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".
等能去日本了一定是要去royal park住上一晚的
这拍的都不像畅销君了 // 这浓浓的舞台剧fu // 结尾演职员表才是看点（不是…
老套的故事啊，实在是没啥意思。木村也老的厉害了。
看一半几乎就能猜对的剧情，不过不得不说选角是真的很合适，仿佛是为演员量身定制的角色，十元的角色，那人设，换个人可能说服不了我。
看卡司猜凶手又一次成功 但这次的动机我看得满头问号😅 开头和中村那段探戈也是real意味不明
本來到畢業禮唱歌那邊想給五星（也不是說很神但好演員魅力真的會讓人不想管好不好）但從那開始後段劇情整個崩壞，做作到昏昏欲睡，最後更是三觀全毀，從五星直接可以掉到一星。現在只想記得電影前半段就好。
女性是什么物品吗？还要交接棒？？咩好可爱。石原演技太浮夸（可能并不是演技）。剧情看不太出来十几年的时间跨度，算失败了
P.S.木村桑越来越帅了～
只要人人都来做接盘侠，世界将变成美好滴人间……
天噜，第一部就觉得太冗长，为啥我还要看第二部？⊙_⊙
东野圭名气很大，但是却总是备受争议，其实就是因为他弱化了推理的内容，过于专业性的逻辑推理和烧脑的诡计会阻挡很多人，受众永远是一部分人，东野圭吾就像是讲了一个故事，里面有一些悬疑的部分，实际上是降低了阅读的门槛，看不了高难度推理和诡计的人也能看得进去
等能去日本了一定是要去royal park住上一晚的
6.0 故事很普通 解释也有点牵强 好看的演员众多 即使主角也未见闪亮处倒是副角还不错
木村佳乃无条件加一星！我觉得还可以 没有那么难看
剧情细节还是和前作一样的不真实、悬浮于现实之上。让人无语的地方挺多，比如都猜到真凶了，还非得先跳支舞；警察办案的思维完全被酒店员工带跑偏，全顾客至上去了，最后对着酒店大门鞠躬也是莫名其妙；片头的探戈也有点长；还有一开场通过无理取闹的客人来证明主角的能力（超不现实啊，也就是订了个标间吧，怎么可能那么折腾）。全体警察卧底都带着耳机 对着袖子说话，有没有搞错？还能再明显点吗？
太好笑了，特别梦幻特别美(中性意)，这就是团宠文吧，男女主角郎才女貌就是毫无CP感，不知道拍这个出来做什么，3.5
石原是把自己的造型师共享给来泉酱和咩酱了吗 妆造太过精致花哨折损了真实感 现在很难欣赏过分宣扬女性一心一路的母性的作品了 如果要两个人一起成为罗西尼 希望是优子去弹钢琴 至少在演员层面 摄影师可以去拍咩酱的手
总之，打发时间随便看看吧，来都来了😕
推理剧的犯罪动机已经这么卷了么？扯到玄幻，可惜了这么多咖
只在日本电影里看到的奇特家庭组合伦理故事？继母不断改嫁，继父们都很正直与尽责。和男友倒是回头是岸终成眷属的。但女性的社会作用，是需要依附男性的表现还是明显的，没有不好，就批判和看待事物要一体两面的思路上线～
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