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".
原来男主既是导演、编剧又是主演啊，厉害了～很温暖治愈的一部电影，男主是个善良温柔的大暖男，达妹则是一如既往的性感妩媚，节奏轻快情感细腻，台词好玩儿，很适合睡醒午觉的午后时光～
真的好想活成这个样子啊 做个温柔有爱 不固执不浮躁的大人 呜呜呜 我太爱了 好久没被电影那么好地治愈了 导演竟然就是男主 而且才97年的 我再观望一下 假以时日一定能封神 太懂得拿捏人与人之间的情感了 对文本和主题的审美真的很高
SFFILM, 圣丹斯美式鸡汤，男主/导演22岁长相气质跟我一个30多岁爱讲冷笑话的白男盆友极度相似，这可能是我唯一能relate的地方了
在三星和四星之间犹豫，毕竟质感上是比不了甘草披萨的。当看到男主角表白被拒绝的那一刻，虽然很显然两个人是不适合成为情侣的，我的心还是碎了。给出四星。人生确实有那么多不完美，也不可能和自己预期的一样，每个人都在试着找到自己的生活方式。导演兼主演真是个宝藏男孩。
挺舒服的节奏，本来天气太热挺烦躁的，看着看着就平静了下来，女主很有苏菲玛索年轻时的那种惊人的欲感
非常非常对我的胃口的片子，是那种让你越看越觉得有意思有惊喜的类型，就像一杯清晨的咖啡，越喝越丝滑越提神。青春迷茫、小镇生活，贴合的配乐和氛围塑造，人物之间在踏踏实实的交流聊天，不慌不忙不走过场，剧本太扎实。导演兼主演的男主实在是太有才了，那双眼睛诚恳、真的会说话。达妹离开五十度系列之后的戏路真的选的很好，上一部的猎鹰电影也是我的心头好。
片子很smooth，蛮真实的成长阵痛。男主善良体贴，喜欢他能用成人的方式沟通解决情感问题，挺高兴看到他的成长过程中有好的妈妈和弟弟。喜欢those memories exist，还有那句，你是在克制接近我还是在克制远离我。达妹好看。
喜欢里面的大人，接受成长带来的混乱也能带着混乱坦然地向前走。分得清喜欢和追求的不一样，愿意表达爱又还能保持清醒。成年人就是这样，喜欢又不能当饭吃对不对。短暂的相遇带来的是美好的混乱而不是人生的脱轨，虽然无疾而终，但“恰恰丝滑”地在彼此生活中经过，最终回到各自的轨道。告别真的很难过，下雨的车里，放手就是新生活！！
我该如何在人生和你之间做选择？（btw换个译名吧）
爱的、分的、温柔的、善良的都恰恰好，简直是完美，如同在沙发上看着心动的影片顺便慢慢吸吮完了一杯丝滑的奶茶
拍摄平铺直叙，内容也很平淡，为了达妹再加一颗星
淡淡的惆怅，每个人都很可爱，女主酒后笑嘻嘻含情脉脉的眼神，谁能受得了
剧情倒是真如片名般顺滑，所以戏剧冲突也始终保持在安全区内，没什么波澜的治愈片。圣丹斯确是偏爱这种电影，但相比之前真是大幅下滑入围标准，至少《我和厄尔及将死女孩》后就再也没看到相同水平的作品。
爱真的很简单，但生活太难。
看的很——舒服。不过他从小就是个恋爱脑啊www
男主又温柔又善良然后用一片真心换来thanku for looking after my family。这段故事就结束了。达妹竟然到演妈妈的年纪了。🥲
2.5."Until I leave the earth, I will always feel tangled." 在这样mediocre的叙事以及overall filmmaking中，Dakota Johnson贡献了相对有说服力的表演（虽然依然如同她在lost daughter中的变式）。但这种所谓多愁善感的白男视角，我已经没有什么mental space去process-- "emotional affair, overly sincere, smoke in the car, windows up, crocodile tears" 请让我远离顺白直和他们的“眼泪”.谢谢.
和男主有过很不一样但又相似的经历。自愧不如的是人家居然就是导演
SFFILM 4/30 Closing Night 我对美式傻白甜青春片完全提不起兴趣，评论都说影片非常白，但我看完觉得还好，男主即导演本人非常讨喜，好像一个小太阳，对弱势个体很关心，如果主线往这方面写会更吸引人。片中男主人公只有22岁，导演拍电影的时候也就这个年纪，还是感觉很震撼，因为电影完成度很高。猜测会是美国青少年会喜欢的电影，喜欢青春片得也可以看看。
本来以为是一个很cheesy的片子，但没想到是一部温暖暖治愈的小片。爱而不得，不妨碍我和你都能继续温暖、闪耀、心怀善意。
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