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".
智叔遗作。想起律政强人…说实话，电影相比内容很单薄呀。但是演员个个演技在线，这个很棒了。
Lv.99的母亲白天降魔失败，Lv.1的儿子带着初级新手武器午夜重启任务，当然失败啦
好无聊啊～各种老套乱炖。现在做鬼片这么不用心这么随意吗？甚至看到某些生化7的片段一般……棒子大神不好使啊，来试试茅山吧
想法和设计确实挺好的，不过操作起来实属拉胯，导演估计自己都拍乱不知哪里是哪里了。本身看似是很简单的一个故事不过当中的要素过多，总的看下来感觉是《尸体派对》与《黑色地板》这种超空间加莫比乌斯环循环的结合体，时空交错的叙述来呈现整个事件的起因和过程以及结局，当中又涉及到像《午夜凶铃》这种多重人格鬼混行凶的桥段，最后开始表明其实都已经死了，无人生还，只不过还不知道便继续被困在这里一直重复，死掉的人是永远离不开这里，只要理清楚这个线路之后其实也还好理解到底怎么回事，不过主要还是拍的太复杂又扯淡所以看着就很懵，就跟《恐怖游轮》和《1408》差不多的路数，一开始还活着，中途遇到鬼被搞死了自己却还不知道，就此开启一直循环下去…
作为恐怖电影氛围营造得很不错，只是叙述过于混乱，反反复复也没有讲个明白。
明知这是一场意外，明知咫尺远近也无法靠近，依然愿意为你而来。
又是为Toma感到蛋疼的一回，但是好在终于finale做回了小巡查。以及，看了评论才意识到少看了第二集…
如果导演能力有限的话，大可不必把时间线拍的这么复杂
本子应该是个好本子，程序正义和结果正义哪个重要？但怎么最后拍出来是这个样呢...
一点都不吓人，主要是心不在焉。但想分享这部低龄恐怖片吓一头小猪咪。
21_160。概念不错，拍得是真的不行，吓人手法也是老一套，属于有点浪费吧
那块地方死的人越多地缚灵越强,男主也是勇猛,一人冲进去就杀…整体有点乱,又时空交叉,果然神经病才是最可怕的,变鬼也是神经病啊
漆黑的走廊，趴在门上听着门后的声音，气氛感做的还不错
啊！金康宇的资源也太虐了吧，这个烂片。剧透预警//总结来说就是小女孩被父亲家暴，还把她撞墙上撞晕了，父亲以为她死了把她封墙上，还故意报失踪，母亲撕心裂肺，女儿在墙里慢慢窒息。。。小女孩死后变成怨灵，在管理员大叔耳边洗脑逼疯大叔后大叔杀了很多人，静修院逐渐荒废。有一天三个不知死活的大学生为了拍摄伪纪录片来探险又被小女孩怨灵所杀而不知一直在死循环逃生。直到几年后静修院改建工人拆墙发现小女孩尸体，工人吓疯/怨灵导致拿刀出门乱砍人最后自杀。男主女亲受邀过来跳大神但难敌小女孩怨灵被杀。男主想找出母亲被害真相重回静修院最后也被杀，因为死了的人过不了男主刚来时设的结界门。最后彩蛋，妹妹来找男主（哥哥）小女孩怨灵在窗边。。。
2021.09.12跳着看完。感觉胆子变小了。
感觉就一开局给你圈出凶手（结婚出轨）的故事
香港可能拍职业片已经不用动脑子了，所有人都是一副“上工”的感觉，廖启智已经去了，片子库存只会减少，却又被耗在了一部乏善可陈的片子一个毫无作用的角色。同类型片本身就要靠花头推陈出新了，这下偏偏还要用平淡无奇的运镜跟无聊至极的剧情重复类型片的每一个环节，真的很无聊。
没看过其他部，就一开场这乱七八糟的下三路闹剧，没眼看
不错，近年少有好看的港片。
作为智叔最后一部电影，差强人意，本来是一部挺好的犯罪悬疑片，但硬生生被拍成了流水作业式的电影。证据，证人，一切关键要素都进展的太顺利了，而结尾的立意拔高，更是有点刻意为之。香港电影，真没必要为了迎合什么，做自己就好啊。
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