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".
就是感觉好乱，女主不敢睡觉，脸色惨白顶着大黑眼圈到处跑，二次出租车没撞到，第三次老头却被撞死了。。。
下面有请迷影导演埃德加赖特和两位当红大美女带来一部点唱机恐怖片，在电影院看绝对震撼，用电脑的话视听效果大打折扣。有几个镜头真的太华丽了，剧情后面有点崩，没想到安雅也不是每套衣服都好看。
很好看 视觉层面的好看 光怪陆离纸醉金迷 导演的视觉表达还是很惊艳 但剧本实在是太差了太差了 憋了半集挤出个憋屁 结尾太泄气
前半段大赞，精致的表现主义，具象女性视角的心理恐惧，色彩氤氲镜像折射，把不同时代的两个女性形象的交互玩转表达到出神入化，出色的服化道流光溢彩，贴合的复古配乐神来之笔，后半段急转直下，心理具象变超自然灵异事件，女主心智骤降，反派立场摇摆不定，文本出现空洞，男性群像群魔乱舞，表现对极端男权的尖刺和反向掌控，早先的视听色彩沦为空洞的形式主义，一切的铺垫和发展动机，到最后显得毫无意义，观众对整个故事的真实感受和理解，也因为这些通篇塞满形式和概念的奇观以及三流收尾，受限困惑因此一头雾水，摸不着头脑的大团圆结局以及敷衍的服装设计秀场画下句点，多少有点崩盘和智障。★★
色彩、画面感挺好，没想到后半部分会彻底变成怨灵复仇恐怖片，Edgar Wright真的很用心想要吓观众😅 在看过的他的电影里排最后
前半段大赞，精致的表现主义，具象女性视角的心理恐惧，色彩氤氲镜像折射，把不同时代的两个女性形象的交互玩转表达到出神入化，出色的服化道流光溢彩，贴合的复古配乐神来之笔，后半段急转直下，心理具象变超自然灵异事件，女主心智骤降，反派立场摇摆不定，文本出现空洞，男性群像群魔乱舞，表现对极端男权的尖刺和反向掌控，早先的视听色彩沦为空洞的形式主义，一切的铺垫和发展动机，到最后显得毫无意义，观众对整个故事的真实感受和理解，也因为这些通篇塞满形式和概念的奇观以及三流收尾，受限困惑因此一头雾水，摸不着头脑的大团圆结局以及敷衍的服装设计秀场画下句点，多少有点崩盘和智障。★★
艾丽在伦敦/午夜伦敦 的恐男歌舞片 虽然略显廉价 但我还是觉得很不错！安雅这种风格也很好看
镜子与影子，猎奇大于疼痛，类型语言花里胡哨，作者标志也很模糊。
好漂亮的转场！好厉害的调度！好牛逼的审美！喜欢！
观感很好，安雅泰勒的造型是真的惊艳，女主角本身也很不错
前面镜像附身部分拍得很赞，后面女主神经质的表演让人厌烦。
没什么新意的故事几乎可以用一句话剧透 结尾更是拉胯 除了一贯的音乐和视觉风格在线其余乏善可陈 脱离了铁三角的埃德加赖特纵有鬼斧也砍不出什么神功
好看。不是铅黄。但居然做到了比铅黄还蠢。边缘群体意识昭然若示，但这种低级的概念包装却只不过凸显了内容和形式的双重虚伪。
这个故事实在不该拍电影，应该拍迷你剧。电影的篇幅对于这个故事来说太短了些，从片子的前两幕来看，团队为主角设计了很多细腻的暗线，迫于电影篇幅，这些线并没有很好的展开，尤其是主角母亲这条线，有一段时间如同被遗忘了一样，直到最后才突然捡起来
你批评《Soho区惊魂夜》的故事讲不通的同时，有没有想过这个片子致敬的《威尼斯疑魂》其实更是狗屁不通呢？其实就讲究一个气氛，气氛到了就够了。
除了流动的音乐和最后的丧尸，看不太出是赖特的作品。但是影像风格真的太好看了。Dinna Riggs的谢幕。
【2.0】友邻形容的马戏团杂耍招式的电影调度很形象，虽然我是觉得花哨的调度在这个作品里完全谈不上出错。不喜欢此片纯粹因为反转做得太掉价。
不说都不知道是Edgar Wright的片呢
金曲大赏是吧，这电影是有点吓人，中间我还来了个外卖可把我吓死了
我知道这个不是推理片，但60年代那么多命案都查不到她头上？逻辑上太说不过去了吧。女主全程毫无胜算也看得人很难受。
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