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".
自己演自己但是又不完全是现实中真实的自己这个创意挺有意思的，打斗的部分拍的还是挺粗略的，非常电影感，所以会给人一种剧中剧中剧的感觉，我觉得确实还挺有创意的
7.5/10 凯奇粉丝的专属电影，皆大欢喜
中间渐入佳境，假戏真做挺有趣，拍到后面是不是经费不够了。。。
尼古拉斯·传奇//怎么办我只觉得pedro pascal超可爱的！快点来个人跟他搞基！（我觉得oscar issac就不错，可以参考俩人的wired autocomplete interview
过于粉丝向，让凯奇自己演自己，破次元地对当初拍出不少优秀作品的年轻凯奇致敬，所呈现出来的效果的确不差，至少《疯狂原始人2》那段成功把我逗笑了。同时毛病也非常大，前半段对“非凯奇不可，凯奇独一无二”的一切铺垫，我在后半段的犯罪戏里完全没有看到。凯奇化个妆，就像《魔幻时刻》的设定一样打算凭借演员的实力去欺骗反派，结果没几分钟凯奇的伪装就被识破了。这段冗长的犯罪戏极其难看，跟整部电影的主题完全对不上，是脱节的。在这里面我没有见识到凯奇炉火纯青的演技，有的仅仅是对今非昔比的自嘲罢了。
自己演自己但是又不完全是现实中真实的自己这个创意挺有意思的，打斗的部分拍的还是挺粗略的，非常电影感，所以会给人一种剧中剧中剧的感觉，我觉得确实还挺有创意的
不管是天才蠢材，不管在过去还是未来，我是尼古拉斯·凯奇，承让了。6
笑点不少，不过都蛮低级，风景好看。爆米花电影。
No.2527 还挺好看的，但是结尾有点突兀，真真假假的有些混淆。
两年前初看此片剧情简介时，我脑补的是《成为约翰·马尔科维奇》那个档次的电影来着，事实证明不能太高估凯奇的朋友圈水准。
对了，曼达洛人，穿上你的盔甲，1V1000
凯奇演的根本不是他自己，只是一个叫尼古拉斯凯奇的明星罢了。除去跟他本身有关的电影梗，其余的就是一个平平无奇的犯罪喜剧。
与其说是翻身之作，不如说拍这部片子是为了告诉粉丝，自己真的很爱电影，自己也真的很努力。希望凯奇后面能接到大制作，迎来事业第二春吧。
凯奇值得更好的一部解构自己过气影星身份的电影。
“我就是哈维” 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，竟然是曼达洛人。后面的剧情真的是离谱、中二。笑死。
一般吧… 我对凯奇最深刻的印象是《战争之王》《火柴人》那种复杂癫狂感，我觉得他搞不好再也演不来了
爆米花电影。没有连姆的紧张刺激，没有李维斯的爽。
CIA特工也太废了吧我一直以为他俩是骗子（？）现在商业片都在找突破，结合迷影情节后男二号真的太好笑了23333 后面为了强行打架还是老一套
Nick fucking……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………whoa cage ~
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