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".
一些剪輯的地方還是可以蠻看出心思的，當然，也用了太多的原始影像
别说，拍的挺好，这种电影，一般一颗星都不值
虽然很俗套 虽然现实生活里这类故事根本不太可能发生 但是我好喜欢！！！
故事节奏很快，没有什么重点，但这就是重点——所有的人和事都不过是岁月之河里的匆匆过客。比起伟大，时间又算得了什么呢。
一开始没有抱期待，结果越看越觉得有意思，好玩好笑还很解气。
我以为自己不会哭的，结果最后真人影像那一下告别我还是哭了🥲
6.8。拍的寡淡了些。新人主角都没选好，hold不住梅艳芳这么精彩的人生。
还好还好，最后俩人没在一起。不然这童话可就真童话了。
2022年都过去了大半年 为什么还会出现这种搁80年代都觉得老套且太不真实的题材？？？
我觉得真很好看诶 很有趣！不懂为什么有的人纠结太假…尼玛的你当纪录片看呢？一个喜剧片扯什么真真假假….
“慢歌要唱出唏嘘” 最后一首《夕阳之歌》，却是倔强地不忍离别……
还挺好看的，女主几部电影都看过但是还真没认出来，在能俯瞰LA夜景的大房子里我也想体验孤独感。拉美人主动一家人闹哄哄很有氛围。出轨男真的演什么都很像贱贱的Schimidt，是那个角色太深入人心了吗
虎头蛇尾 细节不多但真诚 比郑恺那部翻拍的好多了
确实不能抱着想看到公民凯恩的态度来看这部电影
【Masterpiece】#84# 【粤语版】抱着重温梅姐金曲和回顾香港黄金时代的期待去看，觉得很不错很用心，特别是王丹妮的表演真的有“似是故人来”的感觉，呈现出的自然和洒脱令人惊喜，金像提名锁定一席。传记片难在人生片段的选择以及平衡粉丝的心路历程和普通观众对人物的猎奇心态，每个名人本职工作的背后其实有普通人都有的真性情甚至很负面性的东西在，这些是否影响观众对于这个人物的客观评价、对于影片拍摄的真正目的的揣测甚至对传记题材产生偏见和质疑。归根结底就是四个字，完整叙事，无论什么角度要尽可能还原事情的前因后果，同时要准确把握人物的内心活动，喜欢她是因为彼此的真情流露，而不是为了满足单方对于另一方更便利地窥探。（看完结尾的字幕和视频照片，久久不能平静，心里想的还是“她还这么年轻，怎么就走了”）
6.8。拍的寡淡了些。新人主角都没选好，hold不住梅艳芳这么精彩的人生。
女主浑身上下的cut气质遮不住了 有几场戏感觉她忍着不杀人（男主被前妻甩了回家对女主发疯没道理啊
资源名幕前情人。为什么要喜欢别人的老公？偷情很爽吗？骑车的时候专心点，别走神。葬礼致辞很温情。
除了长了点都挺好的 电影看多了就喜欢看看轻松的
维文难以跻身一线，但身材还是真好…这种不动脑子的俗片，才算得上是真正意义上的合格爆米花片，虽然俗套，但很受用
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