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".
真的一般，前面小情侣来来往往还有点意思，后面的硬煽情太套路了，纯粹在硬推。
作为传记片，拍得一般。有些镜头和画几乎无法区分。猫能成为和狗一样的宠物，Wein的功劳不小。
全世界最了解韦恩的应该就是他妻子了(电影告诉我的) 那个年代娶一个比自己大十岁且跨越社会阶层的女人 也算“可歌可泣了” 我觉得再拓展拓展能拍个两小时爱情电影 挺好看
真实事件其实值得拍的，但编剧导演拍的比较一般，让故事简单程式化，命题作文的痕迹很重，不走心。演员演的也一般
若你喜欢怪人，其实我很美。丧萌系导演福田知盛五光十色画家传记片新作，BC和Claire Foy二搭夫妻依然火花四溅。短暂幸福即面临生离死别，爱使时间永恒，犹如电流贯穿过去现在未来～画外音和配乐画面渲染出童话风，人生无外乎是苦中作乐，化心碎为艺术🎨
励志？爱情？玄幻？亲情？哪哪都有，哪哪都差一点。
真的很难面对自己的真实想法 有些时候真的没有那么高级 但直面自己的想法和心境也没有什么不好的吧
猫和人类一样孤独而勇敢。爱猫人士必看，electrical life所言非虚。前半段比后半段更好，本尼真是表演天才，太动人了。
Willy还是有想法的；Benny怎么那么适合传记人物呢？
对人物不够了解 不像一般的传记片的节奏和叙事 对于怪诞这一点突出的也没有很鲜明 但表演和爱情故事却很出彩 几个镜头也美的不像话 故事非常中心化 和其他角色以及社会的相互影响反而有些脱离了地面 是很有趣的传记片却没有什么记忆点
Willy还是有想法的；Benny怎么那么适合传记人物呢？
2021.12.22 看过 一晃两年过去了 终于看到成片 乏善可成 导演有小聪明 但格局不大 对于大荧幕来讲显得气力不足 louis wain很早就知道 但从没想过跟electricity联系在一起 他这么一拍 倒觉得好有道理～ 发现很适合演疯癫老头的两个演员：本尼和伊桑霍克…
有几个画面真的很美，导演也很会用镜头和音乐传递感情，文本写得很有趣，演员的表现也相当好，基本可以掩盖叙事节奏上的问题。
至少开头很轻松地把我带进了故事里，本以为是简单轻快的韩式爱情故事，没想到隐藏的是亲情内核，怎么就避不开这种催泪的电影了哎
囊括的东西太多，假装已故的人还在、萤火虫推进爱情关系这种设定太老套了，好多情节都没啥关联，节奏太慢，煽情太狠。不过我还是比较喜欢男主父亲停车站那段，姐弟招手拜别最有电影感了。
整体轻松又愉快的电影。but，由牵手动作完成两个女性人物陪伴功能的交接，是否有点太女德了。林允儿的角色完全就是一种男性想象中的存在，清纯漂亮专一且不粘人。虽说电影本身带有奇幻色彩，但是这种老旧的角色设定难免让影片更加失真。
有不少画面真的很好看，但总体来说有点碎，猫咪很可爱，装饰性时不时让人想到WA。
人总是爱跟自己较劲。父亲过于自责于是不敢对儿子好，儿子过于自责于是拼命想修个火车站证明自己值得父亲爱，都快把人给绕晕了。姐姐的事，不知道是人格分裂还是地缚灵。
当你继续画画的时候，你就会跟别人产生连结，你就不会孤独。
允儿1⭐，她已经成为了比片中的萤火虫更耀眼的演员。
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