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".
这个电影气质很好，开胸破腹的过程没有血浆，让观影感受平和了很多，又有一种难以言喻的诡异感觉。
演技场面可以，不懂纳维亚传说会看得一头雾水。
血脉偾张的北欧野性哈姆雷特。视听效果来说，完全能被铁与血被敲得头昏目眩。就剧本来说，非常的单薄。有种完全舍弃了“文明”方式的表达，以巫蛊、渡鸦跟狼的先祖附魅，以血淋淋的内脏呈现出纯粹原始的信仰跟力量。落幕时，嘶吼跟打斗停止的时候，世界一时都失去了感觉。
一星给妮可，以及E大是男神没错，但这个角色是不是并不适合他？电影里怎么看也是奔四的样子，男主角选个少年感一些的会不会效果更好？算了，还是再去看一遍是狮子王吧
艾格斯将神话、民俗与巫术融合在一起，让原始的王子复仇记极具氛围感，这也是我喜欢这部电影的部分，最喜欢女巫预言和巫术杀人那两段，我真的很吃这种神神叨叨的风格~
一个老故事，但是拍得真带感。我觉得比前作女巫和灯塔都强。
村斗故事也拍出了史诗气质，神秘主义加持，男女主卖肉力max，借母亲之口言复仇之两面性
看完了！其实是三星半啦，但蛮喜欢最后的结尾所以直接打了四星。是心目中的神仙卡司🥰这种类型应该很小众？但我很爱！之前看柯南堡的电影就很爱，算上这次他和v已经四搭吧🥺
改的是真不错，除了第一幕让人感觉昏昏欲睡外，中后半段是火力全开。
3.5星，个人蛮喜欢的，说故弄玄虚，节奏慢或者剧情老套的建议就别看此类片子了，不在你的阅片范围和审美体系里，建议少看
复仇女巫戏，暗黑北欧风。参考影片《英灵殿》
妥了 新食材 新菜谱 我指的是内脏（bushi）
拍成了PPT的样子，结果连最基本的故事都讲不好，有点神经病的气息，浪费了这强大的卡斯团
哈姆雷特基督山伯爵式复仇记，维京王子的复仇。
有一点没想到这是艾格斯的片子 依旧是风格感十足的影调 但故事稍微无聊了一点点 画面和声音层面的质感让我很想在电影院看一遍//啊 什么时候能进电影院看影展啊
艾格斯在极力保持个人视听风格的前提下，尝试更大的叙事主题。在老生常谈的王国复仇故事文本，基于北欧神话，加入他的超自然元素。
还是更喜欢钛。作为被柯南伯格启蒙过“新身体新人类”的自来水看到汗毛林林的个人风格再现时还是要倒吸一口冷气！
[C+]听觉和视觉没有问题，如此宏大的场面简直就是一场视觉盛宴。罗伯特•艾格斯运用自己独特的恐怖、诡异的导演风格，为我们展现了一位维京王子是如何被为父复仇多怒火冲昏风头脑，而让自己和对方堕无边无际的地狱的故事。暴力的动作场面和视觉还是很吸引人的，但是这个剧情实在是太老套了，和题材有相同点的《角斗士》比差了太多。感觉导演在商业的逼迫下在艺术方面让步了很多，而导致艺术和商业没有成功结合，最终导致票房惨淡。如果真的是这样的话，我不得不为本片独特的风格和豪华的卡司感到可惜。但是.......单看乔伊的盛世绝颜我就能给五星啊啊啊啊啊！（这一身古装真配合她的气质！）
导演把肌肉、刀锋、血腥融入到一个莎翁剧中，用他擅长的宗教议题（命运女神、女武神与王国命运），引入运动镜头、旋转镜头、迷雾等把几个单一话剧舞台（远景定格）串联，带来感官式正剧。不错，这年头拍正剧的人太少了，能拉到中型投资不容易。比最后的决斗好，完整且处理女性的方式不楞，但内核过于简单，可能并不讨喜。还喜欢几次夜景的处理方式，尤其是直拍夜景或简单调色，想起了《白鲸记》
3.4分。 艾格斯的第三部导演作品，比起前两部，显然在作者表达这块落了下乘，主线故事基本按照《哈姆雷特》走，没有太多惊喜的地方。如何说有变化，那就是王后了，成为了个同样苦命，但又城府颇深的奴隶。 不过毕竟是艾格斯的电影，依然在奇幻传说、血腥场面和宗教典故上带来不错的体验。男主角受到命运的召唤，是选择安于平庸，还是为父报仇；而遇到心爱的女人之后，是选择老婆孩子热炕头，还是斩断仇人的头颅？依然是个哈姆雷特似的抉择。 听说这片子是艾格斯和环球厂拉扯妥协下的产物，也难怪，本是个复仇商业片，却又在艺术导演的追求下失去了火气，两边不搭。
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