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".
所幸马丽在，又冷又飒，像把靓丽的尖刀。她的状态和其他人不一样。他们依然无脑插科打诨，她则冷嘲热讽动作迅猛，也只有她在这部黑色幽默与开心麻花的杂交产物中是圆融的。
用天平为切入口真的非常棒，当天平怎么都调节不平衡时，加了一颗子弹，诶，平了！就像“好老板”一样，前期费心费力的用柔软的手段去拯救公司的困局，却发现越整越乱，于是，一场小青年的捣乱，一个“秘密”的威胁，奖项最终还是入手了。（ps：这玩意定义为喜剧我是真有点不理解……还有那个开局被解雇的，唉，多留个心眼啊……）
成年人的生活就是这么现实和一地鸡毛，唉。有时候我们或许也需要，不得不需要子弹
清走障碍顺利迎来评审委员会
3.0/10。全程坐如针毡，同去的朋友倒是一直在笑。可散场后问他觉得如何？他又说是辣鸡→_→
不要不屑于开心麻花的电影，它有能力将观众的智商拉低到跟它一样的水平，然后接受欣赏和赞美。
剧本还是很好的，剧作有让我想到《三块广告牌》，大概就是主角一个人的目的和行径
春节期间和家人一起看的，孩子乐的哈哈大笑，看完我问他看懂了吗，他说没有。
作为一个现实主义题材的电影，人物和情节都很不够现实（至少以大陆现状来说），故打低分
除了在私德方面对妻子不忠，而在知道自己出轨的对象是朋友的女儿后又翻脸无情外其实电影里的男主作为老板来说居然还算合格！
别跟原版比也还好，想那么多干嘛，怪费脑子的。。。
国外的黑色幽默穿插从头至尾，而国内一谈到黑色幽默，各投资方都觉得格局小了要打开。哎，也不知道谁的格局小了。
职场斗争淋漓尽致，很好很贴近现实，真正平衡的天平下面有一颗可以夺人性命的子弹！
有些人以为把各种段子、桥段凑在一起就算电影了，不好意思硬凑在一起的东西像碎掉的破布，像用的时间长了的棉套，没有了整体性，这不是电影，更不是致敬
老无所依的杀神咋让我想起兢兢业业的炸鸡哥了呢
哈维尔·巴登实在太强。平衡背后是老谋深算的不择手段，罗朱处的蒙太奇剪得漂亮！
因为是翻拍，原版又实在太出众，抱着不太高的预期进来，没想到看完倒觉得还不错。在我看来原作的好建立在两方面，一是对电影诚挚的爱，二是通过荒诞来解构这种身份错位制造的冲突。这一版节奏更紧凑，加强了喜剧感。同时在演员魏翔和“演员”卡尔之间形成一种身份的互文，放大了这种“未知生活”中的“已知”。没有剧本的演出，所有人陪你胡闹只有你蒙在鼓里，甚至不知道演下去结局会如何，这些都是“未知”。但是作为自己这出戏的主角，无论是否有观众都尽力演好每一个角色，甚至要以一个不算完美但也善始善终的ending pose谢幕，这些都是“已知”。在我看来，人生的很多事情都是靠着这一丢丢执念，在努力抓住这一点“未知”中的“已知”。细细一想，这其实是这部喜剧里伤感的地方，也是原作里没太拍出来的部分。
1.真的好看2.不是三俗喜剧 大多数笑点是基于戏剧结构产生的 因此好笑之余更有泪点3.戏里戏外的魏翔形成了互文 为他证明了自己而开心4.马丽当之无愧国内喜剧女演员天花板 祝愿她有天也能接到像“魏成功”这样能过足戏瘾的角色
完全对我的胃口，看似在酱一个简单轻松家常的故事、却处处都是戏。准备再找些fernando其他的电影来看
原来“好老板”有这么多事情要操心哦，职场pua+伪善，偏偏又将“公平公正”挂在嘴上
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