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".
刘循子墨仍在延续《万万》式喜剧风格，个人也相当受用，但在本片中却略显违和。电影体量想法过多剥夺主次轻重，剪辑或许也是原因。演技方面张本煜出彩，反之尹正，结尾只留背影效果更好，挑明反而无趣，总体三星半。
3.5，剧本杀电影元年。继《不速来客》后，又一部用剧本杀来宣传的电影，因为是电影的剧本会的形式才显得像剧本杀，其实写作和人物线，并没有那么像“剧本杀”。恶搞了一些电影，讽刺了行业，拥有反转。要是真的有个片尾彩蛋就好了。
呈现形式不错，玩得像《利刃出鞘》，从喜剧到正剧转变，不过剧本杀式的话剧感太浓。
现实大抵都是没人能真正的扬名立万，而真相往往更像是刚点燃的火苗需要被踩灭的吧。果然有时候观众的解读是比电影本身更精彩的，整体剧情的设定和最终走向都挺让人满意的，对现实批判的隐喻值算是拉满了吧，不算高明但胜在隐喻的布局恰到好处。PS：万合天宜也算交出一部像样的作品了，与及小姨妈的唐氏表演法则发挥得超完美的，邓家佳那段旗袍哭戏好惊艳呀，拜托了给好演员多一些好剧本吧，期待万合下一部好片了！
拒绝如此廉价的感动和情感操弄，剧情全然无厘头，全为反转而无法反转，全靠剧本杀类型的情节反转与老套桥段抓人眼球，唯一细思极恐之处在于一帮人推断老齐为了夜莺的贞洁而将她分尸了!搁着大清还没亡呢？这真是全片最为恐怖的情节了，也不知道是不是姜文开了一个极坏的头，民国时期的风物历史都以一种高度扭曲，极其油腻的方式呈现在镜头下，并没有感到预料的诙谐，只有对于正视历史的拒绝。作为《万万没想到》的粉丝，给万合天宜一星，影片一星。
把剧本杀搬上荧幕，不断挖掘出所谓的真相。扑灭火苗的那个人往往是要跟着火焰一起被埋葬的。服化道和美陈都太差了，降低了影片的质感。这样的题材其实可以挖得更深一点。
很一般，中间一度无聊得想离场。结尾的反转有那么点意思，但是和前半部分比又有点割裂。导演应该是想拍出那种抽丝剥茧层层剥开真相的感觉，但是没有操作好。
挺有巧思的小成本电影。用拍电影的方式来讲一个推理故事，编剧当探长，编一个故事就是一种真相。加入大量迷影梗和对当下电影市场怪状的吐槽，效果很好，电影院里笑声此起彼伏。
三星半，是真的很不错很不错，非常推荐去看，两个小时略微略微略微有点拖沓，演员们演技太好了
有点青涩，却诚意十足。几个反转可以处理得更戏剧化一点吧，我有种吃法棍但不给水的噎着的感觉……
你们整天这是都在看些什么，讨论些什么。。。
“十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常。”最近连着出了好几个剧本杀式的电影，这个有好多闪灵的桥段，还有夹带私货
特别有画面感的剧本杀，在一幢恐怖豪华的别墅中的密室杀人案，聚集了一众电影从业者以及凶手和警察。烂片之王的导演、过气女明星、孤注一掷的制片人、有正义感但却屡屡得罪权贵的编剧、武功并不高强的武替，除了尹正演的编剧一身正气以外，其他人都有各自一些小缺点，但是就是这帮平凡人，却总能在最紧急的时候保护善良的人，闪耀着普通人的光芒。看似悬疑推理的剧本杀，其实是讲述关于守护和正义的故事，没想到年轻的导演一出手就剧本硬核、内涵深刻，人物饱满，场景华美，中国电影未来可期！
台本很有民国讽刺喜剧的范儿，从群嘲到自嘲，将电影人的节操打碎一地后，又莫名其妙地捡了回来。最有意思的还是开放式的解读，每个人都是参与其中的编剧，你的心有多大，这个故事的隐喻就有多恐怖。
“你知道最可怕的是什么吗？是记忆，记忆就像火苗，只要有一点儿，便有变成燎原之势的可能。”
权力是暂时的，欢乐是永恒的。成事在人为，不成事在为人。别跟自己较劲。别太把自己当回事。
终结者和闪灵梗，迷影属性比推理致敬更多（反过来的话是唐探系列？！）背景再补完一点会更佳。无人认领的冲洗真是一个太妙的回声，让人怀疑HE都是假的。
题材涉及电影行业的，一定要慎重，很容易沦为自HIGH。这片子挑了条最难的路，喜剧和悬疑天然是很难混搭的，最后的完成度也确实不高。唯一能够夸奖的是能看出认真了，努力了，剩下只能说才华不够了……
这才是2021年最牛逼的国产电影好吧
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