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".
一篇合格的命题作文，抑扬顿挫，规矩工整，但故事本身缺少真正的灵魂和亮点。胜在演技吧，易烊千玺还是完成的非常出色的。小女孩也乖巧可爱。田雨没太多发挥空间，按照他的演技，应该再多些亮点的。
四字弟弟真的转型成功了！！！🎉 终于get到弟弟的帅点了！！
两度落泪，真特么真实。一到结尾——这尼玛也太梦幻了，无语。
都是硬凹情绪但又没感觉煽情过度，只是觉得这男的太惨了，这就很奇妙。而且还感动哭了一次，最后一幕四字弟弟一身西装眼镜造型，身后的女孩们一阵惊呼，哈哈哈。兄妹之间的感情拍的很好，看的时候我在想独生子的话能理解这种责任和爱吗？
笑中带泪，泪中带笑，文导+千玺和一众演员发挥的都很棒，缺点可能mv剪辑有点多，但瑕不掩瑜，感恩。
虽然过程很艰辛 但是结果很甘甜
还可以吧，中规中矩的励志片，开场7分钟就把所有矛盾都摆在台面上，前30分钟就用了两次“BGM+快剪”，这就显得电影特别白，白到我根本不知道该说啥了，所有矛盾压着就让本来社会矛盾很尖锐的人们更加难受了，最后也依然是一套鸡汤取得了成功
这次的追车戏动作戏没有让我出戏 用力的眼泪做到了
顶层连一点定金都不肯给，底层就得赌上全部身家拼死拼活。坐在车里diss男主说你就是好高骛远的打工仔的精英人士，就是tmd何不食肉糜。
他用命守护的不仅是那批旧手机，更是他妹妹的命。他们为之欢笑的不仅是所得如愿，更是生活里的那束阳光。
一篇合格的命题作文，抑扬顿挫，规矩工整，但故事本身缺少真正的灵魂和亮点。胜在演技吧，易烊千玺还是完成的非常出色的。小女孩也乖巧可爱。田雨没太多发挥空间，按照他的演技，应该再多些亮点的。
从底层文化属性，淋漓尽致的展示了中国梦和美国梦的区别
没有想象中的那么好看，结局美好到有点不接地气，但是电影中普通百姓的互相温暖与成就的美好，还是让人觉得人间值得
小人物的奋斗史，坚韧又动人！哭了好多次。易烊千玺和小哈琳的演技太棒了！坚强哥哥与懂事妹妹的组合，妹妹问哥哥「你很累吧？谢谢你」破大防😭😭😭
深圳没有人文 没有沉淀 只有一千百万种实现梦想的可能性。
很励志 。现实不得不把人逼的很努力很努力才行。绝境中的努力和勇气，能带来希望！再坚持一下，万一呢
叙事节奏把握地不太好，有些过快，导致每个点都好像是浅尝辄止。
有套路是献礼没错啦，但完成度很高，拍的也很动人。喜宝又自然了一些，太温柔了😭😭😭，很值得一看
打四星是因为这景浩跟我爸年轻时的经历挺像 这电影很真实
不被看好的人缺渐渐逆袭，这个式样的故事能量永远不生厌；但因为所有角色的情绪流露和行为都不讲求各种隐藏，而是尽可能地大鸣大放（齐溪、黄尧都被带疯了= =），所以感觉更像一个老旧的日式励志番（抑或“热血暴漫”），会稍稍有些不适应。尤其考虑到文牧野和一干演员的选择，能够行进到更为严肃、“正常”的方向自然会是更好更令人期待的结果，实现的也可以远远不止于此。当然，这不妨碍它本身是个不错的故事，选择深圳也同样贴合；有一些好的材料，但没能做到更恰到好处的加工。
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