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".
啾啾怼脸镜头仍然hold住！女神牛逼！
国内应该引进这部啊，多好的宣传:NHS就是屎，CCP天下无敌！
1.此“抗疫片”不仅揭露了外国枉顾人权抗议不力的种种乱象，更暴露出其宣传条线不讲政治不顾大局的涣散局面；2.从歌颂到批判、从批判到改善，各自都还有长路要走；3.从反社会混不吝的杀手到内心有爱无助又坚定的护工，Jodie在演技上一次结实而漂亮的跨越。
热评可拉倒吧，什么样的人才会天天把洗脑一词挂在嘴边啊。
中间的长镜头，给得太好了。
啾啾怼脸镜头仍然hold住！女神牛逼！
幸运的鸵鸟，很难说疫情让我的生活起了多大的变化，或者是一些微妙的变化已经潜移默化了。虽然听见人们谈论疫情是如何从内容和方式各方面分割和改变了音乐影视的制作，但这算是我看的第一部直面疫情的影视作品。本着看jodie show的愿望点开，持续的大特写配合衰老、痴呆、病毒、死亡的环境，压抑窒息的氛围不言而喻，jodie毫无疑问的优秀。最大的感触还是对比带来的，现在封控区的状况，去年早早的初步胜利，我们拍出歌功颂德和性别歧视；他们的电视台早早关注到卫生体系的偏倚、决策失误、疗养院的被忽视，拍出死亡和绝望的面孔悲伤和对执政党的愤怒。并不是说有多好，而是这是一个半小时应该存在的声音。苏兰和卡米在bafta后台采访讲到电视的重要性，它让我们看到我们的生活，把人们连接起来。不只是没有媒体，没有艺术，我们也没有生活。
小变态的演技和故事的真实性打4🌟，很多镜头很模糊，不知道是特意为之还是…
Jo表演太精彩了！虽然故事简单，深度一般，但是本身就是写实电影，很勇敢！
不要去歌功颂德或者粉饰太平，这个世界上所有人的生活都改变了而且再也回不去了
一个小人物陷入泥潭时绝望地挣扎，和在极端境遇下闪烁的人性之光，以及对英国防疫对养老院的不重视的控诉
经历了疫情+家里有中风患者的观众才能看出这部电影的写实元素
差不多三星半的样子，结尾有点迷。没有淹没在宏大叙事下而是体现个体悲剧才是电影的魅力所在。
A solid 8. 除了飞越疯人院情节稍微突然，关于新冠的以小见大和绝望拍的真好
影片拍攝的角度很小但很真實，電影的描寫和沉浸感充滿了感染力。
时代的一粒沙落在个人身上是座山。敢于质问勇于发声就是改变的开始。ps:几位主演全出生在利物浦，口音很正宗😂
中间那段崩溃大哭太让人难受了，朱迪演的太好了
演技真好
3.5+0.5星。角度切入得偏，疫情时代鲜少有人关注护理院的人群，最后一句质问“生命是不平等的吗”，唉，一年过后，有变好吗？
原来是关于疫情的片子哦，敢拍也有的拍，更是会拍，中间那段跟拍不错。
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