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".
没啥大意思，不吓人也不吸引人，下午看的快睡着了
看个开心，歌好听。//拖着一瘸一拐的腿去看了「巨星嫁到」。这名字实在太「恨嫁」了，所以剧情出现bug时，我脑子里只有wtf？不过歌好听，实际上就是低配版的Notting Hill+Love Actually。有人说把Owen换成Hugh Grant就合理多了，我并不觉得啰。总之，好久没看轻喜剧了，值得。
好听好看好假的浪漫喜剧。性别一转，我都能想到国内的那种小说《什么？我和明星结婚了》或者什么《超级巨星爱上我》
身份设定反传统，故事俗套，他们之间的相处还是比较自然感人的，女权主义，音乐部分有水准，歌很好听，大表姐台风好强爱了。
因为种族歧视而凝聚的愤怒，一起汇成了糖果人。
电影宣传做的很火，剧情非常一般，很cliche美国浪漫爱情故事，还是已经老去的中年人，大女主人设很女权。但是，歌曲和舞台效果太好了。然后，剧情非常流畅。还是为演员们点赞。多给一星的歌曲。
当代诺丁山重出江湖，几乎可以算是个pop song party，唯一不爽的是JLo全程太主动，Wilson又太被动了，剪辑也有点子锅
字里行间透露着黑人在美国收到的不公与歧视。本来好好的讲故事，非得画蛇添足的侧面描绘一下。单线都没玩明白，硬是要上多线程。
近期恐怖片还剩《南巫》没看，看完温导作品后意外觉得本作整体还完整些。可惜表达主题上主次乱斗，作为增味剂的平权喧宾夺主，恐怖的部分细品也少些味道。食之无味，弃之可惜，确是道无特色的普通小菜。
黑人恐怖片宇宙继《逃出绝命镇》和《我们》之后又一部，越来越不懂了
真的是没法看任何爱情片，就看海报就能知道全剧情的电影，倍速看，硬生生还是给看哭了。加一星私人分吧。JLo真的好美，又飒又媚，又自信又脆弱，在台上闪闪发光。
“霸道女总裁爱上我”？
哈哈哈哈哈让人脚趾抠地的chick flick，但是2022年还有人拍让人脚趾抠地的chick flick真好
哇，欧文威尔逊和JLO堪称史上最不登对情侣。难以想象当今好莱坞制片人还会给这样陈旧的爱情片剧本开绿灯。暴发户气质《诺丁山》。但是呢，“There is nothing wrong with movie being predictable”。观众是来看成人童话般的爱情，电影就给大家造梦。遗憾的是仍然愿意接受童话的观众越来越少了。看完这部片子，我又想再看一遍《诺丁山》了。
男主太没魅力了
三星半，情人节就该看这种不带脑子深究的浪漫轻喜小甜剧啊，难道非要去烧脑才满足。52岁状态真好，美翻了！歌也都好好听~ Fun fact: 据说当年因为搜索JLo outfit人太多，于是才启发创造了Google image search.
吓人 男主一直扒拉那个蜜蜂叮的地方 鸡皮疙瘩都起来了
没有任何亮点，歌也不好听。既然如此为什么不把角色设定的年轻一点起码养眼。
本片还有许多关于米国种族问题的隐喻，稍微留意和动点脑子就能发现，也难怪本片在米国广受影评人好评。
俗的不行，满屏Instagram live无比尴尬，不过能有00年代那种rom com已经挺不容易了，欣赏一下漏漏表演就可以了。
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