无限，到现在变得衰老，贫穷，婚姻破裂，这个女人在人生中受到了很多欺骗和伤害，但也确实在对金钱和名誉贪婪对漩涡里无法自拔，我觉得作为传记电影，确实少了那么一点点对于Tammy Faye自身想法和价值观的探讨，她是无辜的受害者吗？肯定不是，那她是加害者说犯罪者吗？一定有的，Tammy faye到底想成为什么样的人，而她中落之后又想成为什么样的人？电影好像只是讲了她的人生故事，而没有深挖她的心里故事btw，演技确实好，值得一座小金人。
看完还是比较有感触的，同时更坚定了我一直以来的个人看法：宗教是谎言，但神一定存在，并且信仰很美。影片前段部分剪接有些唐突，可能是出于时长考虑。Tammy Faye的眼睛是片名的主语，也是Tammy那逐渐被妆容改变了原貌的脸上唯一最接近它原始的样子的部位，也能够象征她一生中即使经历了那么多的风风雨雨，犯了那么多的错误，承受了那么多的争议；她对于神的爱和信奉始终未变。“劳模姐”Jessica Chastain对角色的诠释无可挑剔，最佳女主角实至名归；影片获得的另一个奖项最佳妆发也毋庸置疑。
3.5 补了这一部，也还好吧，片子没有很出彩，也不觉得劳模姐演得多好
劳模姐和加菲表演都很不错，豆瓣评分6.5，显然偏低。
对于传记片来说，本来就不是很吸引我的一个题材，两个小时多确实有点长了。但是主题不散，结构标准，女主演的确实好，不愧是今年奥斯卡的最佳女主。
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