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".
什么玩意儿？所以想说明什么？趁青春任意妄为？还以为是纯爱竟然掺了不伦…工作奋斗的精神跟展望是一点都没有…结尾也很莫名其妙，我看不懂。
网飞又一小成本小国烂片，全员脑子有问题。一个大家庭全家相继死亡但是就不信女主，最后妹妹还跟杀手忘年恋。杀手就是个偏执狂作家却有通天彻地的本领。女主始终相信是杀手杀了她全家但什么措施都没采取甚至最后跟杀手对峙还自己跳楼了。完全没逻辑。
有部分尚可的动作，节奏，画面质感，镜头语言等，前半部分铺垫稍长，且对后半部分的塑造作用有限，总体归于尚可一看。
结尾还是有点出乎意料的，我一直以为一直在铺垫作家的死，为作者/路易抹杀做铺垫。开头一堆人惊呼closter，我还以为他被luisiana干掉了，结果.... 女主漂亮，作家贼像Al Pacino
情节的编排上强助推压缩加速 所以两轮急冲由事件突变进而带到了人物突变 此时动机和符号不用提炼直接跃然眼前 因果链条也就明晰了 Neil 和妹妹侄辈的疏远 对待意外死亡的冷静 绵延强烈的基础欲望 遗产汲血的幻视和机体末期的顽疾 最后一镜也就是浮木一生
我曾经幻想过父母去世，我想象不出来自己能做什么，更多的是逃避现实，让姐姐去承担一切。我差不多懂他的心情，但是我不会与他共情，好歹他还是个富豪，我啥也不是。
五路追杀令和天龙特攻队的导演。领袖水准的导演，领袖水准虽然豆瓣7分，但个人感觉特无趣。
莫名其妙的开始，莫名其妙的推进，莫名其妙的结尾
小說家的敘事和敘事的小說家，營建出一個光怪陸離的敘事節奏和線索，再拼湊成一個莫比烏斯環，適合當作敘事學的教材啊，不同的敘事人物在不同的敘事時間裡有不同的敘事聚焦，連敘事框架可能都是虛構/他者的。所以到底誰才是終極的兇手？！
一窝乱斗！就一个反派，大杀四方，警察的警惕性和战斗力就这么低，确定是美国警察，而不是皇协军？
跟想象中差距很大，一开始以为是中年男人危机所以出轨Yolo，结果是确诊了癌症。但他的面对机制是找一个墨西哥年轻女人玩儿？我真的不太能理解。
@ Film Center, PFF 30. 很克制。最后的医院场不知道是解释还是延续，如果理解为后者会更好一点。
开头用镜和色彩都很吸引人，剧情弱爆，格局小了 2022年1月3日 rs pro2
有点警局大逃杀的味道，一个警局，感觉没一个是好人。
不知所云，一个癌症晚期的中年男子，行为奇怪，沉默寡言。毫无希望的活着。没有配乐看的很累，节奏也慢。浪费了2个好演员。
悬疑保持到了最后，悲伤的结局让人感受到人生的无常，日出日落，过好快乐的每一天吧
单动式左轮在UZI面前毫无还手之力。女警和巴特勒也太耐打了，巴特勒居然没穿防弹衣都没死？
日式爱情片，画面很美，有一股忧郁的，破碎的美好。
银幕上的主角似乎没有任何动机 只有导演恶作剧般的三个反转 推着他前进 这也让观众的认真看起来像个玩笑 很多人因此勃然大怒。可是人生 哪来那么多能动性哦 糊里糊涂也挺好
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