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".
引用-“被捂嘴也要把实话说明白的情怀”
在同类型电影里算是很不错了，剧本很扎实。挺意外的。
大家都说柯南博格喜欢玩Bodyhorror那一套，赛博格和身体在现世代的隐喻，以及人类社会对子宫千百年的迷恋，都构成了再造/重造/重组这样的恋物癖式。说实话，当天首映我真睡得很香，戛纳连续两年选这种类型的片子，会不会让人审美疲劳啊？
1/4世纪前看crash其实是看James Spader的裸体，现在看这个，因为荷尔蒙少了，倒是可以感受一点点这位导演的黑色幽默了。
虽然是小成本小演员小场景，但是网剧中比较精良的了，前后也经得起逻辑推敲。然后还想扣一分给主题的诠释，方向选得很好，人性嘛，但是感觉不够深入，有点浮光掠影的感觉，村民的恶与冷漠，不够深入，不够让人恨得牙痒痒。如果时间再长点，或者这个片子的完成度会更高，总之，给7分。
罗生门式的形式，传统团圆式的结局。好人命不长，坏人倒也没遗千年。就是最后一段在街上所有人都活着的结尾没看懂，弹幕说是为了过审，但过审用得剧情能跟前面衔接吧。总体来说还行，坏人坏的很彻底，好人好的很可怜。
意料之外的不错，这如果是在网剧里横向比较，那真是佼佼者。
升米恩斗米仇，一个小成本网大拍成这样真的不错了，还能把故事讲圆，这电影看出了八恶人的感觉
在大环境下，还能拍这种类型的电影，且认真叙事，渲染氛围，值得鼓励。从山精鬼怪的猎奇切入，转到恶人口中颠倒黑白，到由各个人物连接起来的山村旧事，再到夜幕舟上，最后是大梦一场。层层推进，逐渐剥开了人心丑恶，将一件事说成了完全不同的几个视角，挺有意思。
看完特惶恐，理解不了get不到，觉得自己又成了傻波依。从打欲望号快车，裸体午餐开始，这些个男男女女的那点儿事你就不能像日本人学学大大方方的拍个痛快吗，非要整一堆物件儿在里面裹乱，不带家伙儿事就不能ooxx吗？！btw，字幕组白辛苦了，完全不用带字幕看，帮助理解程度加了1%
最近两年网大电影的质量越来越好，一出“罗生门”故事，每个版本讲的都还不错！可惜结尾有点故弄玄虚或者强行圆满的意思…
披着恐怖片的外皮，实讲人心。这世上本就没有绝对的善恶是非，人人心中都有一扇罗生门，真相到底是什么已经不重要了。这部国产网剧倒是有点出乎意料的好，演员演技在线不出戏，特效勉强过关，悬念一环扣一环，结尾有彩蛋，认真思考就能感受到导演想表达的深层含义
垃圾玩意，女演员说：打更（geng)的。字都说不准别拍出来丢人了
啥？前面大把的感官刺激变态解剖，完了到最后最后告诉我们这其实是一部环保宣传片！
完成度很高了，特效和演员都表现不错，编剧头功
限于政策因素，尽管没有真正的鬼神元素，演员演技堪忧，但基于扎实的剧本，所以本片也算不错的网络东北恐怖题材电影。电影体现了“最坏的生物是人，最恐怖的是人心”，也使得人们对“民风淳朴”的美好希望破灭，更加深了“穷山恶水出刁民”这句俗语的印象。
Cronenberg在后期没有坚持把写实黑帮犯罪片做下去太可惜了。
不错了，在现有的鸡掰审核体系下能拍出故事结构较为像模像样的东西，叙事交叉，演员演技用心，服化道特效说得过去，超过了很多毫无诚意的院线电影。除了不是鬼片……也不恐怖……
虽说建国之后不许成精，这剧本写的也是很不错的
影片的一切设计仿佛就是为了怪诞而怪诞为了病态而病态，突兀的沙雕吃饭椅、床、手术台还有那个尴尬的手术刀控制器，这群演员努力想让你信服这个新概念世界观可观感无时不在出戏，大卫·柯南伯格像是极力试图巩固自己依然是玩邪典玩先锋玩重口的老大才能为了几个破猎奇道具配一个四流故事拍出这么无聊的一出戏，完全是灾难
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