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".
网大拍成这样很牛了吧，每个人在自己叙述的故事里都是正直的，但在客观叙事下做的事情却比怪力乱神更可怕……
还不错！国产的能拍到这地步，真是值得鼓励！还有就是谢锦这个角色的演员，怎么看怎么像薛之谦和王宁的结合体~~~
对不起，我的9年医学教育不允许我理解这种东西
人类最终的进化是爱上吃塑料，把自己生产出来的塑料消化掉？所以为了不要进化出这种技能，我们大家从现在起要爱护地球，拒绝塑料制品从我做起！╮(╯▽╰)╭
要不是有人强烈推荐，很可能因为名字而错过的电影。算是国产里真的不错的悬疑惊悚了，推荐！
网络电影的质量都这么高了？！
故作深沉，实则肤浅无比，又一部各路解读比影片本身有“内涵”、有“想象力”的戛纳定制电影。两星全给蕾雅老师和这么多限制级镜头
7/10 6/24/22二刷，回忆起在影院观看小K表演时的反感，急促呼吸➕咬嘴唇➕小声说话，真的受不了，明明我挺喜欢Spencer，但这部里，毫无新意又disturbing
罗生门式的叙事方式不错 比起某些院线的影片都好
四星算是鼓励吧，这部网大比之许多只为圈钱的院线电影强了不少，可以看出是用心的作品，
感觉柯南伯格就像是一个始终在细察当代社会各种痈疽的医生。身体变化容纳了艺术、哲学伦理、生理等
没看懂，应该是我无知。吃的🍿️回来路上🤮。为什么要把雷老师打扮成银角大王？小K在干嘛？一副神经抽搐的样子
8.8
斗米恩升米仇，有的王八蛋连土匪都不如
不出意料最后又是讲人性，国内怕是永远看不到民间志怪片了，适当还创作一点自由吧
在大环境下，还能拍这种类型的电影，且认真叙事，渲染氛围，值得鼓励。从山精鬼怪的猎奇切入，转到恶人口中颠倒黑白，到由各个人物连接起来的山村旧事，再到夜幕舟上，最后是大梦一场。层层推进，逐渐剥开了人心丑恶，将一件事说成了完全不同的几个视角，挺有意思。
BODY IS REALITY. LONG LIVE THE NEW ORGAN.
早年的柯南伯格多酷 又变态又有趣 现在这都是个啥
限于政策因素，尽管没有真正的鬼神元素，演员演技堪忧，但基于扎实的剧本，所以本片也算不错的网络东北恐怖题材电影。电影体现了“最坏的生物是人，最恐怖的是人心”，也使得人们对“民风淳朴”的美好希望破灭，更加深了“穷山恶水出刁民”这句俗语的印象。
创造了一个引人入胜的感官世界，那里充斥着对身体的迷恋，也毫不遮掩任何恐惧；独特的气氛，始终跟随手术、表演、性爱而流动。最近的想象可能是NT上演过的《弗兰肯斯坦》，，也在体会一种“舞台上演”的滋味。不依靠耸动效果炮制过度呈现的画面，而通过倚重演员魅力（谢谢选角Scott Speedman （：）、固定空间的展开，渐渐有了自己的节奏。但套上近未来的时间背景抑或任何议题感召，都无从察觉；或许不止有这么多。
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