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".
19年看到预告片蛮期待的，成片比较拉垮……前半个小时可以用引人入胜来形容，后半段剪辑就不行了，人物行动逻辑、行动路线、场景切换，都乱成一锅粥了……
紧凑些会好点，就像电影中自己说的一样，只是为了在艰难时刻的娱乐大家一下。
你这瞎几把改的还不如原著呢。演Lucas小男孩演技不错
男孩一家本来就是食人魔?那触发变身的原因呢？
这部剧想要表达的东西还挺多的但是没有很好的表现出来。一样的恐怖片缺点就是太老套了。
妇女权益和儿童权益经常合并出现，都是父权受害人，男权代代相传，践踏女性，污染男童
总之本片从氛围设置到剧情一切的一切都显得那么地不合常理到令人烦躁。不过本片给我的感觉其实更像一个现代背景的寓言故事，一首潜藏在美国乡村惨剧故事之下的古典叙事诗。
小男孩真可怜，可以拍部续集讲小男孩长大以后成为温迪哥猎人的故事
可算明白了，这电影烂在结尾上，当着哥哥的面弄死他爸他弟是吧？？？完全不理解，结尾之前其实还算可以一看的程度，但是结尾给整个片子糊上了一坨屎。还有中间医院老师姐弟牵着卢卡斯三人并排走的那段慢镜头给我看笑了
评分太低 期待将近两年的电影 唯一感觉最后决斗略显轻松 作为怪物片拍的很完美 屁话不多观感极好 不像某些烂片主打怪物到头来就露一面最后还有孝子洗
看睡了。看起来很努力，实则被A24系吊打。
风景特别美，摄像也不赖，就是故事太普通了……
完美的渲染，服化道 声乐音效无敌棒！
从未像这样期待一部电影，从预告片上映，到啃英文原版中篇，然后到看强迫自己看恐怖片练胆，再到不停寻找资源。今天终于看完了，我只能说真的没有失望。作为一部恐怖片，摄影与气氛的营造做得很好，最后的彩蛋(?)也很增色。豆瓣评分是别人的事情，雨我无瓜。
比较套路的恐怖剧，浪费了怪物，只出场了几分钟。
基本上和《不要抬头》一个毛病，野心极大，段子极逗，节奏极垮。贾德阿帕图就像隔离憋坏的碎嘴老太太，喜剧的包袱桥段还是很搞笑，但就是想把这两年憋的心里话嘚啵嘚啵一顿输出。看似过气演员疫情翻红赌一把，实际讲的是这个世代电影的命运：抖音比电影重要，电影要完了，大制片厂制度毁了电影，电影又不是疫苗大家真的不重要大家不要拍续集烂片了……他们好傻啊，他们竟然还想拍好电影！
铺垫细节上做的挺好，结局太放飞自我了。整个故事看上去也就只是导演突然有了一个人类遭受诅咒兽化的灵感，于是随便套了一个模版就影视化了。
从未像这样期待一部电影，从预告片上映，到啃英文原版中篇，然后到看强迫自己看恐怖片练胆，再到不停寻找资源。今天终于看完了，我只能说真的没有失望。作为一部恐怖片，摄影与气氛的营造做得很好，最后的彩蛋(?)也很增色。豆瓣评分是别人的事情，雨我无瓜。
一般般，怪兽最后才看到一下，战斗不强，看的不过瘾
影像质感和视听都很对个人胃口，故事也很不错让人想到妈妈、异形2。可惜在戏剧层面缺乏悬疑和情感张力，各种意义上都有点可惜
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