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".
4/10。有人将此作对标《钛》，实际上这部的尺度大多了，就是不知道影片的主题想要表达什么。除了猎奇，就是裸露，所谓“人类改造”、“内在美”的探讨，有半点儿现实意义吗？如果真的存在某些明示、暗示，何必透过这样的故事与设定？
这种new sex让我想起了金基德的莫比乌斯
拍出了恐怖题材电影最需要的沉浸感，这点就值三颗星，虽然故事一般，属于看完就忘那种。
罗生门式的叙事+民俗传说的背景，整体完成得很出色～故事还可以更充实，民俗特色还可以更突出（中间打斗场面狐仙太克苏鲁了，没看前面还当是毒液3呢）鼓励加一星，真.片荒的当下，就想鼓励所有真诚的电影人> <
这网大比不少院线电影（尤其爱情片）质量都高了去了
基本就像是中国山村版的罗生门，只可惜好好的一个故事败在了建国后不许成精的审核制度。
罗生门式的形式，传统团圆式的结局。好人命不长，坏人倒也没遗千年。就是最后一段在街上所有人都活着的结尾没看懂，弹幕说是为了过审，但过审用得剧情能跟前面衔接吧。总体来说还行，坏人坏的很彻底，好人好的很可怜。
真的棒，国内电影最大的问题就是编剧地位太低，导致什么破烂玩意儿都敢改剧本，把原本好好的故事改成了垃圾，现在这种志怪类的网大反而是剧本导向，注重故事性，整个故事连贯首尾呼应，完整且细致饱满，只要不带着网大的偏见看电影，那这一部绝对胜过今年95%的国产片，虽然镜头美感还有欠缺，但是仍属于优秀
A / 终于，柯南伯格用10s以来一度探索的内化又混沌的叙述方式，将90s不断触碰的外化的身体象征的概念召回。在高概念的依托下情节寓意更为清晰，但与此同时人物用语意拓展边界，使其再次混沌抽象。“身体展示”带来的感官刺激不同于高潮迭起的张力，而是被叙述语气所统一的流动松弛的势力。伦理化和寓言化的世界观展现，终而在结尾形成了悬而未决的叩问。
剧情本身可以给三颗星。但是男女主，特别是女主，那个整容脸，那种超级大双眼皮，真是太让人出戏了。
剥了一层又一层后，罗生门的叙述背后，就是比妖狐还多层的人性画皮。
虽然是小成本小演员小场景，但是网剧中比较精良的了，前后也经得起逻辑推敲。然后还想扣一分给主题的诠释，方向选得很好，人性嘛，但是感觉不够深入，有点浮光掠影的感觉，村民的恶与冷漠，不够深入，不够让人恨得牙痒痒。如果时间再长点，或者这个片子的完成度会更高，总之，给7分。
不出意料最后又是讲人性，国内怕是永远看不到民间志怪片了，适当还创作一点自由吧
还行，1什么鬼怪害人，从来人心险恶；2智障的世界里骗子多
非常惊喜的佳作，比《中邪》要好，罗生门之五层皮。
第一个网大用罗生门是有点意思，第二个第三个都用就给用成样板戏了
网大可以拍到这种程度真的很难得，不露肉，不瞎搞笑，剧情层层叠进，除了结尾复仇那一段太简单其他的很对得起网大了。希望以后的网大也能如此，向奈飞看齐，即使让我花钱我也认。现在目中无人出来，等看口碑
那么多高速镜头，是为了拖延时间吗？还有没有打斗，全是特效，看了昏昏欲睡
痛觉丧失，器官增殖；身体艺术导向身体政治，由摘除展示到主体性构建；官僚体系化注册监管，将超常之物置换为亵渎之物；睡眠/消化辅助装置消费资本主义corporation与corpse同一词根，将人类自主进化的所有可能修正回尸体；自然的非自然遗传造物，终能消化纯人工造物……感觉看到八十年代的柯南伯格回魂，有点感动
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