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".
大家演技都好浮夸啊，为什么非要让孩子演出一种故作大人的感觉呢，看得我脚趾抠地。你以为它是分裂那种类型的惊悚片，结果真有鬼魂和通灵，就不伦不类的。
通灵妹妹干啥去了？。
算今年，近期都还算不错的恐怖片吧，节奏流畅。加一星鼓励。
儿童成长的内核，却用了一个被囚禁和黑色电话的精神上的象征，不高明也不合理，不伦不类。
伊桑的骚气喇叭裤抢戏
3.0/这么肤浅的角色怎么配得上Ethan
这部还蛮可爱的，那啥是真的有点废hhhhh。
supernatural的部分有些傻。所以妹妹其实什么忙都没帮上吗哈哈
预告片剧透全片系列。有装神弄鬼的嫌疑，全靠老式的jump scare，吓人确实是吓人，说年度最佳恐怖片的多半是没怎么看过恐怖片…..勇敢可爱的妹妹、帅气仗义的基友，除了爹不行，男主这真是人生赢家了。BTW这可能是伊桑霍克演的最带劲的角色之一。
这片子意外的好。铺垫细节足够丰富，没有白交待的事儿，节奏紧凑，后面也越发有意思，结局也很有感觉。
太顺遂了，男孩儿逃离的过程，即使是有通灵的能力。不过最后被朋友鼓励挥起拳头那段还蛮励志的。btw，坏蛋全程没露脸我都猜到是伊桑霍克了，鬼知道为什么
嗯啊，很金氏，让我觉得自己仿佛又看了一遍小丑回魂类型的片子。。
恐怖片里，效果还算可以吧。鬼救人而已。2星半
7分.不恐怖，有几处jump scare展现出了导演的恐怖片功力，但全片其实是一部形式恐怖片、实质校园片，主线其实是一个小男孩在绑架事件之后客服恐惧重获新生的故事，前段文戏过多、后段进展过快以及反派人物的过于脸谱化以及电影定位不准确等问题都导致了此片口碑的两极化，但不得不说的是，小镇惊悚、校园欺凌与通灵元素的结合，是有点新奇的.
借由一次恐怖的经历主人公完成成长的设定感觉还上颇有史蒂芬金味道的，影片在情感上的描写很细腻，整体看下来这种带有恐怖元素的温情还是很打动我的，不过这个反派塑造不是很成功，导致恐怖的气氛骤降，冲着恐怖片来的人可能要失望了。
超自然能力互换的小丑回魂，你不是一个人在战斗版的房间，反客为主版的小鬼当家。有些设定虎头蛇尾，面具是多重人格的切换键吗？看着像，也没说。有两个jumpscare吓人，其他也算紧张，搞得我睡前看着看着就熬夜了。破除恐童魔咒的方法是，找一些长得好点的熊孩子来演🙃结尾还挺励志挺感人，三星半
唯一看点是最后二十分钟，前面一个多小时简除了镜头语言其他直是灾难级别，有种说不出的便秘感，把热门电影的模式全套了，但就是没感觉甚至是无聊……又工整又没新意。
伊桑霍克是很擅长表现情绪的，演员本身的素质高，面部表情丰富，在本剧中饰演的角色却被绑定了面具这个元素，这方面的优势无法发挥属实遗憾，甚至有些不明所以，请了如此擅长刻画忧郁气质的演员，最后却要符号化他的角色，真好比是拿上等的伊比利亚火腿火腿做了道腌笃鲜，算不上浪费，但多少令人惋惜。本片融合了传统的美式悬疑和恐怖片元素，可以说是电影工业尝试新品类的一个实验，成果并不理想。出现了少数族裔角色甚至语言，却没有就这一主题进行任何展开讨论，更不由得令人怀疑其背后是政治正确。
接起无法接通的电话，亡灵与你共舞。不记得自己的名字，重要的事害怕遗忘。墙上刻下的密码，墙缝里的线缆。无数的逃生方法，生命消逝之路。恐惧，痛苦，绝望，瘦弱的孩子终于开始挥舞双拳。血腥的成长，承载逝者的希望。
可以不用这么长的。。。结局过于仓促，没有父亲救赎。
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