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".
恐怖片的角色设定，是不是一定要得到了线索之后还要后知后觉入套？
层层推进，抽丝剥茧，一步步接近真相，作为悬疑片看还是不错的，但是作为恐怖片就一般般了，不够恐怖
并没明白为什么全家留下的是妈妈 但整部电影寥寥几人氛围营造得还不错
一般般。铺垫太长，怪物也就一般般吧，算不上网上说的震撼。
气氛不错 节奏不错 情节没亮点 怪物满分 但是很不喜欢这种惨到死的设定 虽然现实就是如此 不过看着还是挺压抑的
电影的冷色调 ，恐怖镜头多运用于窄视角使人有压迫紧张感 。底层人民的残酷生活 ，母亲的离世 ，亲戚的冷眼 ，蛮横的上司 ，被朋友骗钱 ，加上恐怖的公寓 ，全程一直揪着心 。女主初期给人印象被亲情束缚顾及母亲舍弃前程 ，一直压抑自己 ，最后爆发弑母后创伤性遗忘 ，箱子里的魔神是吃感情执念较深被情感束缚的女性 ，箱子选择了房东哥哥是因为哥哥没有人性残暴 相比于弟弟每次行凶都于心不忍良心发现所以说箱子没有选择弟弟 最后在魔神的幻境里女主想起了自己弑母的经过 魔神选择了她 杀死哥哥后魔神治好了她断掉的脚赋予她生命力 所以说感情执念深的都死了 残暴自利的被魔神看上
节奏略慢，怪物的背景也没有交待详细，除开这几点，中规中矩
算是经典套路吧，就是这个特效实在是……肉眼可见的没钱
非常好的片子，代入感极强的恐怖片，这个片子好就好在，看懂的人，一定是经历过作者想表达的观点，看不懂的人，那肯定是幸福的人！
怪物造型挺好的，我觉得还有点儿sexy~是我审美扭曲么……想象力也很赞，就是女主也太丧了吧？！女性题材？不是说这怪物只吃老人小孩女人么……怎么男房东也照吃不误了？！而且女主破幻象，战胜怪物之后，怪物是个小骷髅是几个意思？！扑棱蛾子也不长那样啊？……很多迷思……不过可能因为想不通所以觉得还挺好看的吧……
郑皮皮开腾讯会议带我看完 算是科学➕恐怖？或者说科幻➕恐怖？
进入另外一个空间的画面记忆尤深，最后的结局也是后背发凉
好无聊的惊悚片，一点也不恐怖，前面太冗长了，堪称无聊，后三分之一还可以，如果不是极度无聊，可以不看
可以说烂片了，我以为有什么邪教历史背景，有什么复仇之类的目的，完全没有，为了吓人故弄玄虚，到最后也不知道在说什么，反转的也莫名其妙，女主的妈妈也没有帮她，反而要害她？？？怪物挺搞笑的，还会自己关起门
看名字就知道很随意，但是电影开头质感还不错，你接着看，就会发现，你一开始的判断没有错，就是很随意跟烂，古老的恶魔的技能，就是控制人数数……爱尔兰到底是多害怕数学，数数有啥可怕的🤨你看完就会发现，你浪费了一个多少小时都不理解，数数！有啥？可怕的！？怎么的就能5分以上？？？
小成本制作，没啥令人惊喜的桥段和特效画面。氛围还行但前期剧情寡淡如水，整体设定和人物塑造也都比较老套。但是看到女主在为social media campaign的pitch提案就很有亲切感。唯一出彩的地方大概是结局。一句话总结就是薛定谔的女儿。btw数学很恐怖这件事，我从初中以后就知道了……
一个还算可以的概念，如果换个名导可以整得更高级一点
为了Elisa Cuthbert而来，女神也老了啊。哎，岁月不留情啊，再美的女人都抵挡不住时光的力量！
前半段挺好的，后半段稀烂了。。演技诡异，他爹尤甚！恶魔忙来忙去不知道忙了个啥，还不如留在纸上。。
拍folk horror能不能事先做点功课啊，数到666就行了差不多得了
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