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".
有一些有意思的片段，但导演想表达得太多或者什么都不想表达，像是学生作业一样讨好老师以满足某一套对中国电影历史和文化的期待。有技巧和想法，但没有个性。
近几年的华语最佳。导演的美术功底了得，鬼气森森的舞台布景在叙事和美学上都无比加分。这样的人间与黄泉冥府又有何等差别？唏嘘不已#filmothèque
无惨出来玩啊！无惨出来晒太阳！（话说无惨女装一定好看）
有幸看了导演亲友专场。确实是2021年度最佳国产电影了，3小时的叙事并不枯燥，围绕川剧“小丑”的一生，将人在大时代下的变迁展现的淋漓尽致。上一次我有这种观影体验还是在《霸王别姬》、《阳光灿烂的日子》、《百鸟朝凤》等经典作品。黄泉路的结构设计非常出色，按理说讲“死亡”的故事应该很沉重和压抑，但是有诸如“牛头马面”兄弟等搞笑人物和元素串联，使整个片子观看的异常顺滑。总的来说，千万不要认为这是一部枯燥且自我表达的文艺作品，如果有机会公映，一定不要错过！
是不錯的 很多長鏡頭很喜歡 像舞台劇的官方攝影 時長太長了 @ filmothèque du quartier latin
实大失所望，经典女性题材电影，跟热点赚尽口碑，罗生门式的叙述女闺蜜的告密岳母的自白和恶心中世纪法庭的宗教审问更是惊起一片巨涛，但在盛行宫廷之爱的中世纪政治婚姻的冷漠其实不论男女都心知肚明，谁又不是互相利用和相互附庸，作为战争资源为最价值的冷兵器时代自然是男性权利的鼎盛，但女主最大原罪绝不是性别而是没有强硬家族后台反之男性也可能没权利，这便是本片致命漏洞偷梁换柱，只是以中古之名行输出意识形态之实并没有深入到时代问题还不如老实拍个现代题材，本以为还会深入探讨人性但都戛然而止实令人遗憾，且角色太过脸谱根本没啥深挖价值，亚当本在星战时就觉难堪大任，结果本片还是万人迷故作忧郁的演技更是令人不快，虽雷的服道化依然精彩，但尤其片尾夫死妇荣的挑拨之词真是其心可诛，假意奉迎也不过是利用话题消费女性利己而已。
好看且美丽 但感觉主题没啥新的东西 看完没有新的认知
7.4 剧情上丝毫没有令人吃惊之处，拍法更是铺张浪费，根本就不《罗生门》，最接受不了的是第二段和第三段的强奸戏几乎没有什么区别，应该从男人角度看来是两情相悦，而从女人角度看来是强奸才对，这样如此结构才有意义，在其他地方都能做到因视角不同而导致的“真相”不同，偏偏这么重要的一段戏却不这么做，真搞不懂怎么想的。
TV动画第6话~第10话总集篇《浅草篇》
这么一个朴素的打拳的主题值得老雷整一个中世纪历史片吗？你拍一个现代题材还有反思空间，男女平等还是中世纪吗？总不能拍李自成起义失败把根归在没有掌握马哲？
在靠暴力角力的中世纪，女人自然是男人麾下的棋子。影片雷声大雨点小，总感觉拍成“罗生门”太多余了。雷老爷子还是钟情这清冷的“黑场字幕唱诗班”画风。大本演的是个昏君吧？造型太朋克了。
看完电影再扫扫评论区的评论不觉想笑:
这好像是一部作为四川人无法客观评价的一部电影。坐在没有空调的闷热影厅里，湿气热浪把我钉在座位上，又把我投掷回遥远的盆地故乡。我日渐退化的四川话使得我甚至需要阅读英文字幕才能看明白好些台词。我在夹缝里，是物理空间上的远离，也是文化意义上的流浪。川剧，乡音，麻将，稀饭，一切的一切，都在我此刻的人生中逐渐退潮，想抓也抓不住。电影的人造布景把整场戏推得很前面，画着白脸的邱福和一众角色，在干冰和白布拟作的水浪里上下漂浮，左右横移，荒腔走板地上演着阴阳两界的种种故事，真的，假的，模模糊糊，辨识不清，我坐在台下，却怎么也不能忘记，我已经不在那里了。
难以看咽，自认为集中了所有青年导演的问题，各种形式化并且站不住脚，尤其在这种宏大叙事前，实在过于老套。以及，第一次见演员能演的这么尬。
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三个视角中的不同之处，固然是极为重要的，但三个视角中大段重复，也是很影响观感的。 一个女人，一个人，如果要讲对错，讲道理，分清是非，敢于争取维护个人的权益，是很难的。她受到内部的阻力，外部的羞辱，是不可想象的。帮她主持公道的官方是极为昏庸无道的，在历史上甚至是个傻子来的。帮她恢复清白的方式，是十分荒谬的。客观的对与错的判定方式，寄托在两个决斗的人的武力值上。反而印证了被生活QJ到不反抗的老妈子的一句话：从来没有什么对错，只有力量的强弱。就算是现代，这样的戏码也是多次上演的。然而详说的话，是会被河蟹的。 有些说雷公开始恰女权流量的人是很可笑的。雷公早期拍得异形就已经是在展现女子力量的。 问题来了！最新的异形什么时候上映呢！！！
里面这几句印象深刻。
“男人从中世纪开始就不是好东西了”……
多有趣，维伦纽瓦拿着未来拍出历史和过去，雷老爷子拿着过去拍出现在和未来。依然可见，有些事情就算过去了一千年一万年，人类的言行亘古不变。
三个视角中的不同之处，固然是极为重要的，但三个视角中大段重复，也是很影响观感的。 一个女人，一个人，如果要讲对错，讲道理，分清是非，敢于争取维护个人的权益，是很难的。她受到内部的阻力，外部的羞辱，是不可想象的。帮她主持公道的官方是极为昏庸无道的，在历史上甚至是个傻子来的。帮她恢复清白的方式，是十分荒谬的。客观的对与错的判定方式，寄托在两个决斗的人的武力值上。反而印证了被生活QJ到不反抗的老妈子的一句话：从来没有什么对错，只有力量的强弱。就算是现代，这样的戏码也是多次上演的。然而详说的话，是会被河蟹的。 有些说雷公开始恰女权流量的人是很可笑的。雷公早期拍得异形就已经是在展现女子力量的。 问题来了！最新的异形什么时候上映呢！！！
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