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".
疫情下小美好 遇到一个真心对你好的人 或者一段美好的记忆 可以怀念一辈子
原本以为是假煽情，看了以后发现编剧还是很用心的
黄渤的武汉话好夹生…川渝味好重…武汉话和重庆话的混合武庆话
各花入各眼吧，我还是挺喜欢这部电影的，除了高亚麟和徐帆那一段尬到抠地，无语到飞起以外，其他的都还不错，疫情下的压迫氛围烘托地很好，尤其是地毯式消毒那段配合着音效看得我浑身起鸡皮疙瘩，灾难下的小人物群像，有欢笑有泪水，有感动有遗憾，贾玲和朱一龙莫名地有cp感，互不搭调又无比合拍，虽然结局并不圆满，但是哀而不伤，在奇异的晨光下，武哥真的看到了叶老师～
这两天在上海暴发疫情，我也没能幸免，居家隔离正好看到这部电影，虽然现在的Omicron已经危害不大了，但这电影拍的是最初武汉疫情，把当时残酷拍的过于美好了。。
疫情主意的电影，情节感觉有点儿乱，很大一部分看不下去，很小一部分破防了。
太过稀碎就是这类抗疫电影的通病，想要在两个钟的电影里展现尽量多的典型，但到最后发现没有一个可以讲得好的，电影本身就值两星，额外一星是给片中那些真实片段的，算是纪念那一段大家共同度过的特别日子。
看了十分钟就被扼住了喉咙，自己都没明白过来但就可能是唤醒了部分三年前的记忆，给武汉的朋友发“可能电影以第一人称把我带到了疫情开始的时候，就像是此时此刻我是武汉人一样” 。剧情编织最开始有点乱，中间部分不同单位的小故事串联做的挺好，到时候又开始有点乱，感觉还可以再处理一下，但可能因为奔着某种什么目的去所以结尾必须那么处理（嗯…）会很温情，有被感动的地方，也有让人止不住眼泪的地方。朱一龙演的老师没太多惊心动魄的剧情部分，我太熟悉他本人了所以普遍看戏都会有点出，但这次还好，但总归也是规规矩矩（ps 能不能接一个结局完满一点的角色啊哥5555怎么总让人哭真的受不了了）
没拍出疫情的苦 也搞歪了武汉的温 脱离了现实又不影视 四不像了
正如某条评论所说的，演员全员工具人。而且剧情冗长拖沓得要命，我不明白有些故事搞得那么长是为了什么？导演自己把自己感动得不行了吧？可是我只想睡觉。
虽然片子拍的一般，但的确勾起了很多疫情时候的回忆，感慨这两年过得真的不容易。
希望疫情快快过去 让我们能真正意义的拥抱 电影立意是好的 但就单以作品而言确实又又又一般了
再也不愿电影院看温情片了。坐两个小时简直折磨。
群像弱了点，努力的想讲好每个故事，但又都差了那么点
疫qing下的武汉，各自伟大而平凡的人默默付出，太令人感动了。贾玲和朱一龙的感情让我觉得很神奇，但真的合理，在特殊环境下一切情感都是合理的。最后电影结束时候的拥抱真的是人类最后的需求。大家都抱在一起。
好无聊啊🥱目前看过讲疫情的拍的最没有内容的电影😅中间走神好几次，哭也没哭点，真的也是服了
旁边的同志一直哭，作为一点武汉疫情记录是可以的
看到疫情的时候全国各地送来物资，落泪了，喜欢谢老的爱情，大家都在为抗疫做贡献，2022疫情好起来吧
第一，本片不是典型意义的主旋律电影，因为本片中，党和政府是不(直接)在场的。第二，病人和死亡，在电影比重的角度上，同样也不在场。第三，本片的功能不是记录，反映和思考，而是治愈。第四，既然功能是单一的治愈，加之上述的缺席，就难免显得冗长。基本上大厨求婚的段落，电影实际上就已经结束了。第五，本片前半部分的时间线结构，还是有巧思的。或者说，借鉴了《敦刻尔克》。第六，本片开场几分钟，确实足够震撼，而另一个电影时刻在小护士的遗照处。但是吊诡的是，本片的整体结构，是把温情放在了前面，把死亡放在了后面。这不能不又恰好证明了这不是典型的主旋律电影。
太过主旋律和煽情，故事没讲好，不能共情。 致敬奋战在一线的白衣天使。
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