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".
总共十个小故事，一般般吧，也没啥看头，不过是每个故事做了点留白，做了点让人想象的空间，没有说的那么直白。一般。
当作观赏柬埔寨风景和市民生活的影像来看，还蛮平静的～舒服的～可是作为电影总觉着还差一点什么。
注定倾倒的白色大厦，所有梦境回廊也被夷为平地。
大场面已经有太多可复制的先例，影片的大悲大喜从某种层面上来说，可以把它当成是一种技术活。平淡的生活，拍得也太多，留下印象的缺乏可陈，这就考验导演和演员的功力了。导演有百态细碎从嚼出情感共鸣的意识，但是叙述的本事还没有到火候，很明显能感觉到后期影片的发展脱离了导演的控制，随着影片的自然进展在推进。值得肯定的一点是，阳光明媚下的压迫，比战火连天的效果更强，以上台湾导演留做的很好。不拿苦难作戏，因为苦难也是生活的写照
隧道、红衣女、牙虫、巫术、墙、衣橱、鬼婚、镜中女、人体模型、密室逃脱……嗯，金炫廷小姐姐长得有点味道
柬埔寨电影，人们的衣食住行、社会生活环境很容易让人联想到三十年前的中国，但，除了“智能手机”。
——2022.1.8
能把十个毫无关联短故事硬生生凑在一起当一部123分钟电影放出来，我也不明白这帮西八是怎么想的，除了个别几个故事之外，剩下的简直是凑数的存在，简单潦草地凑一个故事开头，然后就一个jump scare完事儿，看完别说在盛夏给我心里一凉了，给我看困了都……
很小的切入点，剧情很缓慢，但是有一种难以言表的压抑感
咱就是说恐怖片还真不需要字幕就能看
———————————【2022.07.05观影】
比我预想中的好，我還挺喜歡。場景，美術，攝影都非常美。影片幾乎沒有干預主人公的生活和選擇，而是更多的選擇僅僅是記錄和分享主人公內心的體驗和感受，非常多風景的記錄和建築物與人物的對比，都是主人公對外界和內在感受的具象呈現，而所有生活的變遷和拆遷事件帶來的衝突都被導演放置在了一個類似於平靜的背景板的位置，而不是作為推動劇情和強化節奏的催化劑，我很喜歡導演這樣的處理和對生活的理解和觀察。期待導演別的作品，期待更多像柬埔寨一樣的電影小國可以在電影世界裏分享它們更多的存在和思考，讓我們可以有機會看到不同國家和地區的生活究竟是怎樣的，他們現在正在面臨什麼樣的問題。💕
烂，在一部俩小时的电影里塞十个小故事后果就是每一个都没头没尾，模仿世界奇妙物语的痕迹很重，但创意不及其十分之一，也就人偶模特那个有点意思（也没觉得演员颜值有多高啊，千篇一律的发面脸单眼皮）
隧道锤击女，霸凌遇红衣，铁线虫入侵，双生招魂记，隔墙异空间，衣柜藏变态，新丁配冥婚，怨念化鬼镜，人偶傀儡师，密室冚家铲。
三星给电影，一星给青年导演。土地迟钝，机器轰鸣，人们的脚趾和生活狡黠地溃败，新的时代在电钻尖端闪烁。
奇怪就奇怪人家的偶像不仅有颜，抛开唱跳，演戏也能撑得住
夜色中沉沉望的 是梦 是遥不可及
粗制滥造，莫名其妙。导演2020年出了一部一样烂的短片合集。真的别吃这碗饭了行吗
真的是看了浪費人生兩個小時的電影……就像那種垃圾鬼故事……沒有來龍去脈，只是單純嚇你，可是一點也不恐怖呀。
很少看来自这些国家的电影，正如很少听见来自这些国家的声音。有一种很深的割裂感，hiphop潮流文化的入侵和难以被满足的报价需求，名叫长岛冰茶的鸡尾酒和晕倒了之后只能用“喝点水”来治愈的妇女，“我不讲出来父亲怎么知道”和“噩梦讲出来是不祥的”，跃动的舞蹈和父亲黑掉的脚趾，从头到尾都在讲这样撕裂的第三世界。表达太私人化了，看着好累。
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