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".
描写没有看过的舞蹈，或者憧憬不曾有过爱情，又或那样绝望地恋慕一个幻影，如果这些都是徒劳，那人活于世本身，岂不也是一种徒劳，似杨千嬅所唱：真正得到有什么好 他有什么好 亦归于尘土
电影在美学方面渲染地很到位，无论是气氛、杀阵还是运镜各方面，但这也是最大的优点了。要想把土方岁三的一生浓缩到2个小时，并且要把这个人物的复杂性讲清楚，显然一部电影是不够的。这也导致全片成了流水账。
很简单的故事，从女人嘴里讲出来总是这么复杂，话有留白，为什么故事不也用留白呢？男主角更像是个工具人，卷卷头发也很出戏。
高中的时候我应该看过小说，只是我对内容没印象了，川端康成的其他散文类的短篇我反而更喜欢些，他的长处是文笔非常优美，诗画一样，情感流动绵绵不绝。这部电影没有川端康成的特色，虽然很文艺的拍法，有些画面色彩挺美，面部特写很多，但翻拍失败。女主其实是故事的魂，本来应该是很有层次的角色，感觉演员演技火候不够，没有把这种复杂表演出来，只有偶尔几个镜头还可以。选角如果演技不过关，颜值应该够高才可以但女演员也没达标，清纯和女人味混合才是角色的特点。男主演的只有颓废没有玩世不恭看透世事，虽然男主角色是这电影的绿叶，但两人没有把CP感演出来，只有台词里观众才知道他们的感情，眼神里一点也看不出来电的感觉
剧情老套，没什么吸引人的地方，要吐槽的地方太多了
没有反转没有新概念没有神神叨叨，但就像主角说的，我们更高级。女主角的远峰蓝眼影也太时髦了不去走秀versace上杂志封面我不同意！
看完就是感觉很朦胧，感觉心里有点堵，出来散散步。
剥离原著看的话，还行吧，结构跟悬疑片似的，不停抖包袱我人都给抖蒙圈了，就没一个正常人，有病得治呐米娜桑！以及，剧组能不能让老公少抽几根烟…
跟书比，故事性强了，氛围感弱了，雪很美奈绪也很美，可惜高桥一生不是我想象中的岛村，情感也不太是我在书里感受到的情感
书很多年前看的，剧情太散了，导致一直回忆不起来发生了什么，电影剧情更易懂，终于全回忆起来了。
川端康成在日本彻底转向军国主义时写了雪国，低气压下的所谓知识分子害怕面对真实的现实，他们的恐惧是认定生命本身是徒劳，而且越是怒放的生命就越徒劳，任由一切以自然的形态去发展毁灭，这种吃饱了撑的人物让高桥一生来演实在是违和，不够冷漠无耻
作为入门的剥削片爱好者不会给这片好脸色，搞艺术电影就别碰瓷砍杀片了，再说你这推镜头和跳切剪辑也没多少新意啊，居然还有人说是年度恐怖片，剧情上严重失真就不说嘞，你想致敬70s恐怖片也没抓住精髓啊，这老头老太的即视感跟正儿八经slasher比差得不是一点半点，想找新视角却显得格外生硬，甚至可以说很雷人。《农场主的女儿们》原片比这部有才华得多，这部电影最先锋的手法也不过是三次连续跳切而已，人家那部真军片都有农场风蒙太奇增添新鲜感，而且这片里那个艺术男照你那法子拍porn早破产了，怼脸拍不拍正经东西的hardcore片不是胡闹吗？
没想到在一部爱情片感受到了这么多 啊这样
叶子和男主那一部分的感觉，根本就没有表现出来。非常可惜。
复古色调+转场还以为能有点意思，几处室外和俯拍还以为能有点《仲夏夜惊魂》的气质，越往后越泄气，气质滑落极快，虐杀又不够爽，就是比《欢愉》更利用题材的模板故事。
A24出品，经典双重文本戏中戏，伏笔巨多~视听也很有设计，唱歌同框剪辑那段还有全片吟唱呻吟交替的音响真的绝了...就是第三幕的暴力稍显颓势，节奏稍差且爽感略低于期望，好在结局成功拉回，年度必看！（虽然本来期待的屠杀拍进成人片并没有出现，但还是蛮想看成片的ww
女主选的，深受轮到你了影响很难代入，且不知所云，有时间看看小说。。。
老年人的性才是真正的horror 第一次在电影院看恐怖片 没有鬼的那种
我们何尝不会老去，在那个时候，我们可能就会成为珍珠对玛克辛说的那样：你终将会成为我这样。
这个不断琢磨美女的岛村，这种理解力放在今天肯定是情感大师了
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