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".
调色和镜头比较大气，也没有滥用jump scare，通过陌生的语言环境，对监视者缓缓上升的恐惧心理，成功营造了惊悚的氛围，可惜从主动上门的动机不足，到最后断头和有些反人类的死亡表演冲淡了这种高级感，对我来说是比较遗憾了～
话说，一个人到不熟悉的地方语言不通应该会崩溃滴吧
女导演拍出的有时候就是缺乏逻辑，感觉危险，不弄点防身的工具？都在别人楼里打照面了，还不敢问，那你去干嘛？
Cliche, but still a good one. 细节经不起推敲，比如结局为什么凶手明知道丈夫在隔壁打了电话还直接出门，再比如割喉流这么多血还能直立行走。Something totally random: 女主某些角度有些像姚晨？以及being multilingual是一个多么大的优势hhh
有点狗尾续貂，其实最精彩的是地铁上变态一席话直接把女主“将死”，如果最后女主也是文斗胜会好点，现在这样武斗只能说变态运气不好。
虽然很不喜欢女主前期的懦弱，但这就是本世纪全球女性的处境，男人明明自己迟钝还要职责别人敏感，还要按头让女人当疯子。女主很幸运，能捡了别人的枪反杀，我们呢？
女主最后很帅气，拯救了自己，也拯救了楼对面的小女孩。女主感觉跟海后长的有点像啊。整个片子的节奏的悬念营造感觉一般吧，有的地方容易睡着。
除了结尾的割喉大BUG，想不出给它低分的原因。女主的颜，语言不通陌生环境新婚关系的设定太妙了，整部片阴郁寒冷的构图把紧张的气氛架构起来，还展示了导演不错的审美，推荐。
这是那种适合在长途大巴上偶尔瞟一眼的东欧恐怖片
三星半。最后结尾的留白是全片的高潮。他死没死，他信没信，她在想什么？ 全片故事很好，可是不够饱满，细节的支撑力不够，只有这个变态演技最佳！
整剧看起来压抑，毛骨悚然，既然确定了可能的目标，却不敢勇往直前。最后又恰恰证实了。
看见有人跟踪往人少的地方跑？女人都是这样？！还有从一开始就不拉窗帘。。。这是什么爱好！而且你能看我我凭什么不能看你！不拉窗帘就是让人看的吧！站在阳台往外看应该第一眼看到的就是亮着灯不拉窗帘的这一家吧！也不知道到底是谁跟踪谁。。。我要是坏人你这么执着的想让我杀你我干嘛要拒绝！看见死人不出声也是够镇静的！割喉的手法欠佳？！
永远不要轻视女人的直觉，还有周围人都说你听不懂的外语交流也挺可怕的。
铺垫一大堆，反杀一瞬间。女生真的要相信自己的直觉啊。
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。
还不错的小成本电影，不需要理由，只为变态而杀人。
表现得很细腻，就是缺少一点反转，地铁上那个女主怀疑装着人头的塑料袋算是妙手，把惊悚提高了一级
细节抓的挺到位……那样的房子其实我也想过要住一下……就是细节太多了，全部在最后12分钟释放
氛围挺好 就是有点假 那个丈夫 还有最后的割喉
结尾到男主与杀人犯各自离开房间后在走廊四目相对那刻就可以结束了。
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