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".
可能中途玩手机了，什么明喻暗喻都没读出来。。。就觉得最后有点cult
恐男惊悚片，片中呈现的男人都一个样（字面含义），令人恐惧的点却有多种，控制欲旺盛、易暴易怒、猥琐、幼稚、虚伪。虽说是提供了一种恐男的视角，让人了解了这种想法，但倒不如说有了以上几种特点的人都会让人恐惧。无论男女，搞性别对立的最蠢了。
虽然豆瓣里面一群装逼犯说模仿007和谍影重重的，但是这确实是这两年比较亮眼诚意满满的动作片了，无论是喜欢美队，高司令还是无暇赴死里面的古巴妹，里面都有亮眼的表现。有老牌（老套）动作片的味道，值得四星。
PS
我爱加兰。加兰至此完成了我心目中对嘴巴、yc、伤口的统一，无论是形态还是功能上的。女性心理呈现到位，女性一点点的问题都被放大到可以危及生命。恐怖片没神没鬼的，最后都是内心在作祟，她知道自己有些苛责了，但人也不是她推下去的，可毕竟这么大一件事，是需要有一个三幕剧式的内心起伏，还要有一而往复的内心拉扯。那么多男人完成了亡夫的多面人格。信号不好的房间，回音洞，蒲公英，树脸，小苹果树，两半的手，金发女郎面具，男女同体的石像。女友最后大着肚子出现还让我挺意外的。
Probably Chris Evans' own idea.
废话少。节奏快，基本符合逻辑。近期为数不多的爽片，值得一看
通过颠覆解构西方宗教信仰而提取其中的寓言符号加以性别政治导向下的排列组合，嘉兰此次过于直白的急于迎合某些在其神秘可怖的影像氛围构建中本来居于次要的话题，反而有些局限了；以及虽然之后又创作了《开发者》，无论是造型美学还是人文伦理，他仍未放下对《湮灭》的执念；片尾高潮的分娩套娃足以令这部作品载入惊悚片史册，然如同弗莱德金与罗梅罗的电影，还是以自己醒目的演出方式，诡异而深刻的记录下了作品诞生的时代，相信在不久的将来回顾它时，人们会从中看到更加可怕也更加现实的某种根深蒂固的历史症结，而非仅仅类型的刺激。
摄影调度有点浪费scene set，队长太浮夸了
無限複製套娃怪！！！我在的這一場觀影氛圍極好，每個搞笑和嚇人的地方廳裡都有人很自然的反應，感覺也似乎不那麼恐怖了。另：妮可基德曼because here, they are的廣告出來就遭到大家的群嘲我就放心了，看來大家都受不了AMC的這個又臭又冗長的廣告了，是不是簽了協議要放到她息影，LOL
亚历克斯·加兰第三部长片，与[机械姬][湮灭]的高概念软科幻不同，本片实际上是一部外化女性创伤情感与恐男情结并将其符号化（或曰象征式）地表现出来的心理惊悚片。乡村中形形色色的男性大多由罗里·金尼尔一人饰演，结合高潮段落中的男性套娃式分娩自生，直露地昭示出了男人的“千人一面”与不变循环。隧道、教堂雕像、奥德赛与塞壬&丽达与天鹅诗歌及几人的职业设定都寓意明显。不断复现的蒲公英是孤雌生殖，这点也不可忽视。导演说自己一直痴迷于The Green Man，这也令人想及A24去年的那部[绿衣骑士]，他对绿植的钟爱亦彰显于[湮灭]之中。杰西·巴克利的表演仍然精彩，只是女主角形象设定较为单薄浅淡，而全片对女性主义议题的探讨也过于表面化，触不到幽邃厚重的现实深处。（7.0/10）
《男人》是一部可以说很怪异的电影，后面套娃式的生育简直恶心到了极致(生理不适)，A24总能带给你一些不一样的观影体验，应该会是一部较有争议的作品
看了下Alex Garland的采访。剧本第一稿写于十五年前，生育生育生育的场景受进击的巨人影响。导演的表达我只能解读为；男人本就残缺，没有女人只能不停复制自己。看起来在讲厌女，其实all about MEN
五星佳作。立意好，执行棒，能把「女性所处的世界」这一概念做成这样的沉浸式恐怖游戏，佩服。声音设计有call back，制造了新的恐怖桥段。相比之下，其他女性题材的影视作品就显得隔靴搔痒。
《男人》是一部可以说很怪异的电影，后面套娃式的生育简直恶心到了极致(生理不适)，A24总能带给你一些不一样的观影体验，应该会是一部较有争议的作品
奇技淫巧，偏执傲慢；女拳上头的厌男矫情片。傲慢伦敦技术工人阶级+精神病。俄罗斯套娃式男生男够恶心。
不是恐怖片，是心理恐男片，导演的氛围和节奏都拍的太好了，最后的套娃太欢乐了，男上加男，男里有男，千男一面无穷尽也。集美们，不要靠近男人，否则会变得很不幸。
除了打斗追车拍得还算炫酷外，只剩下老套无聊的剧情和不可理喻的结局，真不明白女主有狙击枪为何不用，留着反派过年吗？
我还以为多差呢？故事虽然有点老套而无聊，但演员养眼，也没什么墨迹镜头，打斗又确实精彩，也符合爆米花电影要求啊，就是没一榔头干死那个cia头子属实不够爽。还是《终极名单》带感。（安娜拿着RPG加榴弹跑轰真的帅炸了！）
小清新，小惊悚，男生男人，怪力乱神。跟导演前作“机械姬”相比故事性弱了，画面却更美了。片名是Men，核心却是女人。在男人的世界，女人每一步都像行走在黑暗森林，永远也不要放下手中的斧...
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