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".
牛逼，感动！一个女生从来不打吃鸡竟然看哭了
没有期待的看片，反而收获了满足，内核满满，电竞精神贯穿整个故事，资本掌控比赛，所有选手都是棋子，但学区房队就冲破了枷锁，干掉了作弊的黑鲨，拿到了冠军，真特么带感
结局的和好挺牵强。结尾太作弊了……谁不会哭啊！但也仅此而已了。
富二代宝马车美女突转爱情太扯了，单纯走忘年老少友情类父女就好。
画面和某些细节处理还不错，不过故事呆板，像个无脑热血动漫，立意肤浅，没什么内涵。
这拍的也太真实了吧，Martin一家的表现，尤其是男主人过分反应正是疫情初期华人+当地人的完美结合😂 带着🤿去购物 还有白右提出的阴谋论，所以医生直接对回去的桥段太绝了“鼻拭子是为了把Windows的芯片捅到大脑里，这样医生就可以无时不刻的定位你” 🤣
可以给三星半，扣半个星因为社区医生研发疫苗的故事太不严谨，正常情况下社区医生这么玩，估计他们社区就是疫情中心。
没有大开大合的波澜起伏，充满人间温情的法式小品，展现了疫情下人们的焦虑、不安，冲突、和解。
轻喜剧，适合下饭时随便看看，里面那个神经质敏感的丈夫和疯狂的医生很搞笑
这拍的也太真实了吧，Martin一家的表现，尤其是男主人过分反应正是疫情初期华人+当地人的完美结合😂 带着🤿去购物 还有白右提出的阴谋论，所以医生直接对回去的桥段太绝了“鼻拭子是为了把Windows的芯片捅到大脑里，这样医生就可以无时不刻的定位你” 🤣
我靠，看到希望了！同志们！加油！涨了吗？涨了！我操！哈哈哈
居家隔离期间的温情小故事。covid会结束但并不会忘记，电影里面的故事有些刻意但那股被束缚了的劲儿还是有的。
5.5/10，剧本比较拉垮，非游戏部分都可以直接跳过~游戏晋级的结构比较旧，但还算好用~最后一场决赛还挺燃~
Je vais ancrer tout ça dans ma mémoire pour toujours.
上海封城期间看特别有共鸣，我们的处境是如此的相似，可人们对待生活的方式却又如此不同
其实就是把隔离的生活状态给了个归纳总结……哎……啥时候能恢复正常呢……😿😿😿
这个电影让我重温了去年3月刚刚隔离的时候在巴黎的生活，还没有什么口罩，外面还在谣言满天飞，每天8点站在阳台上为医护人员鼓掌，对面一个牙医用大喇叭组织街坊知识抢答。我是整整在家呆了一个月没有出门（后来出去一次不记得密... 展开
有的人把人生当游戏，因为在里面他能掌控别人的人生
所以我不喜欢宏大叙事，日常生活的个体实践已经足够讲好一个两小时电影的故事
我说这男主怎么敢在低谷期参加决赛呢，原来之前是cs总冠军。虽然成电影看着挺过瘾的，但是现实中不建议这样铤而走险，毕竟是一场赌博。但电影嘛，就是做梦，做梦不妨大胆一些、理想主义一些！
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