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".
如导演之前的《犬猿》一样激烈和戏剧冲突不断，结局倒是处理得有几分温柔。希望自己记住这部不太起眼的电影，记住这个固执倔强不肯认错，但其实内心无法原谅自己的父亲。
比想象中更好，古田新太演技太好了。吉田惠辅对生活感的把控越来越老练，完全不迷恋戏剧性冲突，情绪释放从容且克制。父亲恨遍了所有人又原谅了所有人，却始终不能原谅自己：“人都是怎么跟自己和解的呢？”他学女儿画画，看女儿的漫画，却依然对女儿一无所知。本该熟悉却陌生家人，距离最近的一次却是在不同情景下一同观赏海豚云——人本来就无法完全相互了解，但在那一瞬，你我心意相通。
并没有任何感动之处，片中没有任何配乐，这种冰冷的客观也是一种情绪表达。迁怒于他人只会使一切变得更糟，于事无补。有个bug，最肉疼的第二撞重卡司机线没了。
直白的讽刺电影圈各种陋习，演员表演是不错的，就是过于平淡直接，结尾有些潦草。
一位想要名流千古的富豪，资助一位金棕榈女导演，改编一部诺贝尔奖小说，遇上两位明争暗斗的知名演员。要素过多，嘲讽力MAX，花一部钱，看两部片，绝对超值。尤其是粉碎机粉碎奖杯那场戏太爆笑了，哈哈哈哈哈哈，笑死我了，什么金棕榈、银狮奖、戈雅奖统统扫进垃圾堆，只有金球奖还在，意思是金球奖连垃圾堆都不配进吗？（
老戲院夜場放映，很好看，笑點密集諷刺有力，同場觀眾老太太老頭子居多，大家都咯咯笑。很喜歡聽西班牙語～
因为这两周刚好在学script analysis 好神奇的观影体验 很灵动！
总会有些小乐趣，最狂的应该是粉碎奖品。两个演员之间的斗争暗流涌动，导演也一起游戏。
VIFF21 #8 [Playhouse] 既然片名叫主竞赛了，真是一部特别适合在电影节看的crowd pleaser，全场笑声都没停过。最搞笑的是头顶“巨石”、吻戏ASMR以及粉碎机。表演真是太棒了，从头到尾都是大写的Acting！ Banderas演Felix这个角色真是好meta哈哈“追名逐利的好莱坞演员”。另外Penélope Cruz Floss dance I need this GIF asap!
电影人自嘲的片子 三大主角状态一如既往的好
拍给爱电影的人的电影的电影 三位演员几乎演到可以拿影帝影后的表演级别
拍的太好太动人了，被片中每个人物的各种小细节感同身受感动到了，必须打五星吐血推荐的电影！今年观影到现在，继《暗处的女儿》、《世界上最糟糕的人》之后，第三部可以列入个人今年年度观影十佳的电影，受益匪浅，终身受益。
佩内洛普要包揽西语片里所有的疯子艺术家角色吗，谢谢本片让我看她到跳那么无厘头的舞。
这部影片通过对一部电影的排练过程进行刻画，反应了这个行业当中一些不可告人的秘密，借用主要人物之手，诠释了导演对这一行业自己独特的见解，其中本片最大的特点就在于诙谐幽默，影片中的演员与戏中戏的角色在一定程度上有很多相似之处，讽刺了演艺圈光怪陆离的乱象。影片当中的几个搞笑场面，如头顶“巨石”，吻戏ASMR，特别是粉碎机粉碎奖杯的一幕令人印象深刻。
能现场看一定很欢乐，最近看的西班牙电影从来没让我失望，西语听起来也感觉越来越舒服了
3.5 后半段垮了。这类探讨需要什么新意？只要问题没有受到广泛的关注和反省，就一直有探讨的价值和必要。道德法庭 被动高敏人格 原生家庭 教育体系 公信力滥用 舆论引导 尤其在父权体系下所有的伤害都在倍数增长。像大脑指挥手拿物品，步骤再多也只是社会的基本症结，庞杂但无人在意，它们吸收渗透在每一个条件反射和漠不关心里。比如某个热评。当每一个灰色的人都在通过不同形式的管窥蠡测来追求非黑即白的因果 又或觉得不过是些所有人必然经历的困境时，就是我们最接近毁灭的时刻。
总体走势一般，结局也难以惊喜，但是戏谑中还是在嘲讽。
最精彩的部分在开头，女导演跟富豪讲述剧本大致是什么
和解为主题 原谅与道歉 都不简单
一个亿万富豪企业家冲动地制作一部经典电影，于是找来知名电影人萝拉（彭妮露古丝 饰）执导这部野心勃勃的大制作，众星云集的主演阵容里有两位重量级、但麻烦多多的演员：荷里活型男菲力斯（安东尼奥班达拉斯 饰）和偏激的舞台剧演员伊凡（奥斯卡马提涅兹 饰），两个传奇人物同时也是死对头。经过萝拉设下一连串光怪陆离的试炼之后，菲力斯和伊凡不只要正面交锋，还要保全各自的名声。当电影终于开拍时，谁能笑到最后？
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