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".
故事本身个人五星心水，加之不抱期望所带来的惊喜感加倍，本愿多给到五星。但，从其他平台见闻，本片似有仿倭风之嫌(座头市)，斟酌给个四星吧。Y
动作设计还是不错的，剧情太过牵强，没想到谢苗还能找到立足之地。
画面、动作优于一般网大，只是演员台词功底一言难尽。
缺点：女性刻画和表演过于肤浅，台词做作，剧情有点低幼，打戏镜头切的太碎影响观感和动作分析
不错啊，末段的画面和调度很纯熟了。可惜两个女性角色，或者说钉钉子的墙太垮了，没能加分。限制网大的，是自认末流，吴京那种破逼玩意儿都大卖，自信点儿谢苗。
剧情很简单，按道理是四星。
打戏挺好，不是简单又软绵绵地套招，小仗“错骨手”、大仗加入了类似居合斩的技击，看着不腻，不像网大。但是片子在剪辑、运镜，甚至对焦等方面的逻辑和普通电影有极大不同，有很多后45度角镜头、a在说话镜头却给了b、用台词当旁白之类的情况，明显是为了回避后期配音对不上嘴型、演员台词或演技较差的问题，这方面就很网大。
我理解电影时长篇幅有所限制，但是这个“讨公道”的缘由动机太牵强了，全天下那么多没有公道的事怎么偏偏瞎子就选了个美女帮还把自己好友搭进去😅
大概是看过的国内最好的一部网大。基本上是复刻了座头市的套路了，部分画面拍的真好。
知道自己要什么，你未必能得到。知道自己不要什么，你至少不会失去。
剧情俗套，但是质感很好，算是网大的天花板了
哪怕以电影的工业化标准来评定 这部作品的呈现也在及格线上 单这一点已足够值得称赞了
听了林老师的“偏见”之后，越发觉得谢苗和赵今麦长得好像😂😂😂
打戏很利落，谢苗蛮可惜，原本应该是武打巨星的。故事很简单，但是很有味道，有武侠内味儿了
服化道、音乐、美术、特效、镜头等等都貌似高级货，可惜仍然无法把烂大街的剧本、漏洞百出的细节包装到更高的层次，加上男主演的不济，整部电影不过是一本地摊上的《如来神掌》。
远没有口碑说的那么惊艳，还是对打戏的数量和质量有过高的期待了，褪去小成本网大可能存在的“出人意料”，本片捉襟见肘的预算把短板暴露的明明白白的，西部片的氛围，《座头市》的设定，打戏对标《枕刀歌之尘世行》，历史背景对标《长安十二时辰》，最后一场雪景戏甚至有《杀死比尔》的韵味，导演的野心有目共睹，可怜和西部片之洒脱、北野武之血腥、枕刀歌之流畅、十二时辰之精良、昆汀之刻奇乃云泥之别，又模仿的相当明显，想不对比都难，一对比就露怯的十分尴尬
好看啊！胜过绝大部分院线电影，就是剧组有点穷。
观影二十多年了，我怎么会看这种电影？导演想表达什么？
导演和投资人不为电影，只为年少时的武侠梦
希望资本能好好看看谢苗这样的演员和这样的电影 又害怕资本一裹挟又变了
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