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".
4.5 清新复古，色调音乐观感很舒服，演员大多是导演的亲人朋友，pta也许就没想着靠这片收获什么，单纯的为年少和家乡写的一封“情书”。
又是散文诗倾向的欧美怀旧年代片。但在颁奖季一同冲奥的《贝尔法斯特》的衬托下，PTA的导演调度水准、文本组织编排能力都呈现出压倒性的优势。其实很多人物、很多梗、很多细节，都“很美国”，作为中国观众基本是不太能get到的，但是电影真的怪可爱的，轻松的基调很能让人沉浸、回味。女主角不着痕迹的出彩表演完全看不出是新人，她始终肆无忌惮地释放自己的银幕魅力。
对PTA的这个还是不那么喜欢，咋说，给我一种🏳️两小无猜的电影，两个人，男主很早很早就打算追女主，然后女主看不上，然后找其他人各种恋情一段比一段失望，然后男主就一直死缠不放，literally，然后最后女主发现，唉还不如他呢，然后他们就一起了。。。。。。。不过我倒是看出来了PTA在各种阴阳怪气，什么jewish，Vietnam，Japanese。offensive还有stereotype倒是，说是讽刺吧也行，反正我无所谓啊，完全没有感觉冒犯到，（对🇯🇵倒是很冒犯，跟我无关），但是说我对电影讨厌吧，也说不上，因为我还挺期待剧情发展的（我一直在想你们还能再作一点嘛？！）而且说实话，女主不是那种一看就特别好看的类型，但是看久了也觉得还好看。。就just so so I guess
还不错，PTA强烈的个人风格。而且这个恋爱谈得还蛮好的🥰 西区故事起码是个唱跳剧，水平不知。除非它连着三年给亚洲人，不然我觉得PTA不定今年还有封的希望[18-03-2022 完球，犬之力可能要封]
一头冲昏我思绪，就喜欢这种扭扭捏捏。怎么三姐妹演都演了不来首歌吗？
看到半夜 打车送我回家 第二天上班睡眠困乏但是一直开心
I don't really understand.A little boring.
很有味道的年代风情片。PDA 就是那个年代的人，里里外外都在还原他熟悉的味道（自传体说不定）。借用姐弟恋错位的爱，重回那个时代。那时候整个社会都是积极生活的人，没有抱怨、乐观的努力，也都是积极的去爱。老胶片，老唱片，很喜欢！
一头冲昏我思绪，就喜欢这种扭扭捏捏。怎么三姐妹演都演了不来首歌吗？
很青春的调调（抱着纯欣赏的心境 并不想经历） 那个口音其实我觉得是在两次嘲笑学口音的人 结束得措手不及 女主演得好 镜头下的她特写脸部质感都出来了 很美
摩托飞奔 卡车倒退
迷幻but its not fuckin a chick flick
奥斯卡三项提名，但这不就两个多小时流水账吗，色调挺好看，女主腿挺好看，没了
陪闺女看，换新马了，名字还没记住，还是好朋友
镜头的流动感太舒服了。听听复古小曲，感受扑面而来的青春活力，that's all.
再怎么说还是未成年人，达咩呀（要是男女主角角色互换这个故事就更牙白了…）…ps男主哪来的这么多钱创业的
听朋友介绍过前面几部，觉得这部格局的确太小了，导致故事情节看着更稀松平常… 歌很好听，细节设置也很可爱，轻松一下还是不错的嗯
确实也没想到居然是带着奇怪俄狄浦斯情结的青春爱情故事
Bradley Cooper傻了吧唧的真让我开心。都在同一心智频道上的这种拉扯其实挺烦的，跟年龄没关系，不过其实挺多人这样吧。困到半路出去拍夜花。
（断断续续看了半个月，出来工作真的操心啊）
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