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".
刚看完第一反应，就这？现在仔细想想可能是自己要求太高了，国产得鼓励，够不错了
我不想界定这是一部“治愈”电影，更准确的说法应该是“疗伤”电影，因为“治愈”总是更强调引导正向的结果，而“疗伤”可以仅仅是展现过程本身。正如男主对即将出世孩子的祝福，“希望是一个对眼前小事也能感到幸福的人”，而他正是被剥夺了这种能力，又在奔跑和滑板这两个最重要的动作中重新完成修习，前者令人忘却周身，后者让人犹在飞行，但最后它们都要落地。这世界上大部分的烦恼症结几乎都在于此，我们无法落地。东出昌大最后在精神病院发出的追悔莫及，很像是面对他自己真实生活中那段婚姻的迟到亏欠，而奈绪几乎逼近《岸边之旅》中只凭一场戏让人久久难忘的苍井优，在母性被践踏的那一刻无条件地竖起防御，又在覆水难收的爱情面前保持着惊人的定力。
老实说还可以，不过还是有一堆逻辑不自恰。有彗星来的那一晚和恐怖游轮那味了，基本融合的还行
4.5 东出昌大自己现实经历和片中角色形成一种微妙的互文，他可能也在某个时刻怀疑为什么就走到了这里吧，奈绪的表现也比期待中更好。如果没有过这种快要在自己的抑郁中溺死自己的经历是无法真切表达出和雄这个角色身上的无奈和脆弱的，就这一点来看，东出昌大的表现真的非常惊艳。
多加一星给导演，因为从他那儿学到了许多干货。
感觉这种逻辑可以自洽的小成本悬疑片，已经还不错了
他们无法释怀的情感以他们独自的释然方式坚定存在着，寻找自我一定是迷茫的但或许所做的一切会有其特殊意义
你好。早安。午安。晚安。 你好吗 ？你好吗？我也被困在那里。
小片片讲解，此片是恐怖游轮和彗星来了套路。而又有结合平行时空。对于国产影片来说，确实是非常不错了。虽然里面还是有些坑没有填，但是也讲了部分对人性的思考。人都是自私的。
有点意思，三个演员就可以搞定，最后女主找到了想要的生活，却是牺牲了另一个自己。
拍的什么玩意，还牵根绳子穿越，就这智商还拍这种类型的片？
一个多小时的电影其实就是解释了什么是平行空间，没听过这个概念的可以看看，估计还会觉得很玄乎，其他东西就别期待了，剧情很拖沓，我用1.5倍看也完全没问题，演员的演技马马虎虎及格线吧…
冲着国产科幻片这个名头去电影院看的，看之前上网做了一下功课，发现是三个人（其实也有四个人啦）、十四天、一百万的时候，心里面其实感觉有点悬的，期望值已经被降低了，但最后整片看下来其实还是挺不错的。电影的质感、完成度还是很不错的片子有细节铺垫，但一开始的时候并不知道，到看完回想起来才会发现原来是铺垫。总体来说还是挺不错的，可以一看。
其实是不太好了，因为大家已经拍过很多这种了，这就是毫无创新换了个场景而已，所以实在称不上还行
小丧
滤镜加成下，我觉得这个拍的挺好的，比信条好多了，真的…
最后光着脚在草地上跑起来，晃动的镜头，突然觉得好感动（虽然也不知道在感动什么
erin推荐。挺喜欢的。记着了lower-upper-middle class，看完了想读小说。这种家庭/成长/作家自传题材本来就是对大部分人都有共鸣的。70年代配乐好评，虽然有些场景拍得像mv。没想到是乔治克鲁尼执导的，对他的之前印象还是迎娶白富美女律师。
father complex是主题吗？但是没有解释清楚啊.....活着的目的是什麽呢？是为了考律师让妈妈开心吗？
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