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".
扎导《活死人军团》的前传，当初看正片时就对开锁师印象深刻，没想到还真出了前传。男主自导自演，自成一派的风格给传统的盗窃片带来了不少乐趣，里面许多反套路的小桥段真的挺不错，有新意。电影保险箱的背景介绍的也很不错，后面也与正传联系上，还真的有点期待扎导的网飞活死人宇宙了。这片唯一不好的可能就是预算不足，三次开锁经历大同小异，没有大场面，不够刺激，后面感觉有点无聊，结局也不是我喜欢的happy ending。
全片最喜欢开锁的机械声音，听上去太舒适了。
又臭又长。看完这个，活死人军团在我心中又加了0.1分哈。
啦啦啦 低成本 小制作 。中二搞笑的少女。
碎碎念的女主挺可爱的。社恐x活泼室友好有趣哦。
我不知道拍摄地在哪，但是好好看！
挺好的。这是还有续集的路子啊。镜头很有特点，剪辑也很棒。弱在剧情上了。
烂片。 低能男主nerd形象迎合肥宅来看，政治正确女主，队友包括肌肉男大胸妹黑人壮汉的经典团队，童年阴影，穿插一点自以为是的幽默，狗血爱情桥段、漏洞百出的剧本，和迪士尼剧情一样的“跌宕起伏”线条 ，故作高深的旁白等等等等。 选了个阴冷色调来拍搞笑片。 搞笑。 其实这狗篮子电影不值得我写啥，四个“等”都不配。 不过我还是看了，即使看了封面和名字就知道是个烂片。 甚至不是能让人吃的进爆米花的烂片。 又有什么关系。 我的时间不值钱。 我的睡眠也不值钱。 没关系。 谁也都是垃圾。 烂片。 和我最近的生活一样烂。
1. 其实就是屌丝赢得美人归，和国产3流意淫片没啥区别。2. 无聊的开锁过程要经历三次。3. 知道为什么男主骑个自行车就能躲开警方的追捕，回家后还想着继续去上班吗？他是导演，明白了吧。4. 看到结尾才想起《活死人军团》里的锁匠就是他，但不记得死没死。
作为前传型小故事，已经足够了，独立电影就小家子气了，哈哈😃
主要是串起全剧的动机太过于没有说服力了，显得全剧都非常像小孩子过家家
塞巴斯蒂安终于破解了诸神的黄昏，可惜却再也没有办法与格温相见了。原来这是一部爱情片。
有点尴尬，看了一半就不想看了，导演和主演那位喜欢不起来。
由于是导演+主角，就给自己设定一个从无名小卒到大师的苦情戏。情节及傻，银行抢得也不专业。最后一大师的作品就随随便便找上你一个无名小锁匠，毫无信服力。
比活死人军团完成度高一些，扎导没有过分炫技，除了些动作场面有他的风格外，全片还算克制。男女主，感情线莫名其妙，也不来电，没啥火花。哦，看完cast发现，扎导是制片，不是导演，怪不得这么克制。
画面不错，这个年代了拍这种组团偷盗的还这么多问题，也真是勉强三星了。
解锁描述了也太简单吧，听几下就解开，一点紧张感都没有，内讧太傻了，简直侮辱智商，就这样还一直没有被捉到
想知道这个片子到底拍了个啥？密码锁那么难开咩？导演怕是想到哪拍到哪吧？警察会飞咩？后面一盘散沙，什么《活死人军团》的前传，有什么关系？
轻松好看，有霓虹斤骨子里那种天真蒙昧的东西在，JK真好啊
为什么每个叫Gwen的人角色都太温柔到让人丧失理智o(︶︿︶)o
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