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".
Noah倒是有点撞脸今年的🌈金棕榈短片导演
很合时宜的6月爽片。Happy Pride!
Ejnar 的任性差点让他和Iver永远长眠于格陵兰岛。记录真的比性命还重要吗？我想Ejnar应该也有后悔过。孤独与世隔绝真的可以逼疯一个坚强的人。
确实是一般 Will还是蛮有魅力的 比傻白甜医生强多了
有一两段cut还挺可爱
好久没看到这么欢乐的同志电影了…第一次觉得《Sometimes》这么好听，Brithey真gay icon！
套用老套的直男直女的故事情节又怎样，但是喜欢Noah和Howie之间的对话。尽情体验，创造属于自己的回忆。God knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
这片在烂番茄都是高赞分数，豆瓣目前6.3评分明显过低了。各种基佬夸张的欢乐，也不乏温馨浪漫的小时光，编剧、导演、演员表演、音乐、摄影都很用心，亚裔同志当主角也是让人长脸的美事，不明白豆瓣这么多阴阳怪气的贬低？
非常好看。年輕酷兒嚮往且需要在這個世代看到的浪漫喜劇。熱評提到的好幾天在這不打炮純嘮嗑的，我很難過你們無法從這部電影得到愉悅感，反而是加深順從且內化了整個社會的恐同和刻板印象在你自己的身上。 It's too cute and makes me weirdly horny like wtf.
Conrad还是这么帅 但是这个剧情也太老土了……I can‘t……
Will可爱，其他无任何亮点。赐予LGBT中的边缘人与主流人气王修成正果的结局真是又假又错又害人。
没有报很大希望和老公一起看的，结果还真的挺无聊的。太忙太乱了，大半部电影我都在问谁是Charlie？谁是Max（结果人家叫Rex）。这种当代爱情喜剧我一般当“云旅游”片子看，看看风景和各种室内空间也挺有趣的，这部也没看到啥。奔着Margaret Cho去看的，结果戏份很少。看完才发现John Roberts有客串，还专门倒带回去看哈哈。
的确不浪漫或者不激情，但也有很接近真实的时刻
难得一部看完不觉得尴尬的亚裔主演的电影，《傲慢与偏见》的故事底板应用的还是可以的
太开心了！这是我27年以来最想要的同志片！我就是想有一部像异性恋的甜甜轻松浪漫喜剧电影。这部剧做到了！做到了！没有什么出柜忧伤，没有什么恐同情节。这部电影里的同性恋终于是个人了！
i had so much fun watching this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (white gays are the worst!!!
不思进取的gay people。酷儿题材进入大制片厂体系也意味着的酷儿文化被好莱坞收编、先锋性失落的必然，其背后是美国酷儿被资本主义机器驯服的现实。纵使再有解构反讽的抖机灵，也不过是回光返照和遗产罢了
老式又浪漫，谁不想要一群可以在海边倒数看夕阳的朋友，还有一个在桥上依偎跳舞的人。
同志版的灰姑娘的故事，结局是美好的，而且还是双份的。里面的亚裔受略娘了一些，几个亚裔演员整体的状态也不像30出头的 更像奔40的。适合下饭的小电影，看着很欢乐
冲着选角的颜多给一星，嘻嘻
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