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".
You will always be a part of my life.
7分，自导自演啊，有点厉害，很舒服的一部电影。
一个比较浅显简陋的鸡汤片里面有所有鸡汤处女作会出现的问题然而它竟然不是一个处女作不过这好像是我第一次看到强生没有那么boring
看不懂 不是一个环境 看完才知道这是自导自编自演 本来这种片我都不会多看一眼的
看不懂想要说啥，只觉得男女主都好渣，男的有情人还和女主暧昧，和同学doi，女主也很浪荡，一出场说话就觉得这女的很sao，果不其然，有未婚夫还和男主乱搞，w？t？f？
你很难形容这样一部电影
偏执者或许会将影片中的男性呈现看做无理由的群体偏见，但记住，这是电影，是表达某一观点后局部放大的艺术，它向世人具象化地科普着一种群体性但非普世性的“恐惧”。
在经历和碰撞中得到和失去，学会找到自己。在爱意渐浓时，他们的眼睛里都是星星，真好。
终于到来的2022暑假看的第一部，成长确实挺难的，但电影没那么drama，好像是你的我的生活艺术化处理，我挺喜欢，可以小哭一下。对假期也开始期待起来，突然好像放下了必须放的够久的执念。四星半，入选年度系列。
很喜欢这样温暖的电影，片面翻译的也很棒。男主简直就是天使的化身，达妹总是那样容易令人爱上她。身边人来人往，我们遇到了谁，我们又爱上了谁，最后我们又能记得谁。
#SUNDANCE22 Feature6 原谅我无法给出一个高赞誉，尽管我认为Cooper Raiff确实做出了让人惊喜的第二部长片作品且我会期待他的下一部作品。他将自己的经历投射进剧情之中，于是便有很多人为此产生共鸣，没有人足够完美，但我们仍在努力，且总会有人接受我们的不完美。但遗憾的是，这是一个很有潜力的故事，Cooper的坦诚创作让我觉得很温暖，可是回到作品本身，整体输出还是散，不单是叙事手法或是剧情编排，人物之间缺乏了火花的碰撞也成为了短板（非演技问题）。最后用Cooper写给他的角色的一句话送给达妹：Do you know what you look like right now? You look like the sweetest person ever🥺Q&A山芋突然出现
觉得多米诺的演员很Normal People
故事很丝滑，岁数大了，爱情就不纯粹了，年龄错位，难以义无反顾。每个人都很温暖，他们真的好爱party.
#SXSW# 一个weety white American boy的故事 难以共情
感觉是导演的半自传，有点自恋但还算可爱，达美太美了~歌曲太赞了~
会喜欢一些姐狗设定 点到为止也蛮好 男主圆溜溜的眼睛真的很小狗 我觉得他还有一点像皮克 而且他居然还是导演 好年轻
看不懂想要说啥，只觉得男女主都好渣，男的有情人还和女主暧昧，和同学doi，女主也很浪荡，一出场说话就觉得这女的很sao，果不其然，有未婚夫还和男主乱搞，w？t？f？
dakota johnson can be the sexiest woman alive without taking any clothes off
单是那场女人冷眼看男性弑父式自行分娩戏，让我瞳孔地震之外还能看清针对女性的欲望与暴力的轮回重复，就够我记住它了。A24这变态的人文关怀，恶趣味的个性，电影届的“亚”还得是你。
比较私人的应届生成长故事。我们都在NGO工作，我们都有光明的未来。
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