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".
NPC是程序猿的情书，电影是游戏人的情书。游戏梗是看不懂的，但电影梗足以说明美国人在电影这件事上有着最强底气有着当仁不让的文化自信。几度爆笑。男主有着天杀的纯良和浪漫，当努力打破所有NPC身份能力限制，最后还是坦然选择做一名助攻工具人，拉着好基友快快乐乐活在天堂里，好洒脱好通透。
年度最佳，世界观与小致敬、有趣创意与扎实细节并存。最后一番儿太感动，我爱你就是我的每一个分身都会不可救药地爱上你，但爱也是放手是成全。“爱你是写在我程序里的设定，我只是一封写给你的情书。”程序员的极致浪漫莫过于此。
对这种设定没有抵抗力，就像40年代有《街角的商店》，90年代有《电子情书》，这大概就是新世代的代码爱。但真的过于迪士尼感，看完的感受大概就是：啊今年的迪士尼动画真不错。
真实世界怪奇物语小哥的暗恋才动人啊。和今年看过的一篇文的男配情节几乎一样，但那个崽没能打过绿茶攻，为受设计的支线剧情最后一个人默默又改了回去。当时就扎我心了，这里给了个he，我谢谢你TAT ps跳舞妈宝笑尿了😂
赛博版《楚门的世界》，20世纪真是收归米奇了，漫威和星战的梗随便玩，所有角色设置其实都有点儿NPC，没什么背景和发展，不过这片子其实也就是爽就够了。
还蛮喜欢这个故事的，从NPC爱上玩家，到NPC全部消失，唯一的问题就是，从真爱之吻开始，就变得太假了，编得太美好了，不过不管怎样，那个保安是个英雄。
蛮惊喜的，成品效果很好，很搞笑；Joe演的蛮好的，脱离了《怪奇物语》的影子，演的不外放，微表情很有心；雷诺兹演的很npc；Jodie大银幕首秀！超级棒！尽管没有突破之前演戏方式和角色设定（商业片没办法），演的很真实很自然很纯真很可爱，虚拟角色造型超飒，真实角色超萌，微表情和当年演《肥瑞的疯狂日记》的时候一样🉑️！还有很重要的一点是没有随便就减肥，脸上肉嘟嘟的轻轻咧开嘴漏出来一丢丢牙齿认真看着镜头太可爱了啊啊啊啊啊啊啊
比较零碎，世界观设定、观念、人物、观念都比较普通，靠调皮台词醒脑，钱老板骚舞和dude脑残比较好笑。让人想起、但又远不如楚门和头号玩家，没觉得这致敬有多好，只觉得好像是有点玩砸了。两星半
21_170。这也太俗套了，当我看到主角对所有角色你们可以有自己的想法，我忍不住翻了个白眼，是的是的接下来是想说平民也要活出自己的精彩是吧，这也太说教了。说实在这种NPC有自我的作品还不如《偶一天》的设定有意思。其它也没什么好说的，就是部合家欢电影，看完就看完了，但没什么意思
The True'Guy' Show，《楚门的世界》+《白日梦想家》游戏版。人与机器的区别在于对死亡的恐惧；而人与行尸走肉的区别在于对生活的信念。当NPC的自我意识觉醒，从一成不变的程序设定中跳脱出来，又留有很多代码设定的习性，这笑点就海了去了。死侍同志也确实找到了自己的戏路，演技模式化会因为笑点槽点的不同环境不断更新而不至于那么显眼。美队梗更是笑炸，也因为游戏的设定，各种天降神兵烂技法全部变成笑点，就熔的还是不错。你也可以反向再拍一部现实生活丧失信念，去GTA罪恶都市找回自我的片，希望你不要随着年龄的增长而活的甚至不如NPC，保持信念，人间是地上的繁星（植入）。
The exact corny ass Hollywood type of shit that I need
前面的设定酷毙了，越到后面越拉胯，直接变成俗套爆米花
重新认识世界，才能找到你想要的生活，也许完全可以换个方式。
重新认识世界，才能找到你想要的生活，也许完全可以换个方式。
9.10 3.5 标记错类别了重发//观看体验很不错，不用细想的一类。小变态游戏造型好像童话镇巫后啊……
前面的设定酷毙了，越到后面越拉胯，直接变成俗套爆米花
在原创性上这片子还不如前几天国内网大《硬汉枪神》。
虚拟里，戴上墨镜为爱升级，炫酷城市数字罢工自我觉醒，非玩家角色也能拯救世界；现实中，代码被偷生活无望，打开电脑自由穿梭找寻秘密，失意的男女亦能成为主角；生活是局电子游戏，享受每刻人人皆可成为主角；你我皆是西西弗斯，打碎巨石方能享受英雄片刻。
开学前一天我们三个去电影院，三个位子grw坐中间，看一半爬下来和她爸爸挤一张椅子去了。说我一点点想法都没有也不太可能对吧
是谁写了我，要表达怎样的爱，做NPC好痛苦，我也想被解锁。
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