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".
含金量不高的非硬核文艺悬疑。80年代的滤镜很吸引人，但有些架空时代的意思，缺乏创意性上的大胆和开放，观念上显得拘谨寡淡。必须承认确实有明显的bug,好在对观影整体影响有限。需要强调陈默这个杀人犯身份更像是电影为了推动谋杀事件而刻意制造出的一个角色，硬装进剧情。杀人动机颇为勉强，而且座位性格偏执的杀人犯，他的非正常行为必然在其日常过程中有迹可循。而电影显然对这个人物缺乏塑造，也因此让电影缺乏说服力。国内悬疑/警匪跟韩国此类类型片相比依旧存在差距。单薄的角色让电影缺乏张力。看完第一遍肯定后面不会有兴趣再看。
林音希望严华走出自己的生命之路。
甘肃有任务，连环凶杀案。导演，把文艺片和悬疑犯罪片好好区分一下，我知道你想埋“白银案”的伏笔，如果你能区分出来，或许就会打造出自己的招牌。
看在场景比较美的份上勉强给及格，故事和叙事真的是烂得一塌糊涂，网络大电影拍两小时，真的受不了，开屏倒是很吸引人，也就仅此而已
就这么一个简单的故事，叨逼叨叨逼叨的故弄玄虚了两小时，也是够累人的，漏洞还多到不可细数……
画像师画的也太像了吧，看照片画的？国产破案悬疑片算不错了。有个别镜头比较假 - 比如徒弟整天说师傅该升官了，难道是恶心师傅的? 警察在凶手照相馆看到那么多胶卷，后来证明是凶案现场拍的，之前就没看？非要等画像师画出来。
悲伤的故事，戏里每个人都活得很悲伤。案件本身的真相反转没那么惊喜，真相揭开之后更显剧中人生之挣扎。镜头色调和光影非常美，国产悬疑里算佳作了，看完觉得还是很值
五星！色调氛围都很高级，导演好审美。影片里芭蕾舞的优雅之美正映衬着严华与林音两位女性之间的人性光辉。
推荐电影《远山淡影》。讲了三线城市/小镇的不容易。请大家多支持艺术事业，支持音乐、舞蹈、绘画和戏剧影视！
逻辑是比较弱的。有一种理想化了的自圆其说之感。可是，穷尽自己的一生去接近梦想，这本身，既是一种悲壮的挣扎，也是一种涅槃式的自我救赎。
虽然是小成本制作，也没啥推广，但剧情设置、演员表演、场影服化道都很不错，推荐
破案过程稍逊色。有坑没填耶。但是个好故事。
其他剧里的头儿是又能吼又有真本事，这里的头儿……
2022年最优秀的国产悬疑片之一，具有文艺色彩，结局反转，《芳华》+《杀人回忆》
感觉有《杀人回忆》的影子 也不够悬疑 一开始就猜到故事走向了。
逻辑是比较弱的。有一种理想化了的自圆其说之感。可是，穷尽自己的一生去接近梦想，这本身，既是一种悲壮的挣扎，也是一种涅槃式的自我救赎。
难得的一部国产悬疑片，镜头处理得很唯美，道具也非常逼真，情节基本合格了，只是有个疑问，林音是死在芦苇荡里的，严华怎么会找得到尸体并埋葬？难道是一路跟踪过去的？
得益于周楚楚的表演，严华的一些际遇和舞台顶替的一场戏略有光。
靠后期给3🌟吧
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