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".
【B-】前两幕的戏剧点安排和故事构架还是挺有意思的，可能有点借鉴《七个神经病》，但第三幕突然转变成了很普通的喜剧动作类型片套路的展开就有点失望了。第三幕平庸的故事实在是支撑不起这个想要做成带有meta意味的结局。另外前两幕对角色的情感铺垫明明挺棒的，怎么到了第三幕突然也和故事一样变得那么平庸了…
自己出演自己，和年轻的自己对话，自我审视和嘲讽，叔的艰辛回春路
笑死了，年轻的凯奇下巴像个锥子一样。恭喜凯奇终于还清债了。
很难讲这是不是一部好电影，平庸的剧情，烂俗的情节，浮夸的表演，但是问题在于这都是导演想要的，配合上尼古拉斯凯奇近年的人设，讽刺的味道还是很重。也很难讲这是不是凯奇的翻身之作，因为他也不需要表演，因为这就是他自己的生活，这是一部只属于凯奇自己的电影，因为别人也演不了，凯奇的独特的人生造就了这部电影。
继去年的《猪》之后，尼古拉斯凯奇又迎来一部“翻身之作”？可能有不少争议，只因为这部作品更像是一位资深影迷亲笔写给凯奇的肉麻情信，充斥着这位大明星在以往代表作中的经典场面。这个元喜剧的剧本完全在模仿凯奇的现实生活，导致有时令人分不清究竟哪些是虚构，哪些是真实的。不过，依然是凯奇过去不少商业动作片的过火味道和浮夸的表演风格，如果这是该片的终极目标，那么这个剧本可谓相当成功。
nick motherfxxkinnnng cage，创意算新意，但剧情不新，娱乐就好了，祝还清债的cage今后找回自己
即使不是凯奇粉丝，这也是一部非常不错的动作喜剧。
Cage粉丝电影，CIA外包的外包太垃圾了（ntm)帕斯卡好可爱哦！帕丁顿2成最大赢家。
故事走向好莱坞套路好似凯奇20年前的《改编剧本》
在凯奇的电影里，烂片之上，好片之下，前面略好，中间拖沓，玻璃中的倒影与人像慢慢重叠，拉回很多感觉，但结尾的平庸注定翻不起多大浪花。据说是凯奇无债一身轻后的作品，却已是年过半百，每个人的生命都是如此短暂，演员导演观众都一样，在这有限的时间里，彼此都多一份期待与真诚，电影与生活，多一份美好。
想法不错 算是美国版的自成一体的自己致敬自己了 凯奇叔也算是临老高光了一把 虽然选的电影都有点cherry-pick 但想法算是不错的了
“我只是想和你分享一些对我意义重大的东西”
本来嘛，这是个挺烂的故事，可凯奇饰演自己，在电影里又是吐槽又是致敬，又是自黑又是自恋，化腐朽为神奇，融合出了挺好玩的效果。
本质上主线故事很俗套，但因为有“尼古拉斯凯奇饰演尼古拉斯凯奇”这个让现实与戏剧形成互文又重新投射进现实（电影中最后的影片上映&本片在现实中上映）的设定，整部片子的调性就有趣起来。尤其对于我这个凯奇粉来说，片中提及到的过往作品以及他的自黑自嘲都非常打动内心，酒店落寞那场戏我真的掉了眼泪，虽说大凯奇强调了这只是个虚构角色罢了，但我相信这些年高低沉浮他心底总是会有这样的瞬间吧。选皮皮出演是妙笔，融合了粉丝的纯真狂热和“反派”的阴晴不定，很多时候是皮皮来驱动剧情发展。总之无所谓大众眼中的是否翻身，我都会永远爱大凯奇。
没想要还挺好看哈哈哈哈哈希望凯奇叔越来越好
Every Nicolas Every Cage All at Once
自己演自己的尼古拉斯·凯奇~说真的其实凯奇的演技一直挺好的~一段时间里烂片虽然多，但那是片子不行，演技一直没问题啊~至于这部~搞笑度还可以~重点是自己演自己~而且还和现实那么像。其实最好的是结尾，毕竟我看到时候就觉的绑架戏太突兀太不合适了~然后结尾这种感觉就消失了~当然可以有其他的理解，但按我的理解那就是向市场妥协的剧情！话说现如今的海报流行这种风格么？和瞬息全宇宙的风格好像啊~
又臭又长又傻。又无聊又尴尬又折磨。从此对凯奇彻底失望。一把年纪一脸褶子了还不忘装逼耍帅沉迷于过去。是有多自恋？我呕……。这就是个垃圾片，连烂片都不够格。就是垃圾。花了宝贵的时间看了这个电影，我真后悔。以后再也不会关心“凯奇到底欠了多少钱？”这种问题。永别了，凯奇。拜拜，拉黑。还有，故意设置女儿和前妻这两个无比惹人讨厌的角色，是故意恶心观众吗？去你吗的
开幕暴击，情怀拉满，尼古拉斯•凯奇，致敬你那无与伦比的演艺生涯。
电影很有趣，不过很多主角光环的存在以及生硬的连接只能让我很勉强的给出四颗星。
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