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".
很不错看的电影，讲的很深入，探究社会和政府福利的问题:低保的申请以及发放，老奶奶生活困难却因为福利部的推脱以及对抛弃的女人的面子问题无法申请到低保导致死亡引发了一些列的杀人案件，最后不在于杀人凶手有多凶残，而在地震后政府的不作为未对困难的人给予应有的保障。kaya酱演的真棒！！！尤其绑架那时候眼神很到位，不愧是最佳女配角，实至名归！！！
当失去亲人的创伤渐渐被陌生人治愈后，那陌生人顺理成章的成为了自己生命中最重要的人，然而某天最重要的人因为某些人的冷漠而死去时，仇恨的种子早已埋下！
被低估的一部佳作，片尾看到写在纸门上的那句“欢迎回来”，一度泪目。豆瓣现在只有677人看过，6.9分。估计部分低分是因受不了相对缓慢克制的叙事节奏。其实岛国在偏社会派风格的作品上一贯有着“于无声处听惊雷”的震撼。本片所要讨论的内核绝不仅仅只是救助金调查员和贫民间的纠葛，这场连环杀人案里可以说没有一个坏人，也没有一个赢家，造成如此结果的背后是制度与个体在不同衡量标准间长久冲突的爆发。Ps：女主清原果耶的表现甚至超过佐藤健。豆瓣里竟没标注女主儿时的扮演者，演技很赞，很好奇是谁，哈哈。
奇幻版安妮海瑟薇的one day 吗。看完有种淡淡的忧伤，爱情还是勇敢点，不错过才是最好。人生这么短暂，不要让一辈子嘴里苦，靠高粱饴取甜何必呢
了不起啊，311那么多年过去了，每一年仍然在反思。一次比一次彻底。地震是天灾，幸存的人饿死是人祸啊！上海人民醒醒！“要发声，要比那些卑劣的声音发出更大更理直气壮的声音！”
最后一个长镜头好霸气
不像推理电影，倒像是社会题材的，日本的福利与养老制度，就像是泛着七彩光芒的肥皂泡泡。
结局应该是大家意料中的，整体略嫌冗长，但演员们实在是太棒了，整体令人信服的表演，把未曾经历类似灾难和困境的自己，完全拉进了故事的情绪和思索。。
一个不老之人一生的故事。
那场疫情把所有的东西都改变了，只是你们还没有发现。身处其中就会觉得理所当然，潜移默化中就会随波逐流。很多年之后，回首往事，我们才会发出一声叹息
啊，砂糖和小林子差不多高，一本满足……哈哈哈哈哈
佐藤健估计还停留在饰演拔刀斋的余韵中。怒吼着冲向人群时真以为要伏尸二人流血五步，结果下一秒就躺在泥水中困兽犹斗……
后面tm越来越扯
看电影的前半段我在想，死亡不能阻止我爱你，物是人非不能阻止我爱你，那为什么相爱又不能在一起。如果非要疼痛和欲言又止才能证明爱情，那爱情真是该死的东西。后半段我突然明白，鸡同鸭讲的两个人可以有爱情的幻觉，但无法拥有生活，生活需要共同的祈盼来维持。背道而驰的人无法相濡以沫。所以，祝福我吧，不要爱上另一个世界的人。
这种题材的犯罪片，如果让韩国人来拍，估计能上8分。
高级，看完脑子里就这两个字。用感情穿插来讨论生死，留住年轻容貌又如何，最后只能独自面对，尽显无奈。
等二刷
鸡肋日影。。。除了几位男演员演技之外没有其他优点！真得！完全找不出其他能看得点！唉，勉强及格吧：6分！2星！
奇幻版安妮海瑟薇的one day 吗。看完有种淡淡的忧伤，爱情还是勇敢点，不错过才是最好。人生这么短暂，不要让一辈子嘴里苦，靠高粱饴取甜何必呢
说细点吧，主角可真牛逼，我千禧年之后才知道啥是蛋挞，他80年代就吃到啦!
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