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".
之前看预感以为是悬疑片，没想到是喜剧片（x
完全被题目误导，内容有点奇妙物语那种怪异风格，节奏没把握好，本来是个不错的双向浮气片。柄本佑这个角色一直一脸挫賽，真的完全没魅力。黑木华也是依旧跟谁都没CP感，也无法感觉她影后的演技，真的看见脸就讨厌，纯黑粉
没见过什么世面觉得这样就很神秘了配乐不是很懂啊明明只是不伦而已最后的清晨佐和子跪坐在沙发前面说终于结束啦的画面实在很美w
女主开车微微扭头笑了起来，但却没有给副驾驶一点点镜头，简直了太厉害了
2：这么多辈的铺垫，小孩一个演讲所有人就信了？人民遇到海兽不是恐慌逃跑吗？
好像是真的，又好像不是真的。这样的报仇最折磨人了吧。还是有点爽。
故事性太牛逼了
本来想打低分，因为节奏实在是太慢，1.5倍速完全不影响，而且剧情不怎么抓人，分了好多次才看完。但是结局还是有点小吃惊。立意不错，女性就是要驾驶自己的车。没有挣钱能力、自立能力的，随时会被人拿捏，不管是事业仰赖别人还是出行要靠别人开车接送。夫妇双方地位转换也是从女主有开车能力开始的。电影色调和画面挺美。
不能细想的儿童片，但凡多思考一秒就会降智。
3.5心里想的是“就这……”说好的妻子优雅复仇呢？不过日本电影嘛，日语语境下的独特梗还是很有意思的，特点很突出，还有部分漫画的展现形式意外的有趣。也不知道是不是角色设定，华妹看上去有点僵硬，倒是柄本佑演起渣男来就是渣男本渣哈哈哈哈
一切有为法，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电，应作如是观。黑木华风格的现实题材，日本人一贯的隐忍，温柔的一刀。
大表哥一如既往地为自命不凡 实为草包的英国海军上将配音
小红小蓝好可爱！剧情和建模有瑕疵，但是总体还是很惊喜的～
黑木华演起这种温柔腹黑角色真的意外的合拍，柄本佑那种颓丧废柴的野男人气质真的好戳我。结尾太有力量了，剧本很棒！很轻松的一个复仇片，轻松愉悦但是非常带感。
别的不敢保证，这绝对是一部能令你一扫阴霾的电影，大力推荐！！！
Netflix又复刻了一个被各家讲滥（烂）的童话故事，甚至这个人兽世界的大同社会得来全不费工夫，嘴炮几句后便海天一色般融洽和谐了。虽然对影片的创意和内涵没有抱太大期待，但还是想探索此类神奇大陆与奇妙物种，可海兽的形象与建模未免也太简陋粗糙了，既不酷也不萌，连开发兜售周边产品的商业属性都不够。
就是这故事套路有些过于明显，大体基本都能推测出来，也就结局的转折稍微有些意外。还是多误导一下观众好，提示给得太多了。
把主角人设搞得这么讨人厌是不太想让人看吗？这小孩一说话就招人烦呐，看着剧情也是套训龙的路子
罗素老爹也是可悲可叹角色 老头子演绎的淋漓尽致
小红小蓝好可爱！剧情和建模有瑕疵，但是总体还是很惊喜的～
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