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".
8，并不是低幼，纯粹的欢乐和善良，和近几年的raya，trolls一样，为这个越来越分裂的世界带来一丝光亮，CG小马宝莉和各种小动物真的萌翻了，歌声太美，小艺的变装歌超好听。ps菜头这种邪恶妈宝军阀真的适合这种真善美的电影吗
在这层糖纸包裹下
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
最后，小公马真的拉。
多一星给下坡倒车，电影没有海报好看，主演一行的演技好像入不了导演的眼，所以导演拼命给配角老戏骨特写镜头，好怪好突兀
好像是昆汀的《好莱坞往事》和布拉纳的《贝尔法斯特》的结合。第一次看PTA的片子，还是和近两年奥斯卡一票电影一样的特点，就是很私人化。男女主以及经历的各种事件都是导演对于周边人经历的一个总结，所以影片的观感又一次割裂了，像一段一段的小品。好在对于那个年代的还原挺够味儿的，跟《贝尔法斯特》不相上下，也对于那段时代共情不起来，不过黑胶（甘草）唱片（披萨）yyds
好自由散漫啊，PTA带着一众亲友团玩出一部电影，放大年代后一切极简，世界纷乱我们只管相爱。
既然是讲混合着黏腻热汗、试探懵懂又焦躁难耐的低饱和度的七十年代，那还就得给你整段虐恋让你不痛快不过瘾别别扭扭又欲罢不能，问题就是太拖沓了信息也太杂看着累得慌，女主角的颜实在是GET无力呀……
年末上的片子都很怀旧啊。基本是导演自己在怀念自己的成长经历吗？一部回忆七十年代的青春电影，把石油危机年代的美国经济、政治、文化氛围很轻松地呈现出来。虽然离自己的经历太远没法感受那种轻松无束的成长的感觉，但拍得还是很好的，传递了那种欢乐的积极的情绪，故事完整可靠，中间几个样板人物（比如007）也很好玩。男女主实在太青春太美了，不是职业演员所以倒真的很自然。无论是笑还是哭，发传单还是勾搭异性，脸上都写着：“未来属于我们。”
HAIM三姐妹真的太可爱了。PTA拍了一部青春美好的电影，25岁青年的成才烦恼。一堆大明星，每换一个片段就是“哇怎么ta也在”
劇情有點粗糙，但拍得不錯。本來可以是一個我願意打四星的「男人都不行」的故事，最後非要為了眾裡尋他千百度後的驀然回首設定跟小胖子happy ending 我不是很想接受。
小艺真的太太太可爱啦 一开始都没发现是虞书欣配的 好厉害！
姐弟恋，男主一边走事业线一边和女主相爱相杀，最后双向奔赴的时候想到《私恋失调》，但比那部散得多。回想起来已经看了PTA六部电影，每次都是当下很喜欢，然后很快回想不起来故事了。只留下对调度和光影的印象。最喜欢相遇的part😮💨
挺有意思的儿童游戏，儿童成人化，第一场戏就能看见大结局，没想到要经历这么多的波折啊。
虽然不是一部John Hughes式的青春片，但结局浪漫得让我想起『十六支蜡烛』。
甘草披萨，黑胶唱片，往日情怀。拍电影是一件私人的事情，但如果电影只拍导演自己知道的事情，那就要有准备观众没那么多共情。这部电影是在PTA的老家圣费尔南多谷拍的，据女主阿拉娜·哈伊姆说，这个角色是PTA为她量身打造的，了解PTA和女主一家关系的话，就会知道此言不假。不过，小男孩的初恋也好，女主是自己喜欢的人也好，背景是自己的老家也好，看得出注入了不少感情也好，电影里塑造的这位女主，真的会喜欢男主这个小孩？电影用两个多小时的时间刻画了男女主性格的不同，成熟姐姐喜欢不成熟小弟弟的可能性太低了，但结局就是要在一起。也许这就是PTA心中的爱情吧，没有道理、莫名其妙。
我想多了吗，政治元素好多，，，歌还是很好听
PTA借简单人物，小镇图景，加之高超导演技法
6.0 时代感还原得不错，爱情中那种试探、摩擦都比较自然
快看睡了，复古怀旧一个点都没get到，非常无聊的美国奔跑爱情梦。有多期待就有多失望，没打一星是因为勉为其难没睡着。
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