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".
郭子健是类型片的坚定的践行者。也就多了很多特别外在的各种情绪都写在脸上的设定方式。场景造型都不错，但人少了细节，状态少了细节，就显着……过场。
可以一看，没有原著过瘾，可能是篇幅有限，原著亲王细节控，电影就比较通俗了。
唐突的剧情，莫名其妙的对白外加迷之演技，本来都是减分项但凑到一起就还挺有趣的。雷佳音在韩国颓废大叔这条路上真的是一去不复返，只是他除了脸大，四肢都细，穿着臃肿的毛衣就稍稍有些露怯。李现的“花瓶”演技竟然正向增加了娱乐性。希望第二部出来之前他不要塌房吧。。。
毫无疑问，如果他的评价还不如《盗墓笔记》的话，那一定是观众的问题，有眼无珠，不懂得欣赏好作品
可以一看。跟着电影故事探索，饭后电影。李现的角色是真滴不好。
影片是标准的商业化拍法，不断的解谜反转，还附赠了小幽默，具体可以参照《国家宝藏》的叙事结构。
比起夏雨的差的太多，剧情压缩太多就匆匆忙忙人物片面化。
还可以，比国外的那种解密探宝剧更接地气，全员演技在线，奶奶我也很好生养
大头敲开佛头，然后吃下过期20年的买糖，这心中的滋味一般人很难体会。
本应该很成熟的一部商业电影，但还是因为工业化的不成熟导致在底层逻辑，细节刻画，人物塑造，场景转换上出现了大量bug，不合理等现象，基本上热门评论已经找的七七八八，就不复述了。就提一句，这部电影在事件的推进上，以及一些笔墨的泼洒上，已经得到了很多好莱坞电影的精髓了，日后多加努力我觉得国产电影应该能掌握好这类商业电影分精髓。值得期待
乱七八糟，莫名其妙。导演的手法和和风格很是问题……
年代感上是花了些功夫的，雷佳音的许愿也OK，但这个故事的逻辑简直漏洞百出，好比把自己家闺女化妆成丑女送给邻村傻小子当媳妇，没看出对自己有什么好处，还要煞有介事地铺梗，不希望儿子介入又处处留下谜题，李现那个角色没支愣起来，要不然是个双雄片。
我开始怀疑我是不是看过原著了怎么盗墓了……葛优这个角色去煽情真的没必要……老朝奉是哪谁。还是最爱鉴宝环节。
就那样。我倒是觉得雷佳音的表演和李现的咬肌都挺有意思。
不足之处在于特效看起来还是有点经费不足啊，尤其最后地下塌陷那段
2021年看过的国产里最好看之一，剧本、视听、调度、情感、人物俱佳，“传承”的主题通过寻宝类型得以讲述，年代感和时代性结合得非常好。有些情节处理比较隐晦，虽然没看过原著，但脑补了合理性，觉得很高明，编剧了不起！
虽然也就还好，但比起另一部高分的好太多了。3.5
港片模式和盗墓体系除了节奏真的啥都不剩了，逻辑的敷衍程度几乎到了只能失智才能接受，但历史过渡终于结束
基本都成立，但给的都不好，全片没有一处超越期待，剧作逻辑和戏剧目标只有第一幕清晰。人物上除了许愿，老黄小黄老药小药大许付贵老杜小郑沈爷集体来由不清有头无尾沦为工具人。
没看过原著也没看过剧，感觉还行，评分才6.3，是因为电影院滤镜吗？我比较疑惑的是，许和平留下的围棋提示如此简单明了，药不然怎么看不出来呢。我还不明白的是，许愿和张小敬两个人物这么像，雷佳音还真都接了呀。然后我最最疑惑的是，真佛头藏在假佛头里，让日本人以为是真，归根结底确实是真，许一诚怎么知道人家后代一定会还回来呢，砍头不冤啊，费了好几代的劲儿，究竟在保护什么呀
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