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".
Bon idée à la base mais le scénario perds rapidement sa logique et son rythme, qui est vraiment mal écrit
这次漫威走的不是合家欢路线了，有恐怖片的味道，剧情其实也就一般，特效在线，几乎全程打戏，个人感觉复联4后最佳了，之前那几部拍的都是个啥。
隔离众生相。Dany的电影总是不缺笑点，写实中点缀小温馨和小无奈，适度煽情。就很喜欢。
特色鲜明的作品，在市场资本化、舆论环境更加复杂的当下，我会期待更加多元的艺术表现形式。话说回来一直以为结局会bad end，没想到两个人从夜晚走到天亮，四季轮转，屋顶上冒出炊烟……两个人真的就这样生活在一起了。那老师口中的妈妈到底代表什么？救回希瓦又到底付出了什么代价呢？撕开心脏捧出的蓝色液体又代表什么…蹲个大佬解读吧。
正在隔离，内心的焦虑，困苦，无聊，紧张似乎有了宣泄口，情绪叠加的突破，从一开始保洁得了新冠病毒，她的丈夫代替她管理大楼，到最后以她为收尾，这个点落得好。
No.2384 感觉法式喜剧还挺对我口味。小成本制作，但是包含了挺多的内容，展现了疫情下几个家庭的悲欢离合。最后楼管夫妇的妻子因为新冠离开了，这一点没想到，以为会是大团圆的欢乐结局。
Bon idée à la base mais le scénario perds rapidement sa logique et son rythme, qui est vraiment mal écrit
感动。虽然不是Happy ending，观于上海封控期间。
2021年底观影，补打卡。疫情让邻里间产生连接，以及由连接引发的冲突与和解。疫情带来的积极面。不同职业，不同性格的人，在面对疫情的态度各异，很生动，很后疫情时代，给人共鸣。导演饰演的神经质男人太好笑了，不愧是《欢迎来北方》的他。
不得不佩服法国人的浪漫、幽默和娱乐，让烦人的新冠和抗疫变得这样温情和喜感。不同的视角，不同的体会，不同的收获。我们习惯了宏大叙事，其实换成这样的角度，效果更好，因为更贴近个体。微就是伟，小就是大。#童行健谈#
片头鼓掌的时候想起那会儿我也在阳台上鼓掌，当时就觉得还是真的很感动那些医护人员付出的辛苦
没有讲好先生和汐华两个人的羁绊之如何建立的
在新冠这个给人压力的题材下，一部温馨满分的电影告诉我们，生活充满希望，病毒只是暂时，生活才是主流
我喜欢，哈哈哈哈哈哈我真的喜欢，这个电影的视觉风格太有意思了
太无聊了，疫情造成的隔离作为一个大前提，没有做任何深挖，呼唤爱与真善美，可惜都不走心，喊喊得了
8.0 一部轻喜剧疫情隔离电影 最后的结局居然不是大团圆 却倍感温情
晕染的画面，总像弥散着飘渺水雾，色彩克制到让观者安静，内敛的钢琴声一直萦绕着几丝忧郁，但主旋律的优雅，调动着情愫去渗透心境深处，唤醒柔软抚慰在现实中受伤后留下的疤痕。治愈，是自己努力成熟时吞的药，不可能立竿见影到让一切都好，但可以先麻木，再平和，最后才是从容。
关于相互尊重和救赎的故事。从题材到人设到画风到分镜细节雕琢等等都戳我。可惜的地方是最后有点谜语人，以及我由衷希望日常再多点。
最后想多提一句那两个小朋友，太可爱了。我永远喜欢青梅竹马。
一群性格不同的租户因为疫情在一栋楼里隔离的故事。律师女和目中无人男握手言和那里看得我有点感动，没想到他们后面会突然亲上去。但还好还好两人意识到是错误就停止了，两个家庭都没有受到伤害。最后那里宝拉死去，一向开朗的光头胖子变得很难过那里哭了。苦中作乐挺不错的
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