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".
父亲的偏执和疯狂，令人惋惜的少女，很虐的电影。
演员都很出彩！佩内洛普真的是永远的女神！粉碎机的一幕特别有沉浸感，大概可以算是一种当代装置艺术？故事走向毫无惊喜、台词异常直白，强行被灌输并不新鲜的概念……回想起来太糟糕了。
讽刺知识分子的小品类电影没人可以比得过伍迪艾伦 这部不仅诙谐witty的对话没那么多 最后的死亡梗我以为要探讨陀思妥耶夫斯基 结果戏剧性和情绪的推动没到顶点就下降熄灭了
松坂桃李特别适合这类压抑但是压不住，有点扭曲有点怂，察言观色的角色。
真难受 人死后才意识到该去了解她 失去了才意识到暴戾的外表隐藏不住脆弱的内心 和摒弃不掉的人性善意 他们感受同一片云 画下同一片云 再怎么疏离也终为父女 父亲也在这一刻终于流泪 被牵扯的所有人都是无罪的犯人 每个父母都有对自己孩子避重就轻的维护与无需缘由对错的承担 父亲向前妻道歉 母亲为自杀的女儿赎罪 路人对店长说你辛苦了 后面父亲终于展现出脆弱和自责 实在让人控制不住的流眼泪 至少结局让人重拾希望 原声配乐也非常非常好听 日本人在某方面真的压抑 包括也在隐晦海洋垃圾污染和环保意识 没办法了 生活还是得加油的渡过
第一次做父亲不懂得爱女儿的父亲在失去之后在抽筋剥皮的痛楚中逐渐学会了如何去爱，可惜一切围绕着这事件的人都已支离破碎。结尾尚有一丝丝的光。为喜欢的古田加一星。
讽刺浅薄，质疑高高在上，讥笑洞察秋毫。但是感觉还可以做得更有趣些。
善良的人永远是受苦的，那忧苦的重担似乎是与生俱来的，因此只有忍耐。
全靠三位的表演撑着，前半段看着还好，后半段开始乏力
2022.06.17 // 2022.06.19 个人原因打五星。不然四星。😛
表演出色，喜劇性強。但一切盡在預料，缺乏驚喜或震動。總體而言是有趣的片子，值得一看。
很好笑，非常有意思，也有很多视听上的设计。这就是看电影的乐趣呀。
太神了！！！！剧情超好笑结局也完全猜不到超神！！！！
好惨。没一个人好过的。其实特意回去再看了一下女孩没有偷东西啊？会不会是惯偷被剑心制止了呢？但为啥拉进房里又突然跑出来啊？不过应该都是想太多了，其实就是惯犯被拉进房里责备然后害怕逃跑。剑心后面的表现其实就是个老好人。阿姨都喜欢的老好人。
太惨了，各种意义上的太惨了，具体有多惨，看海报就知道了。群像戏版海边曼彻斯特，每个人都有血有肉立得住，古田新太是全片的魂，日本人那种拧巴劲淋漓尽致。不知道为啥，看到这张脸就想起了图们。所有的悲剧归根到底都是这个拧巴的父亲一手造成的，他认个错还这么多事...
0630 比较无法拒绝元电影和美术馆风大房子
好想被Penélope Cruz亲啊救命！
到最后还是孤独，还是冷漠，真正的罪魁祸首一直在演一场感动自己的戏，同类题材里不算出彩。
最可怜的是女孩子本人 2022/1/26大森家
最可怜的是女孩子本人 2022/1/26大森家
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