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".
四个少年犯的父亲设置：医院理事长、退休警局长、学校管理者、律师，设置意图明显。
导演给了一个我心中一度理想化的结局，可是现实比这要残酷的多，大多数情况是最亲密的恋人、最好的朋友最后却变成了敌人，甚至敌人都算不上的陌路人。
施暴者变成了被害者，最后反转还是压死骆驼的最后一根稻草。老师在当时知道律师儿子也是被霸凌者的时候，为什么没有表现出同情？最后其实不大能理解为什么死者觉得律师儿子更可恶啊？不是被逼的没有办法吗？最后律师儿子把他推下河这一段剧情真没必要，纯粹为反转而反转
以爆米花电影的角度看，影片算是合格的爽片。悬疑探险，机关重重，可以参考《寻龙诀》，人物配置，情节推演，都有较大的可比性，所不同者，少了点超自然现象而已。第一次看李现的戏，霸道总裁的范儿还是妥的。大头也是接地气的。在某种意义上，这片也算是导演郭子健的一场小小的翻身仗了吧，续集大概也提上日程了吧。
【21.12.3，万达，7.5-7.8 out of 10】非常合格的商业电影，有瑕疵，但是瑕不掩瑜的作品。因为时间篇幅的限制，肯定不得不作大幅度的删减。电影上保留了许愿一家三代人为了保护中国的文物默默牺牲和奉献的主干，电影里对于中国的文物，围棋，法身佛和报身佛基本佛教知识都有涉猎，要让观众在120分钟内强行理解很多文史知识，确实是比较冒险的尝试。许愿和药不然的三次比试谁我很喜欢的部分，尤其第二部分在魁市的拍的尤为好看。阿如拿饰演的反派角色这次得到了一致好评，他演的很不错，但是在电影里我觉得喧宾夺主了。李现的药不然的戏份被删减太多了，所以药不然和药来的故事线没能很好的展开太可惜了，书里我还是很喜欢这两个人物的。非常期待继续有第2部，在2021年看过的电影里这部是我比较满意的商业电影，为了平衡
剧情不够精彩中规中矩，雷佳音演技还是可以的！
整部电影的剧本设计很不错，真正的一波三折，留下一个冲击性的结尾。这全都要感谢各位实力派演员们拉动着气氛，紧跟着他们的视角投入进去。校暴事件层出不穷，本片集中将镜头投射在其父母身上，正如标题“니 부모 얼굴이 보고싶다”，看到加害者的时候，就想见识一下父母的嘴脸，必然是有相同性的。
3次反转？13次反转也救不了这片子。剧情稀烂，人物没有一个立起来——千禹熙转变得突兀，文素丽完全就是一个工具人。
3次反转？13次反转也救不了这片子。剧情稀烂，人物没有一个立起来——千禹熙转变得突兀，文素丽完全就是一个工具人。
无助无奈，我们对这种社会问题总有这两种最大的感受。就像男主问他儿子，到底是哪里开始出了问题？
勉强算是一部合格的爆米花电影，尽管每个谜底的揭晓都如此潦草，谜面设置也让人提不起太强的兴趣，但好在节奏快，囫囵吞枣的也能跟着看下去。
不太适合修改成电影，太赶落了，全靠雷佳音和葛大爷强撑着
两星半，三星其实也ok。尽管去掉了很多支线情节，但影片前半程节奏还是很赶，根源在于原著体量太大，迷你剧的形式或许更适合这个故事。最后选择以探寻佛头的过程为主线，算是做了合理的商业性取舍。郭子健是很勤劳那类导演，很多特效场面本不一定非要拍摄，但增加之后视觉上更丰富，也更符合类型片法则。后半程节奏略显松散，为葛优设计的煽情段落有些刻意，但算不上什么大毛病。雷佳音和辛芷蕾都挺不错，尤其辛芷蕾在男人戏里完全不小家子气，很有个性，两个人演商业片很有一套。葛优戏份不算多，工具性出场几次。咏梅角色好有趣。李现意外的有进步，虽然大场面对手戏提升空间还比较大。本片的票房前景很不错。
个人觉得肯定算不上烂片，但也就隔着一层纸吧。非原著党表示节奏有点太赶，光靠着吆喝一些花里胡哨的话调动气氛，这不是在纯装B嘛，细节压根没有办法去推敲呢，脑子一晃等编剧给你来反转就行。并不觉得葛大爷有多出彩，李现演的也不差，雷佳音正常发挥，辛芷蕾真是越看越好看鸭，反倒演的最好的是阿如那(郑国渠)，那段酒席看的是真来劲！
整体逻辑线还是能自治的，演员演技也不错，出于时长原因，部分节奏有点赶。
抛开性别，就是青春期到成熟时期喜欢的情感与社会桎梏之间的拉扯。学校的风纪到社会的眼光。是细腻的表达，连配角的反映也很接地气。
只要别细想，这部电影的娱乐性还是很能带动观众的，把古董局中局拍出了盗墓笔记和鬼吹灯的感觉，特效也很不错。
太难看了我不行了死爸哪里太奇怪了没有逻辑只有奇怪的滤镜做作的镜头
以前未做父母之前我可能看不下这种看似很离谱的震碎三观的电影我。但是当自己有了孩子，我会反思自己，如果是我的孩子犯了严重的错误，我是不是也会一样包庇
但是这个be我真的不能接受
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