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".
古驰现在没有古驰家族成员——最后一句最有力。
#加州行观影系列#3.12旧金山飞新加坡机上看的。这到底是拍了个啥，要不是16小时的航班我都不愿意打开，事实证明确实很无聊。意大利故事拍成英语片了，为啥Gaga和司机还非得操着这蹩脚的意式英语，真的是脱裤子放屁……
剧本太差，白瞎了那么多知名演员，剧情十分肥皂剧，要不是亚当司机怎么看都好看差点就弃剧了。其实这故事真令人唏嘘，意大利家族没落，代表着资本主义的私募基金和Tom Ford是大赢家。
1.25倍速看这种流水账片就正好。Lady Gaga真的没演技，没脖子没气质又艳俗，像个人肉炸弹，看着尴尬。一家子都是大直人混啥时尚圈呢。
原意或许是拍成Why Patrizia Kill的黑色喜剧，但成品在女性视角的豪门抓马和品牌脱胎换骨转型历程间头重脚轻，以至于Gaga被复仇火焰点亮的面孔在TF总监首秀光影下闪现之时，只有不知惊悚还是严肃的氛围突袭措手不及的好笑。导演显而易见地机械制造，巨制和星光的顶级平台背后是项目定位自身摇摆不定的心虚，就像七八十年代缺失新血暮气沉沉的家族企业，服装化妆打光摄影场景调度无可挑剔，因此四平八稳的工整手法加上绝顶刻奇的意式英语才让包装成巧克力的屎尝起来更糟心。表演的各行其是和剧本的重点模糊都很突出，古典摩登交织的配乐却与剧情配合绝佳。结尾字幕浮现时联想此前似有若无的暧昧线索，难道这竟是一部暗暗歌颂Tom Ford和Domenico De Sole的伟大合作力挽狂澜成就今日Gucci的时尚宣传？
entertaining yet boring @澳门银河影院
6.5分。2个半小时，看完后我的第一感觉是：？？怎么了？？结束了？？？这纯粹就是在报流水账吧？？嘎嘎的角色应该是最出彩的，但实际看下来观感并不太好，或者说作为传说中的“黑寡妇”，电影拍摄得太平淡了。亚当扮演的死者，这个角色的转变也是我关心的重点，但这次他真的没演好，整个故事从希望中开始，从失望中结束。看看老雷的岁数，哎。。。。
其实节奏有点奇怪，前面跳得离谱中间太流水账，但是历史本身够狗血所以不觉得无趣。本来期待很养眼的时尚，结果整个穿衣风格都是土豪随便穿穿，没有时尚片的味道。我甚至觉得Paolo设计的东西和那场和歌剧结合的秀挺好看，没有跟TF的秀区别出来。很喜欢中间的一些暗搓搓的小细节，譬如P在片头善于模仿爸爸签名，譬如P拿家族名义来发誓不骗Paolo结果骗了于是最终家族沦落。
2.5；人物前后的行为逻辑是不自洽的，几处重要的时间节点都处理得十分生硬。更像是一幕一幕独立的流水账演绎，甚至还不如直接割裂成独立的短篇呢。Gaga的演绎我觉得整体还是到位的，Driver不知道怎么回事，完全没有他在《婚姻故事》和《帕特森》里的所展现的演技了。
Jared Leto来演坏品味版的Alessandro Michele还蛮有趣的。
剧情是平平的，主要凸显的是温情。所以呢，批评性思考、反思力度和穿透力都不够
看完看评论才知道女主是gaga，真的好市侩啊，没搞明白毛利怎么会入了她的套
要都按莱托的路子演，倒也不失为一部坎普大片。
看的提前点映。//这么火辣的故事，拍出来却略显平淡冗长。而且明明从Lady G作为中心叙事人物开始的，可故事讲着讲着她就消失了…
2022-02-17
冗长的电视剧感，没有戏剧高潮。嘎嘎肥如村妇，让人生厌。
三星半。老雷又拍了部豪门恩怨，两个半小时篇幅横跨20年，流水账式讲了一遍，深度力度比起《金钱世界》差了一些，豪门恩怨看多了不新奇了，看点是Gucci家的恩怨，然而看完也就这样，多了些锦衣华服而已。铁叔的戏份不多，看他演戏就是一种享受，Paolo居然是莱托演的…我的天这也太毁了吧，根本认不出来啊。
也不知道多少符合事实，就是个嫁入豪门的灰姑娘野心太大被扫地出门后复仇的故事
本来就是drama，拍成电影我都觉得可能不如现实drama
像是看了158分钟的维基百科，明明是蛮drama的故事被拍得全程没有丝毫起伏。抛开让人脚趾抠地的船戏 gaga非科班出身却是全员演技最佳，口音学得有点东西啊
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