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".
还行吧，平行宇宙瑞克和莫蒂都讨论烂了的话题，国产第一次见。有限宇宙，一切皆无意义；无限宇宙，无限可能。啊、啊、啊、啊、啊、啊、啊～
5.有个舅舅，开了个狄更斯酒吧。
淡淡的生活流，奔跑时的喘息和海风拂出的草之韵响、没有开始也没有结束（看到北狐又如何？均匀洒在面部的白昼日光让这个场景充满了虚幻感）以及被（极力）平平带过的死亡。有几处很不错的视点交错融合——开头车内浮空镜头里横向飞逝的街景到小泉出场后随滑板运动前进的跟拍直至人物中景作结；四人无意识的第一次交汇（或者错过），草坡的中景既在镜头的平面上划分为两部分，也同时在空间的远近法隔出两个区域；小泉和弘斗的跟跑切到前景中三人跑步的跟拍镜头再切到惠美骑电动车的跟拍（其他三人再次被划进草坡的后景）。
这属于是东出昌大的“复出”之作吗？意外地还不错。奈绪比跳海少年三人组的存在感更弱，看到赤狐的瞬间我以为穿越到了《雪国》。很有字面意义上的情绪。生之欲，有何难呢，但又真的好难。
抓不到线索时总是会去看看原作解说，是以和雄为第一人称的短篇，生活据点在八王子。而电影则完全改变了这一视点，从加入妻子这个原创角色也可见一斑。佐藤泰志本人就是自律神经失调患者，也曾经从东京回过函馆。东出的生病设定和他在《蓝色》里的有点重复，但还是好沉浸地，可以感受到他的感受，也算是在文艺片里找到了自己的戏路。但如果唐田不能出来那他也理应不该被看到这些演技的吧。作为电影院的周年纪念作品... 气氛给到了就行。
被朋友抓去看的点映，本来是一脸懵逼走进去的，结果看完了发现电影竟然还不错，有北美小众电影那味儿了，作为科幻悬疑片来说剧情有超出预期，好几个地方都很紧张，虽然结尾跟我预想的有差距，但瑕不掩瑜吧～
片子还行，节奏不够紧凑，稍有点拖沓，不是很能抓人眼球，有些地方的逻辑也不是很说得通，很多地方可以展开说没有展开，不该太花时间的地方又花费太多片长。但在国产片里来说，算得上是佳作了，景色拍得很美，演员不是帅哥美女但是耐看，有些地方颇有点耐人寻味，值得二刷发现更多细节，小成本拍出了一套好戏。希望国产片还会有更多类似的好作品，不再是满目垃圾脑残片的天下。打四分，零点五分是鼓励分。
滤镜加成下，我觉得这个拍的挺好的，比信条好多了，真的…
雷神，我来给你评分来了，很喜欢在B站看你视频
男孩想要学习滑板、游泳
JR长大了，只有叔叔蓄起了胡子，其他人其它物都毫无变化。
属于国产小成本电影对悬念类型的一次开拓性尝试。人物塑造上上很中国化，情节设计上环环相扣，虽有一些逻辑上的漏洞，但细节缺失属于国产电影的通病，因此不想因此指责导演或制片方。最后，真心希望我国能在电影审查上能够再宽松一些，给我们的电影工作者营造一个自由度更高的发挥空间，
其实有些地方没有怎么看懂，比如奈绪怀孕明明是第一胎，为什么已经有了那么多婴儿的衣服在洗晒，比如少年跳海自杀的那段几乎完全没有身亡的表现，只是通过后来同伴的转述来表达，但依然不影响片子拍得很好，一度以为三个少年是东出昌大和好友和老婆的童年，片程过半才发生交集，但是互相的镜像毫无疑问。东出昌大演得真是好，完全演出了一个抑郁症患者的表象与内心，相对而言，奈绪表现差强，尤其最后一段脸部表情表现不够。整体而言，算是一部在豆瓣被低估的影片吧？
大本的fun uncle居然演出难得魅力熟男dilf感，乔治克鲁尼执导的这部基本就是怀旧滤镜美国白男版《好爸爸坏爸爸》卡司都是熟人，马天尼演渣爹，《回到未来》博士演外公，主角泰谢里丹无功无过，童年版很灵气。
In a Variety interview, Ben Affleck said "I think the world is a tough and ugly place, particularly now, so I feel good injecting this movie onto the world.”
淡淡的生活流，奔跑时的喘息和海风拂出的草之韵响、没有开始也没有结束（看到北狐又如何？均匀洒在面部的白昼日光让这个场景充满了虚幻感）以及被（极力）平平带过的死亡。有几处很不错的视点交错融合——开头车内浮空镜头里横向飞逝的街景到小泉出场后随滑板运动前进的跟拍直至人物中景作结；四人无意识的第一次交汇（或者错过），草坡的中景既在镜头的平面上划分为两部分，也同时在空间的远近法隔出两个区域；小泉和弘斗的跟跑切到前景中三人跑步的跟拍镜头再切到惠美骑电动车的跟拍（其他三人再次被划进草坡的后景）。
3.失恋……九次。
3.失恋……九次。
在绝望和希望中徘徊，在勇气和失意中顿挫，自救但忘却了为我付出的人们。我只想跑出去，踏在茂盛的草地上，无论春夏，我无法再归入平凡的喜乐，但我想感受到一瞬间的自由，即便等待我的是一次又一次的稠浊与窒息。
最近几年看到的最好的国产科幻悬疑！有始有终，能自圆其说。本来想给5星，但开场燕子赌气一意孤行去巡山，遭到两次枪击，连衣服都被打破了，回来却什么都不说，也没有对哥哥和丈夫示警，仍然继续赌气，感觉非常败笔，所以扣一星！
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