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".
剧情+犯罪已经够吸引人了，居然还是同性，男二在审讯室看着男主那个眼神简直我见犹怜啊！（本来是当某著名蹴鞠cp代餐看的，结果意外的不错）
节奏非常快，感觉像看了一部Neo-noir风格的罪案惊悚片。网飞选在这个时候发布，说没有政治考量我是不信的。眼看着波兰右翼越来越疯魔，80年代迫害性少数的风信子行动也改头换面卷土重来，用仇恨围剿LGBT。最近的宪法官司让我分外好奇欧盟接下来会不会开除大波波...
最感人的还是那段艾瑞克被抓到警察局里面，小胡子审他的时候 。
那天晚上，和你一起在街头飞奔，逃离警察的搜捕，我就知道，我的心已经和你一起逃掉了。
做人不能什么都怕，尤其是为了自由。
“你欺骗了所有人，但你没有欺骗自己。”阴冷的社会掩盖不了跳动的心跳，腐败的权力之下是癫狂无理的玩弄，无知的冷漠拒绝所有的包容，偏见的真理成了肆意横行的旗帜，罪恶的同性恋如草芥般任人践踏，绝望的现实是永远逃不出的深渊。爱与自由的觉醒冲破了所有的阴霾，不自量力的挑战是直面黑暗的坦然，自由终是我们毕生的追求，最后良知的璀璨星光，不过是刹那烟火的悲剧一场。我会找到你的，我会走出阴影拥抱太阳，那是名为希望的未来……
我会找到你的。
整体剧情无聊，冲同性戏份看的，结果好几段男女亲热戏，大可不必
真相要个体以生命为代价才能获得。不仅如此，还得牺牲所有自己爱的那些人，连累他们，让他们也一起完蛋。真相的代价，太大了。不是谁都能付得起的。要追求真相，就得当个光杆司令。要不然，只能杀掉自己的良心。
一点贪心前功弃
铁幕下的华沙，铁幕下的爱恋，铁幕下弥漫至今的压抑、炙热、抗争、呐喊、不公……
可能就好在，人物身份的铺垫，人物形象的反差，90分钟刚刚好，剧情紧凑，没有多余的镜头。
往更高的角度去看这部电影，通过一宗命案，可以看到当时波兰政府对待同性群体的"态度"，但是影片描写的深度不够，被"直转弯"占了眼球。
{★★★☆} 把一个老派的罪案故事讲出了一个迂回迂回迂迂回的角色弧光，以后网飞大数据电影都该这么拍的废话我就不说了，但这是流水线向High Art进军的起码水准。冷峻压抑的前共产主义波兰社会起到了作用，但氛围以外，它很好地证明了比起在叙事迷宫里兜圈的棋子，我们更愿意尾随有血有肉、会笑会哭的人。
这算什么？？没有结局？？？那个杀了那么多人的秃头高层也没被逮。。。。天哦
美国佬继续搞意识形态输出…不过昏黄压抑的前解体东欧风真的好看啊！
男二还挺好看的，结局让我想起了暗之光，尺度还挺大，不过男主跟那女的床戏真的没啥必要，为啥男同片总要整那么多男女的床戏?我也一直没想明白男主到底是双还是深柜
压抑社会下的隐秘爱恋，爱多不自由，你多么难得。
对这个世界，同性恋们请永远保持清醒，永远保持警惕，有些东西可不一定不会再来一遍。
我对这部电影的台词还是比较偏好的，尤其是Arek的台词。
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