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".
明明阿波罗这个名字比阿瑞斯更让人浮想联翩。男主的运动鞋真的好点睛。
西班牙人明明拍悬疑剧还可以啊，为啥这个片拍成这个样子…在演啥呀。不过男主确实帅
卢瑟才自怨自艾，赢家都是凯旋归。——迈克尔贝，应该是最会拍追逐戏的导演了
救命啊，真得又土又尬，推荐晋江优秀小说给网飞改编。
熟悉的卖拷贝式运镜，不过这一部没啥力气啊，没以前那么精致了。但是卖拷贝居然也开始玩深情了！
这种白日梦老梗 如果不是男主颜值在线我估计开头就不想看 整片大半都是do没啥剧情可言 为啥网飞会投资这样的？？
一路鬼扯的剧情，但结尾真的升华了。不得不佩服好莱坞的编剧。
也算old school boom boom boom吧。虽然剧本弱但是爆破强哈~1080P 22/04/25
我大受震撼，王子搭讪贫民窟灰姑娘靠的是蹭wifi！（多一颗星给男主美好的肉体吧
剧情简直莫名其妙，不过这种电影可能也不需要剧情。
本片属于正剧的剧情片，没有什么笑点，剧情也很老套，可是就有人吃这一套。
这梗这故事 哈哈哈哈哈哈 也就国外拍的还能勉强一看 毕竟俊男靓女doi
主角挺拉胯的，没什么剧情，当个动作片看吧。
中国影迷对迈克尔贝导演的两个昵称「爆炸贝」和「卖拷贝」就已经很好地总结了这部电影的特点。追车爆炸等标志性场景，再配合迈克尔贝导演一贯的碎嘴双男主叙事风格，让这部电影一看就是标准的「卖拷贝电影」。而在电影院观影的体验，也会让目标观众心满意足，追车场面因为使用了无人机拍摄还有更多的新花样。能够在影院大银幕看这部电影，是一个愉悦的观影体验。抢银行枪战那场戏按迈克尔贝说法，是对《盗火线》的致敬，不过两个导演的两种风格还是辨识度很高的。另外，本片女主角，是 Netflix 版《三体》的女主角，看完之后我有些担心 N 版三体的故事……
西语片真的看一眼就知道是西语片，热烈直球，西班牙男人好帅！想起小时候迷恋的皇家马德里哈哈哈哈
国外的霸总小说玛丽苏程度和中国不相上下啊，男主好帅，肉体好美🤩床戏够欲🤩
3.5/5 能想像麥靠北連裝都不再裝，開始正式放飛自我是什麼情形嗎？就是這部片的情形。放飛自我的動態調度、滿滿自我揶揄與吐槽、劇情弱智但段子讓全影廳笑開懷。麥靠北首次拍一部屬於LA的警匪追逐片，警匪間的拉鋸戰可說是銀行搶劫版捍衛戰警，調度成功做到每分每秒都動態鏡頭，以往平地轉彎鏡頭現在開始嘗試空中轉彎鏡頭，調度採蜂窩式的低空跟拍，不得不說，放飛自我後的麥靠北比他這幾年拍的假正經作品更具可看性，同時更能展現出一個把攝影機當機關槍在用的創作者，直男性格下的真誠展現，史上最龜速的警匪追逐戰全場笑噴，可以不要這麼幽默嗎導演😂，獻給疫情時代下醫護急救人員的主旋律作，傑克葛倫霍一如既往的怒吼叫囂，艾莎岡札雷演急救人員，賣靠北照樣能拍出梅根福克斯的味道，今年爽度最高的電影無庸置疑。
还可以啊 就无脑甜剧麻 何必讲究那么多 看颜就好啦
整个职业生涯都让镜头充满荷尔蒙的卖拷贝这次返璞归真，决定把魔爪伸向了Heat和GTA，但明显能看出他绝对是激素紊乱了：无人机一通乱转，逻辑不知所云，单抢劫设计来看连给给他爱做支线都不配，但迈克尔·曼那套LA风光大赏和“邪不压正”的价值观倒学得有模有样，视觉上煞是好看；期间热闹非凡的躁动节奏感，总算让这桶爆米花没来得及变质。还有老吉啊，你为什么表演越来越向马克·沃尔伯格这种二愣子靠拢了…
宣传里各种翻版五十度灰，完全没看出来，明明很普通的爱情片不知道为什么被自媒体说得那么精彩……
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