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".
剧情俗套肤浅 拍摄表演妆化滤镜诡异 这居然是2021的“电影”？
20211113@Cinema City / 看完一回想确实很老套狗血矫情，但是还是被伤到了，特别是悔过书的部分。中间有蓝宇tribute也是最大的惊喜。女二隐忍的性格很迷人，选择和未必是真爱的男性结婚的理由，或许是自身离婚家庭背景所致，只有变成友情的爱情才能长存。虽然如先前短评所言的剪辑缺陷、糖水片滤镜确实存在，但不至于这么低分。左边座位紧紧攥着女朋友的手来看的女生哭的也很伤心，还分给了我半张纸跟着一起哭。
没有时代背景，没有家庭阻力，没有原因的分开，强行be，垃圾电影。
两个人有共同的过去，但也有可能是不同的回忆…为什么最喜欢的食物总是在最难过的时候吃到…
差点又因为好多人说不好而错过的一部电影…看了之后也明白为什么有一部分人会不喜欢。但其实 这部电影除了部分剧情有点让人无语+狗血 其实真的挺优秀的 至少女主的演技不错 女二的演技不会让人出戏 这在亚洲女同电影里其实蛮少见的了 也是让我觉得这部电影很珍贵的一点 女主好像48的Z姓小偶像啊。至于让人诟病的接吻戏其实也很正常啊，青涩的初恋，上来就吻的像情场老手才更奇怪吧/ 前面的高中戏让我想起了好多往事 哎 最后婚礼也有感动我 有多少人去参加过自己最爱的人和别人的婚礼呢 如果是我 我肯定不会去参加 开始觉得好狗血 之后又觉得 在相同体制下培养出来的人类 输出的东西会有多少不一样呢 大概率都是千篇一律的故事罢了 就像有时候你觉得自己好像独一无二 结果发现原来大家都是这样想的的无奈
虽然只有三星，但推荐观看。优点是情节细腻，雨中吻虽然中二，但是感人。缺点是动机铺陈不够，后半段略生硬，两位女演员演技也有点生涩。
后知后觉爱上的人
我还是会去的（落下泪来）
2022-04-04 结局，挺虐但正常的吧。喜欢长大以后的女主们的样子。
某些片段可以，但是结局我真的不理解 骗我眼泪。
第一次试探梗着脖子的亲吻，第一次在昏暗的房间里，放着《蓝宇》，我在你耳边悄悄说了一句我爱你，你睡着了肯定没有听见。你说只要两人相爱什么问题都不能阻挠我们，最后你却还是退缩了。你是我第一个爱上的人，果然三十岁我们都还独自一人的话，就结婚吧这种话不能信。但你永远都是我最好的朋友，永远都不会改变。搞不懂结局为什么没有he？
演技 滤镜 剧情 剪辑 都不行。为一个感触就是“冲破桎梏 打破世俗”
在雨中拥吻，在婚礼告别。哦对了这个打光....真的好喜欢雨中篮球场那段....不出意外的话应该是年度瞬间了....
氛围我超喜欢，但后半段剧情有点看不懂…有些地方挺莫名其妙的就
（题外话：真的没有人觉得短发有点像金瑞亨，长发有点像陈妍希吗）
技术不错，电影节奏好。但角色行为逻辑不够自洽哎，让人迷惑，强行BE。
唯一出彩的地方是 在学校时被爸妈发现恋情后 爸妈没有打骂与发疯
「會遺憾的 但怎樣都希望對方是幸福的」看完反而記住了最後素人採訪的這句話
朦胧中，就要骗过自己，最终走向的人是你
有一说一画面还是不错的，就是剧情就有些一言难尽，故事拐点总是能让人意外，可以说完全是为了BE而BE
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
