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".
写着代码看的，后悔了，应该专心看的。没看懂但是感觉不错。感觉有点东西。
节奏，构图，光影我都喜欢，太多的意境表达，文艺气息扑面而来，但就悬疑片来说，刻意的设制镜头语言，过早的暴露了结局，败笔。
如果接受了这是一部文艺片的话，或许也就能接受它在案件细节上的一些bug了。
云蒸霞蔚山影淡，枯枝烂泥芦苇丛，芭蕾舞者身份迷，勾连往年沉积案。怀揣梦想苦挣扎，变换身份续幽梦，造化弄人举步艰，浴火重生获涅槃。
林音：低配迪丽热巴
摄影不错，故事构架也还行，人设台词都比较弱，严华明显没学过舞蹈，肢体太僵硬了，完全没有说服力。导演是石黑一雄粉么
悬疑剧的话不及格，边玩手机边看50分钟都能把结局推理出来了……拍摄手法上各种回忆穿插，太乱了。还很拖沓，就简简单单舞蹈剧团一些鸡零狗碎反复讲了很久。直接让人看睡着，有些剧情有头没尾，有些剧情完全没必要有，逻辑上也让人看不懂。感觉画质很多方面都有点《杀人回忆》的感觉，但看下来，差的不是一点点
感觉导演想把这部电影做得文艺又有剧情反转，但说真的，真的没做好，一个大框架没有什么内核，说教性台词很多，人物都很标签化，并没有深入人心。摄影挺好的，这两颗星都给摄影。
美术、画面、光影、色彩都挺好，年代感和山水的意境都好，文艺范儿是够了。剧情节奏缓慢，拖了悬念的后腿，案情交待得零散观感欠佳，从悬疑片角度看，不是很过瘾，从文艺片看，剧情有人命怎么都有点别扭。当然整体来说还是过得去的，6.5分是有的。
画面，意境，摄影都很有艺术性，只是这个单薄的故事多少有点配不上这点艺术性了。国产片还是这么绞尽脑汁地探究人性中最隐秘的角落，也就别怪审查这么严格了。然后评论里面把去那些逻辑上说不过去的点就直接全归结于「为了过审」真是让人哭笑不得。
多少有点恐怖的意思，但又不像恐怖片，比较悬疑，反正在那个特定的年代发生什么事都很正常
还可以，画面和音乐都挺好，节奏较慢，故事可以更曲折一点
-所谓远山，看下来原来是看山那三个步骤。
其他剧里的头儿是又能吼又有真本事，这里的头儿……
影片色彩把氛围衬托的还行吧
文艺犯罪片。色调我还挺喜欢的，片子拍的也很有质感。剪辑稍微有点混乱，二刷会理解更多。
制片国家/地区: 中国大陆
怎么 怎么说呢 能看得出来努力文艺的痕迹但用力过猛就会让人觉得很无聊 结尾的反转还可以 但是剧情的人物关系很牵强 两天前看的到现在都不记得具体发生了什么
在家楼下拍的 必须支持
剧情能看出来狠下了番功夫，也加入了导演对文艺的追求，就是女主二人的身份互换弱逻辑，另，几个男角色不是很喜欢，值得翻拍
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