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".
菲尼克斯在耍把戏，伊万也是，我猜到了。哈哈哈。有的笑点夸张，有的又比较冷，刚好配这两位男主。女主好钢啊！有钱去投资电影这主意不错…
拍的太好太动人了，被片中每个人物的各种小细节感同身受感动到了，必须打五星吐血推荐的电影！今年观影到现在，继《暗处的女儿》、《世界上最糟糕的人》之后，第三部可以列入个人今年年度观影十佳的电影，受益匪浅，终身受益。
父亲的偏执和疯狂，令人惋惜的少女，很虐的电影。
设计了一些有意思的场景，但冲突主线讽刺水平都太陈词滥调了吧？一来一回飙戏骗人蛮好笑的。克鲁兹大概占了好看度里的4/7，太会讲故事了
整个故事少了大客车司机视角。小朋友和片冈礼子戏份挺少让人印象深刻。有这样的老父亲的确是度日如年，由于古田新太饰演的父亲性格太恶劣观影感受真得太过压抑了中间还停了一会再接着看的。寺岛忍这个角色莫名让人讨厌，演得倒是挺好的
对新电影又有信心了！跟佩内洛普·克鲁兹一头红发一样惊艳的还有三位主演的表演，哈哈哈哈
阿莫多瓦不会是制片人吧 要不就是西班牙人天生的色彩审美真的妙诶
这部电影感觉还行吧，时长也还是可以的，内容也不错，主要是演员演的也好，所以总体来说还是听不错的。
对电影行业讽剌的很辛辣，三位主演的表现极佳
还蛮好笑的，可惜就还是有种知识分子的端着，就差了口气。不像韩国导演
挺有才华的，小讽刺谈不上高明、无非是对行业对资本对演员们，但几组对位关系把握得不错，故事讲得也引人入胜，把几个演员的表演都展现好了，这个导演还是蛮有前途的，有娱乐性也有真东西，三星半。
对电影界开的这发讽刺炮力道不弱 不过也没有预告中呈现得那么劲 潘老师的大眼睛太灵动太会说话太能表现情绪了 (另外想被潘老师指导吻戏
预算高了，形式好了，但是结束方式喜欢不起来
蛮喜欢结尾那几段的...尤其合气道的伏笔和...看似草率其实非常戏剧性的应用...还有造桥剪彩..."一切都按照预期发展,从来没有什么草台班子理论"...另外,里面那句所有职业都是一种虚伪的自负感作祟也是蛮...新潮的..."跟片子的导演姐姐一样有个性"...
整个故事少了大客车司机视角。小朋友和片冈礼子戏份挺少让人印象深刻。有这样的老父亲的确是度日如年，由于古田新太饰演的父亲性格太恶劣观影感受真得太过压抑了中间还停了一会再接着看的。寺岛忍这个角色莫名让人讨厌，演得倒是挺好的
冷漠、麻木、压抑形成的恶性循环，可以说是一个非常“日本”的故事，尤其是自杀女司机及其母亲。
即使是探讨舆论暴力、道德困境这样的话题，内在的情感依旧能保持温和克制，我觉得这是日本文化的力量。这个故事也让我们看到法律或者道德的局限性。以及，艺术对拯救人心的作用。
由父亲引发的悲剧，导致三个原本毫无关系的家庭遭到牵连。有时候真相背后就是看似复杂实则简单至极，尽管如此，人们总是相信自己愿意相信的。学校踢皮球，媒体恶意剪辑，诸多因素让局外人被牵着鼻子走。
意料之外情理之中。片长稍微有点长，后半程一直在等结束了…好在还有些许闪光点逗你笑…Antonio Banderas不错！
7分。威尼斯主竞赛单元的参赛电影《主竞赛》。富豪想拍一部获奖电影，找来金棕榈女导演，买了诺贝尔文学奖小说的改编权，再加上一个实力派演员和一个获奖无数的明星，这样的组合，还不横扫主竞赛？电影展现的是正式开拍前的排练阶段，两个演员相互不待见，导演又有层出不穷的前卫想法，把演员们搞得晕头转向。终于所有戏都排练好，马上要正式开拍时，实力派演员出了意外，只能让超级明星一人分饰两角。黑色幽默式的讽刺，全片高潮在搅碎金棕榈、银狮奖等重量级奖杯那段。
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