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".
（有泄）哈哈哈哈看东野圭吾原著时没发觉有些剧情拍出来这么扯呀，可能是一群名演员大前辈来演这个剧情更增加了喜剧感？吐槽如下：本片又名《泽村一树西装T台秀集锦》/木村佳乃这个角色秒联想《牙白妻》，事实上也确实是牙白妻/麻生久美子气质太好了，某种程度上可能就是让她这种气场不那么凸显，才请来木村佳乃和高冈早纪二位匀一匀的吧？/胜村政信这角色，真是可怜呢，毕竟你的老婆、小三还有儿子显然都不是嘛善茬啊，苦笑/秋刀鱼桑，原来你的客串居然是……那你完全不需要来片场嘛！
虽然结尾看似美好落幕，但我还是很难理解这种因为爱就让孩子与亲生父亲分离，更频繁更换家庭环境的行为。
全程都没法沉下心观看，木村是唯一支撑看完的原因
只要人人都来做接盘侠，世界将变成美好滴人间……
这个片着实催泪，但是剧情上真的有着非常强烈的违和感…一边催泪的不行一边觉得怪怪的(比如这个妈的行为能叫爱…？难道不是自我满足的自私吗…？十元看起来那么健康头发贼有光泽跟我说她绝症…？第二个第三个爹就那么好人也太都合主义了吧…男朋友也是幼稚又自恋得莫名其妙，等等)，一副岁月静好温情故事的画风讲了一个不能细琢磨的奇怪故事。中段偏后有一段节奏很慢，差点没看下去。不过yyyy超可爱。
对于这种硬凑的故事 也是哭不出来 当时对于宣发说的泣く率99%也是很想吐
这个片最不合理的地方是，做到长泽雅美那个位置的优秀酒店员工的话怎么可能会看不出来那个故意刁难的客人是考核官？而且前面也提前跟他们说过了会在两个人里面选一个去美国酒店工作，连客人不伦恋都看出来了怎么可能会看不出这个人在考核她。这就太看不起服务业了好吗？
從小到大都被溫柔與愛包圍的人才是最富有的人
通篇完成度不错 ，演员一水的面瘫，演技秉承了日系的做作和浮夸。得亏是外国片，要是国产片这剧情 在配合国产电影特有的大差不差，能有两星 拿绝对是请了枪手了。做工很精细，华丽却不浮夸。只是这刻意的展示 勤恳的装逼 实在让人有点接受不了啊。唉~光环太多 以致于坐不下了。
近几年的日本电影总给人一种沉闷的感觉，仿佛剧中的人物必须要寻求一个寄托才能在人世间坚持下去。
这个系列的贺岁能换个推理作家吗…东野圭吾骗稿费的故事真不至于使用到酱紫阵容卡司 两星电影 多一星给不要钱的大明星们
全程都没法沉下心观看，木村是唯一支撑看完的原因
原作的精髓完全没出来昂，森宫都成背景板了。
看各种熟脸客串 这剧 真的不是漫改剧么？人设情节什么的也太中二太不靠谱了
开头看到中村安奈我还是小小兴奋了一下，没想到居然是打酱油的啊。。。续集依旧难看，唉这个系列还是不要拍了吧，浪费卡司。
鱼叔这次的出场很显眼了~ cast表才是重点 太多熟人脸一下子都猜不出谁是坏人了……
时间线交错的设置还行，但剧情有点过分煽情了，随着时间推进也是越来越拉胯。优子和生父见面互换信件时，旁边两个配角跟旁白声似的用台词解读情感，就挺尬的。得知梨花去世后的剧情简直是把“煽情”刻在脸上了，太长太明显，很难共情。故事里的每个人的情感动机都没什么说服力，后两任丈夫到底是为啥会对主角母女俩宠爱无限？剧情走向太童话了。
不太喜欢接力棒这个名字。优子在这种不断更换家庭的环境中长大，很多时候要独自适应陌生人成为父亲，没有心里阴影和叛逆是奇迹吧。我只能说这是个理想故事
阵容依旧超豪华，长泽肉眼可见岁数上去些了。阖家欢推理献礼片 😂
扎扎实实哭了两个小时，东亚人这卑微又温暖的泪点啊。
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