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".
男主贝克特出了车祸导致女友丧生，而在警察调查时，只是随口说看到出事地点有人出现就遭到黑警+黑道的双重追杀，这其实很不“科学”，毕竟，发生车祸丧女友的外国旅行者，怎么可能再去调查他看到什么人的细节呢，所以，这只是编剧为了编而已硬设定而已；包括后来强行插入的ZZ阴谋，更是觉得越变越荒唐，所以，到了结局，戛然而止，那反而想的通了，这是真编不下去了🤒😹
信条男主希腊全国大逃亡，又是经典的错误的人在错误的时间出现在错误的地点的老套路，引起了一场全国大追杀。可惜了坎妹，真的是开头打了个酱油就直接下线了。
坂本龙一给配的乐，坎妹给打的酱油，信条男主给力演绎一个生而被杀绝命逃亡终成伸冤人的救赎故事。
小成本電影。估計是不會上院線了，無知名演員上陣，成果雖沒好萊塢追殺驚險緊湊，卻更貼近真實。全片希臘拍攝，很少有電影在此取景，也順將國家動盪赤裸呈現.....換一角度看也算是小佳作。
约翰大卫华盛顿演的还是比较拼的，全片几乎一直在跑，在哭，在一直处于危机四伏的状态。片里的剧情如果真实发生的话那实在是太吓人，在异国他乡旅游意外出车祸，女友死了，自己却被当地的反政府组织和警察追杀，甚至逃到自己国家的大使馆里去也差点被外交官杀了，太绝望。算是部合格的惊悚片，可以一看，但别抱太多期待。
被追杀的路上比较好看，不过在山上、火车上、车站、车上，商场地下室，还有最后的反杀，都太假了，主角光环太强
整个故事蠢到我扶额，但是风景美女演员美（指那两个捎路的活动人士）值得三颗星
一场因疲劳驾驶引发的一连串事件。白人特工跟个弱鸡似的，而男主不当特工也浪费了，各种反杀乱杀。
坂本龙一给配的乐，坎妹给打的酱油，信条男主给力演绎一个生而被杀绝命逃亡终成伸冤人的救赎故事。
也许是真实事件改编，干涉内政这块儿现实永远高于艺术；坂本龙一的配乐欣赏不来，但确实intense, 有点信条那味儿。
2男主就不能找件衣服掩盖下吗？
节奏真的太差了，逻辑bug无数，男主演技堪忧。两星半不能再多。
要谨慎驾车，否则你的事故会让你卷入莫名其妙的争斗中。
坎妹真的是来打酱油的！死了就是死了！没有反转！有这类想法的同学要马上改正！不然别看了！
导演选角不错，主演看起来没脑子果然整部剧也没脑子，非要后期强行支楞起来
可惜女主 这个男朋友居然开车睡着 哎 找男朋友不能找个靠谱的嘛
前面铺垫那么多感情戏后来剧情彻底走向政治？？跳楼压车实在是扯大蛋了
Yeah and I just fucked that
全全因为一首
后三分之一剧情崩了要不凭着朴素真实的动作戏是能给四星的。另外坎妹是来客串尸体的？
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