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".
叙事比较炫技，但是故事内核相对薄弱，有些地方比较刻意，水平不太行，浪费了好演员。
当故事本身没有什么特别的时候，就去挖掘讲故事的方式吧。场景几乎全部在一个小小的屋子中，一个一个新人物出现，剧情也不断地进行反转，喜欢玩剧本杀的人应该会看的很爽吧哈哈哈。看老演员演戏真是舒服呀，窦骁这次也挺好。
7分。剧本杀，一幕幕递进，揭开迷雾，很多反转，有惊喜也有遗憾，有出人意料之处（比如张颂文不是尤先生），也有刻意为之（比如认亲），但是每次重复剧情稍显拖沓，可怜之人必有可恨之处，好人难做。
这旧楼房场景不错。太新的场景拍这种黑色喜剧会显得失真。
故事叙述方式充满悬疑，故事逻辑有瑕疵但无大碍。结局真凶若逃走会更精彩。对黑色产业链的控诉让这个电影不只停留在黑色幽默的肤浅。
#点映# 反转连连，悬疑度一般，人物动机和关联度完全服务于剧本，在限定场景中完成度尚可，但经不起进一步推敲。隐藏主题有惊艳到，可惜后续升华不够强烈，最后的角色换装也过于刻意了。
倒叙插叙的循环使用揭开悬疑，再套上人物的“虚假”设定 ，结尾反转。大陆悬疑片不定期会来一部编剧高于平均水准，遵循悬疑片的发展规律。
挺好的剧情，拍的太松散，有些镜头真没必要。
窗外是“阳光”，被血色笼罩。屋里是罪恶，不请自来又像如约而至。罪恶之间的博弈早已拍的一清二楚，一定要最后揭晓。
本来想着宁明年可以拿这个当重复蒙太奇的例子，现在看来是我多虑了。。。
范伟为主角的电影，加上窦骁和张颂文，整个卡司还是很值得肯定的。看了一篇文章说这部电影，导演在电影表达上做了很多小动作，可以说在人物和人物之间，段落与段落之间建立了一种互文关系，这种互文又和不同人物的善恶选择相挂钩，这么看来这还是一部蛮多导演心思的作品。但是故事本身缺少新鲜感，插叙手法已经被用烂了，而前面揭穿人物的倒叙又增加更多迷雾的手法也显得太过刻意，让故事显着死板而臃肿，浪费了之前所谓了灵动的构建。 20211218
这种玩非线性叙事的国产悬疑喜剧，这两年处女作可真不少。
电影本身作为悬疑片有点一般。
可惜了一个好框架和好题材。多重反转，密闭空间，人物众多，善恶难分……却很遗憾的遭遇了节奏拖沓，剪辑混乱，导致气氛出不来，情绪提不上去，观众也无法一秒入戏。此乃悬疑电影的死穴。更遗憾的是，拐卖儿童如此严肃严重的话题，并没有在故事中起到更大更升华的作用。
如果褪去喜剧元素做成纯悬疑片效果会好很多。架势和悬疑氛围是可以的…
3.5。剧本还挺扎实的，但缺点儿惊喜。特别最后的反转应该大部分观众都猜的到，中间再多一点对张颂文、窦骁两人角色身份的误导，让叙事推进更有失控感，可能会更好一点。影像配乐节奏也都很有范儿。
谁是好人谁是坏人，谁对谁错，谁生谁死，都在一念之间。多次反转，很精彩的片子。
#点映# 反转连连，悬疑度一般，人物动机和关联度完全服务于剧本，在限定场景中完成度尚可，但经不起进一步推敲。隐藏主题有惊艳到，可惜后续升华不够强烈，最后的角色换装也过于刻意了。
近半年了，唯一一部一次看完的国产电影，不是看不下去弃了就是第二天再看。
就是一个每次出来一个人就变一种前因的老套故事，加个绑架儿童也没有很升华。就是让我想到里面的莉莉没机会开口说话了，没法从她口中听到她眼里的事实，事实全由活着的人来编造。
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