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".
电影还可以，但是要是胆小的把它真当成喜剧看，千万小心里面的配乐。
一个密闭空间里，多线回溯的叙事，把各个不相关方联系在一起还蛮有趣的，但是感觉最后缺了点惊喜，不够反转的亚子，后来都有点困了。 ps：还是范伟问话最好看
❷出现一堆小孩的时候，有点震惊了，万万没想到。
黑色幽默低成本故事，只是故事前提还不足以成立，底层逻辑不够，所以加再多戏剧桥段都还是觉得差点意思
这种叙事结构已经不稀奇了，但整体节奏把握得还不错，有些巧合点实在有些强行，就比如张总和小马同村认识那一段-_-有些场景拍得还挺赞，比如小孩子们蒙着眼唱歌那一段-_-演员的表演还是挺加分的，私心为这种国产小制作加一颗⭐
反转到疲劳，巧合到离奇，青年导演为了讲个故事真可谓绞尽脑汁了。
黑色有了，逻辑还是不严密；结尾要停在冰块儿那，然后电脑哥被锁死就很银河映像了（这被绳之以法的结尾虽说是必须，但当年[毒战]不还有个全员阵亡的可选项先例么）；复刻[低俗小说]桥段不有趣，因为台词太“实用主义”了
［6.5］几次反转，不过中间基本上清晰了整体走向，中规中矩吧这部
还不错诶！筒子楼，霓虹灯，身份特征明显的几个人聚集在同一间屋子。封闭空间小成本黑色幽默犯罪悬疑电影，多线叙事加精彩的多个反转，剧作逻辑清晰，每个人的行动线也在叙事中逐渐明朗。但觉得最后结尾可以处理的更好，好像哪个方面都差了一口气。总体还是好看且精彩的！
小20年过去，国内还是就宁浩一个把盖里奇抄明白了。最离谱的是，结尾甚至抄了《神探》……离谱啊。
居然头一次get到窦骁的帅点 / 不得不说 这无限循环的拍法可太省钱了
剧本杀，而且全员恶人。许多情节看似突兀，回想起来确实又交代过，想玩黑色幽默吧又不具备那个艺术细菌，新晋导演的牛刀小试，勉强及格了，6.0/10。
还是挺好的。一出小品式的黑色幽默。黑色喜剧元素，悬疑元素，动作元素都齐了，整体故事套路上并不很新颖，也没做到特别流畅，但也大致能自圆其说了，一波波转折层出不穷，草灰蛇线的线索也铺垫的比较足。剪辑上还不够好，欠点火候。表演上真的是挺不错的。范伟的表演还是一如既往的亲民有层次。影片后半段孩子们一出来，一下子主题升华了，让人有点感动，不错。
迷影情节也好，一些经典借鉴也罢，遗憾的是没什么出彩的惊喜，电影量多一点的基本上中间就能猜到一些结局，所以结尾的和谐也是要有心理准备
前面很有意思，叙事有《疯狂的石头》风格，中间有段像小品，高潮部分露了怯，结尾想致敬《神探》，但整体更像《大世界》，刻意的社会议题引入又明显的力不从心变成了《调音师》，窦骁发挥不太稳定，当然主要是因为对手戏是和范伟
部分bug，整体不错，范伟这个口音真的自带笑果
沉浸式剧本杀+小品包袱大合集。娱乐性超强，一步一个笑点，一步一个反转。上一秒笑出鹅叫，下一秒直呼卧槽。真正做到了最后一秒都是笑点。最后善恶终有报，皆大欢喜。导演野心很大，成品差强人意
［6.5］几次反转，不过中间基本上清晰了整体走向，中规中矩吧这部
有些荒诞，但又在情理之中。没被剧透的情况下看会非常精彩！
洋葱一样层层剥皮抽丝剥茧，最后真相大白，过瘾
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