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".
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
科技的尽头是金融，饮料的尽头是白酒，文艺的尽头是马屁。
剧情方面：太水，主打破案，然后各种bug。另外导演想表达的太多，隐喻已经搞成明喻了，国内拍电影限制多大家都知道，没必要反复强调。
令人惊喜的是有对女性思考的部分，还有电影人的思考和良心部分。其他就中规中矩吧。
三星半，我觉得还可以，国产电影拍这种悬疑题材好好拍还是能拍出东西的。结合最近小红楼事件就更可以说了。大家都那么喜欢张本煜，说明市场还是很需要这种有男人味的演员，也喜欢这种有责任心的角色
又臭又长，场景单一，表演浮夸，特别是扮演编剧那个家伙。“我叫你爸，你打我马，这样对吗”——我直接吐了。
7分。面对基本上全员有好感的卡司阵容，欣慰子墨和爱了这么多年的万和终于出了部对得起当年名头的电影。可能制作糙一些商业性也弱一点，但大致可以直接对标当年的《唐探1》了，能有当下的评价再次印证了“讲一个好故事”对于普罗大众的重要，又有很多迷影元素照顾了专业影迷，这样的制作规模能做的有笑有泪有反转已属不易。人终究是抵不过时间、总有退场的一天，但好的艺术作品却能一直留存下来成为永恒，喜欢这点创作者的浪漫。
劣势在于，片名过于笼统，缺乏吸引力，影片节奏较慢，执导水平有限，电影感不强，更像话剧部分笑点尴尬。
现在都是金句叠电影啊，讲一个完全架空的故事没有任何敏感点，又要暗示我这是借古讽今哦然后说一些金句就有“勇气”了，就“这都能过审了”，观众也嗨了好像今天rebel了看个电影就对抗威权了。当商业娱乐来看本子是不差的，只是太self congratulatory了，老在那里说我也是有良心艺术家我鼓足勇气在妥协的边缘揭露真相你们看不懂没关系自己猜但我的作品会留下（当然，这是影视从业者的视角，我一个观众也有点站着说话不腰疼吧）。最大的问题是这拍得难看。。。基本功都没有的样子，看得有点生理难受，节奏也特别不好，后面靠强冲突动作反转硬趟过去
看完首先想到了《利刃出鞘》。都是聪明的电影，结构精巧，反转高级，铺垫的层次感很好。深入一点看，讲故事而已，做游戏而已，如此而已。
好看的，完整稳定的商业片，服化道表台审美统一在线，舞台感荒诞感，还讲了一个现实主义电影讲不出来的故事。结尾这帮人全死了，耐人寻味。值得四星的国产电影
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。
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。
红楼案还有，只是螳臂当车的电影工作者没了。
英文片尾曲是爵士乐灵魂人物爵士乐大师路易斯阿姆斯特朗的《What A Wonderful World》。之前在罗宾威廉姆斯的《早安越南》里也曾出现过。大家也可以听一下麦可布雷的版本，就是很适合在家里跟爱人跳舞的那种曲子
各种类型大杂烩到刚刚好，最后犯罪理由虽然俗气了点但是达到了意料之中的捂嘴惊叹一下的效果。每个演员应该说是演得尽职尽责，所有台词动作都把自己所演角色的人物性格做到位了(不过说真的略微脸谱化了一点);看到爷叔又飙了几句上海话好亲切哈哈，注意到那个头小脸小演技略木头的原来就是传说中的德云社大帅哥。再说情节，情节设计得也是规整中的惊险刺激，几处小反转虽然刻意但不难叫人称绝。其实最喜欢的还是核心思想的大胆揭露，借古讽今，蛮敢说的!当然最后到底是邪不压正还是上面的人一手遮天，就是观众自己的见解啦!整部电影的话剧感很强，或许以后会有个话剧版本?
创作非常难，能完成就是好的，何况完成的还不错，演员演的巨好，诚意之作必须鼓励，在b站买着看的，居家带娃没辙
故事看得还比较过瘾。不过有评论说女性视角我不是很同意，不如说是男人角度的宠女视角，有点自恋，但是在一众厌女辱女的国产里竟算是清醒脱俗了。
国产悬疑电影一直以来就只学会了故弄玄虚那一套，唬唬新观众要要票房还成，口碑自然是好不了。悬疑故事要上荧幕，反转诡计都不是重点，叙事的结构才是最为主要的。承认自己什么材料揽什么活，即使反转层数再简单，能让观众在那刹那明明白白地享受到乐趣，才是悬疑电影该做到的事情，而不是像影片开头那样，电影结束了问一句旁边的人“你看懂了吗?”。这部电影做的最有眼光的事情就是完全不去遮掩其戏剧性，大大方方地把它展现开来，利用起来。观众都知道他坐在电影院座位上看的是电影，你又能自欺欺人地说服自己是在重现现场吗?
导演与摄像背首锅，演员负次要责任——尹正不是主角的料，李家辉一角不如邀请《毛骗》的邵庄。。。又是一部处女作，又是一次自大自我的展示。。。前有《厨戏痞》《你好，疯子》，近有《第十一回》《扬名立万》，影视从业者似乎真的很想迎得观众的审美认可，切口是少有人触及的，更多被当作佐料而非皇冠明珠的小场景喜剧。对于在文化层面历来不十分重视戏剧这一艺术门类的无论影视从业者还是电影观众，玩儿跨界，无异于进入高维空间的自杀行为。
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