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".
二刷
打动的平凡小细节，两个人做着傻傻的事情。走过小神像的拜拜，和路边谁猜到路上的疤痕谁死的游戏，很感动。非常偶然看视频时推荐的广告。不知道啥内容但想着上映了要去看，果然很合拍。有机会会想再看一遍。还有最后一幕的日出。
某一刻、某个场景、某个片段，如同火花擦过，让人突然想起（共同经历过的）某个人。然而时过境迁，最终只是稍微想起，引人片刻陷入回忆的程度罢了。
大一的短片剧本写过类似的故事，被泼冷水。后来看到好几个类似结构。有点可惜。
不错，感觉在本片中，松居大悟一直迷恋的时间结构才真正发挥作用。同一天的倒序排列共同组成一次漫长的闪回，剧场的相遇衔起首尾，正在发生的每一刻都与之前的某一刻构成精巧的呼应和微妙的共振，苦与乐、悲与喜、分离与相遇、沉默与言说、坚持与放弃互相交织映照。真唏嘘啊，我们注定在相拥的同时擦肩而过，正如你的生日总是超了7分钟，可是绿灯却刚好亮起，向前行驶，是你操纵了我的车灯，照亮前方的道路。
今年最佳爱情片了吧。。。相比去年的花束，一个从开始到结束，一个从结束到开始，都是细节控。。。爱不是有意要去做什么，而往往是无意识的反应。。。这种感觉将人联系在了一起。。。
我喜欢到处看看，但又不知道去哪，乘客刚好会告诉我去哪
倒叙式的讲故事 从分手讲到相爱 挺有趣的 在巷子里跳舞 在没人的水族馆里看鱼 都好浪漫啊
张子枫和吴磊唱《拥抱》的时候，我在怀念已经逝去的青春（《盛夏光年》）。今年最爱的院线之一。
打动的平凡小细节，两个人做着傻傻的事情。走过小神像的拜拜，和路边谁猜到路上的疤痕谁死的游戏，很感动。非常偶然看视频时推荐的广告。不知道啥内容但想着上映了要去看，果然很合拍。有机会会想再看一遍。还有最后一幕的日出。
3/7/2022 9:50pm bc / 敗筆是找她當女角。。她像肥師奶啊
开始总是分分钟都妙不可言。喜欢最后的停顿。稍微想起了一些，在每个生日，及某些落日。但无论如何，日出会一如往常。
刚认识的时候“反正以后不会再见面了” 真就不再见面了 分手恋人的故事，倒叙的杀伤力太大了 前段看着没感觉，气氛逐渐热烈欢快反而哭出了声音 在同类作品里的艺术水准很高了，也少不了两位主演的功劳。眼眶含泪的亮亮真的杀我
夏夜总会掉入回忆的漩涡。总有一些藏在时间缝隙里的人事物突然汹涌而来，猝不及防，震慑心房。
池松在这部好可爱。烦内，再也不想看爱情电影了。
过多的呼应与精巧，更像源自某种真诚。看完被女主拿捏了
我大半夜说就去逛逛奥森吧他说好呀
心里默默为他庆祝生日
宣布这是我今年到目前为止最喜欢的love story，相比起花束的具象心动，不可名状的事物才是恋爱的常态。这是一段值得回味的，稍微想起一些的过去。
善良是职责，要用一生去完成。善良是鲜花，要用清水去浇灌。善良是烛光，要用心火去点燃。善良是珍珠，要用道德去购买。
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