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".
一句慌话接连不断的谎，男主是自找苦吃。对问题回避，不知道如何面对，最后就还被迫等待死亡时。无意义的一生。
银幕上的主角似乎没有任何动机 只有导演恶作剧般的三个反转 推着他前进 这也让观众的认真看起来像个玩笑 很多人因此勃然大怒。可是人生 哪来那么多能动性哦 糊里糊涂也挺好
马尔克斯有一篇短篇小说《纸做的玫瑰花》，仅用祖孙二人简单的日常对话叙事冗杂的故事。不去直接描绘故事本身，把真正要传达的故事主旨、始末、悬念一一隐藏，仅用表面上波澜不惊的文字传达内里暗流涌动的真相。并用意向反复比对：纸玫瑰与真玫瑰。看完小说，你会发现作者好像什么都没有说，仿佛是一篇剧情单薄、枯燥的作品。实则不然，这恰恰是精彩的文字游戏，冰山叙事，不详写，不解释，精彩的故事藏在看不见的地方，需要你有耐心去理解、融入。早恋、出逃、怨怼、反抗，全部藏在这平常的文字当中。本片亦是如此，只描写表面上的风平浪静，把阴谋、悬疑、真相藏在故事的脉络纹理间，而且也有自己的意向——猪。看似沉闷，其实汹涌。既然文学作品可以用冰山理论进行写作，那么电影同样可以运用。只不过这样一来，无法讨好观众罢了。
小成本警匪片，精简版血溅十三号警署。正派杀手转变说服力不足。摄影冷峻工业风赞，色调构图不错，装逼算适度，枪战尚到位。年度爽片无稽，甚至爽片都谈不上，但在可观堪赏范围内。
75 minutes of Tim Roth just vibing...
可是我好爱，甚至充满了近似于怪异的趣味，人物状态暴晒在日光下，但动机和目的却失焦，游走在异国他乡的ghost。
这部电影的故事小，同时也更细腻饱满。命运就像多米诺骨牌一样，是一系列连锁反应的结果。注定这不是一个简单的个人故事，却有着深远的意义。简单低调，充满惊喜，层次丰富又不造作
- Nothing.
额剧情真的无厘头 但是为了Acapulco打个五星吧 SH home
情节太离谱，精神病碰撞出的火花。这部电影宣传的是宗教邪门儿，给你一种冥冥之中的注定。仇恨的情绪与精神分裂相互作用，一系列毫无关系的死亡被强行附加进来，其实无关，却让男女主和观众感到有关。
真正的躺平。从才开始还编造护照忘了的借口，到后面什么都不想解释，但为了完成基础生存和社交关系只能勉强签下字。家人、巨额财产、国籍，什么不都想，至于异国艳遇，不主动不负责不拒绝。导演可能也想通过零配乐，来告诉观众躺平拍摄是一众什么体验。
晚餐与乐手暗送秋波，一切都是很惬意的，然而总会有划破这份美好的东西
- What's the matter with you?
一句慌话接连不断的谎，男主是自找苦吃。对问题回避，不知道如何面对，最后就还被迫等待死亡时。无意义的一生。
硬汉还是不错的，没搞清最后巴特勒中枪为啥没死，是穿了防弹衣吗。两大男主被干死的镜头都没有，看来两人咖位差不多。
很舒服。叙事的节奏，日常的活动慢节奏一幕幕地过，不是在交代什么，呈现一种状态，然后出来一种节奏，这种节奏是导演想给出的东西。导演也喜欢节奏一下来个突变，他不要起伏，一层层铺上去再滑下来，那种，婉转的东西，他就是突然来一下，开一枪，然后立马回到原来的慢节奏，这很有意思。
整部片看完，感觉像没有看一样，对于作家报仇谋杀女主家人的企图根本没有诠释，根本没有逻辑上的连接，全是蒙太奇的拍摄手法（第一次知道这个拍摄手法，特地去百度了），就是很平静的悬疑片，不明不白的那种，看的过程中没有跌宕起伏。只是影片后面女主去找作家，怎样才能不伤害她的最后一个亲人妹妹时，作家才稍微说出了一句让人能猜测到他是谋害女主家人的一句话，就是女主自己才是解决这个事件的人，然后女主跳楼自杀。后面作家和女主妹妹去送别女主焚烧的时候，记者说他就是凶手，作家威胁他不要多管闲事，而抛下一句话说他和女主妹妹都是丧失家人的人，或许这是共同点，能让他们不在乎年龄的差距在一起，瞬间让人感觉到不寒而栗……
虽然他妻女的死和女主有关，但是显然他应该为此付更大责任，明知道他的妻子不能受刺激，但是他还是想出轨。他妻子知道后肯定会受刺激。他不去怪自己，而把责任都推给了并没有什么过错的女主。
[视]资源上线晚，不及预期，惊悚轻喜剧。半天，一所警察局，动作戏集中在后期，成本有限，调侃阿汤哥、海总。托比·哈斯12.9今天生快
一度怀疑他情妇操作了枪击事件。最后Neal被诊断出癌细胞转移，自己偷偷从医院出来去了另一个度假酒店，不顾他情妇了。
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