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".
太多西部世界里的熟悉面孔了～有点穿越。披着科幻外壳讲了个爱情故事，满脑子都是狼叔唱马戏之王😂
3.3/布了个大局却又想讲个可歌可泣的爱情故事骗人 不好意思 带脑子看片 不吃这套了
不科幻也不悬疑、早知道是讲爱情故事的绝不点开...典型的无可救药浪漫主义女导演拍的东西。场景虽是借了
咦？这不是西部世界里的那几位？这…关系，狗屁，朋友，老吴这参杂真是标准！结尾不错，“人的一生，要死去三次。第一次，当你的心跳停止，呼吸消逝，你在生物学上被宣告了死亡；第二次，当你下葬，人们穿着黑衣出席你的葬礼，他们宣告，你在这个社会上不复存在，你悄然离去；第三次死亡，是这个世界上最后一个记得你的人，把你忘记，于是，你就真正地死去。整个宇宙都将不再和你有关。”
狼叔来谈了个漫长的恋爱。。。而我却是冲着悬疑来的。诺兰家果然是那个路数，氛围我也喜欢的，但是不喜这个故事。旁白听得我很困；REBECCA的性感演出过于厌女了。PS其实以狼叔的身高身材演REESE也可以的，但是怎么看着就有点笨拙呢？
格局小了，还以为大boss是国际女毒贩呢！浪费一个好题材（也算是圆了马戏之王的遗憾了
We haunt it,
尼克这个角色无太多可深入探讨之处，就像一句评论说的，“收手吧阿祖，狼叔只是想谈个恋爱。”是的，整部电影讲述的就是男主角的恋爱没有谈成。也许像《盗梦空间》那样，搞一个开放性结局，不要讲明梅最后死没死，让尼克和梅美好团聚，但不明确说明这是记忆还是现实，留一个讨论空间，会挽回不少分数。狼叔的表演已经挽回了不少分数，这次真的不会串戏金刚狼了。可很多时候光有演员真的不够，除非是比较特殊设定的独角戏。
任何故事的结尾都是悲剧。那就讲一个幸福的故事，但是从中间结束🔚 。
狼叔和碟中谍女主、西部世界女配上演一场中年人的恋爱，狼叔沉浸在和女主在一起的记忆中了却余生
又是被悬疑害了的片子，整部片的类型比重偏爱情片，非要披一个悬疑，科幻的衣服，最后达不到盗梦空间的级别被大家诟病。如果单纯从爱情片的角度来看，加入的很多设定还是很新颖的，但可惜非要流量不要实打实。一开始惊讶于吴彦祖的英语居然这么好，之后惊讶于吴彦祖的中文怎么这么差了？
我还挺吃这种类型的片子，神秘美女加深情帅哥。休杰克曼为情所困、为情所伤的形象简直不要太完美，评论有批评女导演的，但我觉得女导演还是很知道怎么触动同类心理的点的，最少我被触到了。遗憾吴彦祖戏份少。
谜一样的女人，沉溺与回忆里，终老，后期就看不下去了
吴大帅那么个性，那么帅的人输给了主角光环，登场没多久就挂了，我就是为了看那几分钟？哎，太敷衍了
是的，有些人活在过去，有些人活在现在，有些人活在将来。
帅哥吴彦祖演了个啥🙃
有点乱。一段段的回忆没顺序，再加上我不是一次看完的。三星吧。
披着科幻皮的痴汉寻爱片，格局小了，节奏也拖沓，毁了一个好的设定。
看到一半睡着了，估计是我太累了！但是节奏真的慢，末世的设定不是很有说服力！吴彦祖的英中夹杂真心听不来，什么奇怪设定！然后那么容易被干掉，还kingpin？ 其他的倒没有啥大毛病！女主的颜有时候觉得很美，有时候又soso，倒是狼叔的磁性voice真适合用来催眠！
整个时空背景设计，演员阵容起点都不低，可惜就是片子看得怎么都不给劲。就是那种你明知道故事线在玩噱头，就想着好吧，看你给我什么惊喜，然后就真没什么惊喜那种。
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