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".
纯纯的悬疑商业片，当时是冲着“想看商业片，想看演员们彪演技”就决定看了，总体还算可以吧
呃……BBS的贴文果然还是需要一些内容丰满吧……十五年后的设定就有点太扯了……相当偷懒啊……
我居然一开始就猜对了整个大概的剧情，失去了点新鲜感，就中规中矩把。
六章请来小太刀真的不是给终章合理摆烂的余地吗...
这电影要是放在10几年前，我估计能给个四星，但是现在都2202年了，还在那搞人格分裂的惊悚片，太俗了
其实值得很高分但是扣掉一颗星，为了我只出现几秒钟的金固和凛，简直是看《东邪西毒》王祖贤的折磨，只有几秒钟啊，你给我重新再出几十集！
本来以为起码会和跟食物和解有一丢丢关系 没有不影响 但实际也超无聊超俗超做作
本来以为起码会和跟食物和解有一丢丢关系 没有不影响 但实际也超无聊超俗超做作
7.6 氣氛渲染的很不錯，也喜歡主線劇情的進行，不會完全猜不到也不會全都被摸透，是可以邊看邊抽絲剝繭的電影，但節奏比較慢。
蛮不错的校园小清新电影，如果年少的时候勇敢追爱，十五年后的自己会是什么样。PS:女主的发卡都蛮可爱
分怎么这么低…我觉得还不错哎！青春不就是他爱她 她爱他 他爱他！（大家都说周兴哲丑…但我好爱这挂 李沐也很可爱！（主题曲再给一颗星！
阵容很ok，除了男主，导致在看到女主对男主产生感情前都在祈祷：不要不要是他做的早餐除了他谁都可以😅...
“妈妈是不是没有我会更好”这个主题感觉是当代许多人一生的痛楚，这部作品和《李焕英》从不同角度诠释了这个沉重的母题，两者呈现方式不同，给出的答案却是一样的。
本家不如二创，我是真的会流汗黄豆。其中一星给罗马土皇帝。实在不能理解剧情怎么能处理得这么平淡…明明过游戏的时候人都哭瞎了…不过阿b买版权倒是做了件人事，应该看作股东的分红（迫真
好漫长的两小时，节奏慢又毫无意义，作用即是让我重新清醒认识少年暧昧的愚蠢？
该燃的地方不够燃，马修的归来也太仓促，明明当时记得很感动来着，贞德那救世主、强心剂一般的出场也被平淡了。
更多不是在讲人格分裂，是在控诉对女性的压迫吧，生娃了就什么都不是了。
古代真好，承受太多压力就会成妖、成神、成魔，而现代，承受太多就会成神经病……
瑕不掩瑜吧，片荒期间能出来这么一部能在2小时里不带任何困意看完的电影，还要啥自行车。心理医生是好是坏、妈妈到底做了什么，女主是否内心深处有什么秘密。观众带着这些疑问，被导演带进了一个类似小说版质感的悬念当中。而美中不足的是巧合、雷同设定太多，但不是有句话说得好，无巧不成书嘛！结尾有点拧巴，生生将残酷结局往温馨和怜悯上靠（剧中的新闻播报导向亦是如此），开头女人的“那个人”到底是谁，靠着猜测也基本知道了。潜意识与现实物像的联动虽然粗暴，但着实有效。总体来说，是一部初夏夜里一部难得的清凉。
中规中矩的校园爱情剧，没想到周兴哲会来演戏，唱歌的部分都有点青涩（不那么好听），中间他爱她，她爱他，他爱他真的场面一度混乱，结局还是不错的，感觉台式言情的表现手法还是很温和的。剧情上的话没有特别出采的地方，但是女主的演技真的是在线的！
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