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".
十个故事，没有剧情，没有记忆点。观看过程的我面无表情，毫无波澜，甚至想打瞌睡，不出半个月我会完全忘记自己看过这部电影。
虽然都是些拼接复合肉有中国综艺的那种味，但是起码这种知道软件不行的，硬件的一项得挺起来啊，妹子都选的不错啊，奖励加一星
恐怖片还是不能太依赖于视效，那个人吃人像毒液一样，已经不恐怖了，直接我就觉得这就是电影里才有的事，牙虫到是利用视效做得很恶心，但是走向又变成了丧尸我很失望。因为依赖于视效，所以在朴素的氛围感营造上掉以轻心，并没有在这上面做太多的设计，故事的逻辑也因为讲完发生就结束，所以很容易变得千篇一律，应该没有人不允许对怪谈故事的修改吧，但是这个水平好像就只停留在这。
整体片子情节较为散，但是带给观众的感觉非常好，不论是色调还是视听语言都非常的舒服，整个片子下来可以让观众深深地感受到一种故乡的味道。映后导演有说到电影中设置跳舞那一段落是为了表达自己希望人们跳脱出一种形式中。但跳舞这一点，像是轻轻点了水，没有强大的支撑似的。也深深反映出那时政治层面的原因。
不能算是电影，像是小短剧的样子，只提供高能供之消遣
想到了X 国，挺有代入感的。但节奏真的太慢了，这就是文艺片吧
每一个小故事都是虎头无尾，真是服了，都是让你想多看两眼的时候，没有了，看的一头雾水。
我很喜欢类似魔术中misdirection的手法，本来以为父亲要剪掉脚趾，但实际上确实最后突然出现、截掉小腿，这个打破预期的设计很棒。
类似于乡野怪谈大集锦，故事没啥逻辑，但会搞的一惊一乍，各种老式套路去吓人，毫无新意。好在男女演员颜值都很高，表演不会出戏，能让人坚持看下去。
所有短片都充斥着“手”这一元素，床边突然出现的手、洗头时头顶出现的手、手机屏幕里出现的手。
但是作为处女作感觉过关。
看多了就免疫了，一般吧，模特那个还凑合，够怪异。其它没什么新意！
风风火火的讲了好几个故事，全都没头没尾的，还不如好好把一个故事讲完整。灵媒那个故事男主还挺帅的。
同样是鲜肉，虽然演技比较韩国流水化，但也吊打国内……
但着力很软，想探讨的的东西观众很容易明白但很难接收，有一种虚脱的无力感。
车窗手印在增加，红衣女鬼爱爬楼，齿虫密集恐惧症，拉拉喜欢扎小人，墙里鬼魂爱撩人，猥琐男鬼爱出柜，鲜肉面试有风险，走火入魔女网红，人体模型制作法，一万美元全出卖。10个短片，人体模型最好，有一点点恐怖的感觉，其它的只能说是单纯的吓人。最大的问题是：想用短片讲长故事，导致故事性不够。
完美的摄影，虚幻与现实的紧密结合，真实的时代图卷
说点啥呢，感谢中国共产党的政策医保（从小到大对糖尿病足都会产生强烈的生理不适），在生存面前情怀和梦想不值一提
就一个牙科那个能看。2022-5-22 17:13:19
3.0，小标题式的结构，摄影善于捕捉宏观的社会进程以及聚焦部分微观的家庭生活和人物状态，金边的GDP和基建总体上还是跟国内五线的县级市差不多，甚至不如，消费水平和收入完全是两极化发展，更是一个电信诈骗大国，底层国民看世界的眼光仍然处于时代末流，偶尔有一两部电影可以有机会多了解一下这个地方的真实的城乡环境。
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