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".
they nailed it women always take it better it’s not over till it’s over
劳模姐真·整容式表演！抛去传记式电影这一特点，基督徒的伪善和虚荣但是让我觉得这部电影挺讽刺的，God bless XXX
劳模姐全片演技slay! 奥斯卡欠她一个提名！
最近电影看的是真的少 勉强给3星 同类型看多了已无感
最近电影看的是真的少 勉强给3星 同类型看多了已无感
3.5 演的真不错，剧情不知所云，可能怕冒犯吧
动作、表情、笑声，都是有精心设计过的，但是没有《斯宾塞》中小k给人的不适感，我想这就是演技的高低之别吧。是杰西卡的表演让这部电影有了灵魂，变得有趣。
一开始觉得是小男人和美国甜心的组合，可看着看着真的被Tammy faye吸引过去了。她真的相信和热爱自己的工作，要是她生活在现在，也许会更自由更成功，会更早从丈夫带给她的痛苦中走出来吧。演的好。
传记片的角度，不算特别精彩，散了点。而且，文化差异很影响观影友好度
劳模真的演得很好，影后当之无愧。她老公为什么是gay，但是还要睡别的女的，而且感觉他老公并不爱她，只是把她当作一个事业上的合作伙伴，甚至不惜让女主公开在电视直播上向观众诉说自己出轨的事情，还和助手一起取笑女主的穿着。整部电影看下来感觉他俩鼓吹的基督教像邪教一样，不断的呼吁教徒捐款，无所不用其极，看完对基督教的感觉很不好。女主连线那个gay，并且后来支持性少数群体，是不是说她真的很爱她老公，并且肯定了他的取向，想要他直面真正的自己呢不过这几年欧美电影整体不行，原创剧本很少，不是翻牌就是传记电影。
6.5/10 这些年很常见的女性自我认知和反抗男性枷锁的反杀题材，但是反转请讲基本法
在精彩的剧情和表演之外，这电影的美术和设计都做得好棒！每个年代的风格都体现在所有细节里。真是厉害啊……五星好评
woah shes going for oscar
It’s not over till it’s over
关于西方宗教，不加以评论！但是我真一点也不喜欢这俩人！
这个故事其实很一般，就是一对偏执的年轻人，一拍即合联手打天下，在强大的心理暗示下，仿佛都可以成功，这样的个例其实挺多，到最后帝国崩塌，难以做人。但在美国，新教传播就是这么厉害。
Michael Showalter。2021 金馬 TITAN 巨幕廳放映。潔西卡崔絲坦。電視傳教士。有點詭異，但屬於好玩的那種。多次刻意的越界強調；三人手牽手的奇蹟時刻。電影開場鏡頭有點誤導向外（攝影機的光）或向內（祈禱聲音）的指向，狂熱的真誠者。一度有點混雜梟雄犯罪電影與崔絲坦的女強人系列電影，但從頭到尾都沒有避嫌對女主角的全情同理與信任，儘管是在那些看起來滑稽的時刻（不是壞事）。關注 LGBTQ+與弱勢的字卡宣示。歌唱得不錯，字幕跑完之後還插入調皮的兩秒。
04.04.22 Little known story. Great acting! Worth the Oscar
Jessica Chastine很有信念感的表演，也确实把整个故事带到能看下去的程度，基本上编排中规中矩，其他角色的厚度不够，而男女主之间的关系也没走够深（要不直接走大女主的心路历程也可以？），加菲的线没拉起来，但最后吵架那场戏挺好，可惜了两位演员很好的表演。
3.5 好久没看过剧情走向这么顺畅没有反转没有超自然也撑得住的惊悚片 视线 暗影 跟踪等本身就是可怕的题材屡试不爽
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