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".
出发点、立意、讽刺意味都不错，但电影终究还是电影，不能一味追求接地气。演员选得让人难以有代入感。为什么亚裔屌丝一定要选真的颜值、化妆双low屌丝？这难道不是加深了刻板印象吗？剧情方面，塞得太满，感情的悲喜却又蜻蜓点水不够细腻。这方面感觉比真人秀还要糟糕。
虽说是80年代怀旧番不能连道具什么的一起做成80年代质感呀…真的是太傻了
通讯录版傲慢与偏见，很多情节很老套了，追船啊误解啊，强行设置阶级鸿沟，虽说不恋爱的现象确实存在，但是刻意反一夫一妻制而转向炮友关系实在难以苟同。
姐妹们在火烧岛的最后夏天，专属于同志的快意天堂。各种噱头与烂梗齐飞，也不乏刻板印象的自我嘲弄，竖起各自内心傲慢与偏见的生存法则，却发现一切都是无意义的盖棺定论，只有去切身的感受才能明白自己想要的幸福，击碎歧视与条条框框的最好办法就是无畏挥洒自我的颜色，在舞池里随性漫舞，从胴体与美酒中穿行，我们都有权享受爱与性的甜蜜，人生本就是奇遇的冒险。会有浪漫爱情的时刻，也会有悲伤彻骨的心碎，你永远无法参透这个世界，及时行乐享乐就好，虽然dram但蛮欢乐，夕阳余晖的拥吻也很美。主角团与配角团真的是强烈的对比，Dex和Will我都🉑！
有些点还蛮好笑的，但最大的惊喜还是小女孩，也太可爱了吧！
老美这种retro sci-fi 拍的都挺好，又stupid，又挺燃。
火烧岛，骚货岛。虽然里面让我喜欢的帅哥不多，但作为一个生活在压抑社会环境中的中国同志，我喜欢看这种夸张欢闹的同志喜剧，跟着里面的骚货们做一把小小的白日梦。何况我还曾真的去过这个火烧岛一日游，也是在夏天，不过没赶上tea dance party。编剧、导演、演员表演、音乐、摄影都很用心，亚裔同志当主角也是让人长脸的美事，这片在烂番茄都是高赞分数，豆瓣目前6.2评分明显过低了。
看过最欢乐最接地气的同影，很多梗不是gay或者lgbtq community是根本不会懂的。以及还是要说Zane Phillips太太太sexy了!!!
标榜自由不想被传统关系束缚的人往往是最渴望这种关系的，正因为没有所以才不断强调自己不需要…
Lesbians suffered another closet so gay men can have their own Pride & Prejudice???
上手一个经典故事，并进行更时髦的更新：很多的“肉”、很尽兴的彻夜狂欢、很emo的同志感受、很经典可期的“gayfron梗”以及在各大影视剧努力绽放光芒的配角们。考虑到Joel Kim Booster和杨伯文本身的喜剧功力，Andrew Ahn在《车道》就早已炮制的出色气质，还有对各种尖锐话题进行漂白粉饰性的回避，仍然感觉像张题材试水的“安全牌”，无意完成本应轻松拿捏的推陈出新。但它依然扎实，并且在骄傲月拉开大幕之时源源不断地释放热闹、活泼的能量；快投身于这个夏季，尽情地爱，真挚地面对自己；在炎热之际，唱布兰妮唱Donna。始终很欢乐，并丝毫不介意这般简单。
官方出品的粉丝向电影？我三岁的外甥看着直说“不害怕”，隔天甚至还想看小棉花糖怪物...
2.5 角色全是刻板印象，摄影调度剪辑都不太行，但是，我还是在诺阿身上看到了太多自己的影子，情感上还是有触动我的，以及，本片的选角再一次证明了，如果长得不行，练一身肌肉也无济于事
槽点真的很多，美国的幽灵都是实心的。为什么还有美国韦一敏joke？
真的好喜欢这部片子，今天有又快进看了两遍，男主越看越可了。2022.06.16
好无聊的儿童片，还搞了124分钟，都没汪汪队好看~
笑死Noah好像我大学同学，意思是长得像。Will肯定是放在gay群里很优质的优雅男人，Howie算是可爱的小熊，哈哈哈。
傲慢与偏见的剧本痕迹太明显，但是看到最后又很难不感动。我们跟简奥斯汀的期许不一直都是一样的么，在一个明媚的夏天，遇到一个改变一生的人。现实中或许从未实现过，幸好，我们有小说，我们有电影。
旁白串联的电影总不太妙，不过各色主角们共通的那点不安自卑，很是共鸣。
完全没想到是如此惬意又细腻的片子。我理解Noah理解Howie理解岛上的每一个人，就好像理解自己那样，所以感动、快乐和一些忧伤都丝丝入扣。如果说开去的话，05年的《断背山》还因为非主流的同志议题拿不到奥斯卡BP，短短十几年过去，美式同志片已经发展到如入无人之境，社会确实在进步啊。
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