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".
# Queer Lion 漂洋过海来看你+同是天涯沦落人，这该死的浪漫！
画面很美，人很美，故事很美，比狮子王真人版好看
#Veneiza78 3.5/5(威尼斯日人民选择奖)
小狼崽和小狮子小时候都很可爱很适合小朋友看
一名警察在经过内部调查后被停职，他在全国各地游荡，寻找自己的网恋对象。
7.6 最后的转变应该再着墨一下，两人如果最后能在一起就好了，但是想想也不太可能。角色刻画这次挺细腻了。
节奏较慢，在不重要的事情上一直设悬，最后的剧情有点突兀
(直到三十分钟驾车时才出现片名，一下子想起阿彼察邦的《祝福》，而且也同样是出逃之意)
前半部分是青春疼痛片，后半部分是医疗奇幻片。《不老奇事》套的是《本杰明·巴顿奇事》的外衣，讲的是回不去的过往：人可以延缓衰老，视觉可以比动作慢半拍，但该死的不会存活，该忘的也不会记住，该跌倒的也不会躲过去。结尾的长镜头是中年男性对过往的幻梦，可惜最终等来的不过是爱人的遗忘。文艺范儿是有的，但割裂感和匠气还是很难让人打起精神。有时候真的在想：人老了，就该去死啊，活着，怀念过往，自己不觉痛苦吗？所以，不老才是可怕的：想死死不了，想活又活得不如以往滋润。好难呀！
虽然最后的情节小离谱 但是我觉得这样主题的电影很有必要 拒绝动物表演 从我做起
看完前半段 三星半 看完后半段 两星 前后分裂感太重 想了个点子写不下去大概就是这样吧？片子里随处可见的物化女性总让人觉得难受
2.5 脸看不出来就算了，如此浑厚的声音也听不出来嘛
关于时光会有很多话题，比如时光倒流、穿越、长生不老……这部影片也是一部关于时光的故事，人们狂热地追求着自己得不到的事物，可当有一天确实拥有了却又感到空虚疲倦。时光也是这样，当你实现了不老之后，也不过是一个困在时光长河中的孤独者，一切都显得事与愿违。片中最末提到离别才是真的的永恒，或许吧，这一生与你有关的一切，只有在离别的那一刻才会永远留在心里，时间太长了会遗忘了。电影很不错，看得是提前点映场，也是最晚散场的一次观影纪录。观影前以为会是《本杰明巴顿奇事》的模仿版。其实不然，它没有模仿谁，只是舒缓、自然地叙述着自己的故事，让人觉得温暖又有点淡淡的忧伤。
虽然无中生有了一出（只存在于台词中的）男主暴力视频，但是好男人男主除了皱着眉头对男二说了两次“你骗了我”根本没有任何暴力倾向，那这片子前一个小时在拍啥啊？男二和教士，男主和亲妹妹，男二和姐妹，这片子有这么多能讲的东西，把前半截浪费的篇幅匀一些给赶场样的后半段不好吗？开场半个小时打片头到底是谁起的坏头，导演是不是利用职务之便偷看了滨口龙介的样片？
故事比较另类离奇，个人有点不是太能理解和接受，感觉有点硬刚的意思！
虽然节奏慢但却不是闷片，喜欢的戏码全集中在最后半小时内，掰弯直男戏码真的永远看不腻
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看完以为看了三个小时，干细胞广告是吧。。。生物实验室吃什么几把棒棒糖啊？
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