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".
露西亚娜曾为一位著名小说家工作，因为作家的一次冲动，强吻了露西亚，羞愧的女主告知了母亲，随后被告
看了半天结尾就这？！也就二点五分吧，可惜不能打半颗星。
🇯🇵拍的真是越来越差了，看了但是跟没看也差不多，没什么能记住的点
基本不写评价的，但这垃圾的让我实在忍不住了。影片没有解释是怎么杀人的，这男二号记者也没什么用，浪费时间。也就女主角比较漂亮能让我看下去，这电影连国内悬疑片都比不上。
它用类似于微小说的方式，讲述了人生的一种状态，这个状态和《日落》这个片名很契合，这让片子变得有点高级。而且它讲故事的手段，从摄影配乐到演员表演都朴实无华，导演虽然确实有货真价实的人生感悟，但全程淡定，不显山露水，直到最后片名出来才让你茅厕顿开。那一刻我觉得，导演对这样的人生状态是有感悟的，可能自己就经历过，也可能目睹至亲好友经历过，总之拿捏得挺到位，像我这种还没经历过的都立马和蒂姆罗斯演的这个角色产生了共鸣，虽然前一秒我还不是很看得起他。
浪费了交叉骨和斯巴达勇士这俩硬汉了，最有演技的就是那个神经病杀手，剧情太傻了，啥刺激场面也没有
并不是拍得出和生活一样无聊的影像就叫电影了
有部分尚可的动作，节奏，画面质感，镜头语言等，前半部分铺垫稍长，且对后半部分的塑造作用有限，总体归于尚可一看。
前面做的铺垫虽然后面都用上了，但是还是很索然无味。后半个小时则是高能不断，但那个时候的观众早已提不起兴趣了。
一个忍不住的性骚扰，变成两家人的家破人亡，太刺激了吧
最后的结尾确实非常出乎我的意料，虽然演员演技都很棒，但是奈何整个故事实在没有说服力，导致在看到结尾之前，一切的剧情都让人很摸不着头脑。
浪费了交叉骨和斯巴达勇士这俩硬汉了，最有演技的就是那个神经病杀手，剧情太傻了，啥刺激场面也没有
自杀式的留白就更显得前面的小情小趣，就…蛤？
真的是个小成本制作电影，不过还是有硬伤，不知道为啥泰迪会屡次得到大家的信任，真的是命好吧……
在反常规的情节里操控着观众的注意力。一闪而过的暴力刻画并未揭开墨西哥社会问题的症结
黎明终将到来，是泡沫也好，是希望也好，总要去面对。
有钱人的任性、不顾一切、潇洒放纵，令人羡慕。直至结尾，夜间城市街道游走、阳光下的海浪、椅子上的衬衫、地上的鞋子，给全片做了一个很好的总结——虚无。
威尼斯主竞赛第九场，如果我事先做了功课知道这是《新秩序》导演的新片我肯定会弃了这片。整体观感比《新秩序》好点但我还是受不了这令人无语的反转，导演真的是太喜欢故弄玄虚自作聪明了。最恐怖的是我发现还有一部主竞赛的制片也是他。OMG！这就是威尼斯嫡系吗？
前半段真的很花束，黎明时分逆着太阳升起的方向奔跑，被社会磨平棱角，但是为什么转折这么的问号❓，啊，所以女主说一切都有结束的时候男主是这样的表情啊，所以搬家并没有同居啊，所以“好きです、全部好きです”
有点警局大逃杀的味道，一个警局，感觉没一个是好人。
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