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".
监狱屠杀救了整部电影，场面拍得很漂亮，整体的氛围令人印象深刻，而变身情节应该算是贡献了一个icon级别的角色，这场戏后面强调了服装和武器，这一笔写得很赞，看起来平平无奇，确是更加巩固了这个形象，与之相比前半段的豪华方式我频频出戏，这也是我没有那么喜欢温子仁的一点，明明就在一个家里，从楼梯拍到客厅而已，非要利用“大”镜头去完成，观影视觉情绪上很high，很钩人，但影响沉浸感，也许是另一种玩乐观赏性质的沉浸感，两个空间的转变基本也是依赖于视效，比“潜伏”更高级了一点，不过前面的效用是用另一种视听先掩饰这个故事，而此种方式是否最好，我相当怀疑。
大略看了看自己的觀影記錄 突然明白每週一百多頁的閱讀同學都看完了可我覺得每天都讀了但真就讀不完是為什麼 哈哈哈
另外这部电影真的不恐怖，请放心食用，R级的程度也就只有个别画面比较血腥，与其说是恐怖片，为什么看到后面我觉得更像是动作片？还有，结局太过于突然了，警察局事件如何收场都没交代清楚，不管怎么说，强行爱与正义的收尾很不现实。
但是怪物的造型很有感觉
看完后你会发现这部电影的核心卖点就是血浆迸溅和残肢横飞等那些动作场面。非常成熟的惊悚动作片。而引进版完全砍掉了这些。氛围和镜头的把握使得临场感极强，这是温导的拿手好戏。另外这个故事环境脱离了乡野，走进了都市，不少的城市雨夜镜头很有感觉。故事还有很多疑问待解释，这是开启要新系列了么？这已经不是小成本时期靠剧本拍恐怖片的温导了，预算更多了，剧本也变弱了。这部电影在中国引进再次印证了一个事实：永远抵制随意删减电影。
前面可真是让人昏昏欲睡，后面真相揭开后虽然又让人为之一振，但逻辑上又不自洽了。
3.8分。
《异形之裂脑人》
鏡頭調度喜歡。除去女主的女性選角是照著一個模板來的嗎。Where is my mind的这版改编合适
过于80s的灯光，舞台剧式B级片的置景，切到现实时无滤镜的设计，以及就要感到无聊换台时终于出现的反转大高潮，真是……不愧是你。已经到了玩转风格和技术的级别了，动作戏乱入却也简单干脆到爽，一本满足。
男警探竟然是Janet的老公，之前看康熙好喜欢Janet，竟然能联动起来，感人！
男主居然是80年的，还以为是新出道的小鲜肉。全篇唯一被吓一跳的地方，是妹妹爬窗找姐姐的那里
不上不下的“烂片”除了增加DB阅片数也没别的贡献了。
一定要看未删减版……警察局那3分钟实在太酷了……设定有些老套，但反关节打斗真的是无比诡异，简直想玩这样一款游戏了……
最后是他妈惊悚动作片吗？哇哦各种温导的元素拼在一起 死寂的 招魂的 有煽情有吊胃口有惊悚点 烘托不错 寓意一般般 这个所谓的“肿瘤”太牵强了 温导这次将及格
头撞墙这个伏笔就值得四星了。
室内运镜玩得溜，还玩了把透视性的天花板俯拍镜头。但配乐用得有点over了。
前半段氛围还不错，出人意料，但后半部分就沦为动作片了，温子仁是拍海王上瘾了
对一个人住大公寓有阴影了/要了命了，每到血腥情节就开始给我卡顿，一帧一帧播放，观影体验不要太沉浸
剧情不顺，但这个想法在身体变形为主导的恐怖片流派里是很有新意的，温子仁总得有点东西嘛
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