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".
什么鬼。。。。之前看到友邻吐槽说，国产剧现在发到一个流量明星就开演，完全没在管演技剧情啥的。最近看的这些好莱坞大片，也是，发明了一个比较好玩的设定，就直接拍片了，整个故事结构剧情都非常勉强。信条这样，亚马逊新片明日之战这样，这部也是这样。
男主真是一个痴情的汉子啊！
很喜欢片中未来水世界中城市的那种衰败感 男主整个就一根筋到底的恋爱脑 所有的科幻 悬疑设定就为了讲一个老套路的爱情故事:美艳女子误嗑药并卷入了黑帮大佬 黑警 地产暴发户的破事中 为自保假装接近并爱上男主 没想到后面真的爱上了…吴彦祖为什么要讲一句英文并夹带一个中文词语…
看到一半睡着了，估计是我太累了！但是节奏真的慢，末世的设定不是很有说服力！吴彦祖的英中夹杂真心听不来，什么奇怪设定！然后那么容易被干掉，还kingpin？ 其他的倒没有啥大毛病！女主的颜有时候觉得很美，有时候又soso，倒是狼叔的磁性voice真适合用来催眠！
所以，吴彦祖为啥死了？！对推动剧情有帮助吗？
糟糕的台词 混乱的叙事 故作深沉的风格
马戏之王，再续前缘。
这种装神弄鬼的科幻悬疑动作文艺爱情的片我还挺喜欢。可能一些镜头比较喜欢。设定很不错，可能本可以成为神作，然而重点放在文艺爱情上还有点过了头～
虽然是是个很容易预见发展的爱情故事，但Rebecca太美了
天啊太难看了，吴彦祖一开口让我体会了中英夹杂的终极🙏
这烂片有个超级大bug
Brilliant concept, good narrative and setting, subpar acting, confusing ending
come on故弄玄虚也不是这样搞的，如此老套的故事只是套娃套娃而已。关于记忆的科幻片很多，就没见过这么烂的。
好老套的noir故事，打着“烧脑”的幌子结果讲了个爱情故事，完全没啥吸引力。
6分 刻画了这么大的一个背景 你就给我讲了一个这么小格局的无聊爱情故事…吴彦祖你以为他是个BOSS吧，其实他就是个打酱油的…
“想念一个人是这世界的一部分，没有思念故人的忧伤，就无法体会眼前的幸福”（所以，这也是那些有故事的人能看懂，没有阅历的感到乏味！）
一般般啦，太狗血了这个爱情，女主为什么就不能是大反派呢
2分电影，为瑞贝卡的美貌+1星，如果不是狼叔和她这片子很难让你看下去。能看出来导演的想法很好，但是就是太小气、太年轻，还有就是女导演的通病：太细腻，什么都想拍一点，容易沉浸在自我感动之中。当然不是没有优点，里面的台词非常值得回味，狼叔和瑞贝卡在阳台那一段对白我很难忘怀，这就是女导演的优势，能够细致的表达情感。
没有狼叔的颜值在撑的话，这个片就没必要看了…虽然看得出来，主创想让题材显得新潮，但缺乏吸引力。
Lisa Joy说不不不我知道那是new orleans 但是我想要吴彦祖演反派
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