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".
有什么能比现实中扭曲的人更让人感到惊悚的呢。情节还是单薄了些，结局有点理想化并太过仓促。
那个老公真是又蠢又窝囊，最后一幕还没反应过来，像个傻子似的在那杵着，摊上这么个玩意真是够呛！
我挺喜欢这个结局的。脖子上侧面那么一划拉，感觉不深也不长，没死可能性是挺高的，何况多爽啊，不被相信的狼来了就该有这样的结局。放过他再死几个没人相信的“神经病”吗？爽片。（没有女权的意思，就老公不信任不陪伴还拿老婆开玩笑再装无奈太垃圾了）
我看到一半以为的《监视者》，男主变了心为了让女主离开他而设了这个局，为了击溃女主的心理防线而设计了各种心理暗示。结果没有料到女主偷偷学了罗马尼亚话，听懂了来找隔壁女人的那个男人砸门时对里面人的提醒而渐渐发现了事情的真相。实际的《监视者》，男主：我是谁，我在哪？
像是欧洲文艺片啊，镜头漂亮，色彩协调，剧情进展的节奏就特别慢，最后5分钟惊悚感才透出来，平庸。
绝望到死。
运用镜头和色彩很有效的外化出了女性感受到世界，情节略cliche但stupid office joke’那个情节是真的有powerful到。以及，结尾我爱！
女主在要遭到追踪者的杀害时反戈一击。/陪同男友在异国生活的女主，语言不通，陷入危险境地，本质上还是男友的不重视。
not bad 男的是不可能和你共情的（夸张但没夸张
还行，氛围和镜头很赞，最后结局虽然有些不合理倒也颇具戏剧性。
女主角的爱人饰演者把懦弱，自私，卑劣的形象体现得淋漓尽致！
现实里应该很少有人会注意到吧，一旦注意到，也很少会像她这样，想看又不敢看的
满满的讽刺。妻子跟着老公来到他的家乡城市生活，陌生感孤独感和女性的第六感，让她感觉到自己身处危险，却一次次被忽视，甚至被老公和同事们当做笑谈。最后自救了的女主一身鲜血地望向老公的眼神，很真实了。
独居女性勇敢对抗不法行为的文本还要拍到什么时候？千篇一律…题材好不代表电影好
虽然也有点套路，节奏感还不错，罗马尼亚布加勒斯特，萧瑟的东欧味有点。坐地铁塑料袋那里是最吓人。
说好听点儿就是氛围感拉满，实则是剧情拖拉，靠着近景和慢镜头补时长，但胜在画面细腻、演技在线、结尾反转让缺点没那么明显。女主和罪犯的关系很像动物世界里的捕杀时刻，通过静默无声地监视、若即若离地跟踪、常规友好地交流，直到斑马放松了警惕，躲在草丛里的老虎眨眼的功夫，扑倒了斑马身上撕咬其腹部直至死亡。全世界女性在现代社会的生存安全仍然存在无法可依、不被重视、自我怀疑之类的问题，能做到的只有穷则独善其身，达则兼济天下。
终于知道为什么男人不如女人的第六感强了，因为大多数男人的成长环境都很安全，不需要像女人一样担心自己会受到来自外界的恶意，就像电影中的丈夫，无法感同身受，只是认为妻子太敏感太神经质甚至太闲……结尾明明应该很爽，但纯纯败笔
恐怖氛围营造挺好的，最后反转我还以为女的要变吸血鬼了呢～
最吓人的竟然是地铁突然来了，其他没感觉，哈哈哈
电影就那样，比同类型的差了一些。妹子好可怜啊，这个大叔不算变态。
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