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".
他好的时候我不必在，
看的时候不停的想着躺在床上的外公
王传君是个好演员，王珞丹就算了。把对生死的思考一股脑地化作旁白表述出来，搞得电影像旁白配画面。旁白写得很好，画面也很好，后段回国了没旁白的部分也很好，但是凑成的电影实在不咋样。小孩部分像年代戏，青少年部分像青春戏，国外部分像科幻惊悚片，回国后部分拍出点贾樟柯的味道。拍得很用心，但不是部好电影。
高级，看完脑子里就这两个字。用感情穿插来讨论生死，留住年轻容貌又如何，最后只能独自面对，尽显无奈。
生活越来越好了
前半段我还想这片继续下去应该还是算可以的，结果后半段像刹不住车似的原地起飞，我都看傻了
“苏”
打三分的怕不是没经历过底层生活。近几年来第二部让我看哭的电影，上一部是白蛇源起
很喜欢中段，随着三条生命的逝去，缓慢，隽永，流长，仿佛自己也能感受到生命的流逝。后半段明显节奏过快了，整体过浮，还没让观众感同身受，剧情就又进入下一段了，有些可惜。
王朔编剧就能理解片中王小莫的臭贫了。主角的人物设定同蛋炒饭，时间跨度也差不多半个世纪，但有感觉像不见不散，特别是在捷克生活那段，最后发现是奇幻题材，我结尾没看懂，知道看了影评，说郭小鲁没有永生，然后有点想通了
题材本身不错，但是果然又变成日本逻辑：大家都是事件的受害者，所以谁都没错……好压抑
电影烂到家了，但是，王老出现的瞬间，我脱口而出：“这不是王啸坤吗？”huh，一个我十年都没有想起过的名字，不知道为什么我还能脱口而出。果然那些你以为时间已经帮你冲刷掉的记忆，身体还是帮你记得。btw，不认识王啸坤的朋友，应该认识戚薇吧哈哈。一下子想起了当年一大家子在吃饭时我执意要开电视看我型我秀的画面，家里现在应该还有王啸坤的专辑吧。
震后创伤与社会保障问题引发的悲剧，情感上能理解却没有太好的表现出来，几个角色都很苦，最后黄色马甲串起来三人不知道是不是原著里也有，感觉有些刻意了。三星半，宽叔和砂糖都属于正常发挥，清原非常出彩。
一种久违的隽永感，像是以前看过的一些小语种无厘头的电影一样，主题很大，细节又很小很小，最后没有强迫观众落泪还挺好的。
王朔：玩摇滚的形式大于内容一个个都是为了泡妞；演艺圈几乎没什么好东西；导演和导演老婆属于各玩各的；那谁拍的电影只有农村戏能看；那谁演的电影也就农村戏好看；新概念作家等于陪酒小姐。（王朔自己：天赋异禀在自己的领域年少成名游刃有余，天南海北地跑了一圈，最后白月光生了我和红颜知己的孩子？
“他好的时候我不用在”，“那他要不好呢？”
这个电影其实题材还可以，卡司演技也都还可以。
今天也去看了外公，身体一天不如一天
其实还是本杰明巴顿奇事的模型，但放在中国味道就变了，王珞丹饰演的郭玲芳爱郭小鲁吗？女对男的感情和男对女的感情不对等，总让人感动不起来，主题上的立意也没有表达明白，但拍摄剪辑水准都不错。
这种题材的犯罪片，如果让韩国人来拍，估计能上8分。
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