Martin Page #3

Synopsis: George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies - an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old, and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburg to stay with his uncle, who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished, but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director(s): George A. Romero
Production: HBO Video
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
1978
95 min
984 Views


Your mother knew.

She believed.

Well, if she did,

then thank god

I was too little

to know her.

Martin had his father

until he was 32.

Grandfather,

he is just a boy!

Look in the books,

christina.

We have the books

of the family.

Did you ever look?

Of course, the books.

The books will show it.

Those damn books...

They should be burned!

That's where you get

your horrible ideas!

Ask the boy himself.

Ask Martin. He will tell you.

He's unbalanced.

He's mad.

And you and those books

have driven him to it!

He is nosferatu.

He was born

to elena borassa

And rudy mathias

in the old country

In 1892.

He is young

for nosferatu.

There have been 9

such accursed in the family.

There are 3 still alive.

Martin is one.

Count demodeli is the eldest

in the family now.

From the old country,

he sends the letters

Telling who will take

the company into their house.

We obey, first

for the family shame,

And again because,

to defy the evil ones

Is to bring a curse

upon oneself.

I will not shame

the family,

But the devil...

the devil can take my soul.

I would have

destroyed the children

The moment they

showed the signs.

Elena borassa took

her own life instead.

Now...Martin comes to me.

People cannot come

to other people's beliefs.

It's hard for you, I know.

It's hard for anyone young.

Do you believe

that god's whole world

Runs by the laws

of the few sciences

We have been able

to discover?

Oh, no, christina.

There is more.

But people

are satisfied.

They know so much,

they think they know all.

And that makes it

easy for nosferatu.

That makes it easy

for all the devils.

Damn him.

Here. Let me help.

No. It's my job.

I just want

to help, all right?

No. It's my job.

Mind if I turn

this off?

I'm glad you don't

believe in the magic.

Well, I don't.

I really don't.

I know, and i'm glad.

I'm sorry that you have

to go through it all.

I know it must be

awful for you.

It is. It is awful.

Tada cuda. Ah, he's...

As long as it

doesn't get crazy.

Sometimes

they get crazy.

How old are you,

Martin?

Oh, i'm old.

How old?

Listen, I would really

like to help you.

Would you like

to see a doctor?

I've seen

lots of doctors.

They don't know

what to do either.

You shouldn't be

with the family.

Maybe you should be

In a hospital

or a home or something.

No. That would be

too hard for me.

Well, I think that

this is hard for you,

And I think

that if the family

Really wanted

to help you,

That that's what

they should do.

They're crazy! They're

the ones that are...

I'm sorry.

Ah, it's just that...

well, I grew up in this

entire thing, too.

Nosferatu. Nosferatu.

The family curse.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture. Other films in the series include Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). Aside from this series, his works include The Crazies (1973), Martin (1978), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), The Dark Half (1993) and Bruiser (2000). He also created and executive-produced the 1983–88 television series Tales from the Darkside. Romero is often noted as an influential pioneer of the horror-film genre, and has been called an "icon" and the "Father of the Zombie Film". more…

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