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".
有点长，1.5倍速看完了，导演好凶哦，赶自己老婆在门外面睡（童年阴影），为什么要安插精神出轨那段，健身教练变胖太搞笑了。2022年依旧希望疫情快点结束吧
选择了互相救赎的故事。情绪一直是淡淡的、不是很抓人，但是绘本风的唯美画面很戳我。
“向所有受过苦的人致敬”
这个电影让我重温了去年3月刚刚隔离的时候在巴黎的生活，还没有什么口罩，外面还在谣言满天飞，每天8点站在阳台上为医护人员鼓掌，对面一个牙医用大喇叭组织街坊知识抢答。我是整整在家呆了一个月没有出门（后来出去一次不记得密码了，进不了院子）。我看的第一部新冠电影，虽然有点小夸张，但是补发幽默和温馨。
题材是很新颖的，可以去看一看，电影其实还行。
疫情期间的微缩场景，结局有小小的遗憾，但整体还是大团圆的走向。神经紧张的插画家，隔离会火的健身教练，科学怪人科学家，全场最可爱Lily，有工作日常，有熟悉的职场人际，有小阁楼里的局促和无奈。在某一个点有所反转，健身教练狂吃奶油，幕后孕妇突然涨粉，跋扈的有钱人反思自己的错误，神经质的被害妄想开始理解家人，但是这个点有点突然，神经质把妻子赶到门外过夜真的很过分啊，然后突然就能理解了，节奏感觉有点快。但整体还是会有一点小温暖。
剧本很薄弱 分镜并不是一直保持在最好的状态 但是我对福山润演这种角色真的无法拒绝……在这黑暗与孤独的世界，相信一定会有人与自己互为光亮
妖国外宾开明绅士拯救红码少女，这难道不是青年一个沪人太太午睡时做的梦，梦里的末日仍然是鱼鳖不可胜食的丰盈模样，筷子一碰都是おいしい的声音
虽然不及Dany Boon之前的电影，但还是小心翼翼地建议中国那帮拍电影的人来看一下。
人物稍有脸谱化，但也算是疫情电影里还不错的片。
把疫情幽默化，现在新的一波来袭，跨年宅在家看看这一部作为2022年第一部电影挺好的
疫情下的一群浩呆, 格局小到簡直就是bottle episode, 劇本精妙之處就是每個人都讓人想呼他一巴掌, 但溫情反轉還是挺喜歡的畢竟在這個境況還是要多點愛
这次Boon把自己和Damiens的人设都拍得恰到好处，反而是Attal的人设太夸张。但看到Boon在最后给自己的喜剧安插了悲剧的结尾，就是为了照顾到很多人的情绪，还挺暖心的。
法式幽默，不是拍的多好，是当下生活的跨时空写照
特效很棒 整体不错 确实有点恐怖片 中间还僵尸的感觉 但我个人评分五分
“新”生代笑匠出道即巅峰，之后的作品热闹有余风光不再，本片的题材非常讨巧，先加0.75星，实体影院被新冠整得奄奄一息，不知除了奈飞是否同步上院线，尽管剧情有些注水，仍有很BOON的笑点，让俺们一块笑对疫情，携手前行。
地点巴黎的主旋律+正能量抗疫剧，法式幽默和雅趣贯穿始终，穿插隔离期街景特有的空旷美。
开头半小时还挺有趣的，但实在太长了，剧情越到后面越拉胯，最后回归温情主旋律就变得无聊了。
走错电影院，全程看特效，说明魔法最强啊。。
结尾很感动，但是对疯人医生的刻画看了感觉很不适，真的不会进一步加深对医学和疫苗的误解吗？
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