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".
挺没劲的 一个高尔夫园区就拍完了 本身软科幻的概念又没啥新意 看得昏昏欲睡
想一下这样的电影找找大明星，然后上映前稍稍营销一下，票房应该不简单吧！这也是一种怎么说国产电影的悲哀吧，明明很好的电影却因为演员什么的没有流量，上映时间沉寂之后才被发现！
只有三个不知名的演员，小成本拍成这样的国产片，值得鼓励，哪怕有很多瑕疵，给五星是值得的
被dy上安利过来看的，俩男演员的演技比较平庸，导致角色没共鸣，导致强烈怀疑吻戏是男主硬要加的。虽然时空错乱但中段哥哥要杀了亲妹妹丈夫想弄死亲媳妇这种心理逻辑实在不能苟同。前期摄像后期调色都没带出悬疑的feel，剧本本身绝对有潜力拍成gone girl风格。
人物的成长细腻，符合逻辑，交代的清楚，这点好过我的天才女友
「我偶尔会讨厌自己。」「讨厌就讨厌呗。」
本来是想看看函馆的美景，结果一直天色昏暗，一如人物的内心，缓缓地一点一点压抑下去。努力地平凡地过着每一天，但崩溃会突然悄无声息地到来，无法抵抗。身边的人也无法理解。生病的人无暇顾及身边亲人的感受，亲人会自责觉得是自己的错，其实谁都没有错，但是最终没人能承受这种痛苦。P.S.那个滑板少年的技术好厉害。再P.S.都病成这样了为什么不避孕。
多加一星给导演，因为从他那儿学到了许多干货。
前面还行，后面好无聊，有点像那部重生之门，但是比那部弱爆了
平淡的像水一样的故事，好舅舅的存在一般意味着有坏父亲
母子双剑客对“家”有两种不同理解，电台里的声音欠款三十刀遛弯顶替赡养费，美国教育理念的德国式框架提升外公魅力，名车炮局不敌上流家庭圣诞拷问，耶鲁毕业怎能不熟悉英国宪法对抗统治阶级，威尼斯是一个永远在别处的父子关系……老文青狄更斯酒吧二三事，大本就像从《心灵捕手》里的好基友变成了这里的好老舅，算是近几年来最好表现了；《回到未来》的老博士爷爷可爱依旧
首先是时代背景，七十年代摇滚乐加上牛皮纸般的古铜色滤镜，让这部电影看起来分外怀旧、温馨；其次，人物造型分外养眼，那个年代的人总是留着一头蓬松的头发吗？看上去像萨摩耶一样好摸；最后，每个演员都十分讨喜，尤其是本阿弗莱克，这可能是他演艺生涯最不致郁的表演，看完后谁会不想要一个本阿弗莱克这样的舅舅？
3.5吧 拍出来没那么科幻也没那么悬疑 有些情节设置的很怪
色调和配乐很高级欸！光影效果也很好，女主姐姐演技也不错，很有辨识度！即使看过很多类似的片子也会有想看下去的欲望！包袱抖的有点直白，剖白的太快，但是瑕不掩瑜。
5星全给奈绪，真像她，老婆感十足，演技也好，像梦中情人
被影评吸引过来的，可惜整个彗星+恐怖邮轮，留的几个悬念并没有很好的撑起剧情，国产片还是缺乏创新
乔治•克鲁尼是不是生活得太幸福了，故事永远选这种，拍得一点痛楚都没有。我没看过原著，我真心希望原著就这么温吞水，如若不然，那一定是被克鲁尼爹味十足地一笑而过了。
#22#12扔车钥匙那下太帅了吧…男人的默契，鼻子酸了。小鲜肉们一眼演技不行的问题好莱坞也一样，大本和一群酒吧大叔的演技看着太舒服了…歌很好听…至少两首大爱
情绪流。不知道该做什么的时候，总之先跑步吧、总之先滑板吧、总之先放烟花吧、总之先试着活下去吧。空地上的圆木等待被越过，马路边的赤狐等待被偶遇，而“我”在等待什么呢?也许有投射本人的亲身经历与感情，东出太适合这种颓丧无依的角色。作为妻役的奈绪，从“忍耐”到“放弃”的过程，尤其那一句“我们为什么会变成这样?”足够令人心疼，最后开车阳光洒在她脸上的那刻，却又觉得她内心深处还是坚信着“hikari（光）”与“nozomi(
成本有限，场景单一，主要由三位角色的人物关系变化，而展示不同的时空差异。细节的前后呼应做得挺好，但整体的情节线略微单薄。全片没有拉胯之处，能看出螺丝壳里做道场的用心。导演的下一部可期。
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