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".
3.5，最近喜欢看一些爹味不那么重的电影❤️很有意思的新人导演/演员，应该是不少千禧一代/z世代能共鸣的作品。故事有些cliche，配角的塑造也有些欠缺，但其中很多对话都写的十分有趣。雨中戏远景里的车竟然是三维渲出来的真的很好笑🤓
人生的经历总有许多相似之处，年轻人就应该享受 年轻 ！
一个暖男的爱情故事，充满遗憾且刻骨铭心。三星。
一个比较浅显简陋的鸡汤片里面有所有鸡汤处女作会出现的问题然而它竟然不是一个处女作不过这好像是我第一次看到强生没有那么boring
半个世纪过去了，依然还是《毕业生》的基本套路
那种无处不在的被凝视、被包围、被审判、毫无安全感的氛围在空旷的乡野与微弱的女性个体之间弥漫，一种超越感官恐怖的现实惊悚让人觉得后脊发凉。
7分。十分舒适的一个爱情小品。这样的轻快、清新和温馨更像是法国片，而不是美国片。男主从小就喜欢大姐姐，长大后他喜欢上了一个有自闭症女儿和未婚夫的大姐姐。他温柔有耐心，不仅俘获了大姐姐的心，也赢得了她女儿的信任。可是大姐姐的未婚夫很好，男主又太小，大姐姐最后还是选择了未婚夫，男主很伤心。虽然无疾而终，但是所有的美好都存在了记忆里。硬要一个单身妈妈选择不靠谱的小年轻也太牵强了，可是有的电影就喜欢这样“不顾一切”的爱情。
Jesus xxxx！好看！因为是自导自演的，所以他确实明白 —— 哪个22岁的男孩子顶得住Dakota Johnson？！包含的内容看似很平淡，却娓娓道来地写着我们生活中的点点滴滴：家庭的温暖、婚姻的纠葛、人生的无奈，但总基调又是积极阳光传播真善美、帮助弱势群体。看完感觉陪自己重新过了一遍20多岁。
另外楚楚可怜但坚强的domino在家里随意摆一个姿势对andrew来说实在是暴击，怪不得andrew情根深种，虽然结局没能在一起
电影中最喜欢的一个场景是男主对女主的未婚夫说“I’m a dumb kid”，一瞬间就get到导演想表达的东西，就像电影海报说的“爱上一个人很容易，成长很难”
这可能是我最后一次给A24的文艺cult片贡献票房了
沉醉在他们的对话当中 一生中可能会遇到Soulmates 很开心我遇到了 很庆幸是你 我很幸福 祝你幸福 (涂鸦T恤太美了！！ 上面还有专属名字定制 好想拥有一件！！
今年最爱的电影出现了，《恰恰丝滑》就是我最吃的那类美国文艺片，有点庸俗但正因如此不会没有生活气息。才25岁的导演把刚刚毕业的年轻人的生活状态展现得很真实：他想去很远的地方但受困于经济条件；被迫和继父相处但看不惯彼此；性格善良可有时控制不住情绪；自认为自己就是暗恋对象的灵魂伴侣……但这是个多长的成长故事啊！从拒绝被叫“kid”到主动说自己就是“kid”，从一心一意想去巴塞罗那到决定从家搬出去，这就是一个年轻人慢慢认识世界和自己的过程。
越来越觉得导演是靠直觉来拍片子，它很真挚、诚恳，正如那无邪友善的外貌，主题依旧是延续处女作从大学生走到毕业，走出离家的那一步。很舒适也很清新，大多数的夜戏都抛去了欲的魔药只留下心与心的链接，这种直给的情绪是优点，但也希望导演的下一部作品可以给出更多的变化，祝走的更远哦。
标准美好的姐弟恋，看到最后居然同样感受到了那种一别永生的悲伤
It’s okay.You have plenty of time.
或许是我自己的问题，已经没耐心观看男大生絮絮叨叨的成长了。
三个关于处于人生不同阶段的三个人的coming of age story 台词写得很出彩 在心情不好的时候看会感到特别温暖 cooper很有才是真的
【SXSW 2022】Dakota Johnson笑起来有几分像林嘉欣
🥰达妹法式气质真心爱了！！喜欢这部小电影～
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