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".
尹正的外形真的垮了，演技也有点矫情
非常感动，看哭。“观众看得懂吗？”“不知道，但说了想说的话。”什么剧本杀什么反转什么悬疑都是壳，都不重要。
台词电影，人物和空间的关系太混乱了，人物的变化是不可信的，叙事的反转和推进方法也是单一的。
去之前：（因为喜欢子墨但不看好国产喜剧片给自己做心理建设）喜剧片，只要能让人笑了，就应该值三颗星！
非常感动，看哭。“观众看得懂吗？”“不知道，但说了想说的话。”什么剧本杀什么反转什么悬疑都是壳，都不重要。
整个片子给我的观感就是在很可以和不太行之间不断徘徊。喜欢的点很直接：1. 大学时候看报告老板就觉得子墨本煜这几个人就是天才，不火天理难容的地步，也很期待子墨后面的作品五年终于等到了，开场也有致敬报告老板的花活儿；2. 孤堡密室推理的设定；3. 部分迷影梗、电影行业梗和一些很大胆的讽刺尝试。不够喜欢的点：1. 部分演员的演技、更偏话剧式的表演；2. 叙事节奏；3. 讽刺和态度有，但最终又多是模糊表达和浅尝辄止，立意感觉没立住。才第一部长片整体达到这个呈现程度也是很不容易，子墨导演继续加油啊。
剧本真的好扎实 演员的劲儿也很好 中间穿插的包袱也很喜欢 看完了内心有点澎湃 万万没想到都多久了啊
看完首先想到了《利刃出鞘》。都是聪明的电影，结构精巧，反转高级，铺垫的层次感很好。深入一点看，讲故事而已，做游戏而已，如此而已。
属于那种电影院看会给四星，在家看会给三星的片子。其实工业水平也不高，不过故事讲得还算圆。
前半小时节奏稍乱且舞台感强，从四十分钟开始渐入佳境，剧情抓人，笑料不断，金句频出，结局反转也丝毫不突兀，出色的群像塑造和悬疑推理的自圆其说算是本片成功的最大特色吧。
7分。面对基本上全员有好感的卡司阵容，欣慰子墨和爱了这么多年的万和终于出了部对得起当年名头的电影。可能制作糙一些商业性也弱一点，但大致可以直接对标当年的《唐探1》了，能有当下的评价再次印证了“讲一个好故事”对于普罗大众的重要，又有很多迷影元素照顾了专业影迷，这样的制作规模能做的有笑有泪有反转已属不易。人终究是抵不过时间、总有退场的一天，但好的艺术作品却能一直留存下来成为永恒，喜欢这点创作者的浪漫。
片尾那张黑白照片让我想起当年和团队一起参加电影节也都会拍一张剧照风的合影，真是怀念那~ 另外，作为一部在老家民国城拍的电影，再给一颗星~
可能是我个人期待值过高，看完并没有感觉多么惊喜。整部电影说是剧本杀形式不如说是话剧形式。毕竟剧本杀就是个低配话剧。喜剧部分做的不错，还是典型的万合天宜的笑点，恶搞的《闪灵》《英雄本色》《无间道》《爸，我回来了》这几处迷影歌曲内部梗最好笑。而喻恩泰的角色明显在映射王晶。然而悬疑部分差点意思，作为社会派推理题材，悬疑气氛营造的不够，始终没有让我感觉到紧张，节奏也不够紧凑，这点可以对比一下《唐人街探案》就做的很好。而最后反转用的《非常嫌疑犯》的创意，不算新鲜但还算是个小惊喜。影片整体完成度很高，把喜剧和悬疑两种元素融合的很好，并且还讽刺了娱乐圈的各种现象。作为一部导演处女作，能看出刘循子墨在导演各方面技法上还非常稚嫩，但能看出用心，而且票房口碑都很成功。万合天宜终于在大荧幕支棱了一次。7分。
总觉得哪里不对劲，犯人要想隐瞒，为什么要跟他们说那么多？如果不想隐瞒，直接跟他们说女孩逃走了，为何不可？都逃到越南了，还怕影响名声？《十二怒汉》《利刃出鞘》比起来，逻辑性差太多。
7分。剧本和主题都不错，但是导演的功力真的有待提高。尤其是前半段的无用镜头过多，啰啰嗦嗦，叙事结构也不够精巧，加把劲吧。
这上上下下里里外外黑黑白白的得揭穿多少人的嘴脸啊
腰缠万贯的财阀大佬
整片格局还不如一期明星大侦探，绝大多数篇幅都在胡闹，但又不如找个撒贝宁来得好笑，本格推理部分全然不及格，前半部看得我都要昏睡过去了，只有在如白夜行般社会推理部分才勉强捞回点分数。
万合天宜，再加上同福客栈，爱情公寓和德云社的加持，真的是太棒了！
可看。剧本中规中矩，有些匠气，但是春秋笔法的部分挺难得。表演都很浮夸，没有谁演技比谁更好，张本煜还行。视听很普通，完全没有调度，按理说这种室内戏更讲究，但成片很电视剧。七分，同为记者，我做不到片中尹正那样，多加一颗星。
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