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".
有的时候过度反转比意料之中更令人厌恶，整体气氛是很到位的，作为悬疑片不合格的地方也有，最差的地方是摄影，导演真的挺想显摆自己是摄影指导的，但是玩脱了。看看你摄影的几个片子的短评吧，大家都不喜欢你的小伎俩。
我觉得挺好，黑色幽默，悬疑，犯罪，感动都有了，过程和叙事方法很有点罗生门的味道。结局好人有好报虽然落俗套，但皆大欢喜。
洋葱一样层层剥皮抽丝剥茧，最后真相大白，过瘾
儿童拐卖这种情节是能纯用来给主创们炫技的？
儿童拐卖这种情节是能纯用来给主创们炫技的？
感觉和《无名之辈》有点像，最近还挺喜欢这种一个室内就完成的片子，不断反转，挺过瘾的。
剧情、悬疑还是可以的。范老师的表演有点出戏。结尾，是硬加上去的吧。
第一次看这种"剧本杀"式的故事，还挺新鲜的，几个反转也算有趣。
整体结构不错，故事多方穿插，层层递进，善恶难辨，但是剧情生硬，人物动机都不符合正常逻辑，人物个性前后矛盾差太多，配角穷凶极恶但一碰就挂，主角开光环一次又一次残血反杀，最后结尾强行升华啼笑皆非，作为话剧应该挺不错，但拍成电影实在有些无聊
评分「8.0」
❶中间要挟对方人质互捅那地方变成搞笑片我有点跟不上了。
前半环形结构的时候因为有悬念的加持节奏看上去还挺好的，后来就节奏掉下来了，居然看睡着了……封闭空间的空间利用感觉有点差，摄影也有点平，就一直期待能来个大反转，结果就这？
其实就是利用编剧和观众不对等的信息差加上打乱时间线来讲故事，但因为大家还是自己，所以严格意义上没悬疑什么事。故事很简单，要填充地太多所以显得松散。窦骁最后把头发撸到后面那里也太帅了吧！给前女友看看就没这些事了吧
电影氛围好，观影氛围好，映后互动氛围好，导演意外很可爱诶。是部优秀的国产电影，上过北影节必然不会失望。对于这种一个小房间里拍完一部戏，还要有章有法张弛有度，很高难度。电影完成度很高，镜头语言也带感，局中局的剧本也很棒，演员棒。另外，希望珠珠和蔡鹭以后能接更大的角色。
张颂文没啥发挥的地方可惜了。
三点五分，小成本，螺蛳壳里做道场，但是不够彻底，故事勉强说得圆，但人物没有更多延展，基本是范伟带着窦骁飙戏，几处bug让你感觉导演在写实与荒诞之间疯狂试探，但最终还是在现实中束手就擒。
故事的设定很悬浮，演员的表演到是很不错。结尾的主题升华非常公式化。
蹩脚的的表演，拙劣的模仿，混乱的逻辑，作呕的结局，还可以更差吗？
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。
范伟台词一出口我还是觉得他在讲小品哈哈哈哈，但是影帝就是影帝，那表情神态拿捏的死死的，能给电影加不少分。故事也是个好故事，窦骁后期转变的张力不够，所以结局拉胯了点。
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