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".
“Official Competition”与其说是“主竞赛”，不如说是男性的胜负竞争。对电影圈的刻板讽刺尚未达到first系电影平均水准。
人类的悲欢难以相通，哪怕已经非常努力。太累了，藉海豚云圆个场
对当今影视行业的吐槽嘲讽，一切起因是资本家想名留青史，结果搞得导演崩溃演员互掐，电影行业不易啊
那个女的也太可怜了！无法得到原谅而自杀！可那并不是你的过错啊！
在整体故事系统的编排上，以排练作戏剧与影像的分割线，而影像本身对于现实的“复原”，意味着表象下的解构，这种所谓还原主义式的戏剧排演，洽洽讽刺着公众对于原型与意识形态的“渴望”。这是整个系统层次可以在商业前提下相对丰富的基础，也是他与片名些许跑题的原因。
嘲讽的力道我爱了，今年为数不多能让人笑出声的电影。一位名流史册的富豪，请来获奖女导演来拍一部诺贝尔奖巨作，从而将两位性格迥异且表演方法不同的演员凑到一起演对手戏。有趣的是，电影中的演员和戏中戏的角色从某种程度上都很相似，两条线的发展也如出一辙。结尾稍微有些弱了，不过整体挺讨我喜欢。
你永远不会知道一部电影背后有多少故事。ps里边的剧本《对抗》就是导演之前在《杰出公民》中主角讲的那对兄弟的故事。
黑色幽默。不在那个艺术体系里，很难理解这种讽刺。偶像派和实力派的对抗还有点意思。
后面的剧情都不重要了，我只想惹人怜爱的伊东苍。美好被杀死了，其他人的磨难，都不足以抵消。
旬报No.7。最大感触是，古田新太长得和秋元康真像。剧作基本上是野岛伸司《人间失格》后期复仇的低配版，任何时候，受害者最需要的都是诚挚的道歉，而一开始没有愧疚感的人遇上一根筋的受害者家属就构成了影片最大的冲突。只是由没有监控而造成事件空白实在是牵强甚至是儿戏，而恰恰全篇人物所着重的争议点就在这个有没有偷东西的空白上，于是更显拙劣。另外人物塑造太过扁平单薄，各种细节严重失真，剧情推动非常刻意，在店主企图自杀后全片更是一路崩坏。真的拍得挺烂，不是很懂这片是怎么评得上旬报十佳的。
人生如戲，戲如人生。但總的來說，不知道這戲想表達什麼？
真正的罪犯从始至终没有认罪，反而善良的人在遭受折磨
挺有才华的，小讽刺谈不上高明、无非是对行业对资本对演员们，但几组对位关系把握得不错，故事讲得也引人入胜，把几个演员的表演都展现好了，这个导演还是蛮有前途的，有娱乐性也有真东西，三星半。
一部话剧式电影，全片都靠台词来推进，剧情也挺幽默的
非常犀利，表面上看是元电影，实则是对当下艺术处境的高度浓缩，异常辛辣的反讽。几乎汇集了各种现象，商人为了声誉投资艺术、艺术家们清高的假面、偶像明星的肤浅做作、创作者们浮夸形式化的创作。
并没有任何感动之处，片中没有任何配乐，这种冰冷的客观也是一种情绪表达。迁怒于他人只会使一切变得更糟，于事无补。有个bug，最肉疼的第二撞重卡司机线没了。
笑点有，但又觉得没啥内容。拍了太多无厘头的有的没的。
所谓的人间惨剧就是第二天在报纸的犄角旮旯处登篇几百字的豆腐块。
短小又真情。虽然没有很复杂，但是人心复杂又温暖又陈无法避免他人责任啊
黑色幽默溢出来了哈哈哈哈哈～感觉等我学好了西语可以再看一遍！认真地在拍weird人类拍电影hhh石头那里笑疯了艹 两位男主演的人设一个是有实力但浮夸，一个是学院派但有点虚伪，化学反应很奇妙！导演真的好符合我审美，蓬蓬的头发🉑️镜头语言也很漂亮！
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