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".
氛围塑造和故事铺垫都足够沉稳，部分拟沉浸式的体验也比较新奇，《咒》的某些桥段还是足够令人毛骨悚然。
充斥着老套的恐怖技法，所谓的伪纪录完全不成体系，小儿科得很。导演去膜拜一下《死亡论文》吧，学学什么叫挑逗观众，你这个只能说明你的下作而无聊，纯粹浪费观众的时间！
還好啦……[屁咧 大白天還不敢放全屏看的] 內在邏輯掩埋得深了一點，看了影評才理解到。高讚短評裡的“收復台灣”是什麼鬼，憑這個就多加一顆星咯……
有几幕还是挺吓人的，合格的恐怖片。恐怖片用打破第四堵墙的手法，加强了观众参与感，代入感更强。只是蛊惑人心的做法，把观众当猴耍，着实不妥。PS，女主名字也太🤣
成功的恐怖片都是调动了观众对情节背景的信任的，让观众认为影片非全部虚构。从这么多评分者相信电影是在传播诅咒，可见电影在取得观众信任上是很成功的。
没有密恐人士出来谴责导演吗？？？其实看寄样阿爹往桌子上砸脑袋的时候，我特别怕会有jump scare，结果居然没有！！！这个片子最大的缺点应该就是非纪录片视角太多了吧！！！
没有失望！一部恐怖片竟让我感动了好几次！就情节上来说其实可以看做那个不能说名字的游戏的姐妹篇！父母为了救自己的孩子究竟可以做到何种地步！！！
有人看到了才气和小创新。
可惜我不爱吃这套，开头的不厌其烦已经让人厌恶而没法代入了，主角们的骚操作更是活该，最恶心的是这晃晕头的手持镜头，整部电影故弄玄虚，乱七八糟，让人没法共情，导致一点都不恐怖，只觉得厌恶，恶心。
对岸就是华语恐怖片的希望了，虽然“网红鬼屋探险”的套路已经用烂了，但整体依然比《中邪》强太多。顶级恐怖片就应该充满恶意和负能量，《咒怨》《午夜凶铃》皆如此。很多恐怖片都有亲情线，有的太尬太煽情（这种烂片太多了），有的太温暖又会冲淡恐怖氛围（比如《招魂》），而《咒》对亲情线的处理是最特别的，打破第四堵墙的方式也最有创意。其实很多优质恐怖片都可以拍得更吓人，导演不是没有能力，而是需要向商业和分级妥协。这类导演考100分，是因为卷面只有100分。
因为困，看得不太投入，带着点拒斥感，所以没有太被吓到。我可能也有点厌女吧，一直觉得核心表达的是，没有做好准备就不要生下孩子来受罪，挺烦这个苦大仇深又一直把身边人往火坑里推的妈妈。直到最后反转，我才觉得她信念感来了，对她有所改观😂😂😂。看到很多评论说晦气什么，觉得导演的目的达到了，挺有趣。
我一般评估恐怖片是否能吓到自己，有三点……1.是否多次暂停：能记起来的有炮灰阿嫂猛然转身冲刺（因为看过预告片所以有预警），一个字一个字认真看完和尚的翻译后，下一秒的白屏出现了那个符号（我真的被吓到了），最后今晚愉悦的观影暂停在和尚那句“李小姐”，打死都不会继续看了，即使就剩几分钟……2.当主角重返某地，内心会非常抗拒抵触：因为代表我对这个地方产生了恐惧，第一次进地道的录影拍得超级诡异吓人；3.不敢倒回去看任何片段。以上三点这部电影都做到了，当我看前13min时就知道《咒》是好片，不仅因为是我最爱的民俗宗教恐怖（这方面确实做得很优秀，村子场景+祭拜仪式+佛母画像），还有一个蛮关键的点是，导演在开篇就布局，究竟什么是祝福什么是恐怖，你能分辨吗？你又愿意为了这位妈妈而献上“祝福”吗？
并不赞成艺术创作者为了“沉浸感”而试图打破第四面墙的做法，互动与边界并不相互排斥，良好的观影过程却在片尾带给人心里不适并不能作为很好的输出技巧。
（当时看到片中女主叫我们念咒的那一段时，旁边有个人来了句“大威天龙”，然后我们也笑着喊了起来，房间里顿时充满了快活的空气）
还真是个伪伪纪录片，但凡信仰的设定没那么大杂烩，吓人的程度都能翻几番。
1，毫无剧情可言，很多细节无头无尾，故弄玄虚都够不上，就看出主角从头到尾自私得彻底，好烂一人类，还神经病~~2，这样了还录像？怎么还在录？还录？？？播主都这么敬业视频网站会很欣慰的~~3，你信一样就好好信一样，又求神又驱鬼又送医，我看得好焦虑啊！！4，镜头看着真晕……主线这个驱魔味又扯东南亚，感觉一点都不中式，熟悉的桥段太多，各种既视感，完全没找到代入感，尤其村民一惊一乍看起来还有点可笑，这和村系列到底有啥差别？黑白残影太毁眼睛了！以及！！诅咒言灵就你会啊，就地诅咒导演一百年！（女主说跟着念就跟着念的是有多听话？为啥看个电影要跟着念咒语？）
宗教黑恶势力抬头，竟要认割肉献祭。原来是歹人作恶。凡是压迫黑暗阴影的，必被其吞噬。
当各种奇怪的镜头出现时我便不相信这个伪纪录形式了，虚假占据上风，满眼都是漏洞，只剩下一惊一乍。哦最后还诅咒观众，导演能不能有点善意别这么作
电影本身不是很吓人，但很高兴能气到一些看了盗版还爱大声破防的人😜
还好没再加恐怖音效
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