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".
艺术世家的插画大师韦恩，不擅理财，不擅俗世事务，兴趣极其广泛，活得天真自然激情勇敢羞怯深情。今年难得的好片。
色彩，摄影，光线，构图都是顶级的，极具美感的，令人陶醉的。人物的塑造也像是为本尼量身定做，表演精致但同质化。天才的孤独感又一次贯穿始终。但这一切无法掩盖剧本的常规和平庸。
7.0，姐弟这条线创意不错，把一个为了弟弟牺牲的姐姐以一直存在的方式放在弟弟旁边叙事，创意十足。只是不太喜欢父与子互相揽责煽情的部分，男主和允儿的片段拍得好甜。按戏份姐姐才是女主，允儿是女配，尤其到了后半段很少有镜头了除了结尾。节奏有点慢显得片子很长……
画面超级美，像香水广告那么美！一段短暂而美好的爱情，一场无解又曲折的生活，养猫人士大概更能get那种表情全无，但内心无比丰富的人吧，唉，还好有猫，互为了解，又互不打扰。
面对几乎无法抬头的不间断的人生打击，还要从生活里发现美，是爱的力量。
三星半，虽然比较韩式套路，但是架不住温馨动人，姐姐的反转是好评，只是就戏份和角色深度来说，姐姐才是绝对的女一啊，姐控表示喜欢。
包含了亲人之间情感 当最后误会一切被解开始 看的我五味杂陈 内心也非常复杂 三个人每个人都让人很心疼 最后的结局不算完美 最终当误会最被解开 每个人都得到了释怀 也算是没有遗憾了！
这种艺术题材的电影当然要融合艺术家本人的风格，而这部作品也不例外。大量的呈现给观众的视角仿佛都透着几分不真实，带着几分彩画的影子。
画面很美，台词文艺，就是用神经质来囫囵解释全部的灵气和灵力不喜。本来令人着迷的就是难以表达的部分，留白就好了。
以上, 俺家美短+英短都有
一部讲述姐弟情，父子情和爱情的感人励志之作，没有煽情，没有狗血剧情，国产爱情电影多学学
允儿1⭐，她已经成为了比片中的萤火虫更耀眼的演员。
前半段寫階級差異下的outsiders互相扶持互相救贖的愛情故事相當感人，後半段開始逐漸平庸流水帳。有嘗試提及在維多利亞時期的女性地位問題但只是蜻蜓點水，其他如原生家庭問題也如是（有幾個片段出戲到《小婦人》），甚至片尾對於「電力」的解釋以帶出所謂主題也是如此地生硬。畫面不錯，巧妙地利用4:3比例和油畫感的攝影讓觀眾進入電影的時空裡，夫妻二人在湖前的鏡頭美到叫人難忘。
本质是一个艺术家的爱情故事。最常见的元素都有：精神分裂、天才/天赋、一见钟情等等。在中国的流行大概和现在爱猫人士满大街有关吧…原来一直到19世纪，英国社会还没有将猫普遍地作为宠物呀
男主演的不像十几岁，没有少年感。
卷褔无敌.
画面的绚丽和光影的唯美，都远大于故事本身。不是那么精彩的人物传记，但猫猫可爱，倒也足矣。🥰
剧情有点粗糙但还是很经典。林允儿演真的高中生毫无压力
温情满满，剧情不出彩，不过仍然很喜欢，感觉演员表应该把姐姐往前排啊🤔，林允儿其实不算女主的说。其实我有个想法，把姐姐离开那段换成男主下车后姐姐留在车上，然后男主看着姐姐随列车远去，一束光总感觉有点突兀
本来想打四星的…允儿实在是太美好了，加一星吧
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