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".
“虽然我经常被打，但我演的是日本人，所以不算丢中国人的脸。”高能笑点不断，反转反转再反转，开头以为只是好笑，中途以为是荒诞风闹剧，没想到却是彻头彻尾的悲剧，电影这种东西还是得看了才知道合不合自己胃口。一出带着迷影元素的大型民国剧本杀，“暴雪山庄”的形式，笑点和悬疑的融合竟不违和，小小的装腔作势不影响这本不在行程内的观影是十一月的小惊喜。“掌权者最怕的是记忆。”尹正更像工具人，张本煜才是男主，记他大银幕上的第一次出彩；邓家佳的唐氏表演法则可以永远相信！喻恩泰这个烂导暗喻王晶笑死个人！原来警察是秦霄贤，还挺帅…邓恩熙太美……30分钟渐入佳境，娱乐圈潜规则、影视圈的歧视链、资本和权利的隐喻、女性物化、性虐、借古讽今，还有千万不能碰的军事政治……作为导演的第一部大银幕，值得鼓励，年度华语十佳备选。
明明可以做一个最优秀的场记，却被活生生逼成一个平庸的名导。【bilibili】
一部借古喻今的电影，告诉你家里没有两把刷子，别混娱乐圈。在独立的他为她背负人命并牺牲自己的那个故事里，如果你问她，她是怎么活过来的，她会告诉你她不委屈，因为曾有个人为了给她出头不惜牺牲自己，她会好好活下去。
电影是一种生命的历程，悬疑电影刻画地就是参杂着煽情主义的不平凡历程。过程永远要比结果更有魅力。漫长的过程赋予事物生命和意义；跌宕起伏的过程给予观众非凡的经历和情感历程。
但是服化道和镜头语言的质感略显粗糙，以及除了尹正台词过关、老话剧演员陈明昊扎实的台词功底之外，其它演员的台词顶多和网大一个水平。
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故事会，拍的技巧上也很俗气，流露出的品味和价值观也是让人瞠目结舌
戏里的人用浮夸演绎浮夸，戏外的人用狭隘咒骂狭隘，火苗点燃的一瞬间，荧幕外有一万只傲慢的脚等待踩下。扬的是臭名昭著的名，立的是万般无奈的万，别有用心的人眼里，看山本来就不是山。有良知的烂片导演都开始拍真相了，有审美的影视同行却说算了算了。屋子里布满了血腥味，房顶的钩子却被擦的闪亮。没有调度，剪辑很乱，演技太差，话剧质感，如果非要把电影视为某种精密的、具有固定标准的制式仪器，我也能和那些端肩抱膀的影评人一样，找出一万种理由来批判它。但是偏偏，这部不那么电影的电影，恰恰阐释了电影存在的某种意义：屋顶上的钩子需要有人记住。在戏里，一群烂咖为了良知拍了一部烂片，在戏外，他们似乎也是这样做的，彼时彼刻，恰如此时此刻。刘循子墨点了一团名为勇气的火，麻木的人只看到烟。十个项目九个凉，因为踩灭火苗的人太多了。
我对中国电影重燃本心。当下创作最难的两座大山被这部电影解决了，一个是题材受限，一个是成本如何更低。看来什么困难啊都是不想努力的借口，新年了，凡事更努力一些才对得起热爱。内容行业的问题，还需要内容本身去解决，题材自由，用创意解决。成本风险大，受制于明星流量，也是需要内容自己去控制。没有办法。
喜剧与悬疑的完美结合，导演着实下了一番功夫
比想象的复杂有趣，也有想表达的内涵，万合天宜熟悉的无厘头笑点，好久不见了。本煜好欲啊😳
陆子野谐音路子野 重启之极海听雷里面王胖子饰演者
8.0/10 分。初看。就电影本身而言，7分足矣。但对于一部国产片而言，真的非常不错了。情节紧凑，一点都不拖拉，整个故事表现得很有趣，一点都不沉闷，没有一般国产片最爱的那种又臭又长的刻意煽情。为国产电影里有想法的片子加一星！。。。没认出喻恩泰来。没玩过啥剧本杀。。。
齐 会不会是因为某些政治原因去刺杀3的时候 刚好碰到 夜莺也在，怕牵连夜莺 就掩护夜莺逃离，以至于后面发现了假发， 又重新讲了个碎尸的剧本给大家
电影有很多形式，这是当中一种，故事原创性很强，表演完成度很高，但视听语言几乎没有存在感，更像一集尽善尽美浓缩精华的综艺——也很好；只是如果后来者不能确信写出如此逻辑严谨的剧本，拜托一定不要模仿拍电影。
工工整整的，再加点冷笑话，效果不错，而且竟然还挺有情怀，还会自嘲。为父王加一分，希望导演们多看看本煜，他不是只能演万合天宜和韩寒。
一个封闭空间的犯罪悬疑，先套了个电影班底攒电影的核先自嘲，最后刀尖直指人性和社会阶级。看似一群怂蛋小人物，实则火力可不小！部分内容很好奇是如何过的审，重点胜在尺度，四星
完成度已经很高了，说实话这种类型的电影剧本真的很难做到完美无瑕。悬疑部分算是有惊无险地完成了，一番一番层层递进感官刺激够强，但就观感而言内涵动机似乎稍微弱了一些些；喜剧部分穿插得也好，而且难得的是随着剧情的推进，人物其实是越来越立得住的。到最后竟有了一丝佛意，像大梦幻灭一场，一群小人物肝胆相照、舍身取义，做了件天大的事情，最后只留下了一部烂片、一艘沉船和一张照片，有意义吗？没有意义吗？这不是一个问题，也不需要你的回答。
整片格局还不如一期明星大侦探，绝大多数篇幅都在胡闹，但又不如找个撒贝宁来得好笑，本格推理部分全然不及格，前半部看得我都要昏睡过去了，只有在如白夜行般社会推理部分才勉强捞回点分数。
好久没看到万合天宜的一些作品，一看就知道他们在闷声做大事。这部片不是简单的电影世界彩蛋的堆叠，还用了戏中戏、借古讽今的方式讨论电影人的社会责任的问题。我们需要的不是仅仅取悦观众的电影，还需要有社会良知的人拍的电影（即使电影里讲的不一定是真相）。
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