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".
感觉这种逻辑可以自洽的小成本悬疑片，已经还不错了
和雄的“跨越栅栏”结尾已经十分明亮了，踏出草坪的那一刻更疯却也更自由，冲破束缚并非软弱者能作出的决定。一直以来他都是个只关注自己的人，衷心希望他永远自由，因为他很有可能就是某一个的我的缩影。而真正被遗留在世俗里的纯子，该有多孤独？迁就、忍让、小心翼翼，想找话题却毫无回音，生活琐屑里藏着她被否定的价值，于是她带着破碎的人生驶向未知。当那张脸变得毫无波澜，眼神变得静止，然后并不期待作答地问出“我们为什么会变成这样”时，是啊，我也想问佐藤泰志，是不是世界总会走向熵增，人生总会通往更糟。
首先是时代背景，七十年代摇滚乐加上牛皮纸般的古铜色滤镜，让这部电影看起来分外怀旧、温馨；其次，人物造型分外养眼，那个年代的人总是留着一头蓬松的头发吗？看上去像萨摩耶一样好摸；最后，每个演员都十分讨喜，尤其是本阿弗莱克，这可能是他演艺生涯最不致郁的表演，看完后谁会不想要一个本阿弗莱克这样的舅舅？
低配《彗星来的那一夜》，大团圆结局是真的没内味……
我只想说海报抄袭游戏Alan Awke……
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。
如果没有看过彗星和邮轮，这部电影应该是满分。国产科幻，能做到这样很不容易了，其实是很欧洲的电影，换个欧裔面孔，说不定是8.0的高分了，可惜了。我希望未来十年内能提高到这个分数段。另外说一句，大兴安岭真的很漂亮。
片尾ost...欲言又止的郁静之安宁
today i visited 北海道の太平洋側、風が涼しくて波が激しい、50キロの海岸線を走って、どこまでが海はわからなくなる、山から降りてきた霧は髪を濡れる夏の夜の海の湿気を思い出せ、にしても別はアイヌ語で川を意味する。密漁しているおばさんの車を通った時に、口のなかにビネガーの味がした、6月18日に熊が札幌の住宅街を歩く、ある全裸の男も同じ日にみちを走り抜けている。でもメガネのレンズが黄色で、どこを見ても曇っている
个别段落还蛮喜欢的，但是主要问题还是，这个片子拍来干啥，有啥意义？
但是 依旧无法好好活着
想起我懦弱的前男友 喜欢人物镜头色调 大于故事本身
想一下这样的电影找找大明星，然后上映前稍稍营销一下，票房应该不简单吧！这也是一种怎么说国产电影的悲哀吧，明明很好的电影却因为演员什么的没有流量，上映时间沉寂之后才被发现！
人物刻画的太好了，太完美了，浪漫主义下的86年代的美国，我可太爱这片子了！
感觉这种逻辑可以自洽的小成本悬疑片，已经还不错了
从故事、演技、配乐等方面来看都是很一般的电影。小成本制作不易打个三星。
「僕は自分の子供には僕みたいな人間になって欲しくない。勉強なんてできなくてもいいかな。学校に行って、友達がいて、恋をして、働いて、家族をもって、たっだの生活をしていくそういう普通のことが幸せだと思えるような人間になって欲しい。」
失去了对话空间的婚姻生活。女主好可怜。东出对父母说，“希望他和我不一样，希望他能成为在普通的生活细节中感到幸福的人。”奈绪突然问，“那你和我在一起不幸福吗？”东出回应的那个笑容。
6.2 怎么能窜了这帮演员把好故事编排的那么无聊？
我以为女主最后还是打死了有孩子那个空间的自己，她太想要孩子，家庭和阳光了。波光粼粼的水面上，女主才微笑起来
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