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".
女主工作量过于随意哈，竟然没“指标”😄虽然心理障碍出不了门也一定要坚持锻炼，这样坏人来家了也有行动力反击👍结尾女主的发色好好看，酷粉🎀
一个导演只能拍属于自己那个时代的内容，这个是跳脱不了的。
像一口气读完一部中篇小说
聪明的一个小预算惊悚片。节奏很好。女主蛮好，撑起了。
太强行了吧！丑国大街上那么多热心丑国人的吗
人工智能+新冠疫情版本的《后窗》，有点意思，索德伯格拍这张小而精的电影简直手到擒来，可惜高潮泄了，反杀像开了金手指，虎头蛇尾得很明显。题外话，女主简直过着我想要的理想生活，可以宅家工作谁想出门，两次发色都好好看。
智能音响也可以用作杀人武器，用悬疑故事再一次讲述对于现代科技的反思，部分镜头很有意思，例如耳机的效果，出门的急促感，挺有意思的。
ps.想顺便吐槽一下，那公寓得有三百平吧，挑高也感觉得有四五米，根本就是一临街商铺，也太不切实际了（拆尼斯之魂发作）
监听第一次变得如此正向，万万没想到啊，剪辑没啥特色，感觉可以在压缩，尤其出门前用得着那么多铺垫吗？疫情背景下的不安或许会放大，但是为啥第一时间不选择报警呢？而是要上级联系fbi？程序员之间沟通都不忘了kimi关机，真是个好习惯。然而社恐的女程序员居然可以如此正义感爆棚然后就。。。最后就克服了？？？
细节充实故事骨架：比如沟通楼上装修噪音(铺垫了钉枪) 和家人的日常视讯(同样铺垫结局虽然结果论而言关系不大?) 没有授权的视网膜扫描(太写实) 路边被绑抗议人群搭救 未见其人的检察官
算是半个桌面电影，相比前进流行的几个桌面电影，不显枯燥，对于社恐，技术侵犯隐私以及智能助手的探讨挺好的，外加无比政治正确。
工作内容
别甩给Russia了，都是你们米国人自己干的事
反杀还是爽，三分不能再多！
估计是因为个人原因，感觉人设存在巨大不适感，故事发展的整个过程极其憋屈。
包裹着灵魂转移这种华丽设定、实则内容简陋普通的动作片，穿越戏份有些许趣味，可是剧情实在拖沓凌乱，主演们演技也一般，更何况故事内核本就老套
导演可惜了，能拍出这么无聊扯淡的片子。20分钟弃
导演索德伯格功底不用多说，但剧情就是一个很小的故事，单线叙事，结尾处理太简单，虎头蛇尾。整个影片看完给人一种小家子气的感觉，但也能理解毕竟受疫情影响，整个好莱坞都不景气，在环境限制下，拍犯罪惊悚拍成这个程度已经很难得了。
中规中矩吧，就是说娱乐性还可以，小女子智斗杀人犯！以前看过一部叫《叠影谋杀案》现在叫《杀手在门外》哈哈哈。。。主演是西格尼韦佛《异形》女猪脚，也是说有这个只能在屋里不能出门然后巴拉巴拉。。。不过让我有个也装个声控的这种东东，挺有意思的。。。
后部分女性版《小鬼当家》，节奏有些失衡。虽说有点爽，但一想到这些处境全靠反派很弱，还是很伤感的。
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