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".
隐约联想到巴夏关于bipolar的解释。要是不能理解/接受/容纳/安抚/整合我们脑后的Gabriel，他就要翻身做主人。但有时候我的正面也真的有它束手无策的时候只得派背面出面解决没有其他办法。
依旧是没有什么特殊起伏的标准日式纯爱电影，其实想说日本电影虽然温吞看似冷漠但大多数还是非常理想化的，生命最后找到了为之奋斗的事业还有可以珍惜的人实在是——太童话般了。
与你的点点滴滴我都喜欢
好普通的死人纯爱。但是两位模特出身的主演，拍的真的太美了。
其实是3.5。因为画面太美了 故事本身没什么意思，但是从茉莉准备离开开始我就一直在哭 最后删dv里的画面的时候我真的哭得喘不过气。也不是想推荐大家看吧。就是一部在预期之内 毫无升华的普通生活电影。生活远比电影要残酷。风起缘起 花落缘落 活着的人还要继续好好生活。
胶片剧照好看，摄影好看，景好看，就是电影不咋样。
2022年了，还是日式绝症+纯爱片，且120min，果然预告+歌曲+剧照就够赚票房了。落樱飞舞、DV视角、跨年、旅游、逛街、滑雪、看日出、买菜做饭、放烟火、过生日、求婚、开房...基本该有的都有了，蒙太奇堆叠，构图摄影很炫技，以及加上洋次郎的配乐，氛围是真烘托出来了，我甚至有点感觉在看真人悲剧版《你的名字》...本子真的改编的很弱，情感线很失焦难自洽，仅有突然的片段，成PPT质感了，主要还是看颜吧。
给小坂流加，你比常人稍短的生命里的杰作为未来时空不曾相逢的人带来泪水。感谢制作组。
个人认为导演功力不行 对电影节奏的把握我认为有很大问题 总是在高潮和平静之间反复切换 每次高潮情绪铺垫都还没有完全到位 就戛然而止 镜头语言一般
可能演技和剧情有点差强人意，容易出戏，但是nana独白那一段真的很骗眼泪，台词很真实了
傻逼结尾扣一星，这设定杀疯了，太喜欢了，虽然影像风格其实没有很打动我，后半部分身体恐怖和砍杀部分我看到兴奋得笑了（雾）（要知道其实我一直都对温子仁不感冒，但是这次征服我了。
6.5分。让人印象深刻的类型反转，当你以为它是“闪灵”的时候，它说：不，我是“寄生兽”。
很难不被打动啊!!真一整个爆哭😭😭
挑染男孩终于下猛料！不玩温氏jump scare不来东方装神弄鬼，直接意式铅黄血腥杀戮🩸寄生脸在三池崇史的鬼妓回忆录里出现过，不知道是不是受那个影响🤷🏻♀️
最后的镜头太好看了 坂口小天使和nana都好适合拍dv
《脑后寄生怪胎亲哥哥之超能力复仇篇…》才是本片真名吧？主角屠戮整个警局后如同没事人一般，拥抱妹妹，回归家庭的模样，泪目了！这就是famliy的力量？建议复仇者联盟考虑收编下主角，就叫“雌雄双面侠”[旺柴]
但是故事俗套，这个男主看了就让人生气。一个对生活无比热爱，抱有期待的女主拯救了一个废柴男主。这男的从聚会第一眼就看上女主，一直死缠烂打。🤮我只能说你配吗？小松菜奈也拯救不了这烂俗剧情😓
虽然是传统的日式风格，但还是感动到了我了，男女主两人在这部剧里演技都有进步，期待下次能合作个结局好的🌝
要啥自行车？这熟悉的氛围、这流畅的运镜，还有重口的连体形象以及最后二十分钟的血腥杀戮（真想看温子仁拍一部纯B级动作片），这些还不香么！
大量的哭戏就像排枪阵打仗，足够密集但精度一般，令和年代的残酷青春物语似乎更需要观众在合适时间段看才能共情吧
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