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".
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7/10.
不愧是马丁斯科塞斯监制的 腔调十足 / 裸眼VR酷刑真的吓死人了 / 缓慢track in 再加男主一连串的形容词 / talent vs imagination / 包裹家具真的…
就存在那里，周末下午看看。
看小妞电影就是exclusive spiritual therapy 那啥 容易尴尬的人看到后面有点被吓到了 尤其是在大场合突然跟对方家人说who fk cares的让我一身鸡皮疙瘩 减一星
俗套的剧情，男主身材真好，两人之间很有性张力
劇情略顯老套 不過還挺喜歡的
一部最多只可以给到三颗星的爱情轻喜剧。几乎是看完这部影片后的同时，又重新看了一遍约翰库萨克的《缘分天注定》，相比20年前的作品，爱情轻喜剧在这20年里几乎是没有任何新的发展与进步，原地踏步不说，还可能呈现出某种退步。
2.5，第一部保罗施拉德，这个鱼眼镜头很棒，其他的没太喜欢起来
我真的很想看男女主斗来斗去，but，并没有，不过是部平庸的爱情电影…cliche cliche……如果把男主换成女生感觉剧情会合理一些……目前感觉男主更多像是一个姐妹🌞
无脑放松爱情片 打了booster看帅哥美女还是很不错的
泰尔素日只想玩牌，而奇克是一个脆弱易怒的年轻人，奇克正在寻求帮助，来执行他对军事上校(达福饰)的复仇计划。
远鉴什么时候做字幕TT 俺把原著都快啃完了//久违的漏字幕 词汇量危机感sos 男主像pierce brosnan 女主像安娜德 我同意男主一开始就喜欢女主! 女主又爱又恨 一些性张力 鼓掌👏🏻!BUT I HATE THE OLD CLICHE PLOT THAT 女主帮助男主在他爸面前说男主有多好 漏 还有前女友变嫂子 漏
大只牧羊犬和mini茶杯犬的恋爱物语 女主扑闪闪的大眼睛太美了 虽然我忍不住幻视成金小小妹or赛琳娜 以及当男主捡起女主的月经杯 嫌弃地往手里喷了喷消毒剂的时候 i was like: sweetheart 之后你还得用嘴呢 then what do you gonna do 🤷♀️
Please do make more good rom-coms ( I want, not that I say this is of high quality), I looove them!!!
感觉女主的mtbi测试结果有我羡慕的那些特质
还是有迷人气质的部分 置景和布光 至于几次 William Tell 的脸与镜头的双向运动关系给出表演和内心的空间做得刻意了点 镜头绕向星点彩灯空中盘旋 360° 再回来就牵手吧 2333 有些傻气的真心感 最后一幕不提致敬 倒也算呼应了台词里的指尖末梢兴奋颤抖 倒是隐线寥寥几笔 作为人物的背景板 p.s. bass 手 Robert 的 OST 做得妙
一部最多只可以给到三颗星的爱情轻喜剧。几乎是看完这部影片后的同时，又重新看了一遍约翰库萨克的《缘分天注定》，相比20年前的作品，爱情轻喜剧在这20年里几乎是没有任何新的发展与进步，原地踏步不说，还可能呈现出某种退步。
男主角身材长相都不可否认的好 但是剧情真的是乱七八糟奇形怪状
劇情略顯老套 不過還挺喜歡的
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