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".
就还挺喜欢的。金敏喜才是文艺片女王！她好美啊！yebuyo！
看洪的片，总是很容易把台词文本带入到洪和敏的个人现实语境中，随意日常的闲聊却每一句源于剧本，自然醉酒和极微表情的流露也源于演员对情绪的揣摩和演绎。一时之间无法区分呈现的影像，何为虚构何为真实。
洪尚秀的小电影真是拍得越来越放松，巧妙，自在。
最后的片头导演和金互道llove you 的时候 观众都是布景了
【剧情太唏嘘了】
拍一个导演的自我拆解过程来进行自我拆解，除了洪尚秀也没谁了吧。
大概是看的第一部新冠影片
文本仅限于黑白两色却能呈现出影像无法传达的内容，洪常秀采用最接近文本的视像风格，其所爆发的感染力却是精心生产的电影工业产品望尘莫及的，我想这也正是作者电影的魅力所在。洪常秀的表达相比以前（我看过的几部洪氏电影）变得直接很多。小说家与导演和诗人的对质是洪的创作宣言，而到结尾简直是再浅白不过（却令人感动万分的）示爱，镜头仿佛吻遍了金敏喜的全身看的人头皮发麻。
结尾面对镜头那段控诉我们就永远达不到。在生命这个最宏大的命题面前，任何粉饰与歌颂都显得无比愚蠢和虚伪。还是那句话，我们需要真实，需要真相，需要持续质疑的勇气。
看洪的片，总是很容易把台词文本带入到洪和敏的个人现实语境中，随意日常的闲聊却每一句源于剧本，自然醉酒和极微表情的流露也源于演员对情绪的揣摩和演绎。一时之间无法区分呈现的影像，何为虚构何为真实。
我都没有想到我会这么喜欢洪尚秀的电影！！最后拍金敏喜的那段戏中戏如果没有煽情的背景音乐就完美了
疫情爆发期间UK养老院的缩写。导演出色。凌晨三点女主Sarah请男主Tony帮患者翻身那场重点戏，全程没有拍Sarah的脸，戏结束后才把镜头转到Sarah，这段处理的太好了。你为什么这么关心他？因为他是好人，而好人太稀有了。if i helped, that’d be nice.
久违的洪尚秀！久违的喜欢！尤爱女演员看完成片走出影厅之后的每一帧！
新冠被当作背景借用了一回，没有正面展现疫情的残酷，而是对比刻画了特定形势下的温情。PS.利物浦口音确实非常有特色
所以全程用长焦镜头是因为防疫考虑而做出的牺牲吗？另外，利物浦口音也挺有意思的（虽然听上去已经是另一种语言了……
很喜欢里面的一些对话，真实且尴尬，就像其中的某些表演。金敏喜真是很不错的演员，她的好不是在《小姐》里面能体会到的，还真是得通过洪常秀。洪常秀没看过很多，虽然每次看感觉挺有意思的，但好像也不能总看，感觉会疲。
情境的建构vs真实的爱，洪导的理念还挺贴我心的
兜兜转转一辈子，文艺男女从青年变老，似乎都被岁月磨去了棱角，自己也在大谈从容淡泊，可真意外聚首，骨子里那种偏执又让彼此杠上……旧友老情人怨故交，和新认识的投缘人，只靠收敛在礼仪底下蹭出的有个性台词，诠释着彼此。
金敏喜的笑容就像暖阳一样消解了前面所有谈话间隙的沉默不语中积累起来的尴尬，色彩突然出现的画面瞬间显得她眉目如画。
hhhh单说电影比较喜欢喝酒前的部分，但最后的结尾！攒动着爱意。这是一封导演给金敏喜的情书，像阿萨亚斯拍曼玉，戈达尔拍安娜，爱～～就是在流动啊，我还是被这种真实的情感打动了。（有些人就是有“魅力”，这个词在电影中反复提到，她确实有，我被美晕了…
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