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".
emmm……女主颜值被发型封印了。对电影期待有点高，但看起来感觉更像一部电视剧的其中一集……我看的还是未删减版，我更愿把它归结为科幻电影，而不是恐怖。
7.5，开头还以为是传统温子仁恐怖片，实则悬疑惊悚片。黑影的真实身份吊足胃口，警察局大开杀戒非常有必要，和妹妹查出真相完美呼应。唯一不足是没能解释电器电灯为什么异常，还能控制收音机发声。就算战胜黑影，最后也还是要坐牢吧。
同样是心理惊悚片，温子仁还是稳得一b[赞]而且这次升级到动作片了，完整版最后简直血Ｘ暴Ｘ到极致，爽感也到了极致。情节没有大问题，小bug自动脑补呗；节奏和气氛那是驾轻就熟的牛。就是大Boss没有对手，缺些看点。续集应该就会有棋逢对手的戏吧，有点等不及了～
很明显在尝试某种突破，多种类型元素混杂在一起反而显得乱，故事的核有些草率，感觉是一部非常精致的“粗制滥造”的恐怖片，缺乏惊喜。
难怪有翻译叫“肿瘤侠”如果第二部是用这个身份行侠仗义的话，这个翻译真的神预测。
变身后一人屠一警察局，还能控制电流是怎么个设定，没得解释啊。
安娜贝尔女主角
前半部分真是一点亮点也没有，让人昏昏欲睡。故事不新鲜，节奏太拖沓，最后半小时杀戮场面尚可。
至少看到一半我是猜错了，竟是和白发魔女传的boss一样的双面人，大哥身手真是过于矫健了
剧情真的好平淡。。温子仁是不是不能再创saw的辉煌了
嗯……剧情有点太老套了，如果你看过《哈利波特与魔法石》，一定和我一样早早就猜到了最后的反派是怎么样的了。
天才之作，个人认为优于《招魂》和《电锯惊魂》。后悔没有提前点映的时候去看。
肿瘤侠是准确翻译，最后野鸡奖杯乱杀和凤凰对天启可以比毒液还酷，但开场就揭秘的纯物质人为直接把恐怖感降到PG，小妹独闯生化危机古堡像是剪掉了90%，虽然女主很漂亮阴暗版Felicity Jones，“律师”男主也是数一数二的华裔脸阿祖收手吧
但是怪物的造型很有感觉
前半段剧情毫无新意，俯视视角好惊艳。后半段剧情终于腻害了。偶像还是偶像。
嗐！这次的设定很漫威+哈利波特。开始以为是伏地魔和哈利波特的关系，没想到是伏地魔和奇洛教授🧖♀️🧙♀️🕵
感觉制作很粗糙..少了一种质感. 特别是催眠那一段是我看过最简陋的太随意了。警局杀人那里倒是挺爽的，但是最后非常突兀的就结束了把科警察晾在一边就有点不明不白的。温子仁的作品不应该是这样的 说实话有点失望电影创意还是不错的如果能再打磨一下就好了。 6.5/10
前面还可，后面真面目出来以后...动作戏太喜感了。吴宇卫，橄榄我谢谢🙏
跪求温导多导几部恐怖片吧，商业电影人才济济，但恐怖类型除了你我真找不到其他人的电影看了，再三许愿！出来后有些失望，氛围才是你的强项，商业片的血浆看的很多了，7分吧。
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