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".
太難了吧 陳湘琪陳以文不小心演了這樣的片就算了 還不能直接搜索中文戲名 服氣了真的
两星半吧，最好看的就是片尾林更新的彩蛋，为这个加半星。
爱情故事不够甜，结尾也没交待。应该是一个爱情喜剧类，但是笑点笑不出来。设定还行，但是整个故事一般。小偷偷了东西不变现，那是怎么维持生活的？世界太小了吧，校长和同学都去干了精神病专科医生
因为没啥期待，所以觉得还可以。虽然很假，但是看一乐还是合格的。
1.高开低走
md看这部电影也是天大的修行。东亚社会为什么这么爱人为选择压抑？？离婚各自放过不行吗？？？
修行，，是一次次看见生起问题的心，再一次次息掉充满问题的心。
开场的猥琐男叫喊着李寡妇然后劈叉裤裆裂开露出红内裤就能看出这个导演的审美有多低级了，三十年前的B级片都不搞这种恶俗笑点了好吗？
整体说来还行，不至于豆瓣评分5.7这么低。节奏的确缓慢拖沓，看得人想睡觉！最初是7.5第13届两岸电影展之台湾电影展开幕那天在本月刚恢复开放的资料馆2号厅看了20多分钟，觉得还可以，不那么闷（之前nana说了她接受和欣赏不了这片子），但今天看了一小时都是这节奏时确实有些难耐。很真实的夫妻生活，窒息沉闷却日复一日。演员演技是真的好！仿佛就是他们自己在生活。这样的婚姻，确实有如不死坟墓。今天原本想补上《魔法阿妈》，想不到有较高清资源却找不到字幕！闽南语听不懂只好改看完这个了。网盘资源投屏TV。今天是伯格曼诞辰104周年，我豆瓣注册14年“生日”。
被普及了一下从没听过的心理疾病，电影本身一般。
其实我也是个爱幻想的人，也许对大多数人来讲幻想可以治愈孤独，但我恰恰是一个享受孤独的人，一个人的时候反而非常自在、舒服，也许就是因为我有超乎常人的想象力吧，特别是小的时候，每天放学回家的路上，都能勾勒出一个全新的故事。
第一次看电影无数次想冲出电影院，现在真是什么都敢上映了啊，简直是浪费生命的90分钟……焦俊艳竟然接了个这样的角色？简直就是个神经病啊，对哦，里面没一个正常人，都是神经病……什么鬼剧情……太一言难尽了……
这是什么脑残片，太智障了吧，糊弄小孩的？！全片真的都是一群神经病，没有一个正常人。这个设定倒是有点意思，但这么拍出来就是在侮辱观众们的智商了，而且这个故事叙事也非常混乱，男主遭雷劈获得特异功能，突然到最后特异功能就莫名其妙的消失，也没说原因。而且最后绑架女主那一幕是全片最恶心人的片段，还有猝不及防的bgm和无比尴尬的笑点，真的是烂到家了。想不通王彦霖和焦俊艳为啥接这种烂片！唯一的亮点就是最后彩蛋林狗出来的那一块还觉得有点意思。总体来说，年度十烂之一，没眼看。
这片要说拍的不够好，我同意。但是要说主演不用心，创意不到位，那你昧良心了。一个半小时，我看的还是挺顺畅。可惜剧本打磨的不足，荒诞但是不应该扯淡。有点可惜，本来应该更好的。一般吧...
不太喜欢这部影片，虽然讲的是中年危机的社会影响，但整个影片的调性太过于沉闷了，虽然生活中有很多这种犹如死灰一般的婚姻状况，但这也是建立在生活和社会环境中的基础上的，除了他们孩子结婚的那一点点戏份还算可以吧，很自然又很贴近生活状态，老两口都是很好的演员太想让好了反而失去了本身的魅力！
陈湘琪演这种中年妇女危机真的信手拈来的好，无奈导演爱装逼，想学蔡明亮学的很烂
到最后只有男主成长了，女主一点变化都没看到，所以我不把它当爱情片。
4/10.
男主真的很禁勒 不愧是变态！！换了别的柔弱点的 早就投胎好几次了！！
杀人性癖遇上多人格，对其恶魔养成，然而最后螳螂捕蝉黄雀在后。
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