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".
这几个星，给演员们。但是故事讲述，其实没有多好。
三星半，还是很触动，新冠就三年了，最近各地又有点卷土重来，什么时候才能恢复正常？
2022第一档电影 真的很烂很烂 故事线无 几个片段强行关联 怎么会有这么烂的片啊
就是说，疫情本身这个事情到什么时候都能赚到我眼泪，比如看到开头一些场面的时候，但是看着看着这个电影故事属实无法吸引我，看麻了...
黄渤演的真特么好，不愧是我男神！
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～
还是爱情片 还玩同一天结构 平淡 后半刻意 片尾曲可以
乍一看，好像还不错。仔细一想，漏洞百出。看了一个小时感觉都要结束了，谁知道还有1个多小时。有的场面、感情，确实挺让人感动，但是为了让人感动而让人感动，那就没什么意思了。
导演煽情讲故事不太行，拍纪录片还可以，中间只是叙事的幻灯片似的那一部，哭傻了…P.S.我龙哥最后居然变成阳光下的泡沫了吗T.T
作为一个湖北人，当年经历过疫情，我肯定会把这电影看完的。老年人爱情那一段看的不是太适应，感觉太肉麻了。演员用贾玲和朱一龙两个湖北演员挺符合这部片子的意境。
一手好牌打的稀烂
也许是因为我泪点太低，疫情背景下的故事总是能赚走我不少眼泪，尽管几组故事本身比较零散，且经不起推敲。 比较喜欢那对老年人的爱情，老来的牵绊和挂念总让人动容。
想法是好的，几个主演都很优秀。然而缺点太明显，应制文的感觉太明显，如果剧本再仔细打磨会好很多很多……很久没看到武汉话的电影了……另外，鹦鹉洲大桥不让步行吧
我看了前10几分钟，进入故作之后就不看了。
实在想不通我到底为了什么在节假日充满小孩的电影院看这么一场优秀演员演出来的尴尬的槽点满满的电影。
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。
以《撞車》的叙事形式，用不同的点撑起武汉抗疫期间的一个面。贾玲的吸睛指数最高，周冬雨以最少的戏份撑起最大的看点，吴彦姝以83岁高龄和73岁许绍雄谈了一场黄昏恋。虽说主旋律满满，但他们的事迹值得纪念。6.6
中规中矩吧，叙事结构有点意思，构图不错……
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。
啥时候能给贾玲安排个happyending啊
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