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".
俗气的小妞电影，尤其适合写论文的时候看！Josh房间绿色的漆好好看！Lucy也穿过很多绿色的衣服！喜欢💕
最近很喜欢看一些口水电影 和炸鸡可乐非常配 轻松的享受一下生活
聲音和音樂營造出足夠迷人和有效的氣氛與情緒可以讓弱情節的藝術電影有更寬闊的更多維度的思考與想象空間。
Final week 复习作死看的电影// 看了小说一定会看电影的人就是我/// 蛮甜的
鱼眼镜头还有一点意思，保罗施拉德七十几岁的人了竟然还听这么多摇滚后摇啊。
提前的Christmas movie time，除了电梯那里的改编和书里我最喜欢的结尾没拍之外其他都OK，两人还是很有chemistry，虽然男主这种男模式的帅我不是很喜欢
姐妹搞事业是王道，男主身材真不错。办公室布景也挺有意思的一边性冷淡一边暖色调，男主还总是关键时候掉链子也是打破常规了，不知道的还以为他最后要出柜呢。
女主向男主父亲介绍那段我看了好几遍，爱情就是会这样，包括男主那句我知道你的一切和一切
在施拉德这里，“反类型”并不是一个在假定了某种“类型”的公式然后展开逆反的概念性手段，而是电影为了蜷收起情境自身的能量而不得不借以打开故事的裂隙的一种运作逻辑。段落镜头内人物入画出画，轻飘飘几无重量，摄影机巡视着干净的环境，内折起了电影所有锋利的棱角，甚至角色前史都只在失真平滑的鱼眼镜头中补足，这需要多大的勇气？所有讲述轮回的电影提出的都是相同的问题，为什么要拍摄它？故事有其逻辑并总是想要走向圆形闭合的结局，但从裂隙中重新发现的运动和情感的力量却能直线延续到无穷远处。这是电影存活的动力，也是角色的。
男女主还挺有荷尔蒙的，我喜欢欢喜冤家这种设定，我太俗了哈哈哈
我想和男主上床 轻松快乐爱情喜剧 最后二十分钟真的心梗 只想看甜甜甜怼怼怼
中规中矩吧，没有很惊艳，但不是烂片，演员演技实力还是在的，其他的没有想象中的那么好。
就当是一部装修杂志来看吧，里面的装修风格非常的标准美式工业风。
这个时代极度稀缺的chick flick，尽管并不算很好看，但物以稀为贵，放松一下倒也还行
包装于赌牌中的复仇故事，拍得有气无力，节奏缓慢。导演大约迷恋旧时电影，从片头、配乐、风格均有诸多模仿。同时又紧跟现在的时髦，总是爱用画外音，开场一大段独白，让人以为是广播剧。其实老老实实拍一部赌场片就好，又偏偏要加入很多的元素，还扯入虐囚酷刑之类的，两者契合得相当生硬。
就存在那里，周末下午看看。
全片明暗摇曳、压抑隐忍，加之男主角着实冷峻，紧绷绷地透着无限内心交战，可惜了这位扑克精算师，最后再度身陷囹圄；所幸音乐足够煽风点火。
套路爱情片，电梯那段还挺好磕，后面人物动机也没交代清楚
还不错台词挺有意思的，男主身材不错。但是我看他笑就会有点出戏（(￣^￣)ゞ） 看了一下原版小说，发现电影改编了好多啊，情节删减了不少
网瘾老年这辈子还真就是写了一个人物然后反复拍。饶是如此，好片不是严格按照理论就能拍出来的
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