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".
剧情虽然简单了点 但是演技支撑 背后议题也不错 不过拍出来一回事 真的重视又是另一回事
周兴哲不唱歌改演电影，名字叫做《永不失联的饭团》🍙
抛开女性那些角度观点。单纯从恐怖片来说，没啥意思。。。有点失望
看在情怀上给的3星…实在是毫无叙事，全程尿点…
怎么可以拍得如此不心动！从剧作导演到选角表演全方位拉垮，故事结构乱七八糟，我更不明白，一个以食物为线索的电影，为什么不能把最基本的食物拍得美味一些？早餐也可以热腾腾、香喷喷的啊！而且演员选择也不行，我一直get不到李沐，脑海里不断想着王净来演该有多好，周兴哲的表演也很差，到最后林柏宏出场我才感觉对了，王净+林柏宏不比现在更有cp感吗？？？
粉丝向作品，评分这么低是因为没有达到观众的预期，打戏很少，剧情解说偏多，该燃的地方燃不起来，这些或许是评分低的主要原因，可是要知道，终章是以悲为主，不论是玛修还是医生，我认为达到了以悲为主的目的，所以值得五星。另外一些闪闪厨不理解为什么王只是在摸鱼，最后总结了一下就退场了因为如果闪闪出手 在医生以后一个乖离剑砸下去就可以直接结束了乖离剑太bug
挺有意思的故事结果拍得又土又无聊，而且连一首歌都留不下的台湾青春片是真没救了。
精神分析、母职惩罚、永存于代际之间的逃不出的怨恨循环，借由一个出色的惊悚片架构串联起来，是深耕于当下的作品。千禹熙发扬光大了《坚持住》里那种巨大压力直到晕眩的表演，看得心惊肉跳。
女性在生育中到底会经历什么？/不怎么惊悚悬疑/结尾女主庆幸没有流产 也算是和自己和解了吧
没有早恋过的小阿姨看这部电影真的全程姨母笑啊，少女爱幻想又难以开口的小心思这点呢把握的太好了，再说一百遍，男二真的好帅，完全长在我的审美点
台湾的青春疼痛片质量有保底啊
我愛你，你愛她，她愛他，他愛他，太多線索亂如麻，倒是青春的原生態，哪有這麼多恰好的你情我願呢？還將舊來意，憐取眼前人，我也可以做一整年的早餐/三餐呢。😜杜政哲在「華初」的機敏被荷爾蒙完全打敗了。菠蘿油包、飯糰加奶茶吃多真的營養嗎？像是加長版的廣告MV⋯⋯
虽然全程姨母笑，可是这循环喜欢的老梗实在是。回头想想，那个年纪，真的是除了喜欢，好像没有别的了，而失恋就是世界末日。还有宿舍那段告白，居然不尬。
结尾把格局降低了，其实可以更加深刻，女性的生存环境、社会压力，深有感触。
故事的内核应该是来自于黑天鹅，后面又堪称82年的金智英的暗黑版。比较再现了 高丽国的女性职场困境，压力山大啊
ps：这都能6.2分，那其他华语电影真是冤😅。
特别好看，有激情有热血有感情，我非常喜欢，但是刚刚看了一下评论，感觉大家不太满意啊，我没有玩过游戏，看着还是很喜欢的，就是结局有遗憾啊，罗曼啊啊啊啊，玛修回来了，医生能回来吗😭😭😭
属于能看出来导演想要什么效果但是他拍不出来的那种电影。
不过说起来盖提亚是爷手撕的吗？我怎么记得是爷上了双梅林+黑贞怼过去的？哦对了，梅林的剧情呢？
我十五年前没有面对自己，十五年后只能期待下一次同学会了～
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