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".
聊天🈶️推拉🈶️吃饭🈶️喝酒🈶️金敏喜🈶️夸金敏喜漂亮🈶️。今年份洪尚秀done👌🏻
談話電影，與同事、朋友談話、探討創作會想到這個電影。
一部東亞人生感悟的話癆電影，先要對生活腳踏實地去體驗擁抱熱愛，才能在專注的事業上免除後顧之憂，而不是反之亦然，逃避之旅始終無法填充空虛空洞空心，當然，能有志同道合、三觀相似的人對話溝通協攜，那就更要感激涕零了。導演的私貨太多了，簡直把金敏喜拍成了仙女了，狗糧誰不愛呀？
洪常秀和蔡明亮的电影都是随笔型，独辟蹊径，远离商业
想着书店店主好像比从前胖了啊，接着就听到他们的寒暄。总听这几个人聊天，有时候隔着屏幕都开始有了参与感。在爱人的镜头下，被爱着的人像个孩子。
洪的后现代性不就是巧遇嘛，写偶然性真的比写必然性要容易，要写也得写暗含着必然性的偶然性不是吗？
中间快进一下，却在1：25措手不及地哭了。
6.5分。如果没有最后这几分钟，这就是部闷片。。。这样没头没尾的片子并不是我的菜，中间有好几次都想放弃，但总是突然有那么点亮点让我留了下来。最后小说家和女演员之间那种灵感的联系配合最后的彩色影片段落突然有那么点心动了。怎么说呢，就如同《帝国大厦》最后的亮灯一样，当你已经完全放弃的时候，突然给你来这么一下。。。
有点希望我不是以这种方式看到这部电影：Walter Reade的狭小空间、稀薄空气和难受座椅，filmlinc策展人自作风趣但毫无必要的冗长开场，邻座隔三差五举起手机开始屏摄，还有最让我不适的间歇性满堂彩。老实说，我就想安安静静地吃糖
我为金敏喜唱歌打四星，我为金敏喜看雪打四星，我再为金敏喜拿花笑打五星（之后见长评）
金敏喜就像个从天而降的天使 awsl 对演员的喜爱大于片子
希望洪接下来的创作重心转移到李慧英身上，很野，很aggressive。
戏中戏里，他们是夫妻的关系。
固定变焦中景镜语不变，精致的文本互文性不改，流变的是他们俩投射出的爱意更深了，连烈人的烧酒都变成宜人的马格利米酒了。
还是偶遇，尬聊那点事儿。这次主题意外的浅显，就是赞美老婆漂亮又可爱，最后再撒一波狗粮秀恩爱，这样都能拿奖你敢信？
《洪尚秀导演给爱人金敏喜的电影》。虽然一些角色比金出场时间长，台词比她多，但彩色一出来，导演隔着镜头跟她互道“我爱你”，我的天。
—真可惜，它很好看的
难以分辨是小说家的电影还是电影人的小说。随意流畅到不在乎“电影”作为影像介质的边界。关于创作人生的对话精彩，充满点睛之笔。在电影院看的感觉又很好，因为终于对那些细小的喜剧时刻拥有了共鸣。但当然什么都比不上金敏喜那一刻的天真真诚与美好，不能用“美丽”来形容。为她拍的影像，为他唱起的婚礼进行曲。I love you. I love you.
8.3 这个黑白对比度，背景和前景的关系像极了纸张上的文字，就像是依靠文字来驱使小说的完成，正如这部电影中小说家的创作方式，先是看到人物，然后以人物为驱动力去构思，随着人物的关系群不断扩充新的可能，特别是书店那场戏，完全是洪遇到金敏喜后的创作方式和影片中的小说家重合了，不拍摄男女情感的洪总是那么惊人
一部東亞人生感悟的話癆電影，先要對生活腳踏實地去體驗擁抱熱愛，才能在專注的事業上免除後顧之憂，而不是反之亦然，逃避之旅始終無法填充空虛空洞空心，當然，能有志同道合、三觀相似的人對話溝通協攜，那就更要感激涕零了。導演的私貨太多了，簡直把金敏喜拍成了仙女了，狗糧誰不愛呀？
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