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".
发出声音就会有人听到吗？但又让我想到了那个消失的视频里那位基层的人说：你看到了你一个人，但我看到的有那么多……突然心碎。
看的时候不停的想着躺在床上的外公
有太多得不到保护的人，这个世界要怎么办。
“这当然是你的幻境，但它也是真实”幻境亦作为突触的暂时连接和神经细胞间的电活动而物理性地存在，只是它转瞬即逝，我们的眼睛无法看清
导演无论怎么瞎说
这戏写的特好，但看着难受。最后没看完，心里堵的慌
怎么说呢，可能不是我喜欢的类型吧，依然是讲地震灾难之后给大家造成了后续的一些问题
看到大家都觉得奇奇怪怪我就放心了，后半段的崩坏比雪崩还要猛烈。
我总觉着，人的生命还很漫长
哎，老了，真是看不得这种。结局没拍好，不然哭死，算是名副其实的过了个光棍节，吃狗粮。哈哈哈。 王传君略微有点出戏会联想到药神。 总体观感还是很不错的！
属于看完之后出来长舒了一口气的电影。很长，讲了很多东西。有爱情亲情友情及其嬗变。但核心是死亡及其克服。台词太密了，几乎没有一个画面是没有话语的，没有对白时就旁白。电影还是要用镜头说话的。主人公的设定蛮有意思，就是视觉意识超前于行动，所以，走快了会跌到。也许是基于这个考虑，所以，镜头切的很快，然后，成片确实也算是跌了一跤。电影想表达的是没有什么是永存的观点，包括作家，这像是编剧王朔的自况或自我安慰。但显然，不能永存的只是像他这样的作家的作品，真正经典的文学艺术是可以永存。王朔以为自己太超前所以跌倒，实际上他是赶不上步伐了。所以，这部电影与王朔之间的互文关系也多了一层看点。王朔的作品已经消亡，达不到“不老”的标准，但其作家身份作为遗体还有标本意义，算是一点“奇事”了。
但是一个没有深入挖掘主题的悬疑片，你弄这么慢的文艺片节奏是要闹哪样？！不是不支持你们悬疑片勇于挑战按文艺片节奏拍，但是，这个的前提是有这个必要，你是有挖掘的东西，不然你这种慢节奏真的很多余而且让人昏昏欲睡。
有些类似《本杰明巴顿奇事》
感谢三角字幕组成员百忙中抽出时间来做字幕 致那些得不到保护的人 片尾阿部宽出现在演员最后一个，导演出现在所有的最后
没有人的死是无所谓的。得不到保护的人们，你们要发出比那些卑劣者们更响亮、更理直气壮的声音。
——2022年春，谁能想到上海市民就这么强行能共情了。
割裂感与匠气并重，生命科技与爱情的探讨无限永恒。
"我常思考国家富强这件事。一个国家富强与否，究竟是以什么为指标？是立基的政治思想吗？是国土大小吗？或者是资源的蕴含量？GNP的数字？还是拥有多少飞弹？"
全剧独白太多了，感情的刻画实在太少了，每一个片段能体现出来的情感真的不多，有一种《阿甘》似的影子，又又一种《返老还童》似的影子，但是总感觉哪里缺了点什么，体会不到哪里感人的点，男女主的感情羁绊只有小时候的几个片段，也都是独白构成的，男女主又像胡歌演的《猎场》似的，两人互相思念互相爱恋，但却就是无法在一起。 男主的很多事情的动机也实在搞不清楚，为何最后要去漂泊？？最后叙事的讲述了男主的一生，像是快进片！
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