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".
两天前煮饭把大米撒了满桌满地 清理了好久弄的到处都是 看完这个片子突然感觉这大米是我的守护神帮我撒的吧……
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
女主好像刘若英啊…没想到年轻时见识过的莲蓬乳空手指让我获得了一点点免疫……就像霍金对外星人的态度，不要回答，不要念，不要学。
我的建议是千万不要看，《咒》就拍了个这？臭鱼烂虾片
电影电影，梦幻泡影，不必当真啦。
跟另外的恐怖片一起看的，显得比较优秀。不作死不会死的故事。
3.5星。柯孟融透过时下最流行的直播视频/记录画面，揭露出影像的虚假性，及其制作背后的操纵性。正如女主角在误信邪教后，亲手将女儿献祭而策划的精心大戏，导演也利用了影像上各种视觉的把戏，向观众一步步植入神秘的民俗和宗教信息，从而让观众在一种恐怖片里体验到互动的滋味。
这世界的形状，是由你自己决定的。其心可诛：接回阔别六年的女儿，迫不及待地献出其真名；早已拜访过云南高僧，却对朵朵义父隐瞒；将祭品及仪式准备妥当，砸碎镜子摆正小佛为佛母指明方向；准备散播佛母最深祝福之时，不忘给自己戴上红绸遮蔽。已经不适用“可怜之人”论，她就是纯粹的恶。既然是伪纪录形式，其实特效镜头可以去掉，不过视觉暂留运用得很巧妙；一部华语恐怖片，从宣发到播映可以引发这么大热度，本身就是现象级：为什么你看西方的丧尸吸血鬼异形不觉得晦气，因为只有我们自己人才知道我们真正害怕的东西是什么
整体吓人程度做得蛮不错的 最后的佛母像揭露有够震撼
华语电影中不可多得的恐怖片
内容有很多抄袭（致敬）之处。但是片子的诅咒这个主题很抓人
就冲反复让你记住的那句咒语和让你想最亲近的三个人，诈骗岛 的气质一览无遗。
虽然说还存在着很多恐怖片的通病，主角作死和降知，然而这部电影在结构上给我了很大的惊喜，和观众互动，在观众心里留下种子，诅咒观众，太狠了
拍的再有想法，立意也是我最讨厌的那一类恐怖片，恶意不是这么玩的
其实诅咒观众这个是最新颖的吧，让观众参与到虚拟的仪式里来，挑战人联想和怀疑的本能，这个是很新鲜的观影体验，肯定是优点。而且这部真的很本土特色，视觉上对宗教意象的强化也做到了极致。就是地道里那段影片感觉被捧得太高反而不够惊艳。另女主简直海清台湾分清。
缺点 中期有些剧情较为拖沓 所有演员无时无刻手拿摄像机有点出戏 还有所有恐怖片的通病主角团就硬作死 但瑕不掩瑜 85
拍的再有想法，立意也是我最讨厌的那一类恐怖片，恶意不是这么玩的
（无剧透）9分！要比中邪更加的有代入感，也可能是因为中邪经费和为了迎合国内院线的原因，导演拍的很大胆，将符号和咒语贯彻全片，伪纪录片本就能给人带来最真实且恐怖的体验，配合诡异的音乐及演员优秀的演技，这样生猛的国产恐怖片错过了下一次不知道要等到什么时候了！
《咒》的故事其实没有太多创新，并且包裹起来的“母爱”内核也是恐怖片中最常见的表现形式——高明的恐怖片最终应该关于作为人类的我们自身，而非鬼怪和神明。虽然还是脱离不了常见的类型片方式，但是《咒》的氛围烘托绝对是近十年华语恐怖片里出类拔萃的，并且利用类似《昆池岩》里的手机拍摄、直播等屡见不鲜的手法，不断地撩拨着观众紧绷地情绪，“狡猾”地试探着起观众们的社交欲。当我们在网络里对这部电影差评的时候，导演柯孟融和团队可能在一边数钱一边暗自高兴。
富强、民主、文明、和谐、自由、平等、公正、法治，爱国、敬业、诚信、友善。打倒封建迷信！密恐本人没看细看几个点！总的来说还不错，六分左右了，比哭悲好一点，恐怖片要那种让人回味无穷的而不是生理恶心的。
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