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".
突发新冠症状的病人那段看了非常揪心…阿兹海默患者 新冠疫情 护理院 英国，一开始就奠定悲剧基调 有些戏剧化的出逃也显得像对现实的宣战 无力但也要发出声音
Help, Help, Help. 4星。
表演真厉害，口音也是真的重，care homes在疫情中是真的惨。这类外观就像普通house的care home好像还真是不少，类似于社区养老中心，难怪剧中会说他们是居民而不是病人。
还是熟悉的配方，观影的感受如同去见了一个很妙的老朋友。
笔记：41:58——镜头拉近使人物们在画面中的面积占比更大以表现人物正在建立亲密关系。
就是为了最后的那一抹彩色，充分说明了什么叫影片中一直在夸来夸去的“气质”，没金敏喜真看不下去。
洪尚秀：网红金敏喜创作博主｜我已经不知道咋评价了，只能说洪导的成功令人羡慕
愿心中温柔的人能过得好
提供了与主旋律相反的救援视角：非号召的、非规训的；本能的、甚至盲目的。叙事摆烂，转而用状物的方法填充影像。远景的虚焦像眼眶里噙着泪水，在曲折的走廊中来回奔走，如通向地狱之路。急切的结尾可看作莫大的讽刺：左派的愤怒必须由一无所有的人发出，只有这样才显得像在恳求、呼救。
名叫援助，其实更像是这位护工对病人的扶持。有点公益广告的味道——疫情下的边缘群体，更需要社会人士身体力行地关怀，而不是口头问候。大量的大特写长镜头，像看《索尔之子》时一样焦虑。
结论，金敏喜是所有创作者的缪斯，而她现在只属于洪尚秀。
有故事的人，人人都可以拍电影，当导演。让我们一起在电影中散步聊天，相亲相爱。
这才是《zg医生》的正确打开方式…而不是凑人头搞一堆无意义且莫名其妙的元素，自我陶醉，浪费资源，恶心观众…
Everyone is nothing more than a name or a number on the quarantine list, on the vaccine shot roster, on the survivor or death roll. Expect nothing of a public system or a government whatsoever. A good person helps and treats you like a person, that's all.
这口音相当硬核了。以小见大，被抛弃的养护院，从初期疫情入手，更能看到整个国家卫生体系的狼狈不堪。小变态的演技真不错！发飙的时候直接出戏到杀手可还行。
天色尚早，但很快就会暗下来。趁着白日漫漫，我们一起去散步吧。
。。。几百年后电影人会像研究毕加索一样研究洪尚秀吗。专业课题会有研究后金敏喜时代洪尚秀作品之类的吗。。。
看洪的片，总是很容易把台词文本带入到洪和敏的个人现实语境中，随意日常的闲聊却每一句源于剧本，自然醉酒和极微表情的流露也源于演员对情绪的揣摩和演绎。一时之间无法区分呈现的影像，何为虚构何为真实。
金敏喜在这部电影中更加迷人了，洪常秀这是在塑造他的缪斯。
就像日常聊天，和朋友共度的日常一样，特别不电影的电影，所有的情绪都在每一句台词中间。洪尚秀的镜头下的金敏喜也太好看，尤其是最后捧着花束对着镜头互道“我爱你”，金敏喜眼神里有星星。
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