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".
误入禁地闯入平行世界后发生的故事，只有三四个演员组成的一部电影，小制作，但故事逻辑和探讨的内容却是有深度的，营造出的平行空间犹如一个黑暗森林世界，相信观众都会有自己的思考。关于色调和氛围，它不太像中国电影，反倒是有种加拿大和北欧气质，如果电影再玩得有意思一些，其实可以在最后女主试探性地与这个空间的男主对下暗号，然后戛然而止。再说下演员，女主的表现是不错的，男主和她哥哥显得稍微有点表演痕迹，总体上是不错的，值得一看，三颗半星。
《彗星来的那一夜》国产版，讨论的还是平行世界相干的可能性。但片头抢救和片尾监护仪警示音还是赋予了影片嵌套的空间。
节奏慢，叙述逻辑不是太清楚，感觉有些做作成分。表现逻辑性的科幻话题，对于这样的小成本影片有点难
个人魅力拉满。警察就应该这样。打击邪恶。不拘小节。
挺不错，至少做到了非扁平化。因为国产加一个星！
小成本无明星，虽然有bug，但是作为国产科幻电影已经很完整了。。。可以看一下
小成本制作也是能拍出不sb的作品的 虽然我觉得还有很多细节我没弄明白
对比《梦境人生》过于依赖“伪科学”而言，它定位悬疑片，在逻辑上通过当下比较火的平行宇宙的概念，更能抓到观众的关注点。
尤其是男演员，让我想到了一些老版单机游戏里的npc。。。
感觉像经历了一场电信诈骗，前期无意间看到各种宣传物料和first就立刻买票支持，只有几家影院放也得去看，看完的一瞬间才感觉完全不是那么回事，然后再翻回去仔细看之前吸引我去看的宣传和信息才悔恨自己怎么会上这个当！且不说空洞的场景设计和表演，这毕竟是低成本必然会带来的问题，但是从核心概念和基于这个概念做的戏，全都是从别的电影里搬来的，而且还是从最被大众认知的那些什么彗星、恐怖游轮，甚至是时空罪恶或是26种死法里的circle，小到道具上到矛盾冲突基本就是上述这些片子的缝合怪。而且最让人尴尬的是一定要把平行空间用得像地摊文学一般的方式再片子里反复强调并讨论。其中建立的丧子设定也几乎没能为核心概念和角色提供相应的弧光。弄得就像是抖音快手的融梗段子（真的有人会在会所放没字幕的闪灵么？还不如老老实实放上述片子明哲保
全片虽然成本低、拍摄周期短，但是胜在故事紧凑、演员都是相识表现角色十分自然，更兼剧本的设定比较完整，所以呈现出来的效果的确让观众感到烧脑、过瘾！看得出导演兼编剧雷神对这个故事下了很大心血，简单的人物关系设置既是对故事线索如何引导矛盾的挑战，也对较好把握人物关系是一大利好，但导演巧妙的在三人之外通过设置多个“平行空间”的存在来引出不同空间的三人，既别出心裁地打乱了三人演员的配置，同时也牢牢在三人之间通过不同世界的自己激发着人物之间的矛盾，推动影片情节的发展，也让感情线同时愈发饱满。美中不足就是剧情的设定让主演们一开始就靠自己猜出来是平行空间有点过于牵强…
《暗黑》画风。基于编剧“机智”收尾，所谓的“空间”也在高海拔坠落。
导演和编剧是B站up主 经常科普一些关于电影的小知识。小成本 受制于篇幅很多坑也挖了没填。总的来说作为网大 完成度还行 多重平行空间概念虽然不新 还好演员还算可以 每个空间里的不同男女都有演出不一样的性格。听说好莱坞收了版权 可以期待一手好莱坞能不能有好翻拍。
看得出国外同类电影的一些痕迹，男主的演技还是有些生硬和做作，剧情上有些逻辑没有很好的解释清楚……但，这些都瑕不掩瑜，在有限的资金下，将剧本，画面，场景，人物，台词等细节打磨的如此之好，足以让国内所谓大制作电影汗颜……尤其是结尾爆炸之后的心电监护平直的声音，又给人留出遐想的空间……非常推荐的电影……
2.音乐较差，太过沉重的配乐，导致整个影片节奏都太过沉闷。
白桦林和雾笼胡泊营造的悬疑氛围很出色。
前年的片子，今天才公映。主打温情牌的软科幻，拍得很好。
有意思。男女主演技都在线。景色太美了。不比彗星那一夜恐怖游轮差。前面有些细节后面好像没有交代？
故事不错，结尾很失望没圆好，不过这种题材国内太少了，给个四星鼓励下吧
没有尬聊，没有烂梗，女演员演技在线，男演员表演稍微有点尴尬，逻辑基本自洽，题材也是国产片非常难得的平行空间题材，作为国产片来说还是值得一看的。多处致敬《闪灵》的部分很喜欢，有加分。
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