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".
现在看到这种片子想的竟然是“这么多暗喻和讽刺居然能过审”。是我不对劲还是这个时代不对劲了？
此刻，我所定义的生活不过是生，死，爱的连接。其他不过是伴随而来，随时会消失的时间。
编剧团队真的太多惊喜，带着一点点万合天宜的熟悉感，在短短的两个小时里，每个角色都有自己完整的故事，每个角色都是让人能够记住的，没有单纯的工具人，没有简单的纸片人。
推理线很简单勾子出来的时候就基本明白整个扣儿了，但整体好笑程度大过悬疑色彩，并不会因为“就这？”嗤之以鼻，毕竟大量的语言包袱让我很难溜号…悬疑部分完全没有留白，很直很愣很不“悬疑”，有点满，但是诚意也满满，大波浪这波大银幕处女作合格✅
请傻逼粉丝们别来骚扰我了，毫无廉耻可言。//半年了还有粉丝骂完就拉黑我？要不要这么怂啊拉完屎光着屁股就跑，真的会看不起这些无能狂怒的可怜虫。
中年女性成长史 很平静的讲述 坠入情绪里感到舒适
再大的城市也有细腻的、亲密的感动，那是人们真实活过的生动记忆。很喜欢。Elisabeth, "je mettrai que je suis très sensible dans mon CV." Talula, un bébé de la nuit de Paris.
我发誓再也不看国产低成本密室悬疑剧了，看吐了，演技浮夸，剧情生硬，民国乱世风，每一点都让我很难受。这种烂俗场景风格的电影竟然还有人吹，而且这种风格还越来越多。。
本年度看过的最无聊的电影，恨影院没有快进键，不是点子有问题，是讲故事的能力有问题。
作为电影来说没法给高分，基本是胡闹和瞎搞，台词金句频出（我讨厌的那种），演技故意浮夸，妆化油头粉面。最后亮点的上升高度也是建立在虚构中就有点讽刺了，但仍然有一些想法值得肯定。其次感觉中国电影还是能夹缝求生的，虽然都得架空吧。
前面二十多分钟想弃，后面渐入佳境，甚至还有点感动
开篇十几分钟以为是民国版的报告老板，有点无聊有点弱，后面渐入佳境还有点小惊喜，七分打四星吧！
看这种电影的时候就会在想，电影的形式真多啊，以电影为自己输出的视角，表达出来出内核，可以看出这个是一个温暖治愈不幼稚也不世俗的内心。生活发生了变动，但是不戏剧化，就像你我现实中的过程。人生真是一段又一段的陪伴组成不是吗，看到最后的新感悟，不管角色是女儿，母亲，妻子，情人，这些标签都是他人生活中对你的定义，但却不是你的。你永远只是你。所以你的生活中也拥有父亲，孩子，同事。人来人往，享受的是一起的时光，不去想它是否长久。生命的本意就是如此。
万合终于做了一个像样的电影，还是悬疑+喜剧，有点小意外，我愿意给五星。开篇有点慢热，笑点有点尬，但能感觉出已经很克制了，后面渐入佳境。喜欢这个片子推理方面的误导和逆转（虽然有点似曾相识），以及电影人对项目的吐槽哈哈哈哈！演员们的表演都不错！尽管有点话剧式的浮夸。
而更重要的是，主创真正去沉淀探讨如果讲好一个悬疑故事，然后尝试着利用这个故事，去发散能引起观众共鸣的思考。
那些碎片
有一种温暖的东西，是永存的，时间无法使其停止。喜欢夜晚，喜欢夜晚散步，喜欢夜晚骑车，喜欢夜晚吹风，喜欢夜晚的自由与松弛，各种各样的情绪都会被夜晚抚慰。
莫名浪漫，莫名温柔。茫茫夜色中，你会碰见一些人，或短暂相遇，或长久停留，都在心间留下色彩。人啊，有时就是会脆弱得，害怕自己连触碰，都会损害到想要拥有的东西。
在Matthias身上找到很多共鸣，喜欢他忧郁内敛的眼神，想对他说，继续写吧，不准停笔是最要紧的。
万合网感一直都特别好，所以虽然大量文戏，但笑点密又节奏好，打我马那里真爆笑如雷，离谱的对白但就是荒诞好笑！主要角色的火花碰撞都很可爱！选角合适演得又好，听他们扯淡能听一天的水平。梦蝶视角刻画女性互相理解支持真的特别好，邓家佳虽然现在脸有点点假，但没影响表演还是很生动的，有两场戏，眼神还是很打人。
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