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".
开篇的伪长镜头将所有塑造人性的伦理结构封闭于空间化的小屋，被封印，被压迫，被遗忘。只有再次处于打破时间线与个人史的交叉蒙太奇场景“车内”之时，这如此封闭的空间才再次彰显着时光的空洞。
2021年的最后一天看了这部，但除了阵容没啥可夸的
我等了半天，你给我说电影快结束了林允儿才出场？！
个人癖好：喜欢这样拼盘无脑简单温馨的合家欢爱情片
被林允儿和姜河那的高甜片段骗进来的，还以为是什么惊心动魄的爱情故事，好家伙整一出韩国版《真爱至上》。养眼是真的，老土也是真的，好在韩国人还是有点认知在，没把总统从修罗场里拖出来谈恋爱。
实在太无聊了，一点都不有趣，硬熬了100多分钟才等到林允儿
被林允儿和姜河那的高甜片段骗进来的，还以为是什么惊心动魄的爱情故事，好家伙整一出韩国版《真爱至上》。养眼是真的，老土也是真的，好在韩国人还是有点认知在，没把总统从修罗场里拖出来谈恋爱。
2022年想被甜一下，结果打开后有点老套，故事穿插起来有一搭没一搭，人物故事有点老掉牙，有种命运的巧合既然如此，我也就干脆拍个应景的东西出来凑个热闹吧的感觉！电影里没有疫情当背景，所以更像是发生在不知道什么时候的故事。
元真儿到底是为啥是为啥是为啥一直一直在用力的睁眼睛挤眼睛，她的部分真的想跳过。而且这部剧过于无趣了
好温暖好感动好想爱 新年第一天能看到这么美好的电影真是太好了♥️
欧巴们新剧的OAD？？？不得不说韩国也培养出了一批很不错的中生代接班人。李栋旭最后的酒店归属权言论敲打某演绎型一尊了吧，可是看完他人即地狱之后瞅他感觉就是下一秒要拔刀🥴
韩式贺岁片，并不是所有都是happyending。感恩、希望、勇气，最重要的是学着释怀
年末的新年快乐
俄乌战争打的火热，全球新冠，世界动荡，这个大环境下来看这部片子让人感触更深！正如片子开始长达十分钟的转场镜头一样，晃动、多变，让人感叹生命无常！
我想问下，有谁去站在电影的受害者的角度写个文章？总得有人去为受害者说话。那就我来说
主线进得太晚又或者是没有主线？明明可以是更凝练更有趣的喜剧的。夕阳线、歌手线和高中生线完全可以砍掉。李栋旭那条线既浪漫又有点腻，那一点点闪闪发光的可爱都在李栋旭身上。
太普通了吧也，而且不是已经弄了个很普通的新年前夜了吗，怎么还来啊？！
影片开始的伪长镜头确实惊艳，另如评论区所说，与贾导的社会纪实风很有同感，只不过在不过的国度有不一样的境遇。
大概那治愈我的是：有人在珍惜我这个努力考公务员的人，因为这份珍惜我也希望自己的人生不一样啊❤
2022，新年快乐呀。看完想恋爱了。PS：李东旭也太帅了吧。再PS：这雪也太假了吧。
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