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".
“后窗”、“放大”、桌面电影、疫情、AI、女性相助、现代人心理障碍...迷影梗也好，当下热点也好，这么多元素堆砌，但剧作实际上很单薄。
精彩的后疫情时代电影，人工智能，女权意识和心理惊悚各种议题都糅合在里面了，小巧精炼，给了各种线索。本该帮助被侵犯女性的组织成员助纣为虐，反隔离抗议者帮助女主不被杀手拖拽上车，讽刺极了。女主离开家再逃离回家的镜头真的让人眩晕心悸。最后片尾曲用了elastica的connection，好开心
6分。前1个小时一直在想，我在看啥。后面kimi联动，热血2分钟。体会，1死宅家中常备射钉枪，2干掉几个人后你的社恐就好啦，因为不喜欢的都可以干掉啊。
为啥别人的kimi如此丝滑，我的天猫精灵就是个智障
为啥别人的kimi如此丝滑，我的天猫精灵就是个智障
从两三个时事热点展开的小成本电影。导演能力略有不足，但那个打太极的女管理拍出了可恨。
女主还是挺勇敢的，最后终于战胜心魔，走出家门。
故事内容很简单，拍摄氛围感十足，尤其是描述心理障碍症状发作时；看完最后一幕好解压！
毫无内涵的一般爽片，日常反派集体智商掉线导致最后全军覆没，逻辑硬伤太多。不过题材还算是正能量没忍心打一星而已
听了个社会新闻一琢磨就弄个后窗高科技版的感觉，创作估计耗时半小时，索德伯格已经多年作品在及格线徘徊了，一直是很有想法的导演镜头运用也很有个人特色，但近几年一直给人在糊弄的感觉，比起年纪大的多更爱惜羽毛的导演该长长心了。。。
4分少一点吧。背景人物设定和故事的发展产生了很多冲突，总体影片节奏还是比较紧张刺激的。平台水准的一部片子，女主的蓝色头发很好看～
大数据疫情时代包装下的犯罪片，导演还是想表达数据化带来的信息无处不裸露在外的惊悚也如同Angle极其敏感的表演一样。中间有场戏镜头把她影得很小，紧贴着墙走出寻求安全感，外界环境放大为噪音污染，摄影机好似尾随窥探的运动，妙用楼梯、机房、长廊等场景压迫感、窒息感、恐惧感表现淋漓尽致。
无聊的片子，就不去比较情节与演技哪个更差了。
概念有的，前面节奏还算紧凑，后面剧本又糟糕，把控能力也全面坍塌
废镜头也太多了…四倍速都嫌烦，只有最后十分钟能看。
出门周旋
给一个大公司或是组织卖命是个危险的事，一旦你干了不利于组织利益的事，就有可能被除掉了
【2022-2-16】逻辑混乱剧情稀碎但看的很爽，女主聪明且酷，打钉枪比消音枪还牛笑死了
略短 女主金手指大开 连杀三个人 爽文情节 虽然但是 提醒了我们要注意无处不在的被电子设备侵犯隐私问题啊 虽然貌似我们也毫无反抗之力 另外额 还有邻居 他们真的看得到
中规中矩吧，就是说娱乐性还可以，小女子智斗杀人犯！以前看过一部叫《叠影谋杀案》现在叫《杀手在门外》哈哈哈。。。主演是西格尼韦佛《异形》女猪脚，也是说有这个只能在屋里不能出门然后巴拉巴拉。。。不过让我有个也装个声控的这种东东，挺有意思的。。。
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