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".
两任Mr Darcy聚在一部电影里还真是难得。影片里最令人印象深刻的应该就是那份情书吧，战争下的爱情总是那么令人动容！而且是出自一位终身未嫁的女士之手，对美好的渴望是有多么的真情实感。男女主间发乎情 止乎礼的感情戏在现代社会里也是很少见了！英国算得上是戏剧和文学之国了吧，即使战争年代也是几乎人人都是作家啊，文学功底太厉害了哈哈
法式传统，荒诞轻喜剧，但与绝大多数同类影片一样，无聊又尴尬。
你得表现自己聪明的时候 不能靠一味贬低别人的智慧 虽然希特勒是个大混蛋 但是也不能把他的智商描述的如此不堪 一个窝囊废 一个妻管严 俩人居然主谋 却又没怎么太用心 甚至中间还犯了不少错就把战争格局改了 个人觉得战争题材还是不要这么太过儿戏为好
还阔以，挺有意思的，离谱的计划只能靠着一股侥幸的劲儿催着走。
马德里那位上校牺牲好大啊哈哈哈哈 怎么会这样
两个达西先生抢一个小女仆，还有一个嘎嘎新的奈特利站干岸儿，加上马尔福爹，光看脸了，剧情还要重来一次
幸亏智能机器人也继承了人类的漏洞，否则不好收场了。
真实事件的电影还是好看的，当然，还原事实也不可能拍的那么精彩
个人感觉还不错，延续了热内一直以来的童趣，全程还都挺热闹的，结局也是好结局。当然啦，毕竟是科幻题材的邪典童话故事，世界观的逻辑可以稍微宽容一些。没有一个太漂亮的女主角是个败笔，四（五？）个女性都有点狰狞。PS：“巨型”漏洞什么鬼，还不如直接翻译成“大BUG”……
太脱线了~整个一无厘头，但就是这种既不理会科幻对人与科技关系的通俗讨论，也不顺从喜剧惯常追求的捧腹大笑的叛逆，很有个性。而这部电影最为讽刺的地方就在于，从人到机器人都是在追求圆满和完全的进路上自寻了烦恼，接受“无所及”并不意味着失去梦想，而正是依托于此才能谈追求。
热内果然是个拥有无限「低级恶趣味」的导演（无论《天使爱美丽》还是《黑店狂想曲》）。我曾大胆预言，这个男人总有一天会用一部「反乌托邦喜剧」来满足他个人所有的「怪癖」与「私欲」。不幸言中。科幻外壳包裹下的各种荒诞的、猎奇的、无厘头的、光怪陆离的「法式浪漫」，没点毛病的人真的难以消化（庆幸我有毛病，消化起来不费劲）
所以欺骗成功全靠敌人内部跳反？…… 感情线挺败笔的
英国人贱兮兮的幽默感，和一些奇怪但温暖的感情
又是一则科技隐喻，但是娱乐性非常强。借用推理片常用的密室逃生类型，讲述科技的异化性，非常讨巧，也非常实用。
你得表现自己聪明的时候 不能靠一味贬低别人的智慧 虽然希特勒是个大混蛋 但是也不能把他的智商描述的如此不堪 一个窝囊废 一个妻管严 俩人居然主谋 却又没怎么太用心 甚至中间还犯了不少错就把战争格局改了 个人觉得战争题材还是不要这么太过儿戏为好
一个谎言，一首叙史诗，科林费尔斯最好的间谍时期还是在圆场里的那个善于观察的bill…
1⃣️丘吉尔追屁股的梗莫名好笑
二战历史性的一刻，一个计划背后的故事，可以看看。
特洛伊木马计这么好使么，这次行动的想法计划是挺妙的，但是围绕这个前前后后太啰嗦了，每个人都要交代一下，东拉西扯的没有重点，感谢那位“尸体”吧。
脑洞大，法式幽默。峰回路转，很讽刺。
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