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".
劳模姐挺拼的了，但全片没有一个真正展现演技的桥段还是挺可惜的。
影城呼吸，超市黄瓜，招手剪影，衣柜门缝，社交谈资，胶袋头颅，隔壁铃声……“是你太神经质了”“互相体谅一下”难以被男性所理解的女性恐惧，在异国语言的谈笑风生中逐步放大，个中的孤立绝望气氛塑造很不错。但这种第三世界蓝领变态的塑造，是否也属于某种刻板印象？
但是劳模姐演的太好了，从头到尾的纯真以及时不时的神棍感，强打精神的咯咯笑，以及没人倾诉的落寞，太出色！看来要补补她的戏了。
女导演首部长片已经非常出色了，通过镜头调度、光线调节、稳定的节奏、不通的语言、密闭空间的延展等手段把惊悚恐惧的情节一步步推向高潮最后戛然而止。是直觉感极强的女性的胜利，在没有人理解女人的时候只有女人拿起枪自保。个人很喜欢这部电影，虽然剧情并不出色，但在营造氛围上很让人着迷。
故事的内容一般，似曾相识。不过最后的子弹很解气，男友的固执和成见差点酿成大祸。女人的直觉真心是个很准的东西。变态佬选的好，一看就是个变态猥琐男，只是隐藏的太深，这个反向报警也蛮厉害的
有对基督教的批判，却又畏手畏脚；有对主角的反思与审视，却又没有去挖掘人物身上的复杂性，以虔诚的信仰来回答母亲“Who pay for it?”的质问，却没有足够说服力展现主角二人对信仰的狂热、忠贞与虔诚；关于信仰的思考也是很好的点，也没有；甚至关于成功叙事上，两人为啥能如此成功也很难让没有了解过的观众信服；在出轨前加上同性恋暗示，之后却只字不提，变成了主角的道德保险，整个影片都如这段般畏手畏脚；同样对问题多多的男主都是温柔的，在最后离婚了还要加一场监狱和解戏；这大概是最迎合颁奖季的缩影，放弃人物的复杂性，放弃批判与反思，放弃深度，只要一个流水账般的精筛全景，然后告诉你我是正确的。唯一的亮点只有劳模姐的表演了，加菲完全被吊打，老年加菲没有任何说服力，如此复杂的角色总感觉像个傻子，当然文本也有锅。
有点不知所云 态度不明确的传记片……用力过度的好莱坞冲奥作品again
也许她的确没有一个明确的责怪“对象”，但是她的恐惧是来自于整个厌女的世界，站在她的角度，所有的男性都可以是潜在的对她具有威胁的人。所以作为男性，如果你不能共情女性的恐惧，起码你可以在她感到害怕的时候，不要把这一切说成是她的幻想和被迫害妄想。你需要做的，是反思你作为男性不用感到恐惧的特权，而不是在这儿说一堆风凉话。
B- 不同意前排那位“为了小金人抢角色”的说法。首先最重要的一点，这部电影的版权查斯坦十年前就买下了，可以说没有她就没有这部电影，因此不存在任何选角争议。 其次，为了饰演真实人物，演员在拍摄时进行夸张的造型处理，这也并非查斯坦首创，帅哥可以为了角色增加体重，美女也可以为了角色贴脸扮丑。 最后，饰演真实人物除了外貌之外，口音神态表情也同样重要。查斯坦为了这个角色准备了超过五年的时间，花时间去了解塔米菲的过往经历，去模仿学习她的口音神态。通过这些努力，我认为她成功塑造了这个角色，在平庸的电影里贡献了出色的表演。 那尊小像人人向往不假，但是查斯坦今年能够顺利封后是她多年来的努力与坚持，也是业内同行和观众媒体众望所归的结果。 Btw查斯坦封后那天你在动态里气急败坏的样子很好笑。
不得不佩服女主Jessica的演技，还有化妆师。世上的人，不要整天利用圣经，曲解圣经，就说上帝反对同性恋。“God made no trash！” Tammy Faye，我爱你！
刚刚发生了唐山事件就阴差阳错地看到这部，太应景。只有以女性主角才能做到把生活中的日常作为惊悚元素…细思恐极。
加菲好高产，跟原型长得也有点异曲同工……男女主撑起整部片，其他部分就都比较一般了
开头还有点复古的感觉，结果后面越来越单调空洞乏味，充斥着刻板偏见和陈词滥调。
劳模姐颁奖季这些提名太值得了 加菲也很好 最后出现的的演员对比本人想到《逃离德黑兰》了
3.5 give Jessica her Oscar already??? Watch an interview of Tammy you’d see how good of a job she’s doing. What a fascinating woman. I wouldn’t have known her if not for this movie. I think she has a bigger heart than most. She was really maligned & mistreated. In terms of the movie, good pacing. Had me gripped the whole time. A big ask for biopics
一时难以分清到底是化妆技术更好还是劳模姐的演戏技术更好，硬件做的不错，但是人物刻画的一般，很多内心人性该挖掘的没有展现，观众更多的感受到的是塔米菲天真乐观的人生态度。这种人物传记片加上工整的套路一直都是学院派青睐的风格，虽然质量并不怎么样。奥斯卡赶紧把影后给劳模姐安排上，不要不识抬举！
这部还可以啊，属于放下电影就要百度百科历史的片子。学了点知识的那种。毕竟了解一个国家一段历史的横向剖面还是需要靠电影呢。
拍得挺乱的，像是没有想清楚要拍伪纪录片还是要拍人物传记，也没有拍成和谐统一的hybrid。赞美劳模姐的演技和妆发，真的化了。其实Tammy Faye一直都是在找寻爱付出爱的那个小女孩。
作为知名的福音布道家，在公众面前传递的是宗教的向善之力，而私下里的诡诈丑陋却一样不少，不知这样的对照是否在讽刺西方宗教信仰的虚伪。片名取得也挺怪异，是想要借由女主鲜明浮夸的双眼来表达看穿人性的意义么？不过劳模姐毁容式的妆扮和近乎夸张的表演确实是本片难得的亮点，奥斯卡封后实至名归。
塔米·菲的眼睛 The.Eyes.of.Tammy.Faye.2021.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-CMRG
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