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".
是喜剧吗？感觉挺现实的。。。现实何尝不是这么荒诞！
这哪是拍电影，这是给当下把脉，这是在美国头顶架了个摄像头。
看得这部电影送走2021。这也有点太应景了吧......不过这个尺度......差距啊
PS：请放心地球上还有中国在，就不会让美国胡作非为。
【4】视角极其当下，因而处于预期内，一些微妙的异质感充斥在图像间的缝隙。人物各有其象征，共同组成顺滑的情绪线，越来越不好笑是应该的，结尾才得以美丽且无比悲伤。
表演很拉胯，设定倒是有趣，也在意料之中。老百姓肯定吃这个
Is this science peer-reviewed? 地球的灭亡告诉我们没有peer-review的科学不是好科学！荒诞和合理的共存是剧本的美妙所在，尤其是电影中刻画的现实世界无比贴近真实更显讽刺。只是结尾略为无聊了一点。（以及，我感觉那个科技大亨的角色应该搞成模仿elon musk更合理，他在我脑子里就是会干出这种事的人）
Excellent movie! I’m glad that they put this story on the big screen. Hopefully more of those who didn’t realize it now finally did. However I doubt that. Leave alone the incorrigible ones. It’s time for the intelligent people to reconsider it seriously: are we truly smart to let those stupid guys in charge and put us into such a situation?
当一切严肃议题都变成了网络热点，当民主被疯子、傻逼和资本裹挟，人类乙烷。剧情和设定其实挺俗套的，感觉拍一集黑镜就能讲清楚，这个阵容有点浪费啊。
看了好久以为电影要完了，看眼进度条正好到二分之一，崩溃了。想不通一个连讲故事都讲不好的剧本是怎么签下这么多大牌的。整个片子像好莱坞集体复盘这两年来的政治热点，还要故作讽刺和幽默。卡司阵容强大，但是感觉好拥挤，看电影居然还被迫听Ariana grande唱完一首歌。一星不能再多。
「We really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it.」
真厉害，目瞪口呆，害怕，好笑。哈哈哈哈哈。我们当然互相同情，彼此提醒。在这个把我们注意力干稀巴烂，集体思考水平低下的年代。但下这样的断言只能是个电影，没有人有资格去给这个正在发生的时空做评判。否则就是另外一个喜剧电影的主题了。也有可能是这个灾难太tm大，除了珍惜身边美好的一切，确实也没好办法。但是喜剧是喜剧，痛快点呈现某个片段就行了。有可能呢，聪明的人早就做好准备，就好像躺平的人说我们曾经真的努力过。这个喜剧也太悲伤了吧，就好像话都让他说完了，剩下一个傻仔在独自喊妈妈。就真的和真的一样，没法辩驳。但也蛮开心，末日来临都一样，还不如真诚点。每个小群体行为都有道理，但无法达成更大范围的共识，除非某类人毁灭，这才是最可怕的事情
这是最近能吸引我一直看完还觉得不错的 比电影更荒诞的是现实 里面有太多梗 值得四星 但觉得讽刺是讽刺就是不够深刻 后来又转念一想 现实不就跟影片里一样吗 在美国严肃的问题已经没法被严肃对待了 不娱乐化一下谁理你啊 像大表姐小李子那样撕心例肺想要唤醒大众 结果却落得被当成笑话一样对待 反而是a妹在那儿编首歌才能引起更多关注 当然这电影也不够娱乐搞笑 所以没能在美国掀起多大波澜？看的时候感觉很唏嘘 西方尤其灯塔国这两年咋变成这德行了呢 在想还好这世界上最起码有中国 不然人类真玩完了 国内再咋不好 最起码小命能保住吧 大家也有努力对抗疫情 而国外奥密克戎让美国再破新增记录 人们却还在跨年聚集狂欢 真打破脑袋都无法理解 对影片中男女主那种无能为力感同身受了 想起一句歌词太恰当 真是“清醒的人最荒唐”
居然还有A妹的献唱，心满意足。
和平时：同住地球村
大表姐咋胖成这样了…真相其实凄惨得多，他们甚至没有聪明到可以像你们描述得那样邪恶。近期最好的政治讽刺喜剧大作，台词的密度和信息量都让人满意，意识形态高度对立社会的的绝佳写照。
其实这片比《钢铁苍穹》要严肃多了，但梅姨这总统演得比那位还飞，感觉……唔，看个乐吧。属于笑不出来的喜剧。
看得我对自己懒惰麻木的本性开始自省，不说地球，就说这世界上每一个沉沦和结束前，都是这般的结构组成，警醒者，上岸者，牺牲者和我们。
这两年的现实看下来，已经没法把这片当政治讽刺喜剧来看了，就像某川选前和在任时，SNL的编剧就根本不用特别开脑洞。好笑么？一点都不好笑，感觉自己现在就看着一颗彗星撞过来，所有人都在狂欢，不能更真实了。
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