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".
超喜欢这种发生在一间屋的悬疑片，加上中式喜剧效果，整场下来观感轻松又烧脑，果然小空间最容易强调角色间的矛盾，关系表面上丝丝分明，实际错综复杂，这种种都是对演员导演编剧的一个挑战。
叙事方式和摄影包括音乐都很有风格和想法，故事内核是硬伤，换肾、要饭的孩子直接让人傻眼。。。
看了点映，印象不好，算是密室剧本杀。开篇就是所谓的谋杀案，接下来就是那一老套——每一个人都是恶人，每个人都是罪人，每个人又有各自无奈。为了反转而反转，这种欲望叙事让人头疼。最让人坐立不安的是，把贩卖儿童这样沉重的题材嫁接到喜剧效果上，形成一种极为诡异的感受。
妈妈和儿子的演技都好好，对手戏很感人，母爱伟大而无私。
最后，很明显的不足是外卖员的人物、内心、动机挖掘都不太够，缺少人性的探讨，落入社会新闻的窠臼。至于后面正能量的强行升华，不要也罢。
本片催泪的剧情不多，励志的剧情点到即止，更多的是单纯讲述一个真实的故事，非常值得一看。
片子很好，值8分+。真实人物更感人，我给满分。
其实苏妈和苏是不幸中的大幸，因为他们找到了属于自己的天赋。现实中有很多比苏桦伟更残疾的障碍人士，所以有很多比苏妈更绝望的妈妈们，她们每一个都很伟大。
最后才呈现出真相。回味一下，前面埋伏了很多小细节，小线索，到后面逐一呼应。佩服！细节之处见真功。
讲故事的痕迹虽然严重了一些，但终究还算是一个好故事的。三星半。
就是拍的很无趣。
比较精巧的设计，手法也停有意思，不过，就是人物的转变还是太快了，刻意的成分在结尾的地方太浓了，就是要做成一个回环，但是其实没有也没关系
中规中矩的一部真人故事的励志电影，体现残疾人运动员的不易，演员演的也很好，不知道为什么总觉得缺点什么，泪点不够。
密室剧本杀版山寨《疯狂的石头》，但是黑色幽默的喜剧梗都没响就很尴尬，剧本的反转再反转仅是一个个人物登场后的故事拼凑罗生门，是依靠打乱叙事顺序而非悬疑推理营造的恍然大悟，再加上冗长的铺垫、拖沓的节奏、不断重复的叙事和镜头，让故事失去了惊喜感。关于拐卖儿童的严肃社会话题用在这样一个黑色喜剧里，又没有更深刻的探讨，仅仅成了反转的一番儿，就显得有些轻浮了。
11.22 完全巧合，没有逻辑。别挣扎了，咱们国家真的没有靠谱的“烧脑型悬疑”编导
所以还是外卖员背下了所有的锅，把拐卖儿童放到这里面来不大合适
擦枪即可以走火，也可以走心
讲故事的痕迹虽然严重了一些，但终究还算是一个好故事的。三星半。
剧本杀式结构，整体在剪辑和叙事上做出许多花样，极致单一空间里随视角切换不断带来反转使电影足够引人入胜，大方向上逻辑算是通顺，但几个人物和故事线都比较牵强，有无法自圆其说的细节破绽。电影更像是为范伟量身定做，荒诞的身份错位制造黑色幽默，贡献了不少笑料，但喜剧和悬疑的捏和还欠火候，最后又落笔在贩卖儿童的严肃题材上，过分强行拔高。非线性闪回叙事的因果缝合终究因更多的巧合让电影不能一嗨到底。
人物类传记篇难拍，就在于很多电影的情节拼贴痕迹太重了，忽视了很多情节上的逻辑漏洞，而是直接强行升华感情，非常不自然。
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