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".
为什么它能是一个大IP？早已不记得小时候的故事是什么，今天的后期制作和情节主题等等都极具时代特色…进步从质疑过去开始，彩虹是包容自由的新标准，团结友谊求同存异让我们更美好。个别角色中文配音稍差，音乐流行动感，好评！ 《开心超人》团队，一起来观摩学习一下啊。
好自由散漫啊，PTA带着一众亲友团玩出一部电影，放大年代后一切极简，世界纷乱我们只管相爱。
我只想说我没有被娱乐到，看之前以为是《私恋失调》+，结果却是《性本恶》-，失掉了致密的视听效果，擅长的双人关系拉扯也丝毫不见纵深，只是用一对情侣不断地分合串联起美国70年代各行各业，十分流于表面，反文化的姿态却没有反文化的表达，摇滚乐和收音机塑造时代的作用甚至高于画面与剧情，整体松垮散漫，难以投入——有这功夫我为什么不再看一遍《好莱坞往事》呢？只剩下所谓的70年代青年情感状态，早熟的青少年和早熟后停止成长的迷茫青年。如果这就是纯粹/轻盈的话，一众二流小说都将沉冤昭雪......只能说这是PTA想圆一个美国风情画的梦吧。
虽然是个很好看的故事，但还是没明白为什么这个故事有存在的必要，导演到底想说什么
在人人都追求市场、追逐数据的大环境下，还有人在用心的做电影、做动画电影，真挺感动！为你们鼓掌👏👏👏
不出意外应该是颁奖季最好看的一部了。很浪漫，梦回不羁夜。
PTA did it for friends*几个瞬间像是回到私恋失调*也只有那么年轻才能尽情跑
还不错，PTA强烈的个人风格。而且这个恋爱谈得还蛮好的🥰 西区故事起码是个唱跳剧，水平不知。除非它连着三年给亚洲人，不然我觉得PTA不定今年还有封的希望[18-03-2022 完球，犬之力可能要封]
一开始就是眉来眼去打情骂俏的校园爱情，第一眼就感觉和这电影的创作者不是同一频率的。接着看看男主角是个中二病+自来熟，女主角也总是一脸臭屁的表情，真正没法入眼。
所以说啊…..唉，也没什么好说的。男人至死是屁孩儿，女人至死要当妈。永远的拧巴，永远看不见尽头。
看起来很随意的样子，反派无脑低幼，只能说是个半成品吧。
不像想象中的嬉皮年代，不是一部简单的爱情小品，而是勾勒了一个满地渣男的世界，是一个女孩在这个世界成长的故事
对于小女孩的杀伤力巨大...对于成人....纯亲子活动。
看到半夜 打车送我回家 第二天上班睡眠困乏但是一直开心
无疑是很私人的一部，意外的喜欢，PTA的70年代记忆碎片，随性自然、轻盈散漫又诙谐有趣，观感十分愉悦，PTA的视听层面依旧惊艳，真的太会拍了，两个新人演员都表现尚佳，相差13岁的奇怪恋情，串起一个个独特的小情节与人物，完全被PTA的私人世界折服，几个大牌的客串都令人印象深刻，特别是Bradley Cooper，短短几场戏可比《玉面情魔》里惊艳多了，这里对各色男性的审视，以及女主的很多戏份都看的出PTA的女性视角尝试，要说其实从《魅影缝匠》就开始转变了
好自由散漫啊，PTA带着一众亲友团玩出一部电影，放大年代后一切极简，世界纷乱我们只管相爱。
很奇怪，挺喜欢这个片子，流动的、轻松的氛围，形式与内容的高度统一，都有股70s年代的味道。在沉闷生活中吹进一股清风，挺好。
3.5，若即若离的暧昧，跌跌撞撞的混乱青春往事；阿拉娜有一种独特吸引人的美感。/阿拉娜生日居然真的是12.15，男主太继承他爸的长相了。
4.5。特别奇妙奇特的一场观影体验。三次叙事小高潮 两场无敌大奔跑 让有情人终成眷属。其他的都是闲笔，构建了美国70年代的梦幻，琐碎，阳光，脆弱和敏感。
PTA拍青春片就这？还不如lady bird来的直接爽快
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