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".
利益、仇恨，清苦的童年和破碎的村庄，古老的生意，术士打开了传送门。。。
猎魔人维瑟米尔的故事，可以视为《猎魔人》系列的番外篇。少年时代的维瑟米尔见识了猎魔人的力量，梦想改变自己生而为仆的人生，离开了青梅竹马的女孩，历经常人难以忍受的试炼后成为一名猎魔人。但猎魔人除了打妖除怪赚钱外，必须承受无穷尽的歧视和孤独，维瑟米尔也不例外，当他遇到已经年老的那个女孩，当他面临国王对猎魔人故意制造妖魔的指责，凯尔·莫罕陷入重重危机，他该何去何从……故事编排得不错，人物性格鲜明，动画效果尚可，值得猎魔人书迷和巫师游戏爱好者看一下，结尾少年“白狼”杰洛特露了一下脸，算是剧集第二季开播前的热身。
前面都不错，光影氛围以及林嘉欣演技在线，母女的矛盾让人感同身受。结尾看了个寂寞，信没有读，莫名其妙的和解了，意难平！
壓抑程度比「瀑布」要再高出很多，一直在描寫家庭吵架，場景又刻意調得很昏暗，很真實、但直到最後都沒有破解，女孩到底要不要回美國？如何解決自己的內心矛盾？本作最多只是揭露了一些實現American Dream的華人現象而已。
细节游戏神还原啊，不过vesimir年轻时候竟然这么帅吗？印象一直停留在witcher3里糟老头模样，另外我Gerald竟然是个少年秃头？？？？
看完有点喝多，虽然剧情结构有诸多问题，看完却不自觉想念起自己那个神经大条，性情急躁，不懂得好好沟通，会下意识情感勒索，却把她所有的焦虑与爱都放在我身上的母亲。就像美国女孩的朋友所说，可能母亲她已经做到了她的最好。二十年前，那个音像店播放蔡依林的时代，那个拨号上网与周杰伦背景音网咖的时代。女孩的青春期时代基本与我重合。第一次去高先影院。
很认真地完成故事讲述，没有太多的情感导向，完全的上帝视角去思考这个家庭中的每个人物。因为更注重家庭关系，很多社会关系被弱化，孩子在学校的文化代沟只是流表面。#3.5 导演长片处女作而言，成熟了（还是更偏爱3星的《瀑布》）
整体还挺普通的。只是一些很细微又很真实存在的困境。
吵架吵的很真实，每位角色的困境也很真实。但从头吵到尾，剧情白开水，全靠演员的演技把观众情绪调动起来的。林嘉欣演出了妈妈的脆弱，方郁婷演出了“美国女孩”的“不同”。另外，周杰伦的歌放在网吧当BGM太合适了。
虽然电影院里不时传出窸窸窣窣的哭泣声，但感觉也就仅限于好哭…感觉很多没有深入聊，只是一笔带过。
都是些很常见的关于家庭处境，矛盾等，往真实里拍，重现旧年代的产物，整体没啥缺点。★★★☆/7.3
什么中国美国，什么大陆台湾，什么俄罗斯乌克兰，我只记得，那时候，我去网吧，能不搬梯子看到整个世界，那个时候在QQ上随意加个网友都很友善，那个时候能过一个鞭炮此起彼伏，烟花绚烂的年，那个时候能看到各式各样的电影电视剧没有删减。
09.01.21 For (not 'one of') my all time favorite game. Epic DLC movie for the beloved maestro. Bravo!
3.0
撕扯后缝合，窒息又刺痛。要是没有陈绮贞的片尾曲的话会抑郁…🙏🏻
完全超出预期 维瑟米尔老爷子年轻时这么猛 大决战结束的有点草率 最后那一声杰洛特真的惊了
极其细腻地展现家庭的状态，矛盾冲突也很真实，家里有个患者，所有人就都会不痛快，气氛也都永远会是紧绷。各方面如母女之间的情感也十分动人。由于个人的原因吧看到这样的家庭总是会不自觉代入进去。认为林嘉欣比贾静雯更值得那个表演奖项，这种敏感脆弱的状态，对于女儿的爱的展现，都特别好，最后那句好爱好爱完全击中我了。果然亲情是最割舍不掉的情感吧。年度十佳候选。8/10
被炼金出来的猎魔人，杀魔挣钱，却又造魔乱世，女巫蛊惑人类，连同恶魔一起群攻猎魔人，好生混乱的世界观……印象最深，是你还年轻，你爱的人已老……本三星，因画风是我的菜，加一星～
年轻的维瑟米尔又帅又强，凯尔莫罕大屠杀原来是这么发生的，光头小朋友杰日天好阔爱呀
初回家夜晚被墊高的兩個枕頭，醫院看病放在他手被推開，手術後喂水不注意灑在她身上，開場三場簡單又高效的戲馬上塑造出一個「不貼心事事都幹不好」的丈夫形象。結尾處他瞬間發飆拿起衣架打女兒，對應回上課老師的體罰，再次構建出一個典型的東方式觀念的父親。以賺錢為藉口，自私，突如其來的暴力，卻又在一些微小的時刻，會寵溺女兒的父親，比如給女兒買的腳踏車，以及放棄買書桌買梳妝臺給她。這個長期「缺席」的父親，只能用單向的方式和自己的女兒交流，從未真正理解她。結尾弄耳朵那場戲很厲害，因為前面鋪墊媽媽有幫爸爸弄，同時又是極日常行為。『耳朵』意味著母親與女兒開始真正互相「傾聽」，同時用一種自然的方式拉近身體上的接觸與距離，怪不得海報以此作為視覺，是全片最重要也最核心的一場，靈感〈一一〉？即使這個轉折來得有點不夠自然。
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