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".
【2021.58】不太一样的末日电影，虽然创造了你，但你属于你自己
【2.5】喜欢这个象征性地将人类命运交接给机器人的结局，尽管这仍旧是一个过分乐观和执着于人类遗产的伟大意义的想象，但至少影片不再像多数末世灾难题材那样，深陷在人类命运的物种性延续上。除此以外，本片之于我毫无新鲜观感和乐趣，疫情下有的观众确实需要温柔抒情的电影抚慰，但在过往电影中已经可以找到大量更好的电影代替时，它的出现不见得是件好事。
末世设定却不讲疯狂争抢资源，机器学习也不想未来是否失控，只讲同行三个“人”的故事。
臭氧层能自己渐渐修复，人与机器、机器与狗之间的信任也能逐步建立，但人与人之间的关系恐怕破了就难以挽救了。
很复古很复古的软科幻，当现在关于机器人和AI的话题已经沦为爱死机2式的陈词滥调的时候，大概需要回归一点这种讲述温情和希望的故事。其实我觉得Jeff被设定为机器人，牵扯出一堆人对科幻背景的怀疑，只是因为这部电影不能出现其他人类罢了。只有一个高智能的新生的机器人，才能在不同于人类的同时那么单纯和真诚，让一个人的临终愿望显得那么沉重但又可以实现。
末世公路片，喜欢它拍得温情而幽默，在如今的世情下，太需要这样的片子让人喘一口气了。
开局一条狗，世界任我走！
提出了人类与机器人良性共存的可能性。人类表现出懦弱，无知，脆弱等一系列缺点，而机器人也表现出了包容，坚强，睿智等一系列优点。特别难得的，他们还相互表达了爱和信任。。
古尔(🐶)忠诚
狗好烦 一直鬼叫鬼叫，机器人也有点烦，话痨聒噪（最后的明信片上干嘛不画杜威？！虚伪的对狗的爱）
220611UC在线1：55：17。关于今天，是历史最差的一天，又是未来最好的一天！什么都没说，又什么都说了。
把每天都当作末日来相爱，用本能去爱，用爱唤醒本能
在今年众多的流媒体电影中，《芬奇》绝对算得上是一匹黑马！文艺气质极强的佳作！
连人都是假的，情却那么真，看得我眼泪哗哗的。很简单的情节，角色也极少，但这将近两个小时却几乎一晃而过，丝毫不觉得单调、乏味。可能会有人觉得这片子“老土”吧，但相比那些“新潮”的，我还是更欣赏这种能让我入戏、让我产生共鸣的“老土”片儿。
连人都是假的，情却那么真，看得我眼泪哗哗的。很简单的情节，角色也极少，但这将近两个小时却几乎一晃而过，丝毫不觉得单调、乏味。可能会有人觉得这片子“老土”吧，但相比那些“新潮”的，我还是更欣赏这种能让我入戏、让我产生共鸣的“老土”片儿。
电影世界里这么多机器人。小时候喜欢哆啦A梦，中年喜欢《银河系漫游指南》里那个忧郁的机器人。到了老年就喜欢这个杰夫了吧。
末世公路片，喜欢它拍得温情而幽默，在如今的世情下，太需要这样的片子让人喘一口气了。
谢夫(🤖)可爱温柔
人工智能总是特别容易感动我
如果月球有一个公路片的版本 应该就是这个样子 真的好喜欢琼斯小哥啊
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