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".
没有电影大气上档次的feel，一股土味咋回事儿。。。。然后最后竟然是解救被拐卖卖去要饭的孩子。。。。
本来以为外卖员是个卧底警察，却是最后的BOSS。这个人物没转变，为反转而反转，失败。不过窦骁演了他最好的一个角色。
2.0 / 几乎每一帧都看出了“我想与众不同我想技惊四座”的野心，就是真的很无趣。里面的黑色幽默也很无趣。一些青年导演真的不必“为了做点什么而做点什么”。
❷出现一堆小孩的时候，有点震惊了，万万没想到。
范伟的角色动机不清或者不足，但是算近期不错的片子。倒叙把悬疑做得不错，如果一黑到底会增色不少。
影片通过黑色幽默的方式叙述了几个人物阴差阳错的在密室巧合的参与了一场犯罪交易。导演通过多视角非线性的方式，形成了反转不断的观感，在国产同类型片里，完成度算不错的。悬疑的氛围尚可，附带一点点惊悚，叙事节奏有点乱，全片看下来，剪辑中的镜头重复点的运用和衔接点有点瑕疵，故事推进时快时慢，导致整体还是显得较慢。而故事中大量的巧合汇集也可能会遭人诟病。总体也没什么大毛病，窦骁作为反转的主要人物，最后演技差口气。结局停在警察入室，戛然而止可能更好，彩蛋没必要。三星半
只能说人贩子真的是罪不容赦的，有时候真的无法想象贩卖妇女儿童的犯罪行为，那样的人还算是人类吗？
非常好看的一个犯罪片，而且通过黑色幽默的包装，更是精彩。一个反转接着一个反转，没想到最后居然出现了这么多人，太不可思议了！虽然缺点也挺明显的，而且我也觉得给五颗星稍微有些多了，但还是想鼓励一下编剧，非常棒！给人留下深刻印象的片段，就是范伟强行伪装大佬，可以说是全片的高潮。
编剧使出浑身解数，要是剧情能更疯点就好了。
创意不错，不过也很适合2倍速。张颂文真帅啊。
第一次看到导演栏里这样写着：编剧、摄影指导、导演。一般摄影这项，就算人家鲍德熹杜可风做导演，也不会把摄影（自摄）、编剧（自编）和导演（自导）放在一起列出。虽然摄影很重要，但还真没重要到跟编剧导演并列的程度。
20220313 反转悬疑，都在一间房子里，正适合范伟的小品基本功！虽然有点牵强硬要有邪不压正的意思，总体还能看！
突然的开始，突然的结束，影片毫无惊喜，影院对于观影来说真的太重要了ಥ_ಥ
很有想法的悬疑片，有疯狂的石头跟两杆大烟枪内味了，五重反转让人直呼卧槽，要不是被弹幕剧透了在电影院能笑出声来，就是结局的揭秘有点强行，前面铺垫的还不够，好在每个人的演技都在线弥补了这个缺点
这类剧本不会难看。只是当范伟躲在沙发后面但是头发露出来然而还是没被发现的那一刻，就注定不会是高分
如果褪去喜剧元素做成纯悬疑片效果会好很多。架势和悬疑氛围是可以的…
其实还不错，说不上哪里好，也没有特别差的地方，悬疑反转节奏都可以，但是缺乏沉浸感或者代入感，观众也没有任何线索，可以说是本格推理一样的风格，但同样也没法把情感带入任何一个人，观众始终都是游离在电影之外的局外人，就像是坐着看别人玩了一场剧本杀。
能把一个自带揭秘性质的片拍的这么无聊也是有点本事的。
这种片子在类型开头就必须有“巧合”要设置的妙，马明亮和人贩子的强行亲戚关系，就是另一大拙劣点，没有铺设的巧合，编剧为了故事继续只能强开“金手指”。最后一把火的意外，明显是故事编不下去，必须剧情杀三个，不然外卖员不会主动暴露。
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
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