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".
杂乱无章、节奏巨快无比，在没有充分塑造好角色的前提下，无数人物像走马灯一样轮番上阵，一个个名词和场景就是纯粹的信息轰炸。
看了这么多les片 不知道是不是也有文化和经历上非常贴近的原因 这是我第一次看到大破防……一开始还觉得有些情节蛮生涩刻意 到了在教堂里互相戴头纱那块开始忽然情绪失控 继续雨里kiss那里到结束都哭成傻*……可能有很多话我都曾经说过一样的吧
密室主题：真假明堂佛头 不过应该没哪家密室敢设摩斯电码吧不然客人要狂卡bug了ps看到一半觉得主角们也太厉害了一掏一个佛头着实比我吃过的红烧狮子头还多
兩星半，多半星給前半段薛景求造型（不是）雖然是剛上映但應該是之前就拍了的，所以現在看著整體都特別套路化，包括所有角色/劇情/情感/反轉，好像哪都還行但就無法引起任何共鳴，可能就是太按照意料之中的規劃走了，我就說薛景求終於能換個類型了？！看到他兒子就知道後續發展，怎麼可能！ 被害者媽媽找文素利演只有這些，怎麼可能！
拍得太差了 好久没有这样坐立不安 想提前离场的情况 不但没有一丝惊喜 反而连传统盗墓悬疑的套路都没拍出来 节奏转折又切的稀碎 更离谱的是没有任何视觉奇观 就这片子 真花不了俩钱 看完就明白它为什么跳档这么多次了 因为他们自己心里也没底
所有人物动机都不清不楚。许愿做的一切是为了坐实他家是汉奸的事实吗？
无语了大周五的被舍友拽去看这烂片，电影投资比网剧多不知道几倍结果拍的比网剧烂不知道几倍，如果不是我的**舍友我怎么可能会给木头人贡献电影票，快爬吧就是说😓
最后对视说i do 那里差点没绷住
除了葛优没啥亮点，剧版的主线剧情，猜的到结尾却看不懂过程。全片镜头七八十年代的感觉，却搞那些花里胡哨的特效有点不大和谐。他爹消失二十年的原因还是不太明白，是我太笨了？
呃真的很讨厌白莲女，小人物以为自己多正义。医生教师警察律师 有这个人脉是不是真的能胡作非为了啊 律师儿子有点东西
前边可以 最后10分钟反转有点生硬 成人除男主 人物有些脸谱化
辛芷蕾推开会场的门说：“佛头在这。”您说的是自己的“佛像脸”吧～
本来一直觉得就那样吧，直到最后女主把李芯悦交给别人的时候，真的有一点鼻酸。把自己心爱的人递到了别人的手里🥲
生平最恨魔改，然而这片已不只是魔改问题了，而是一个投机取巧的缝合怪，把原著情节东拉西扯的揉在一起，还回避了最敏感但也最关键的文革旧事。一句话总结就是：你该死。
在B站看到好几次剪辑短片，都没有燃起想看的欲望。今天不知怎么的就突然想看一下。情节虽看起来简单但的确是不少观众曾经的爱恋经历。于铁石心肠的我而言，一直无法共情，唯独最后，看着心爱的人嫁于别人，从此便将彼此深深的爱埋藏心底的无奈……泪水打湿的那句“我愿意”……为青春爱恋戴上的戒指……哭了会儿
究竟是两个人的回忆
小毛病很多，仍是国内寻宝题材天花板的存在。一环咬着一环的线索铺陈，一局套着一局的迷局布置，有那么一点《国家宝藏》，也有那么一点《达芬奇密码》的意思。当然崩坏来的也很突然，济公庙塌了，剧情也塌了，电视剧都不敢在五分钟内塞两段回忆片段来提醒观众前面的剧情。
槽点太多了，果然盗墓题材的没一个能拍好的。
就算情节其实很老套，可大概我就是喜欢这种拉拉青春疼痛文学吧呜呜呜…
台词很女同，电影比较短，很多地方过渡得很仓促，演员哭起来太好看以至于我没什么悲伤的感觉呃……但是看完还是会觉得唏嘘。
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