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".
爸妈一言不合就把女儿送疯人院这真是亲生的吗？在feng县事件以后来看这部片子，别有风味。究竟谁是疯子？疯子剥夺人的所有权利，成为猥琐泄欲的掩护色罢了。
无法明白是非的地方 到底谁是疯子 谁是囚徒 谁是自由人 真真假假 不过掌权人说的算
从片头的老奶奶夸奖小时候的女主是最特别的，到前段老奶奶夸奖小男孩是最特别的，到过程中老奶奶一直歧视女主，到最后一无所有被迫和女主和解。这明显就是一个糟老太太的故事。突然的和解和歌词的内容有让我觉得恶心而肉麻。
看見瑪利亞和看見鬼魂有什麼區別？傅柯《瘋癲與文明》的具象化。
迪斯尼划水，总局也划水。7号上映，6号还没下来发行通知，绝了···
咱们就是说，也不用硬凹百合情，谢谢这个Girls help girls的主题，其实里面最感动的还是弟弟线。
没想到做导演也能有这么好的片子 。不知为何梅拉妮有时还要参演好莱坞小丑的一些烂片
逃脱？疯子？谁是疯子？谁能逃脱？人类几千年的历史了，女性依然不能作为一个自由人！！
罗兰不愧是雨果迷，开场就是雨果葬礼，背影镜头很吸引我。女二入场较晚，似乎更多地表现了“与女一互文补充”的工具性意味。 唯一的盟友还是位男性同性恋。
2:1:49，疯狂的定义该由谁下，又凭什么他能确定
全程磨磨唧唧，最后结局也很坑，这分数虚高。
可怕的的是，这样的事情还在眼前发生，以疯癫来欺压女性的世界，从来没结束过。
面对不了解的东西，无知可能让人感到恐慌畏惧，也可能会激发人的勇气去征服它
“通灵”只是种隐喻，没能遵从社会(以男性为主导)既定规则、无法被驯化、看破真相的归类为疯女人，隐藏着时还能安稳度日，一旦暴露，即使你曾是他们的一份子也难逃被囚禁改造的厄运。
那个年代真让人窒息，全片感觉很压抑。治疗疗法像过家家。
20211009周六，国庆换休，周六上班。故事情节比较简单，护士长帮女主从疯人院逃出来，自己被当成疯子关进去，一换一的代价是不是大了点。
“今晚不知道谁才是真正的疯子”压抑着看完，还好女主逃脱了，虚伪的医生，无知的跟随者，人面兽心，把女性当什么？现在女性的自由是多么不易啊！
A)女性通灵或许也有隐喻 B)控诉男性权威 偏见致使荒谬的社会 然而个人的逃离并非社会的突围和觉醒 C)现实的女权觉醒也不该是二元对立
珍妮薇芙，我无时无刻不牵挂着你，在这里，自由虽然甜蜜，但却夹杂着一丝苦涩。那是你的牺牲所留下来的余味。为此，正努力成为一个能让你引以为豪的人。我按照你的嘱托，但行好事，为他人提供帮助、指导、证明和慰藉。现在每天都会有人来找我，他们怀揣的信念和爱让我深受震撼。在这里，我不在感到害怕。在这里，我得到了理解。尽管你的躯壳被禁锢在那个我再熟悉不过的宿舍里，但我知道你心神和灵魂会与我同在，我想象你坐在那里看书，但我不想等你看完。没等你看完，我就牵起了你的手，我们在海边走了一会，迎面吹来的风，清新中略带咸味。地平线远在天边，你能感觉到吗？我们的灵魂在海上起舞，我们的痛苦也被带走，然后旋转着消失在泡沫之中。我们开怀大笑，晃动着双腿，不停起舞，没完没了地跳舞。就这样，我们获得了自由，获得了强大，获得了永生。
通灵小姐遇到了一个好护士长，还有大样本随机双盲对照试验之前，医学很糟糕。
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