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".
小片片讲解，此片是恐怖游轮和彗星来了套路。而又有结合平行时空。对于国产影片来说，确实是非常不错了。虽然里面还是有些坑没有填，但是也讲了部分对人性的思考。人都是自私的。
5.有个舅舅，开了个狄更斯酒吧。
好想定居日本，想去函馆旅居一段时间，每天晨跑,散散步
冲着国产科幻片这个名头去电影院看的，看之前上网做了一下功课，发现是三个人（其实也有四个人啦）、十四天、一百万的时候，心里面其实感觉有点悬的，期望值已经被降低了，但最后整片看下来其实还是挺不错的。电影的质感、完成度还是很不错的片子有细节铺垫，但一开始的时候并不知道，到看完回想起来才会发现原来是铺垫。总体来说还是挺不错的，可以一看。
邏輯自恰嘛？？我不太懂一開始說空間悖論，相同人不能出現在同一時空，到後面根本不管這些了啊，大家就要在同一時空！不過總體還行，沒覺得劇情徹底亂了。 @2021-10-17 23:17:54 @2022-06-03 23:20:32
我在用自己不断验证——人的喜欢不会改变，看《草之韵》到一半，感觉和《你的鸟儿会唱歌》好像好像。人们漂浮在函馆上，用各种方式运动，飞行滑翔奔跑匍匐着。
感觉看到了很多电影的影子，主题也不是非常明确，最后的结局确实没有看懂到底是什么意思。
可以看出编剧还是想讲一个烧脑的故事，但是奈何实力确实有限。虽然电影诚意满满，但只能说是《彗星来的那一夜》的东施效颦。
最后的结局和燕子准备杀掉“自己”代替她的哪里有点泪目。
就是em就是…
小时候这么眉清目秀的孩子，长大怎么残成这样了。基本上就是男主有一个混蛋爹，完全不管男主，但男主有一个超级棒的舅舅，陪伴了他成长的故事。男主长大的过程中，成人、考上大学、找到工作这些关键时刻，都有酒吧里的熟客请喝酒，这种感觉还挺棒的。喜欢读书的舅舅确实给了男主不少人生建议，不过八十年代的耶鲁毕业生非要去当作家，也不知道算不算浪费。平平无奇的一部温馨小品。
硬核一些的问题可以再探讨一下，不一定和国外一些想法相同，也可以有不同的情况啊。还有谜团没解开，要是这个系列能继续下去就好了，肯定很有意思。
是不是揭示的忒快了点…谁想看你找家啊…
唉看的过程中一直在微妙地共情 尤其是跑步的镜头 之前医生跟我说是植物性神经紊乱的时候也建议养成跑步的习惯 怎么说呢 处在特殊时期特殊状态下的人可能确实不适合任何变化 老朋友的离开 新生命的迎来 都太过刺激了 一成不变的生活或许真的更好一点
还不错，been there，如果去年夏天看应该很能感同身受，东出昌大很适合这个角色，喜欢电影把逃离作为结尾
一级棒！
小成本惊喜之作，虽然有些地方很廉价，但至少有这个类型的年轻导演不把观众当傻子了。
色调和配乐很高级欸！光影效果也很好，女主姐姐演技也不错，很有辨识度！即使看过很多类似的片子也会有想看下去的欲望！包袱抖的有点直白，剖白的太快，但是瑕不掩瑜。
除了结婚和生孩子，电影里的每件事都好像做过了。大概我的生活就好像其他影评阐述的一样：好像说了什么又好像什么都没说。其实还挺对胃口的，看完想去函馆养老了。（私自更青睐滑板那段部分情节）
东出昌大两年后又出演角色，也像是扮演者自己，仿佛他把这两年反刍后再展示。而我也像他扮演的角色得知死讯般，回应死亡的只有静默。
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