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".
I like to see the end of the world in all its forms
看着休杰克曼和丽贝卡弗格森谈两小时恋爱……吴彦祖的中英双语可太有意思了
虚假的反派只会说《my家》来装X....
收手吧阿祖～白皇后真好看……今天美女看的，有点多了
剧情还行，但是男女主的情感刻画过于单薄不足以成为推动故事走向的契机，看完印象最深的是吴彦祖的中英混搭台词
The story is kind of cliche love story and I was bored a bit. The fighting scenes are joking, or maybe it's just how people fight and react in that dystopian near-future. But oh God! Hugh Jackman is officially the sexy God for me now! His voice, his face and body have turned me on so much! (2021/08/28 13:25)
开始的时候一切都是假的，后来，一切又都成了真的。惊喜的是好多西部世界的演员，喜欢。
吴大帅那么个性，那么帅的人输给了主角光环，登场没多久就挂了，我就是为了看那几分钟？哎，太敷衍了
谜面和谜底都足够没趣，导演脑子里的水比水城的水都多，还有为什么记忆不全是pov视角这点我也没懂。
因为休杰克曼才下载看的这部，整体上感觉一般。也就是一部记忆类电影，利用记忆作为题材的科幻片已经屡见不鲜了，这类电影是拥有可以任意剧情反转的特权，因为记忆本来就是主观的，人物善恶当然也就随着剧场可以不断反转了。而这部中，女主利用训练记忆欺骗男主的剧场说服力不强，是一个比较大的hug
这配置从最后的成片来看着实一般般，有点失望。开头的画面质感很好，“水城”很美，核心概念的设定：“追忆”也不错。可惜本子实在不吸引人，悬疑感很弱，前期节奏慢，最后的反转也根本谈不上惊艳。其实就是一借科幻外壳的爱情片。吴彦祖戏份也太少了😅以为是主演结果还是打个酱油就领盒饭了，不过帅还是帅的。
看似科幻，实则悬疑。悬疑的节奏还行，但是故事太老套了，总是差一口气。世界很大，但是格局不大。吴彦祖英文夹着中文有点意思，但是实则毫无意义。挺一般。
太难看了，末世危机下讲了个荷尔蒙分泌的废柴故事，水漫之城的设定充其量就是摆设，台词多到让人烦躁，2个小时又臭又长，故事内核无法支楞外部营造，要不是狼叔和出场5分钟的吴彦祖，前30分钟就该停止播放并删除文件，废话连篇到脑瓜子生疼，本周五烂片集中日。★
and things we missed about them.
一个老掉牙的直男Noir梗 硬要披上末日黑科技的皮 自怨自艾自怜自爱到让我秒速代入那场作为玩笑出现在《憨豆先生的黄金周》里的首映
5.6分。像是一位半吊子文科生写理科试卷，怎么整都不对味儿。
帅哥狼叔被骗炮痛失资料惹
看着休杰克曼和丽贝卡弗格森谈两小时恋爱……吴彦祖的中英双语可太有意思了
湿答答欲破堤的未来城市，暗暗辉光引导记忆重建的机器，扑朔迷离的黑暗面，忍受神经质叙事后，是伤感中有点温暖的安抚。是谁，在哪里，为什么，一切都不重要，只愿回荡在最美的那段记忆。
好看，复古，上世纪90年代，引进国内的欧美侦探剧都是这个调调。犯罪题材里的黑色电影，从前人们趋之若鹜。如今真是拍一部扑一部。不过这部我喜欢。狼叔要不网游沉迷，也不会错过女神导致其自杀。当公益广告看吧。
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