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".
中规中矩的悬疑片 我都可以猜到反转
5.3，摄影品味不俗，美术可以过关，但编剧和导演真的很拉胯，编剧bug遍地，导演不知道哪儿下机位，不知道该用谁的视角讲故事，不知道一场戏里应该关注谁跟谁，空镜不是分隔符，空镜是叙事，有表意的好吗？剪辑就是一通胡剪，最不要脸的是宣发，什么“我们错过了戛纳”……要点脸可以么？戛纳跟你有什么关系？下作！
过于文艺的悬疑片，保证了感情共鸣，却欠缺了剧情铺展。
像是看了一集漫长的电视剧，关键是看了一半就知道后面是啥了
剧情很不合逻辑。三星给林音的扮演者，气质拿捏绝了
气氛相当可以。演员到位出色。架构略有遗憾。
沈队：低配郭晓冬
画面氛围很好，剧情不算复杂，稍微有一个bug就是开头严华被烧毁的脸，竟然被画出来了，有些夸张，然后比如主任调戏严华故事线没有交待后续，队长与画像师互动感不强等，让剧情缺乏串联，到总体上来说真的不错，给四星！
网大诚意之作，值得鼓励。镜头相当漂亮，角色塑造也很有年代感，是部艺术气息浓烈的悬疑片，不仅完整表述了一起连环案件，还侧面表达了年代泪痕与时代之殇。主角原型：张欣，全国公安系统一级英模、公安部刑侦专家、上海铁路公安局刑事侦查处一级警长，具有高超的凭口述模拟画像的特殊本领。从业30余年经手案件11000多起，通过画像破案超过1000起，被誉为“警坛神笔”、“罪犯克星”。2018年因病去世，年仅58岁。
不同时间和场景的切换很完美，人物内心刻画得特别出彩，台词也经过打磨。十几年前和十几年后的道具感觉也没什么变化，且最后的反转有点戏剧性。最后的远山淡影算得上点晴之笔。有几个瞬间总觉得在看《芳华》。
被抖音骗过来，坚持了20分钟，然后2倍速看完的……
画面是真好节奏也好。就是建议悬疑片类型以后别碰了。。。
时长注水，起码减个30分钟都不影响，伪悬疑多破绽，文艺＞悬疑，这对于犯罪破案的剧情片肯定是方向错了，看到一半我也有点不耐烦想快进，人物设定演员演技真的没什么记忆点太扁平化，如果不是这海报，我肯定就不浪费这2小时了...
除了远处的山，飘着的云烟，似乎和远山淡影没什么关系。警察瞧不上画像师、暴躁有能力的老刑警、身份互换式的存亡与复仇，都算是老梗，说不上好，但也不能说它坏。
为了文艺而文艺 实际上又混乱又空洞无物 不知道到底想表达什么，全当是爱情吧
两个女生的感情有点突兀，如果她俩是爱情那当我啥也没说
众生百相，每条路都需要勇气，摄影加分，结尾拖沓，但算是网大良心了
舞蹈宣传片 摄影有质感工业水准在线 剧情注水严重 叙事节奏极其拖沓 剧情小bug层出不穷 悬疑的部分故弄玄虚 人物的动机和交集牵强且单薄 干瘪又臭又长
即要文艺又要杀人回忆那种真实的惊悚感，结果就是两不沾，内核故事还是时代伤疤。一些反转和暗喻太过于缺乏逻辑和铺垫，不过现在国产电影需要这种风格突出的类型片，中国悬疑电影可期。
整个画风确实很喜欢，但我觉得剧情稍稍拖沓了一点，还不错，有反转，也有思考
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