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".
剧情反转的还可以 虽然猜到了是这种反转 但处理的还挺好的
画面极度舒适，摄影相当不错，剧情紧凑2小时也不觉得拖沓，很惊喜很惊艳，既喜也悲。喜是因为内娱电影还有在认真做事的人，能把故事讲清楚的剧本，不悬浮的职业剧，能有效把控文化内核，既符合所谓“质感”又践行了“讲好中国故事”；悲是因为这样的作品居然是网络电影🎬。《白日焰火》《南方车站》《烈日灼心》《平原上的火焰》………个人觉得《远山淡影》在其之上，只不过演员没有他们出名罢了。经常看到所谓言论称审核严苛，题材限制………怎么一墙的英模人物还缺乏创作素材吗？想不想罢了。“人生像一条夜河，你在其中湍急而过，任你如何努力，都无法在最喜欢的地方停留。” 跟警察这个职业也是相呼应的，跟影片2个核心主角最后的选择也是相呼应的，已经很“文艺”了。
摄影相当厉害，故事本身有趣，演员演技也过关，相较于悬疑，这真是个不错的剧情片，是一部值得上院线的片子。女二那个演员可谓是远山淡影。
要说真是不错，色调挺高级的，故事也讲清楚了。
剧情确实太普通了，悬疑这样的话就会被一种细碎又迷乱的感觉。但是真正没劲的是脸谱化的人物性格：冲动只为查案的平民三郎老警察、满腹才华却不被理解的画像师、只为艺术献身却一直不快乐的舞蹈演员们… 累了，画面的光影好美，远远叠峦的山川好喜欢，但…嗯
画面很好看，故事内容不能过于仔细想，会有点欠缺。总体蛮好的
雾气霭霭的远山，文艺腔调的日记，疏离清冷的林音，构建了电影的基本气质，吸引我的不是悬疑，而是特别想知道拍摄地在哪儿！略提一笔的文革和三线建设成为人物的动因，仓库管理员转芭蕾舞演员和模拟画像师转刑警互为呼应，办案部分不出彩，运镜和道具上可以看出导演很有诚意，也有很多构想，融合贯通的能力一般！
雾气霭霭的远山，文艺腔调的日记，疏离清冷的林音，构建了电影的基本气质，吸引我的不是悬疑，而是特别想知道拍摄地在哪儿！略提一笔的文革和三线建设成为人物的动因，仓库管理员转芭蕾舞演员和模拟画像师转刑警互为呼应，办案部分不出彩，运镜和道具上可以看出导演很有诚意，也有很多构想，融合贯通的能力一般！
文艺感可以，悬疑感不足，故事不新颖，略冗长拖沓！
-遗憾故作文艺琐碎的独白太多，章欣的画笔也太神奇，包括老刑警私藏的磁带等等有许多只存在于导演的凭空想象中，却想让别人不顾一切地相信这是真的。
剧情很好猜，两个小时有点拖沓，有些台词很文青很矫情…但是拍的太美了，意境氛围很不错，鼓励支持一下
「女性悬疑」确实不咋悬疑 虽然力求细腻但故事有点莫名其妙 首席教库管女孩跳舞 首席被害后女孩决定替她活下去 额😓 三次身份置换 感觉在故弄玄虚 陈年旧案的引入也是离奇又随意的 整个做得很虚
富有文艺气息的悬疑片，视觉氛围营造得不错。相比于中途就猜到结局，反倒是人物的行为逻辑有些难以自洽，影响了质量
摄影很好，音乐太聒噪，没完没了的乱来。国产悬疑，3分鼓励一下吧！
有些画面是挺好看的，但情节相当故弄玄虚，言之无物。
摄像挺厉害！但是逻辑上硬伤有点多，营造悬疑感差点意思，拿文艺范又拿得很刻意，两个重点都没抓好而且没啥信息的地方还讲的啰哩罗嗦的
看的时候感觉有点好玩，这些演员都有其他大牌的影子：
结局有猜到。这不是电影版的猎罪图鉴。但是比猎好看呀。破案外壳的文艺片，整体节奏有点慢。其实回忆没必要太多。替换人生的复仇。最后居然还去甘肃了。白银案嘛？
没理由啊，凭啥要杀林音？和照相那人有啥关系，干嘛嫁祸给他？不好好当库管，成天想着杀人….
借用了石黑一雄的书名，最后模拟画像师刑警去了白银，可以拍成神探系列了。文艺风格非常独特，画面很美，逻辑基本能通，不容易了。
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