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".
一般的商业片，还行吧，比较喜欢鉴宝时的特效，不错
但虚焦一种恶，会导致靶向不清，适得其反
以校园暴力加害者父母们的视角展开，全员恶人。自诩高人一等，踩着别人尸体保全自己的上位者，总有比你更有权利更有地位的人让你叫天天不应，叫地地不灵，可恨的是上位者暂时跌落凡尘也仍然不会和普通人共情的，让他们反击成功则是社会的悲哀。有的孩子天生就是魔鬼，但更多的孩子则是被父母培养成了畜生，栽培成了恶魔，真想见见你父母的脸啊，因为真的太丑陋了！
费这么大劲拍这个逻辑问题这么严重的电影是为了什么，中国就没有好剧本了么。
国内能上影的话会取什么名？我建议用“6+1=？”希望也能如此直面同样的问题！
世俗的压力也许存在，其实还是会认为传达错误的价值观，不被允许女孩和女孩在一起，失恋会喝酒，失恋会失控，会试探，生活未必会这样。生活也许很平静。初恋也许是件美好藏在心里的人，没有接触的感情也不能称之为感情，只能是情感
我发现了现在这些片子属于一种走向 就是新时代的青少年地摊文学 它是过去小妞电影的替代品 只不过性别方面更平均一些 还能和一些爱国话题结合起来 本片如此 《扬名立万》也是如此
比较失望，虽然欺凌场景表现得很残忍露骨，但故事本身太粗糙，乏善可陈，靠一些反转来提升观赏性，遭受霸凌的学生形象有点《猪猡之王》的变奏，薛叔人物心理经历了真实的一波三折还算立体，其他形象都太脸谱化。
最大的问题还是太不讲动机了，一路想当然到底。5
中午去看的 都没几个人看 一开场就闹哄哄的 剧情不可 看着都要睡着了
校园霸凌的确让人痛恨至极 家长 老师对孩子的教育很重要 片子最后有反转
算是比较工整的探险类型片，非原著党，电影版整体的叙事和节奏还挺舒服的。整体结构类似于《夺宝奇兵》，叙事节奏类似最近的《红色通缉令》。不过，最喜欢的还是鉴宝和对古董专业知识科普的部分，看到了这三代人为了保护国宝所付出的代价和传承，本片能在类型片元素之外传递出这种思考还是值得肯定的。
想学《母亲》？
就是那么细碎 平常 普通 内心乱窜的想法占上峰 因为一句句话而敏感而发散
以爆米花电影的角度看，影片算是合格的爽片。悬疑探险，机关重重，可以参考《寻龙诀》，人物配置，情节推演，都有较大的可比性，所不同者，少了点超自然现象而已。第一次看李现的戏，霸道总裁的范儿还是妥的。大头也是接地气的。在某种意义上，这片也算是导演郭子健的一场小小的翻身仗了吧，续集大概也提上日程了吧。
让我最感慨的是，能言善辩的律师父亲跟儿子最坦诚的沟通居然是在法庭上，不要把才华都用在工作上，多一点分给爱的人吧
虽说逻辑上不是很严谨的犯罪片，但是却反映了很真实的人性，最后的反转再反转，让人再次看见人性的恶
2021.12.03 17.25正荣中瑞2号巨幕
援引自余秀华老师，留在这部影片的点评里正合适
학폭으로 살인자가 된 학생들을 부모들이 열심히 묻어버리고 있네
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