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".
“再在这里待下去会被传染变成笨蛋的。”
很喜欢，情感流动非常细腻的电影。使用大海、天空这样的意象，却借助相机这一客体，不断切换两个女孩之间凝视与被凝视的关系，缩小叙事表现空间，聚焦回忆的同时，也放大了她们心中对彼此凝重的爱。因此结尾处湖谷的微笑才让我忍不住堕泪，一切都显得稀松平常，像我们第一次遇见的那个晴天，也像现在不得不同你告别的今天。用双视角的叙事手法，串联起同一时空下被海吞没的幽微情愫，揭示了堇的成长悲剧。从长发到短发，从长裙到长裤，从伪装合群到独自旅行，堇想找到从小被母亲丢掉的另一个自己。学不会谄笑的湖谷，比起自己就显得那么强大且真实。面对这样的湖谷，堇显得小心翼翼，温柔地像对待宝物，是因为湖谷的存在，她才得以看到完整的自己。虽情节略显稚嫩，但胜在情感流动的真实性。
有些笑点，佳佳的片子还是有点自己的态度。只是演员们脸型全都越来越像乔杉了。佳佳的跟班叫刁彪的演员，长相太烦人了。两星半
好喜欢好喜欢好喜欢，名为好朋友实则涌动着朦胧爱意
蓝色啊，那是最温暖的颜色，也是最疏离的颜色…
（我出5w，能不能让梁姨在我家唱一宿？可以现搭棚子）
喜欢樱花大海和公路的镜头和动画的部分。
又是很淡很淡的一部电影。细节太多导致看完一遍不能厘清所有思绪，但是感觉也不会想再看一遍了。后1/4转换视角时响起的音乐感觉很棒，前后两端动画很有意境。虽然不能说完全看明白了所有感情，但席卷而来的、偏偏又淡却又没顶的悲伤真的很难消化……
0.001 太尬了。崔志佳没了灵性，都不如煎饼侠时期
百合得不太彻底 不过两位女主挺有cp感。故事架构很简单 友人遭遇海啸 生者追思 当丧失到来的时候 人们惊愕无助 天地不仁 以万物为刍狗 包容一切也漠视一切 世界上没有死者 却是由死者构成的。
节奏好慢，但很能get到两位女生之间的感情，最后手绘那段竟然看哭了😢
「你选择和自己和解的时候，我和你同在。我能听见。」
东亚真的很会拍细腻的感情 结尾的动画也好美好喜欢
试想表达和《千与千寻》同样的主题,反复与多角度来体现"更深",也用了学来的很多有趣的想法,但做法不很成熟.小清新的风格,和主题思想冲突很大,日本人已经对痛觉望而却步了吗?喜好偏见,大众而言是可以接受的作品,而且值得回味.
突然在油管上看了，挺好滴。中间有些垮，感觉撑不起这个时长。鼓励鼓励多一星吧。归根结底是职场拍不出只能搞情感加上喜剧杂烩，问题总是一样的…
画面多美就有多无聊，关键这么无聊还没拍明白，可以只看前半段，百合拍的特别有感觉，看到雨夜谈心就可以了，后面太无聊了，只有大海的空镜很惊艳
崔志佳的处女导演作品，能感受到强烈的有心意没诚意的作品。作品完成度很高，很像一个经过名师指点没有太多瑕疵的学霸作业，但是没有自己的热情。导演真的对主题很有感情吗，我完全感觉不到，就连点主题的旁白字幕都要秒过，真的想骂人。不过过场明星和中间夹杂的笑点确实是能看出心意，就是有点小品通病了，小品和其他影视作品的区别在于 题材和主题只是个容器，而非一个骨架。还有一个特别给四颗星的原因，东北地方电影没有下岗和下雪还真是难得中的难得。
她的发型，挑染和短发都曾是对规训微小的抗争。
突然在油管上看了，挺好滴。中间有些垮，感觉撑不起这个时长。鼓励鼓励多一星吧。归根结底是职场拍不出只能搞情感加上喜剧杂烩，问题总是一样的…
节奏慢到无法集中精力看，整个片子又弥漫着一股悲伤的基调，看得很难过。不过活着的人困于亲密的人的突然离世，不愿放下的故事还是有点打动到我。
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