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".
溫情又可愛的一個小品。法國男孩真是從小就很會啊⋯⋯
3.5差不多，相比于短片，剧情加长并加了对白，有利也有弊。好处是在于里面的一些设定因为加了对白的缘故变得浅显易懂，不需要过多琢磨，观感变得更加舒适；缺点是在于短片的韵味削弱了不少，后半段剧情还略有些崩。但总体来说还是可以的，较值得一看
法国人真的很有喜剧精神，拍的还是蛮快乐的。
有点长，1.5倍速看完了，导演好凶哦，赶自己老婆在门外面睡（童年阴影），为什么要安插精神出轨那段，健身教练变胖太搞笑了。2022年依旧希望疫情快点结束吧
疫情下不同阶层，不同职业的一群人隔离住在一栋楼里，紧张敏感的马丁太搞笑了，没有口罩就用潜泳面罩代替，邻里间由猜疑到彼此信任，小男孩与小女孩夜晚的手影互动太浪漫了，临结尾不忘纪念一下因为疫情逝去的生命。
法国疫情期间的小区隔离生活，咱们的导演们就拍不出来这么细腻的小人物的电影嘛？？？最后感动点在“向人类团结致敬”
包裹着喜剧的疫情鸡汤片，结局莫名其妙就大团圆了。表演都很浮夸，导致出戏严重。段子还不错吧，有的些许离谱了。
Bon idée à la base mais le scénario perds rapidement sa logique et son rythme, qui est vraiment mal écrit
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆苦中作乐 真·喜剧，鼻咽拭真做，酸爽
相比于短片，剧情加长并加了对白，有利也有弊。好处是在于里面的一些设定因为加了对白的缘故变得浅显易懂
法国电影特有的家长里短唠唠叨叨，但是就是比韩国棒子的家长里短有意思
6分-法式幽默，导演把怕新冠演到恰到好处，搞笑幽默，承担了90%的笑料！还有这秃头比利时白痴，活该地中海！不过他儿子好帅啊！后半部分有点拉垮，出轨之吻败笔！疯狂抽搐医生，还有可怜的迪亚哥！
以上只能说这是一部纯电影我的感想，但是你要来输出意识形态，关联邪教，拒不承认，那这部电影还是算了吧，一部电影还夹带私货，那就不是电影了。
前半段略松散，后半段渐入佳境，虽然不喜欢一些段落的叙事方式，但就技法来说法国人拍电影真的称得上是登峰造极
没有特别宏大的格局，但幽默又温暖。巴黎公寓楼里这点小地方，几个住户，楼管，酒吧店主，科研所医生，这些人构成了一个小社会，在封锁隔离的时间里，很多荒诞和矛盾的事情在发生，但它同样也是一个契机推近了邻里的关系，修补和恢复了亲情友情和爱情。
没什么逻辑的合家欢 小动物和小孩赛高 难听的歌唱个没完
在回家前被强制隔离的第17天看这部电影感触格外深，回想起了过去两年多在波哥大的生活，疫情初期每晚市民在自家阳台上敲锅鼓掌的喧嚣，药店商店一售而空的口罩和消毒液，全国日新增病例突破3万、ICU占用率饱和的新闻，无穷无尽的Zoom、Teams会议......看到很多片段都感觉是自己和朋友们的生活再现，影片温馨诙谐的主基调中夹杂着心酸和无奈，结尾还不忘煽情，“要是我们同一天出生就更好了，那样我们会同一天去世，大家都不会难过”，瞬间被戳中泪点。
法国式的幽默，法国的温情，极具小市民阶级的娱乐，幽默而不失真实，我真的不相信这类疫情电影中国拍不出来，过不了审。说到最根本上就是没这个心！
疫情期间法国大杂院的故事与我们很像但又不类似。
3.5。“航拍的那些景色真的好美，在结局到来之前的剧情都太轻巧幽默了，楼里的主要角色就是社会小缩影:过度焦虑的插画师，染上甜品变得大腹便便的健身教练，创作疫情歌曲涨粉18万的过气歌手，被迫关掉酒吧却把酒精做成消毒洗手液的酒吧老板，还有研究疫苗的科学家、急症室医生和新冠确诊家属……虽然很法国，但也很接近我们的生活。
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