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".
其实不错，可惜我看的删减了，精彩部分没看到
一开始就得抖擞精神搞清现实与虚构，到后来就有种看疯狂的石头，两杆大烟枪之类的感觉，就是节奏有点慢
2021年11月4日观看。人物过多，看得有点混乱。
悬疑的真相平平无奇，叙事手法却挺有趣。日剧中触动心灵的小感动没有缺席，无出轨就编不了故事的传统也一如既往。
一段黑道家族史，以暴力获得利益，最后死在枪口下也是所得其所，食色性也暴力的背后都有欲望的推动，问题是渴望，生命就是解决痛苦，痛苦的来源就是不断的要东西。
3.5星，无尽的风暴，无尽的孤独，无尽的悔恨与追怀，以及面对死亡时的颓然放弃或落荒而逃间那无止尽的挣扎与搏斗。结尾部分的主题表达有些过分直露，不如面对记者时的回答。
“你相信奇迹吗？”伏线的回收一气呵成，竟然有种伊坂式的浪漫，结尾感动的一塌糊涂。卡司也表现的不错，很喜欢这种类型的作品～
就像吹得牛逼的不行的黑帮老大，其实也就是个流氓小头目，一共就那么几个手下，别说朝阳区了，放浦东新区也分分钟被灭了。
越到后期越乏力，三张假钞（鸠）串联起整个混乱的故事，渲染过多的仓田健太郎也不是啥多变态的黑老大，后面的拍手情节与咖啡馆拍手call back（源自彼得潘一书），感到一股伊坂味。总之，看到乏力。
节奏确实慢了点, 但故事讲的不错, 西野七濑是真的可爱
虛實之間，敘事交錯，不像一般傳統懸疑推理電影，用真人真事的許多小事，來吸引你的好奇，這一連串所串起的巧合，讓人覺得男主津田現實中人生如戲的遭遇實在也太奇妙了
本片是《黑道家族》的前传电影，讲的是剧集男主角东尼索普拉诺在童年和少年时遇到的人和事，那些经历深深地刻在记忆里，影响了他成年后的生活。
I'm still here
故事讲的不清楚诶，线头好多。主角前部分的危机是啥，有那么严重吗？不认可这点的话，真的觉得角色大惊小怪。饼哥还是牛的嘻嘻。
7.3。女演员都挺漂亮。最后的推理也算把几条线连贯串起来了。去掉床戏分能再高点。
除了情怀 有一种给剧做引子的感觉 名字里带圣人 做事真的狠 死得突然 就像黑道上生死一线隔的现实 下手的人我也呵呵 没看剧的各位看完这个赶快去看剧 单做电影的确比较散 但是重要人物都出来了
根據真實故事改編；
感觉故事有种“命运弄人”的诙谐感，但张力略显不足，虽则人物间有着千丝万缕的关系，但没有那种令人惊愕的感觉，有点失望，浪费了我喜欢的藤原龙也和土屋太凤
为什么评分这么低的啊？？饼粉冲着饼来看的，但是被風pon的演技震惊到了！！！虽然一开始有点点不知所云，但是有饼还是能津津乐道的看下去，永远留不住钱快成饼的固定人设了，笑死我了，导演都好抖s（脑残饼粉嘿嘿 最后开始解密到结尾真的さっぱり，让人不禁的也想鼓掌了（不是
意大利黑手党，就是狗屎！
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