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".
虽然又是老套的网飞流水线动作片，但还是希望下次能看到像这样新鲜的卡司。“我能嚼口香糖吗？”
三星半，没有立项时所想象地那么好，但也充满着独特的语言让人着迷。更本身的定位是部包裹着恐怖元素，也释放着疯狂与宣言的讨论；更大的争论在身体语言剥削与性别意识的掌控，到底该在这个世代做到怎样的“平衡”。但Jessie Buckley和Rory Kinnear所交出的上呈表演，让电影明显有在表演上更值得检视的价值。Jessie驾轻就熟于自己过往的形象——在混沌中陷入痛苦，又在分裂里试着决绝的女子，并从头到尾都散发着自己的能量；Rory跨越于“多重宇宙”，用种创新的方式下完成了数个大大小小的角色演绎。这之外的神祇元素或是背景，考虑到之后的《女人们的谈话》大概有很相近的意识；我保持审慎思考。
在我心里，男主永远是那个操过猪的英国首相。
高司令真的很帅很有魅力，Ana还是一如既往的美丽。几场打斗戏她冲锋陷阵实在是太帅。美队演变态演上瘾了，把人面兽心演绎得深入人心。作为动作戏，让人印象最深的片段，大概就是在布拉格铐在椅子开始的枪战到后面公车追逐营救战了吧。电影开头烟花里面的打斗也很不错，导演演员真的很胆大。几个俯视镜头的运用也让人佩服。欧洲这些历史建筑作为战斗背景也算是增加了观感。电影里Suzanne和头头的角色塑造就很薄弱了，没存在感却又要推进剧情，浪费了两位好演员
当代恐男片，男人恶心、卑鄙、残暴，还会自我复制和延续。男人反复生男人的镜头可能会成为cult片经典。但是这片子毁了我吃泡椒凤爪的乐趣，因为我也是这样中间一刀切鸡爪的。。。
因为高司令和美队看的，开头有点看不进去，后面情节就越来越好了，倒也没评论说的那么差，换了很多国家的场景，比D+出的网大质量好，在列车上打斗的那段看的肾上腺素飙升，最后结局很意外😂😂
高司令挺适合这种冷面杀光所有挡路的极不正确的非传统英雄，和安娜互相吐槽的部分也不错，但求求好莱坞别再拿无人机拍动作场面了。
从老到少从hobo到vicar，男权社会的恶意与脆弱是同一张面孔（小镇白男限定那种）！
加害者从一开始就全然隐身，他仿佛不存在。先是以受害者的姿态附身，血色的残破躯干，亘古的阴魂不散；而后再重生，他是生生不息的罪恶，避无可避。他是所有人。通过对身体恐怖的赤裸呈现，孕育出更加湿热的心理恐怖，杰西巴克利不再是尖叫扭曲的投射意象，她表情淡漠，嘴角带着戏谑。她拿着斧子，安静地坐下来，像个男人一样。
具象化地把身體和精神pua女性表達得和形象，除了丈夫，其他男性角色也是一種社會男性思維給她的束縛
A24不阴阳怪气后，以清新脱俗后再来一剂猛药，还是抓住了特立独行的流量密码，全片不意外隐喻丛生，将女性的身心恐惧和不安具象化与符号化，全面展现男权生态里的凝视和勒索，大抵从婚姻，宗教，性和生育上描写了对女性的全面压榨，清幽雅致的郊外森林，却布满隐秘暗涌的惊魂动机，精致安逸的摄影画面与诡谲吟唱的音效配乐常常形成矛盾的对立面，后半段这种怪奇的氛围被逐一打破，直白血腥的场面接踵而至，别开生面的cult奇景轮番上演，刀片分裂手臂，男性连环畸形生殖场面，不间断摧残与折磨女主和观众，一种全方位堕入自责和痛苦的深渊境地，还总以爱为借口，绑架着精神领域里的群魔乱舞，逃离和规避终究不是久计，唯有痛彻反击才能达成创伤和新生的疗愈，所以手握斧头砍向一切冠冕堂皇，是女主自我保护与挣脱束缚的第一步。★★★☆
这个电影竟然能拍两个小时！看来网大现在也可以泛指网飞大电影了。唯一的亮点大概是CE把高司令称作“ken doll”。
男性强权对女性的压迫可真是无处不在让人无处可逃。节奏慢，属于氛围感恐怖片。结尾连绵不绝的生育影像可真是太邪门了但也真的是亮点。
作为一部动作片 没有一个场景让我印象深刻 可以说全片毫无波澜 你敢信美队的角色给我的感觉竟是个逗比 罗素兄弟拍的不是史诗级烂片 但真的很失水准
爽劇 男性明明是施暴者卻裝無辜 所有男性都一樣 覺得女性受到的傷害不值一提 因為沒有任何可以威脅到他們的
真的就是feminist horror（点了几个低分果然都是男的）
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前半部分用诗样的镜头逐步放大不安感，节奏慢但毫无尿点，后半部偏重口味，有点破坏前半部分营造的特有气质。吃饭勿看，心理承受能力弱的勿看
这个导演的片总是有一种忍不住将好开局作死，越来越搞笑的倾向。沦为恐怖 cult 片 + 符号合集之前，真的是太喜欢了，差点忍不住要打四星了。野心太大，玩嗨了，没收住吧。
（7.4/10）自夏娃偷食禁果以来，女性便承担着男性犯下错误的后果。加兰对“男人都是一个样”作出了字面上的理解，将观众置于女主角的处境，亲身体验对女性的心理操纵，并将男权历史的延续浓缩于一场精彩的肉体恐怖戏份。《男人》是加兰的态度之作，但内容略为单薄，思考也比较流于表面。
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