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".
作为一个曾经逃离过又回来继续打工的影视民工，真的有被狠狠感动到。电影不是生活的全部，但电影不会走，留在荧幕上的那些人和那些时刻永远都会在。
时间流逝，多年后我们实现了年轻的梦想。
电影里没有神，电影什么也改变不了。PS:前半部分有趣，后半部分拉胯。
一帧和一帧之间，有电影之神，我是爱电影的人，我很惭愧
看年老的男主还蛮讨厌的，但是年轻时的菅田将晖一出现。瞬间男主身上那些浮躁，不靠谱都成了不需要我介意的因素，也理解了淑子多年来不离不弃的深情。不过最后迟来的“电影之神”真的很遗憾啊，年轻导演的灵气和激情并不是被生活消磨，而是自己本身过度高昂的自尊心抹杀，这我更难接受。
#北影节资料馆观影
现代与昭和时代割裂感挺重的，不知怎的每个人的演技都很生硬
沒看過日本影史，不看「東京物語」，不知小津安二郎為何物的人，怎能懂這部電影？只能說豆瓣裡的噴子實在是貽笑大方之極……
女人给了男人幸福，男人却用自甘堕落回报女人。ps淑子也太可爱了吧！
追忆过去的部分真好，“人生就是只能选一种方式后悔”。山田洋次在这个年纪回望日本电影业的兴盛时期，不免有明日黄花之感。
“第二天就要开学了前一晚上才把作业补完”既视感
关于《电影之神》的幕后故事，很真实……理想与现实交织。（值得观看）
没见过全员这么烂的演技 救命啊 比我演技还烂 可不可以不要扭来扭去说话吗…？日本人为啥非要这么做作的演戏啊 和吴昕有什么区别 为了苏打看完的 到底是在干什么啊……不知道说啥了
#BJIFF 4.5 好了 to-do list上又多了一个开个艺术电影院（更要亏了。。）这是给影迷的童话：只要把时间尺度拉长，一切都变得温柔了。菅田的魅力在花束里没能get但是这部里为了梦想激情澎湃的时候好帅！本当にありがとう😊
抢了个巨巨巨偏的位置（可能自从开始赶电影节就没抢过这么偏的位置那种），要是不好看我就要脱粉苏打！（不是 //9.17看完了，为各位主演的惊天颜值加一星，很俗气很保守但还是看哭了🥲愿电影之神保佑我们吧。
为保证客户资产密码，男主被纳粹禁锢、折磨，靠着一本棋谱熬过了战争，战后进了精神病院。另一条线即游轮上进行的象棋比赛，应为男主幻想出来的？
留住太阳那里流下了莫名其妙的泪水，电影太好了，谢谢电影，谢谢山田导演。
咩酱昭和扮装满分。和苏打感情线突兀感觉少了一段。令人落泪的地方还是老年组老头子的领奖词啊。所谓爱情真是一个愿打一个愿挨，放今天有点受不了。PS：电影之神的点子用五个字来说就是打破第四面墙不是？
没看过原著，前面双线叙事论暴政对人性和精神领域的摧残很好理解。最后精神病院的部分我没看懂，是A巴托克疯了，其实前面乘船远赴美国的旅途是他的被摧残至极后的精神远游，还是B他在美国找到了妻子，但妻子疯了而不自知？另，很讨厌短评里有人说茨威格是小资产阶级作家，首先他出身很好，其次茨威格延循启蒙主义的人文主义，人道主义与自由主义的坚持与追求，跨越阶级，是博爱的，属于现代知识分子应有的本质品格，与你兜里钱多钱少没啥关系。
去年北影节最后一天的收官之作.前后穿插的叙事跨越了几十年.每次场景转换不禁唏嘘时光在人身上留下的痕迹.对影迷来说在电影院看电影到死真的也是圆满了.
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