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".
很精彩。几乎限制在单一空间里，连环遭遇情节与喜剧反应一起，很踩着节奏，也忍不住笑。窦骁演技亦不拖范伟后腿，微表情牵动心理活动，牵动笑点
分线很多，剧情其实一般，拍的挺吸引人的。和小易一起看的，还有其他同事，贼刺激
2021.10.20@长风大悦城。大清早不睡觉阿猫阿狗吵什么吵，又一部在重庆的片子，哪里都是湿漉漉的，潮潮的。其实反反复复更多的是同一个场景，像一场密室里的大逃杀。螺旋重映的赶脚。其实难在几个演员的对手戏和反复演绎。空旷的影厅里和小夏的一场秋日dating。
令人惊喜的悬疑犯罪电影，整体而言完成度不错，故事条理比较清晰，人物关系处理还算得当。三个美中不足的点：1人物动机交待得不够有完整，导致人物行事目的性不够强，没有足够的动力；2节奏有些拖沓，几条时间线的时间流速控制得不好，通过剪辑和换场营造误会和紧张感，细想会有漏洞；3整个故事没有完全内收，也就缺少了类似疯狂的石头一样的宿命感，这一类型的电影，巧合只是表面，人物在命运的玩弄中浮浮沉沉的选择才是点睛之笔和内核。
蛮好看的，小场景多时间线插倒叙事和层层反转，人物形象分明及几个瞬间表演也很亮。不足之处是部分反转有些刻意为之，到结尾已经疲了，另外就是片子初段总有点小品的味道，后段好很多。
整的神神叨叨的，不就是一个非线性的叙事，看了一半弃了
不能说反转，叫拼图更准确一点。直播男在厕所被锁了几个小时？这个太夸张了！
没什么太大意思，故事靠巧合推动。节奏看起来快，但实际上无意义的废剧情废台词挺多。表演也就那样，前期故弄玄虚的地方挺多，最后感觉就是不过尔尔。
沉浸式剧本杀+小品包袱大合集。娱乐性超强，一步一个笑点，一步一个反转。上一秒笑出鹅叫，下一秒直呼卧槽。真正做到了最后一秒都是笑点。最后善恶终有报，皆大欢喜。导演野心很大，成品差强人意
故事很完整，悬疑部分也可以。只是从我知道张颂文和受害的女生不认识之后，情绪突然就掉下来了，后来好一会儿才又被吸引住。
7分。剧本杀，一幕幕递进，揭开迷雾，很多反转，有惊喜也有遗憾，有出人意料之处（比如张颂文不是尤先生），也有刻意为之（比如认亲），但是每次重复剧情稍显拖沓，可怜之人必有可恨之处，好人难做。
不断的反转，剧本杀，狭小空间，悬疑。
被范伟和张颂文吸引来看的，看完后只想套用片中一句台词评价：“破台词，破镜头，破反转，破表演”。
本来就值两星，验货那段戏扎心了，打拐三观正在加一颗星。
在群里抢到优惠券 看的点映。张颂文太太太帅了!!!!!!!!!!!😻“谢谢你救了她”“是她救了我”果然好人有好报
黑色幽默的剧情，罗生门式的剧本杀，线索与夹带在情节中的铺垫，将荒诞的故事与真相得以完美结合。影片以环环相扣的气氛为核心，以好人与坏人的变换为起始点，将沉浸式的剧本杀升华主题，或许这正是真相浮出水面的意义。
20211020点映看过，窦骁在结尾送出了全片为数不多的小高潮，其余待补。
整体框架是可以的，但是情节交代方式单一，叙事节奏拖沓，而且巧合过多，最终的呈现有些松散。所有的故事都发生在一间屋子里，可惜了那么好的一座楼了。
前面很有意思，叙事有《疯狂的石头》风格，中间有段像小品，高潮部分露了怯，结尾想致敬《神探》，但整体更像《大世界》，刻意的社会议题引入又明显的力不从心变成了《调音师》，窦骁发挥不太稳定，当然主要是因为对手戏是和范伟
太惊喜了！国产悬疑电影能拍的这么缜密精彩，眼前一亮，有点《看不见的客人》的感觉了，不断反转，层层揭开真相，逻辑严谨细致，期待导演的下部作品！
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