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".
上午场竟然也半满，灵的。语言和文化互为表里，一定要沪语才好看。饮食男女，都是此厢土著的大事件。今年的电影也就这样了，清粥小菜，吃吃蛮好。
特别好，是《志明与春娇》的那种好。久违了，为这份惊喜，破例打个分表达一下。
4老乌就是个没被包养成功的李春平 有腔调爱吹牛的绣花枕头 高级瘪三
形式的花永远掩盖不了内容的硬，这就是我对这类作品的评价～
小布尔乔亚精致糖水片，有些地方过于精致了，比如路边的补鞋匠也有自己的coffee time。难得在国产电影里看到中产视角下的中年情爱，他们的爱情都是小联合国，他们的艺术都是现当代艺术，他们的电影都是费里尼起步，也只有上海才有这个地域土壤了。拍的很好，像是看舞台小品，但始终无法代入。
那一年，老乌去了资本主义的巴黎，经历了如真似假的爱情神话，坦白后被他的娜塔莎辱骂为xxxx的叛徒又被暴打……大概两年后的今天吧，娜塔莎的祖国坍塌，大概三十年后吧，惊闻贵人噩耗的老乌回述着他的爱情，别人听着他的神话
在洪常秀之后，拍餐桌戏却无人动筷是不讲究的。
完全还原了我内心上海的精神气和城市气质，就是那种拧巴做作的小资情调。武康路成排的咖啡馆和旁边的复古自行车，可能也就上海男人才敢戴丝巾和草帽不会被嘲弄为娘娘腔。刻板印象还是有，但是还是挺欣赏导演对细节的照顾。可能只有在故事背景是上海的时候，才会觉得讨论意大利老电影，鞋匠不仅能聊哲学还能蹦洋泾浜英文是不违和的。不管是男性视角还是女性视角都反应在机智的台词里，也并不偏激过分，是恰到好处的。最惊喜的是他们在外滩艺术馆那一场戏。表现手法很高级。运用话剧的布景和光影来折射微妙的关系，有点阿莫多瓦惯用的招数的味道。希望这个有潜力的导演能坚持创作不要被资本带偏了。
如同纽约之于伍迪艾伦，上海终于也有了属于它的电影，太棒了，只有在上海住过的人才能理解这部电影有多浪漫。
肯定会是最近看过的院线片最喜欢的一部，似乎又看到了从前老上海电影里的那种灵气，嬉笑怒骂，男女机锋，处处是埋梗、铺垫和映射，有种知识分子式的幽默感和国产片里少见的轻盈气质（音乐品味也非常可）。这部电影里有真实的女性，真实的欲望/爱情，还有一种非常理想化的生活状态。看似它也被包裹在了一些现实的鸡毛里，但这就是生活：如果六便士不存在，月亮也不会存在。
是冲着“中年女人对于爱情的态度”去看的，结果大失所望。如果中年女人面对爱情就是比年轻人多说几句鸡汤的话，那我不如去看智慧背囊来得更快。上海话是特点，但是导演构景力好一般啊…16:9的屏幕完全没拍出来上海的美，很多个群戏的时候画面重心也是偏的。整个片子的精华可能就是老乌那一句“假的，我编的”和他不易察觉的泪水。其他的都是训练我上海话听力来的吧。😅看完很想问导演：你确实你晓得你自己想讲什么的哇？这一点也不灵啊。
像是法国的爱情文艺小品。就凭墙上那幅爱情神话的海报也能看出有内味儿了，中年爱情，几个人辗转流连，没有老的小的掺合，纯纯粹粹谈论爱情，微妙的灵，北方人好像也完全明白上海人那股小劲头。遗憾的是儿子不是gay，缺一口气
好得不得了。倪虹洁真是妙妙妙。然后看了评论，为什么有些人看一个电影，不是看这个电影里有什么，而是在意里面“没有”什么？不会想和这样的人做朋友。我十分enjoy。
最油膩的其實是配樂，但不妨礙在國產電影維度交出了一份好的成績。對於習慣逃避真實城市風情和缺乏中產描繪的中國商業電影，那份在地性和不做作都挺珍貴，最喜歡的是一些對白的subtext寫法以及結尾周野芒的solo演出，情緒高潮竟是由副線周野芒一人完成，且並不失效，這其實滿破格。兩岸三地女性新導演們在文本角度碾壓男導演們幾乎已是客觀事實。
邵导还是稳坐今年国产都市爱情第一的宝座了。
观感很舒适，没有刻意抖机灵也没有狗血爱情，几个主角之间的人物关系戏剧却有说服力，而且好几段台词我都忍不住感叹写得太妙了，尤其喜欢片尾那种故事仍在继续的感觉，让我好像也融入进他们的生活里参与了他们的聊天一样，真是难得的体验
精致的像是一个网红书店，虽然有很多好的设计，但总体上怎么都喜欢不起来，一股劣质电视剧的味道
俏皮，呵呵呵。可女主角李小姐变成了配角，成了工具人，变得莫名其妙起来。
很喜欢倪虹洁转身回到ktv的一次叹气，张牙舞爪的时候活得太正确了，那句叹气就像一个缺口，一个从正确步入真实的人生的缺口。
中年小时代。极其虚浮，看得我全程翻白眼，尬到如坐针毡。以及与女性主义无关，这是披着撒娇糖衣的男性视角电影，男人撒撒娇，装装深情，往后让一让，女性说一些俏皮话，就以为女性发声了，太他妈可笑了。请给郭敬明道歉。
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