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".
小粉又见面了。结局非常玩味，但结合此前铺垫，仍只有一种导向，不存在开放式处理。凯伦·吉兰不苟言笑的钝感表演非常契合故事风格。莱利·斯特恩斯是值得关注的一名新锐导演，上一部《自卫艺术》就给我留下深刻印象，反套路+反高潮+冷幽默，模糊整体放大局部的剧作，就是新时代的黑色电影风向。
感觉更像是一种美好的期待，但是剧内人物的选择有点迷，也许还是世界观的不同吧
电影里的人物都好善良，后面一直跟着哭，演员颜值好高，4月的最后一天看了这个部电影，记录一下。
看看作品本身，即使母爱并不完美，作为观众的我也会感动于那份“不给孩子添麻烦”的心意；即使父爱并没有那么热烈，我也会在继父笨拙的爱中酸鼻子。
虽然哭着看完了，但是真的不能细想的奇怪亲情片。以及最后嫁的这个老公真的大丈夫吗？？？
比较紧凑 拍成电视剧可能会更好 改了原作一些内容 并且着重是在优子毕业之后的剧情 没看过原著的就看电影可能会有些晕；还是可以的，就是太紧凑 奔着十元当妈看的（今年四月也确实当上了哈哈）
我不太能理解…不过有一说一梨花选老公是真的蛮厉害 😂
梦回了一半蓝色的咩酱 但不管是剧情还是后期造型真的都有一些心累
豪华卡司 期待一个。呃到一半过后才发觉小女孩是女主。。。。剧情什么的就是为煽情而煽情，最后妈妈去世也在预料之中……所以说，不能太期待
冲着yyyy看的，不过这剧情离谱到家了，而且石原里美真的不适合做成遗像，太违和了，就像yyyy演的晨间剧，演三十来岁少妇太违和了，最多二十五六少女顶天了，太违和了，太违和了！
为了咩酱看 但是真的不懂这电影的意义在哪里 为了感动而感动
其实我觉得还行，特别是毕业歌转场的时候说明樱樱就是优子那里真的好感动，虽然我认为梨花没有资格骗樱樱，没有能力带大其实就应该让她和爸爸走。但是最终有这么多爱她的人真好啊
其实我觉得还行，特别是毕业歌转场的时候说明樱樱就是优子那里真的好感动，虽然我认为梨花没有资格骗樱樱，没有能力带大其实就应该让她和爸爸走。但是最终有这么多爱她的人真好啊
看着看着就哭了，两个多小时根本不够看，感觉还有好多感人的故事可以哭😭
情节蛮好的，芽郁的哭戏也很好看，十元的形象挺符合角色的
看着看着就哭了，两个多小时根本不够看，感觉还有好多感人的故事可以哭😭
还行，最后挺感动的。没想到美貌可以打败一切男人哈哈哈哈哈
看到一半才领悟故事线。没想到最后面的部分才是感人的地方。原本以为十元只是个不想养小孩的懒惰妈妈，结果最后完全被感动到。
情节的转折像是小学生作文
正儿八经一部治愈系的生活片，每个人物身上都闪现着良善人性的光辉；大家都围绕着一个小女生释放爱心，为她的生活营造温馨的氛围，不论小女生辗转几个环境，遇到何种人物——岂不是小女生几辈修来的福分都转到了这一世，看得好生让我羡慕。话说，石原还是那么惹人爱…🥃
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