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".
没有一个镜头多余，高效地展现了一场优秀的悲剧。人物形象丰满，视效华丽，节奏得当。无可挑剔。
和原著设定出入太大，完全变成奈飞的猎魔人宇宙了
可能这样不那么深刻的探讨不一定能打动评委，但肯定会打动观众。另外林嘉欣的表演这么细腻和内敛，哪里比不上贾静雯？成片也吊打瀑布好吗？希望金像奖给这部片肯定。
本作最夸张的是猎魔人的魔法和巫师一样厉害，真用魔法打败魔法了。就离谱。原著设定里猎魔人的魔法大概就只能打个打火机这样
我離國語片越來越遠了，我在想，真的是回不去了。從小在中式家庭裡遭受的那些打心底的痛苦，可能為的就是有一天終於可以把自己從父母/老師/同齡人的壓制之中抽出，無法再為他們這種鞭打式的溝通而共情。但我知道這衝突是很難講清楚的。林嘉欣扮演的媽媽很好，爸爸角色的爆發也很合理，以及，女兒並不是不懂事。雖然幾乎每個中式家庭的相處方式都是互相折磨，但他們的關係（在它劇情所設定的時期）尤其像被綁在一起受各種無法承受的苦。這太悲傷了。你怎麼要求他們明白彼此的需求？每個人都在尋找，都在忍耐。他們每個人都沒有錯，他們只是也只能抱在一起，絕望地找一個看不到出口。
庄凯勋的感觉和表现都几分似张孝全；方郁婷细妹子软糯糯的又很倔犟，只是软的让人忘记了她一根筋；林嘉欣的尺度把握的太好，癌症患者的挣扎，绝望，不舍与留恋都在一举一动之间。很好看呀！四星起头！
我们总是生气自己的母亲做得不够好，但或许她们已经尽力做到她们的最好了。
喂喂喂，彻底入坑了。没看过剧集，也没玩过游戏，更没读过原著。这种降妖除魔的故事，本就是我的心头肉。因为这画风，这故事设定，彻底爱上了。有一说一，90分钟不到的电影是无法讲述多么精彩的故事，但也是十分紧凑没有任何垃圾剧情。四个字，全程高能吧。
看似是文化冲突的故事，说到底都是少儿一夜长大的样子，像极了八月里张小雷的炎热夏天！
可能是翻译原因 好些地方有点晕 光头杰洛特可太草了
好感动啊 即使是背道而驰了但是过去多少年也都记着对方爱着对方 甚至一直记得对方的梦想！
毫无征兆的完结，一方面感觉争吵都有点过，一方面又觉得真的想看到讨论的点又不够深。也能理解主创想要刻意淡化的部分，只是仍觉得有点遗憾。
很诧异拍出那么好的短片的导演，长片里体现的很多创作观念都与之前相悖，各种应该展开的都流于表面，细节、情绪都缺很准确的点，远不及期待。@2022-03-08
打斗真的不错，男主也很帅，问题是剧情很无聊啊，不好看。
2022-03-15 世界的流通与家庭内部的隔离，叠加在疫病蔓延的档口，可惜没能将枝蔓足够扩展便收缩自愈了。
是不开心的压抑的琐碎的但竟然是高可看性的温暖的。饭桌上母女的争执的台词节奏、父女一起挑家具的调度运镜、母女大吵、女孩与马的互动戏、还有最后全家人松弛下来后的泪水，好多处理都让人觉得导演厉害
有几场戏让人共情，与母亲的争吵，永远容不进的团体，美国回来大概只是一个设定，让芳仪与这个世界格格不入，也让母亲和芳仪听不见对方的声音。高潮在芳仪与那批马的对话，就好像母亲和芳仪，希望对方能带上缰绳……另一方面也说明了东方文化对于女子的规训……无论是母亲还是芳仪，都在被藤条不断的敲打，成为“真正”一个女人成为一个母亲…
维瑟米尔的形象也太丰满了吧，完美人设，再加上游戏的悲剧结局，天哪不可能有人不喜欢他。
结局没有流于俗套（但也并非完全不俗套），总的来说，很精彩
妈妈总说自己快要死了，爸爸总是为了赚钱疲于奔命，大女儿总说要回美国，小女儿总是一副可怜巴巴的样子。
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