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".
上海疫情加重的时刻看这个剧很有感触，不过好在奥密克戎致死率已经大大降低。一部反映2020年新冠在英国爆发期间，养老院感染的悲剧故事。主人公是一个刚刚受雇到一家护理院做护工的女孩，在护理院大量护工和老人被感染的情况下，她不得不在夜班期间独自面对照顾病危老人的工作，而医院又无法派出医生，只能求助护理院里一位四十多岁尚显健康强壮的阿尔兹海默症患者托尼。在老人陆续死亡女孩也被休假回家时，她私自带出了托尼，自我隔离在一个度假区的房车里，但最终他们都被警方带走。该剧故事不算完整，但纪实地呈现了新冠对英国的冲击，质疑了英国政府对护理院机构支持的不足。
全程看朱迪科莫那张无瑕疵的脸我是没意见，只是老跑焦受不了。本片导演对摄影有病态的执念，手持、长镜头、大特写，这三件事偏要同时做到，是要用画面给观众增加压迫感吗。
热评的这些是舔出了优越感了么？片子是好片子，不同视角审视反思社会的不足恨触动人，但吐酸水的真的还是早点移民吧。
上海解封了。Is it getting better or just stay the same?
211102@ 蛋蛋赞 No one told us. Am I going to be OK?I am so sorry, but no one is coming. Good man, very rare, everywhere.相比某国的电影；万岁！杀手演看护，除了这一点，别的都很好
他们英国都拍电影来说病毒的危害了，但为啥还不以为然。。
91/100。我最初是冲着利物浦和啾迪来的，啾迪果然没有让我失望，片中也有很多与利物浦（足球俱乐部）相关的台词和服饰。（啾迪饰演的角色是埃弗顿球迷，难道她是埃弗顿球迷吗！）不过抛开这些不谈，这部电影也绝对是一部值得五星的片子。这是我看过的第一部有关新冠疫情的电影，我也大受震撼。影片真实地反映了新冠疫情下的英国，真实得让观众很容易代入进去，尤其是中间的长镜头让人窒息。灯光的运用、镜头的聚焦也独具匠心。另外感情线的安排我也觉得没有问题，男主很明显是一见钟情，通过女主的家境和经历也能看出她多么珍惜一个好人。结尾的安排巧妙而不落俗套。很开心我能有幸看到这么一部电影。
同样是新冠疫情，《援助》控诉现实，《中国医生》高调空谈歌颂，差太多了。
最后片尾的自白更是对所有人的叩问：
而看到短剧中老人院的痴呆老人们和亲人隔窗见面却不明白为什么亲人们不进来看他们的时候
近景的压迫感和不断令人窒息的室内戏 其困境就如同病毒般无声无息 电影的片名不该叫援助 应该是声嘶力竭到无处安放的病人求救
上海解封了。Is it getting better or just stay the same?
别国拍的东西在反思不足，我国拍的东西企图叫观众感恩戴德。永远讨厌宏大叙事，因为“人”会被忽略。永远可以对Jodie Comer的演技有信心，即使没有脸部出镜只有声音的那段，角色满满的焦虑都从屏幕里溢出来。但最后出走的情节真的有些跳脱。
三星半吧，前面拍的真的好后面看得一脸懵，中间长镜头看的人太绝望了，这才是疫情中真实的情况，医疗物资短缺，疗养院和养老院成为孤岛，疫情下生命却分价值，太难受了
“It's not my department” 每个人都在说这句话。
聚焦疫情的一部佳作，以小见大但也同样感人至深。希望国内也能学一下，同样命题作文，就算要主旋律也别乱搞自己驾驭不了的宏伟叙事。
剧情本身而言拍得很现实，让人很难受。
Jodie 可太能演了/角度选得不错 但不是很理解负责人的人设崩塌
作为一个利物浦球迷看这个真是欣慰啊，阿尔茨海默病的男主哪怕忘记自己母亲的死亡，都不忘利物浦队辉煌时期的主力队员名字……朱迪科莫奉献了去年年度最佳表演，那26分钟的一镜到底，确实直戳人心。一部电视电影，预算肯定不会太高，朱迪作为一线的演员，还可以回到家乡接这么一部戏，还贡献这个级别的演技，真是让人动容啊。格拉汉姆这个角色，最后没有结合利物浦时隔30年的夺冠，有些可惜了。关于疫情中的人和事，以及国家政府的表现，本片已经给出了比较完美的答卷了。我不想拿某片拿来对比，因为那片根本不配！
最后字幕用一种可怜兮兮的语气说护工的时薪是8.5磅……唉…………
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