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".
画面怎么说呢，有点儿恶心……故事有点儿俗套
小演员演的真好 虽然没有看过原著 但是我觉得改编的很成功 一点都不突兀 小世界小巧思罐头小人~
挺失望的，感觉改编的很奇怪，真人出演也是很硬拗
恐怖谈不上，主标签应该是猎奇，讲了一个“我来做杨幂，你来做三梦奇缘....”的故事，观察视角很多面化也很有意思！嫉妒，贪婪，色欲，暴怒，暴食，7 宗罪用了五个来讲失败的原生家庭有多可怕，最后二胎男孩高兴的问“所以那不是噩梦？”不亲爱的，那就是你们的噩梦
养了另外一个我。有种内心的邪恶面，逐渐被一个善良的孩子孵化出来。也离不开家里的家庭教育。纯属是家长的教育磨灭了孩子的性格！
戏班子把片拍的像鸟蛋一样稀碎，幼稚的想法，没有任何掌控力。
有点后现代的惊悚片，我既讨厌你又想讨好你啊。
又是一部弱化男性，突出女性缺点的电影。看来家庭教育中，父亲这个角色的缺失，是所有国家都常在的问题。果然，不婚不育保平安，不仅保自己，还能保邻居。（🐶）
好喜欢这几个孩子的选角，太符合中国审美了！孩子们演的也都超好的～做为儿童片大人看也不觉得情节低幼，最后我和崽都看哭了谁能信？！！
孵化的不是怪鸟人，而是另一个自己，惊悚谈不上，怪鸟人确实恶心。
“这是学校，成绩是唯一标准”
这片看似惊悚，孵化人形大鸟，其实就是家长的教养理念，隐喻的特别好
黑暗童话 小姑娘是咋收拾蛋壳破裂弄脏的床单的？
窒息的母子关系和无动于衷的缺席男性，用意未免也太明显，只是效果全程都通过另一身份来提供也太单薄了
超出预期；还是个很直白的故事，结尾就太直白了，不过转变还是蛮可以,尤其是小丑式大嘴；小女孩的演技嘛。。。不懂演技不敢说
有点玄乎，堆砌恐怖元素的片子，比较无聊。个人理解是蛋是长期被伪装成幸福家庭女孩内心的恶意冲动。负面情绪不断堆积，孵化出"恶"的自己。最终她发现还是当个恶人开心所以恶意的自己杀死了善的自己。
20220520 周五 16:44 哪个才是我？暗黑那个？被俘虏的那个？杀死我的那个！通通都是我，自己造的因自己承受恶果。家庭表面和谐的假象存在着多少秘密，竟可以共存就是畸形的关系，哪个也不正常，正常就不是一个真正的家庭啦！
作为童年童话的一种重新认识与解读，我个人还是有一些期待的。虽然最后作品呈现出来的效果有一点勉强，整体感觉还是手法和方式不专业，但是能在屏幕上重新看到郑渊洁童话以这样的方式出现，还是有些许的激动的，希望能看到更加成熟的作品吧。
【C-】冠之以些许恐怖奇幻元素的寻常到不能再寻常的家庭故事，而且在角色上没有更深入的探讨，像极了一颗未能孵化成功的蛋。
四星给童年的美好回忆吧！
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