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".
多线性叙事的故事还算完整，但不高级，细节经不起推敲，槽点较多
NO.2208：反转很多，剧情发展有些挺搞笑的。
还挺有趣的，一个小房间发生的不断反转的故事。节奏也不错，悬疑部分卡点卡的也好，演技也都在线，结构方面或许有需要打磨的地方，结尾没那么仓促会好很多。三星半。
只能说人贩子真的是罪不容赦的，有时候真的无法想象贩卖妇女儿童的犯罪行为，那样的人还算是人类吗？
国产悬疑片+1星，值得鼓励！多线叙事，演技都挺好，配乐恰如其分。不过为了反转而反转，剧情有点点扯，不真实，哈哈哈哈哈
为了追求所谓喜剧效果简直成了个演着小品的犯罪片，但凡严肃一些认真按个剧本杀故事去拍去表演我都会高看你，真的。
怎么都在说疯狂的石头？这明明就是学的《玩命记忆》。同样是“密室剧本杀”影片，跟隔壁《扬名立万》的命运简直天壤之别，虽然两者的推理反转都比较尬，但还是能看到国产导演叙事能力在慢慢进步。
3.5。蛮喜欢这种多次反转的小空间电影的，观感很舒服。就是最后差点意思，通往必须正义的结尾。
整部剧有一种剧本很老的感，起码是十年前的立项，不管从剧本的社会题材，（怎么2021年了还有人在拍贩卖儿童1.0版），还是从整个剧本的容量，剧本容量说实话放到剧本杀市场都得标个大大的新手本，15分钟就能讲清楚的故事。很多电影的故事都能15分钟拍清楚，但问题你这部片就是一个强情节叙事推动的，每一个反转后都在拖沓的对话，消解反转带来的惊讶。后面直线拉垮，最后起码几个翻都没翻起来，还挺可惜的。我感觉整体画面尺度很大，但是选材到处理极端保守，就有一种更割裂的感觉。
完成度非常高了，而且成片的多视角的来回时间线叙事使用的这很到位，但是这个底确实不够味道，前面的剧情在制造层层上升的紧张气氛，最后的底收在外卖小哥上实在对不起前面，感觉让人一泄如注，成为全片的命门，否则就是更好的佳作了，看来编剧编到这里也是黔驴技穷了。另外就是范伟的演出实在很棒。
（玩手机听电影系列）出乎意料的好看了，挺惊喜，国产大烟枪
还挺不错的。罗生门式的展开，随着每一次小小反转，一点点拨开事情的真相。各位演技都在线，一些该有的冲突之处的情感爆点，情绪拿捏得也挺好。人口贩子该死啊！以及，钱冻在冰柜里，它确实不好拿😐
蛮好看的，小场景多时间线插倒叙事和层层反转，人物形象分明及几个瞬间表演也很亮。不足之处是部分反转有些刻意为之，到结尾已经疲了，另外就是片子初段总有点小品的味道，后段好很多。
最后感慨一下全民脱贫政策的伟大，希望这些苦命的孩子们能够逃离这类命运。
全靠时间线互相穿插的技巧撑起这部片，不然故事根本不吸引人。
哈哈剧情紧凑，人物一环扣一环的登场还挺有意思。拍摄手法插叙也不会突兀能看明白
挺好的尝试，能写出这样的层层反转的剧本不难，难的是能把悬念留到最后，并在过程中层层铺垫。过程中还有一些小伏笔的回收使得观影过程颇有乐趣。可惜，悬疑片最重要的还是剧本的底子，本片的反转数量有余，质量却略显不足，几位反转的主力角色反转的关系稍显刻意
「制度之下」类型的电影，这种电影类型都有一个环境大前提，人物需要在环境中不断角力来完成目的，要素就是：一种制度、选择、牺牲，电影最终好不好看也大概率取决于这三点。《不速之客》做得还不错，多种叙事和反转看得就是个爽，把「考验人性」、「意外与惊喜」的点营造的都很规整，这考研的可不单单是做电影的剪辑，内在的设定更重要，比如圆形筒⼦楼暗示了故事结构，开始是个小圆，因为信息有限，后期变成⼀个环套着另⼀个环，直至最后的拼图完成。故事线也是精巧，很多细节可以琢磨，值得二刷。
比扬名立万好多了，扬名立万的大致就是6.3分的水平，而这部电影能达到7分的水平。
还有最后周深的那首电音迷幻曲风的片尾曲。
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