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".
摄影，光影运用，表演，均是顶级，但整合在一起却并没有那么合理。
科恩在时空接住了莎翁，科恩嫂就是麦克白夫人。
五星，近乎完美。黑白的摄影和极致的打光构图相融合，4:3的画幅比例和舞台剧版风格，演员近乎神一般的演出和令人咋舌且精准的调度，乔尔科恩利用这些并以一种古典史诗悲怆的调子构成了这出《麦克白》。他以近乎极其个性化的风格来讲述麦克白这个悲剧故事——被欲望蒙蔽了理智，从一个错误不可避免走向另一个错误，在恐惧和残暴笼罩下被砍下了头。乔尔科恩好似以他的影像为莎士比亚招魂，最后一刻，群鸦飞过，莎翁现身。
以感受电影艺术为名带一位没有怎么看过电影的朋友去大银幕感受这部电影，结果尴尬得我俩双双睡着。没有字幕想听懂古英语实在是太困难了。除此之外，电影的布景、表演和对白都是十分舞台化的，对于我的朋友而言definitely not a good start. 这一经典剧作诠释的创新之处也许在于独特的画面艺术风格与舞台特效。
《麦克黑的悲剧》讲了什么？话语权威的篡夺者注定被群体意志砍头，表面上选角试图在矫正种族歧视，实则恶意满满。
美术和摄影确实是没话说，但，电影真的有必要做的这么话剧吗？麦克白值得一拍再拍吗？毫无代入感。
Style over Substance 🥱🥱🥱
4.现代种族价值的改编，黑人的加入，多了点政治正确。
竟然出奇的好看？！不愧为莎士比亚的著作改编 词藻太华丽了 麦克白听取预言后所做决定却与预言大相庭径 这也就埋下了悲剧的种子 随着麦克白的头颅落地 他的故事也随之落幕
电影还是舞台剧 我分不清 全程靠台词堆积 没看到华盛顿的表现力
你永远也猜不到知名大导拥有无限创作空间后会选择拍什么……大科恩选择翻拍《麦克白》，如果是夙愿，那似乎能解释他风格的源头所在
强舞台布景，光与影辅佐戏剧张力，绝佳的构图、调度与声画剪辑，麦克白宅邸绝对是近年来最好的电影场景之一。科恩嫂和丹泽尔，他们呈现了好的表演，但同时将违和的语速、姿态与步伐带入了悲剧之中，最精彩的段落：科恩嫂梦游（6.5/10）
看过越多西方人翻拍的莎士比亚，就越觉得黑泽明的伟大
mise en scene真的酷死了，但是表演、台词、叙事整个拼到一起就说不出来的奇怪很不对味。
棚里拍摄，摄影还是强的，转场丝滑。
极简风的宫殿以及打光有着十分强烈的舞台剧色彩，而对于声音的运用(放大的血滴于地上与脚步声相呼应等等)，三姐妹恍若分裂人格的展现手法以及面具意象则充分发挥了电影画面的优势。黑白色调更是赋予这个故事应有的沉郁感。
一言难尽，但作为麦克白电影演绎的比法鲨那版好。
这光影的反差，不知为何很有张艺谋+纪念碑谷的感觉，尤其是飞出屏幕的大乌鸦……分镜也很厉害啊，云雾中的换景非常巧妙。最让人惊喜的是打戏，舞台剧居然也能做得拳拳到肉。就最终的呈现效果而言，称得上古典文学与现代工业相结合的最优解之一，希望能照着这个质量，将莎翁的全套作品翻拍一遍。PS：感觉我们的京剧电影也可以学习一下啊。PPS：因为这部电影认识了丹泽尔华盛顿，很庆幸。
一言难尽，但作为麦克白电影演绎的比法鲨那版好。
3.5 视听语言的确好，三个女巫水池中的倒影、血滴落时造成的心理声响、城堡中树叶翻飞的光影搭配乌鸦哀鸣……总之，影像美学上足够表现主义。丹泽尔·华盛顿的麦克白有点神经衰弱，科恩嫂的发挥也正常，只是这种戏剧改编的电影在保留舞台剧的质感后，很难不让人发问：还有拍的必要吗？
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