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".
女主角就是个害人精over，还没那个大家都懂的台游吓人。有些地方渲染得挺恐怖的但你手持摄影晃来晃去我看不清啊！带着观众互动那一套倒是挺新鲜的，从贞子录像带到把这条消息转发五个群再到老铁们弹幕刷起来，我们真的相信传播的力量吗。被咒是增加恐怖感啊没想到因为这个被打低分，咋的如果电影最后说本片被开过光票房能破50亿？
大威天龙！
【C+】最值得称赞的部分，是创作者处理伪纪录片「拍摄目的」的态度。《灵媒》基本就是这一类型的反面案例，让摄影师的敬业精神与专业素养取代求生欲望，精致的影像彻底掩盖了鬼怪所带来的恐惧，只剩尴尬的笑点。虽然《咒》在大多数情况下也陷入了同样的窘境，但最后抛出的设定却巧妙化解了“拍摄”这一行为的矛盾感，那些特殊的摆拍机位也可以看作是补全诅咒逻辑链条的必要之举。所以影片结尾的诅咒与其说是对观众的冒犯，更像是为了实现营销推广并铲除类型弊端而做出的必要决策（也的确达到了其设想的结果）。当然，这层冒犯还算是温柔的，毕竟佛母的诅咒本质仍是信与不信的选择问题，而非《趣味游戏》中那个将观众无情虐杀的遥控器。
教女主必胜方法，中指食指并拢指向恶灵，大喊:退……退……退……退……
豆瓣恐怖片分偏低，是观众鉴赏能力的问题？不，其实是观众对于这个类型作品中的创造力和开拓性，这两点有相当深的误解和歧视，例如《咒》中为了让观众身体力行体会被古老诅咒缠身的恐惧感，而创造的设定，并非很高级，但是是生效的，这部作品最大的问题是手持摄影的风格过于突出，削弱了电影感和作品质感，一种视觉呈现方式用过头了，会让人觉得视觉疲劳，而咒语本身的设定和某国文化层面的深度链接，反而是有趣的点，看电影而已，觉得晦气or被冒犯的，应该看看佛经、道家典籍，人没那么容易相信影视作品里的东西，如若不然你们每天看偶像剧，难道就成白富美、高富帅了吗，醒醒吧（继续装傻也无妨），脑子是个好东西。
部分镜头让人不适，但要是不用这蛋疼的伪纪录，还能更恐怖一些吧。
晦气党们，有没有一种可能，咱们这样的盗版观众，根本享受不到来自正版的诅咒？
因为本人文盲不认识后四个字怎么念，所以没有被摆（
是包著恐怖片外衣的親情片，也是包著親情片外衣的恐怖片，厲害就厲害它在嚇人與感人之間達到了同舟並進，相輔相成，而且還讓我真的跑去查是不是有這個宗教這個神明，以偽紀錄恐怖片來說，這樣算是非常成功的了
节奏不快，一开始都是小菜，整得氛围比较诡异而已，从两个男的出地道就开始高能，后面师傅师母那里真的吓死，结尾看翻译的时候不知不觉就记住了符号的样子，让观众念也是默念，心理暗示玩得很溜，不知不觉就被带着走了，包括第一人称摄像机的画面，也有一种被带动的感觉，代入感十足。这么多信这信那的观众，建议不要看，敢看恐怖片就把它当个乐子即可，国产恐怖片做到这样已经是在尝试触碰天花板了，平时都说亚洲的宗教元素很适合拍恐怖片，那宗教元素不都含有这种煽动性的内容，拍出来又有一堆人怕了。
期待近一年的华语恐怖电影，乡俗宗教+语言在伪纪录片形式的加持下代入感不错，伪纪录片通病-无论何时何地都要拍-难以避免，剧情算是意料之内，中规中矩，所幸有叙述剪辑弥补，时间线交叉慢慢抵达真相，层层诱导观众的互动设计并不新鲜，但似乎仍有不少人真情实感上纲上线，不由得想起某款游戏，反思迷信却因一张符纸而被特定地区封禁，有种虚构作品内核与现实互相呼应的感觉。
不要盯着那些经文看!
世界上最短的咒，是一个人的名字。世界上最大的祭，是所有人的命。
煽动性的，虚假的，Meme式的，面对面的，当代的。
不要跟着念那八个字!
观影全程不害怕，看完了去刷牙发现牙龈出血，下意识去摸牙时到真给我吓一跳。
爱你温馨的走向
因为觉得太邪门所以让跟着看跟着念的部分我都没跟🥹
算是少有的不枯燥、不太晃、废戏少、能让人看进去的伪纪录片了，比《昆池岩》《中邪》《灵媒》之流都要有趣太多，华语恐怖片还得是台湾牛👍🏻恐怖元素都既丰富又有趣，地道里的蚰蜒，宗教、后面的“视觉暂留”，都明显感受到团队精心设计的诚意，吓得我头皮发麻(ಥ_ಥ)
镜头设计让人困惑。前面多处我的脑袋里都不断思考着“这个镜头哪里来的？”然后倒回去找镜头源，以及车载镜头的表情大特写切换有什么必要吗。但好在后面40多分钟氛围极佳，剧情上也玩了小把戏，还有对视觉的小把戏，导演能在一部电影里想到这么多元素已经很厉害了，很喜欢佛母的设计。
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