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".
女主角的感觉是“本来无一物，何处惹尘埃”，为画面给及格分
女主角好像以前看的魔法少女小优啊～～～～
用片子的一句话概括
特别特别真实的一个议题。拍的很现实，没有提前说的话，还以为是纪录片。老头的演技真的绝了。哭的那段真行！不过大女儿的演技确实尴尬。电影里的每一个人都在面对生活，面对残忍的事实。不管怎么样，都得生吞下去。还有冷不丁的魔幻梦境，可以看出是角色的背离，但有的确实有点突兀有点不知所云。不过新人导演如此细腻认真已经很好了！
只能说除了画面，剧情不敢说很好也不能说很差，题材挺新颖的，几个漫画界的大导演一起拍估计也就这样了
女主角的感觉是“本来无一物，何处惹尘埃”，为画面给及格分
画面好看，但有些特写镜头也仿佛看到了很古早的国内少男少女读物的封面插画风格，非常违和，同时故事空洞到的让人哈欠连天。
是不是忘记写剧本了，很难做到感情共鸣，我可以替它解释，体量太小一个半小时要讲一个完整的故事它还要塞这么多东西，确实有点为难，但是为什么不用一个半小时讲个短的好的故事呢，快刀怎么不算刀，明明没有那么深厚的感情基础，非要我们共鸣很深的感情 而且，泡泡不是自然灾害吗，你会和洪水谈恋爱吗？？？聚是一坨屎，散是满天星
6 典型青年导演作品（关注特殊群体+魔幻现实风格）但比《乌海》好看太多了 至少不做作 很真诚 问题是太啰嗦 塞进的东西太多了
秦牧与秦父的对白
长镜头调度很惊艳，摄影灯光组功不可没。演员的表现也基本给力，叙事手段太简单，全是台词直给。结尾蹦出来个非阳间的玩意儿，至于吗？看出来作者想用一些超现实主义的东西来对冲一下严肃主题，过于做作了。两星半。
阵容这么豪华，拍出来就这。我只能理解是在试验新技术了。
画面挺美的，剧情就一般，画面给三星。日本动漫+末世（好勉强）+海的女儿+跑酷，怎么看到一半感觉男女主有种真飞鸟和史黛拉的感觉。。。。我本来以为这有点科幻的感觉，可是这个设定真的太勉强了啊。。
但霸权社不愧为霸权社，实力摆在那就是厉害，画面精致是必然，大型动作场面更是十分流畅，在失重的废土城市里自由奔跑，是这部电影唯独给我带来的幻想。
有几个镜头挺好，但前面像电视，后面像电影就很难受。
很感人的电影，感觉最后的结尾停留在那个女主在幻境中的转身会更好。
制作有多叼，剧情就有多孬，大可不必啊，真的大可不必，这么个末世背景，这么个制作，你就是喵帕斯日常，也比跑酷＋海的女儿好看啊！
画面和音乐不错
剧本还是够劲爆的，但是其他地方乏善可陈。一部力求真实的电影说一些文艺过头的话实在太尬了，感觉梦境元素也有点强行添加的意思，不能给人一组很满足很饱满的情感共鸣和臆想。
电影中有你我他，也有你我他的青年、中年、老年…
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