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".
很流水账，完全没有重点。我就想知道最后那50%到哪里去啦。
电影本身太流水账，太过纪录片风，对两个角色都缺少深入挖掘，但是我很喜欢Lady Gaga和亚当·德赖弗的表演，让角色变得生动和有趣。
男家长宁部分咩，马苦真实葛，种有宁段家长同女港野也系。我丢你惹，好好影得唔得？
*学生时期其实也很漫长的，六年小学三年初中三年高中四年大学三年研究生，每一个阶段都会有某些记忆深刻的时刻，但总体最特别的无疑是高中的三年，虽然三年里我也只是默默无闻、每天埋头读书的隐形人，没有drama也不突出，但那时候遇到的那很多人是我目前为止遇到过最酷的，高中之后再也没遇到那么有个性和想法的人了
编剧功力异常扎实 雷德利斯科特各方面控制得很尽力 女主居然是Lady Gaga但跟个意大利女人一样 演技非常使人惊喜撑起了情节 至于亚当德赖弗看了他那么多部角色从来就没演赖过（他咋又骑上摩托车了） 阿尔帕西诺还是宝刀不老 但过了他那场精彩的感情爆发影片最后四十分钟开始疲了
偶现灵光，但瑜不掩瑕的作品。如bra扣错、父母不反对只是希望不要影响体制下的补助、球场吻戏等等都是还蛮有巧思的真实细节桥段，版权优势也能拿到《蓝宇》的经典片段用来背书，还有杨二汶主题曲助力，但可惜情感只有最后20min左右是连贯且渲染成功的，其余有太多是想当然且不真挚的交差作业，也蛮可惜谈善言，结局镜子戏恍惚感觉像看到陈冲光华重现。就“回到往日时光，确认彼此回忆是否定义一致”本身就是一个共通性很强的主题，即使在令人狂皱眉头的前一个半小时之后还能让人共情，就这点而言还算是学到了（？）。2.5归3。
虽然狠狠relate了一下，但还是好无聊…
感謝：譚家明、關錦鵬。女主有點像陳沖啊。想到另一部其中一位女孩要結婚的「情歌」。
不太明白的有两点，明明相爱，为何还要再等到30岁？明明相爱，为何要标榜对方是朋友？
对奢侈品无感的人，属实不知道高奢贵在哪的人可以看看本片启启蒙，对于高奢品在质感这块和世界的参差会有个直观的认知
看完以后面无表情，这点破事墨迹两个半小时？
？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？导演执导自己在拍什么吗？？？？？？？？ 老子长这么大没看过这么莫名其妙的东西？？？天呐小时代都比这个好看！！！！我的天哪小时代太好看了！！
光影摄影还是那味儿，但毕竟是个企业更迭杀夫妻子的主流八卦杂志故事，雷导放了些关怀进去，但有的时候还不如不放，干脆搞抓马节奏。不过那样也就不是雷导了。
求求华语同性恋作品再多一点！
每个人都有个自己版本的意大利口音，嘎嘎的还带着俄罗斯味儿。。。主角都很标签化，一堆drama却缺乏人物刻画，没法让人产生共情。
PS:如果两个人同时勇敢会有多么美好
why the accent…然后仿佛还嫌这口音不够尴尬似的，那就是Gaga女士和各位“老戏骨”用力表演……而点睛之笔就是从口音到表情都漫不经心的Adam Driver（工资也太好赚了）……为尴尬的氛围增添更多的催化剂
和Mia一起看的 困的我泪流满面 一边听一边睡 不知道故事居然是真的
雷老滑铁卢，比起《最后的决斗》，这部豪门八卦价值毫无张力，角色没立起来，还不如《金钱时间》。
每个人都有个自己版本的意大利口音，嘎嘎的还带着俄罗斯味儿。。。主角都很标签化，一堆drama却缺乏人物刻画，没法让人产生共情。
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