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".
有人觉得结局离谱，但玛丽卡就是纯粹的宗教徒，她挣不开外面的束缚。
电影院厕所的背后抱是全片精华，结尾看到小孩心梗了，其实不是很喜欢宗教元素，但是teen love戳到了
不知道是不是因为最近“拉子故事会”看多了……觉得整个故事就很“侄女骗姬”的调调，不太能get到所谓“爱”
一直在回响着“我们不是只有现在吗/现在不是可以相爱吗”，但是宗教背景下的同性爱情还是太难了，结尾让我emmmm
当同性情谊遇上宗教的时候，多数都是悲剧，这个电影虽然也是悲剧，但不伤人，因为她们做出的选择是出于自我意志，没有逼迫。结局时按住的手像是给了重拾前缘的希望。
眼镜妹子好美！很多情节如果能再把镜头拉长一点，情感更饱满一点就好了。。。AND本无神论者在那样一个小镇可能连一天都待不下去。。。
两个主角之间的性张力很强，画面很美，节奏不拖沓。对比一堆禁忌下的同性爱情题材的电影中不适的be 元素，这部已经非常合格了，推荐
稀松平常的故事，不过是包裹着宗教和女同元素的青春期普通爱情
车后座牵手那里的性张力和空气中的暧昧气息，比做爱还让人肾上腺素飙升和窒息。
演员化学反应爆表了，从头到尾都看得我揪着心，眼镜女主身边的朋友亲人都很善解人意。😢有点老套好猜的剧情，但是结局可以抹去我的伤痛。和《违命》就是题材像吧，角色差很多，Esti更勇敢。
少有的高质量之一，暧昧拉扯的镜头我太行了！
很有烧女的感觉。“I think about you all the time, about us, do you?”“everyday.”这一句直接全片升华。
很励志的电影，我们的青春并不是狗血的早恋爱情，有些热血瞬间注定难忘，只可惜选了国庆档，被两部大片挤压了生存空间。。。
什么宗教？太邪了。学生时候的小行为真的好让人悸动
两个演员挺有火花的，画面是真的美，但没感觉特别上头。主要从头到尾最理解不了的就是那些破烂教义，甚至Marike决定结婚是为了让自己和Jamie在真理中永远在一起，属实不能理解，对我来说so unreasonable。女本子们的故事永远在历史上被抹去姓名，只要最后结婚了，过往的一切“离经叛道”都被视作是精神开了会小差，只是青春期荷尔蒙作祟而已。所以l片多be也并不奇怪，众所周知LGTBQ+中没有L。
这种腻在一起生活 具有相同的价值观和爱好以及相似的家庭背景 再加上只对同性有chemistry 才促成了love is love吧 另外同性之爱就一定是偷偷摸摸的题材吗 希望开放的文明国家能多拍点其他背景的片
简单的少女恋爱 但就是让人这么看下去了 可能我就是个颜控
阿哈这个评分不至于吧，也就是三星及格女同片。nothing new
多一星给导演 这个电影让我看到了一种可能性 不用什么流量演员也会让我感动 真的很棒！很多共情之处 因为普通我们就不努力了吗以及努力总会被看到的感觉是那么的好 愿电影不要被流量牵着鼻子走 皇帝的新衣愚昧地去评价一个差片多么的好 只因为他是名导演！名演员！
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