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".
7分，自导自演啊，有点厉害，很舒服的一部电影。
22岁的男人不应该这么不成熟，尽做傻事，对妈妈男友态度也严重有问题。总之，这效果脑壳一定有问题，被门夹过。
三星半。流畅温暖的青春小品，达妹演母亲的表现轻车熟路。
唔，好舒适柔软的爱情小品，适合周五晚上的vibe 有谁可以抗拒一个幽默、善良、礼貌、坦诚、真挚又外向的22岁男大毕业废柴甜心呢？打完才发现这角色过于完美…无论代入暧昧对象、代入妈妈或弟弟，都很难不爱上Andrew…就像台词里说的，他是世界上最sweet的人，他太懂如何爱别人了，尤其懂怎么爱女性，怎么向女性表达爱，所以让我一度很惊讶男主是自导自演，男性创作者可以做到，这很珍贵。BTW 达妹已经到了演妈妈的年龄吗…
原来哭泣能够治愈所有失意，只有暖男与幽怨相遇才能避开暴力
在当今女性主义兴起的政治环境下，越来越多的女性主义电影尤其是讲述女性被男性压迫的电影出现，只不过故事之间虽有不用但其表达的内容越来越趋于同质化，观感之上使人难免有些乏意，即使是这部有着男性不断怀胎不断生产出男性的惊悚画面的电影依旧不能例外。
《甘草披萨》的青春变调，如果说《甘草》是“大人装小孩”，那《恰恰》就是“小孩装大人”，而后者自然就会更具青春的活力和气息，所以《恰恰》呈现出来的情感效果，相对来说也会更舒服、更温柔些，就好比夏日的一杯Mojito那样丝滑可口。
翻译应该叫蝻；很多symbolism，graphic extreme版的shirley jackson，没有故事纯粹的感受，我挺愿意为这种体验买单
电影节常见的那种暖暖忧伤的小甜片……技术是过关的，但是这种“非常懂事非常caring的男孩”和“似乎婚姻不幸福的熟女”故事怎么看都有点不够厚实，甚至有些帕丁顿熊。这样一个太完美的男主真的让我没办法共情，甚至不知道从哪儿下脚。 后来一看是男主自编自导自演啊，那没事了……
3.5 淡淡化开的绿豆冰 水渍是summer love的印迹
半个世纪过去了，依然还是《毕业生》的基本套路
没有预想得那么丝滑。观感有点割裂，有时候觉得真诚动人，有时候又觉得有点矫情。流了两滴眼泪。
大概成年人真的不配有一个soul mate吧
大概成年人真的不配有一个soul mate吧
被片名吸引，然后从电影开头起就轻易地陷入，很久没遇到这种看起来毫不费劲的片子了。看完结尾有点说不出的失望。不过Cooper Raiff未来可期。
太尼玛治愈了，summer sadness治愈神片。探讨各种心理疾病、成长烦恼。没有极端细致的观察和生活体验的人是写不出这种剧的ps：达妹好美
郊区中产年轻白男的自得自满，好在拍得确实丝滑。
平平淡淡流进心里。真好啊，人生；真好啊，经历。
在车上的镜头是全片的亮点
crush后续的完美答案
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