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".
比较好的国产悬疑片，跟之前好的悬疑片比差一些，跟同期其他电影相比还算可以。剧情再丰富一些就好了，窦骁的杀人犯身份暴露有点早，晚点出现新闻就好了。
挺好看，但剧情的紧张感因为太熟悉演员而减弱不少，总觉得格局不太大，巧合也挺多。
现在流行的院线电影：剧本杀密室气质+舞台剧气质。
国内电影比较少见的叙事方式，完成度还不错，但是剧本经不住细敲
1/还挺好的，算是惊喜，可以评9分。豆瓣评分低了吧，没必要因为是中国人拍的院线商业片就给低分吧。
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
原来想看首映，结果西安疫情反复没看成，结果现在在电视机顶盒看了。不断利用空白时间段添加新悬疑的套路，几乎所有反转都是建立在观众并没有掌握的信息基础之上的。回溯式叙事，这个形容比较恰当，毕竟它玩非线性叙事和巧合不如《11:14》这种。没有惊喜，但还可以看。本土化处理也说得过去。喜剧是谈不上的，你不能说范伟主演就是喜剧吧。
要是最后外卖员的戏份可以处理好就可谓升华了，但最后的最后还是邪不压正的一套，未免有些俗套了
层层剥茧，但其实剧情还是不太行，看的人有点累。范伟老师不卖拐了之后真的好厉害啊！
其实布景和故事是很好的，整个结构、情节推进、人物一个个进入，就是没当作电影拍好。电影，有电影的叙事方式，这部电影的差距，还是在导演的功底。
窗外是“阳光”，被血色笼罩。屋里是罪恶，不请自来又像如约而至。罪恶之间的博弈早已拍的一清二楚，一定要最后揭晓。
😹bug过多！冰箱。。救护车。。。
被范伟和张颂文吸引来看的，看完后只想套用片中一句台词评价：“破台词，破镜头，破反转，破表演”。
挺好的尝试，能写出这样的层层反转的剧本不难，难的是能把悬念留到最后，并在过程中层层铺垫。过程中还有一些小伏笔的回收使得观影过程颇有乐趣。可惜，悬疑片最重要的还是剧本的底子，本片的反转数量有余，质量却略显不足，几位反转的主力角色反转的关系稍显刻意
代入感很漂移，无聊到完全不care发生了什么，一帮孩子出来就不想看了。
单舞台电影，本来很喜欢这类，考验剧本和演技，但这几个演员表演还是不太像在正剧，总有喜剧效果。加上国产片又不能黑色结局，感觉很一般。PS.窦骁最后有点像史蒂文元。
很有想法的悬疑片，有疯狂的石头跟两杆大烟枪内味了，五重反转让人直呼卧槽，要不是被弹幕剧透了在电影院能笑出声来，就是结局的揭秘有点强行，前面铺垫的还不够，好在每个人的演技都在线弥补了这个缺点
中间其实还好，部分过于抓马浮夸的地方也能忍，但接近尾声就开始拉，那个被锁隔间的警察要是没出来就是无奈荒诞现实，这出来了就是小学生作文结尾。最后彩蛋俩本应已死的“好人”还硬生生给整活了，减星的冲动更强烈了。
为了反转而反转，情绪与节奏又都是平的，没有递进，让人疲惫。缺乏现实基础、逻辑有伤，无法带入的不真实，让人困乏。导演编剧的能力差的太多，可惜了几个好演员，在及格的边缘，冲着几个人的表演勉强给及格吧。
小反转和幽默的点都很对，可细节处理得实在是一言难尽，要是带点脑子的话有些情节漏洞太大。这个剧本或许只在结构上下了功夫，一些场景的逻辑实在难说。范伟和窦骁的演技很对让片子没有太烂。但也没有什么出彩的地方，中规中矩的反转喜剧。
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