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".
不是我想拉低分数，实在是看了之后觉得一般，还是他以前的电影好看，很有味道！高仓健版本的《幸福的黄手帕》《远山的呼唤》。。。
再回头已是百年身。【你做会后悔、不做也会后悔，只能选一种方式后悔，人生就是这么回事。】
山田洋次到现在还在拍电影厉害了，咩酱全片之光
電影人的浪漫。可惜個人覺得關於電影的部分有一點少，浪漫也還不夠。“電影是用來感受的，不是用來思考的”。“我不需要他給我幸福，而是我要給他幸福”。“只能選擇一種方式後悔，人生就是這麼回事”。
永野芽郁就值五星，谁不喜欢这样小鹿一样的赤诚少女呢！但这男主就不是东西，这样的家庭观也不是个东西。虽说如何选择后悔，就是人生，但年轻妹子还是不要轻易被年轻浪子的所谓才气蒙蔽了双眼。对疫情下戏院与电影产业的几笔带过，也算是松竹100年的时代缩影了吧。电影之神啊请保佑他们（和电影院里的我们）吧！
看得让人纠结别扭。感谢电影之神还是降临，让故事没有无疾而终，也让我看到了其中最伟大的人物淑子。
事无巨细的分镜脚本，紧张到不停跑厕所，被更有经验的人频频否定导致信心崩塌，短短一小段，翻涌起我所有关于第一次做导演的回忆。只在那一瞬间我与男主连结了起来，之后就越离越远，我羡慕他，还能成功一次，还能看着电影死去。当影评人，开电影院，是逃离过后最好的人生。咩酱，太可爱太灵动的一大和抚子，想法虽不认同，但她的勇气和爱我完全认同。这个剧本大赛，伍迪·艾伦来参加的话肯定也能得一百万。
昆仑德语字幕组译制。7.0。不算成功的一次改编，茨威格小说的精神世界并不容易改编，不如说是借用了象棋的故事。双线交叉闪回叙事并没有为平庸的剧本增色多少，没有更强的戏剧性反而观感困乏。奥利弗马苏奇比较熟悉的演员了，演技在线把一个精神肉体被囚禁的状态成功表现出来，似精神分裂一样。
北京电影节打卡。男主这种男人竟然还能娶到老婆就离谱。片子搞笑的地方还挺搞笑的，结尾还是挺妙的。
如果打破第四面墙的情节在医院病房的拉帘那里，我会更喜欢这个故事。
小田oda→小津ozu，出水宏→清水宏？桂圆子→原节子，东京故事→东京物语（多么经典的榻榻米镜头和火车），有少数几个镜头得小津之形。最喜欢的梗是“Gary裤破”，但大多数时候并没能和全场观众一起笑出来……迷影梗多到甚至会让我觉得是一种对知识的利用和剥削。剧情整体上较为老套、煽情的目的非常明显手段非常陈旧。虽然不太喜欢，但作为电影节最后一场还挺合适的。好想要永野芽郁这样的女朋友！！！0930@英嘉，2021bjiff最后一场
谁的年轻时代还没有闪闪发亮的高光时刻呢，不过年轻时候的故事比较好看，和老年对比起来也能触动人，老年的剧情就有些莫名其妙。
6分，整体还是老土的一个老年梦，山田洋次在调度上真的没啥新意了，剧本内容也没太多好点子了。
多年未见竟然没有认出彼此，绷不住阿绷不住……
昆仑德语字幕组译制。7.0。不算成功的一次改编，茨威格小说的精神世界并不容易改编，不如说是借用了象棋的故事。双线交叉闪回叙事并没有为平庸的剧本增色多少，没有更强的戏剧性反而观感困乏。奥利弗马苏奇比较熟悉的演员了，演技在线把一个精神肉体被囚禁的状态成功表现出来，似精神分裂一样。
劇情不出彩 依舊為日式誇張演技和女性角色隱忍設定 不過還是被感動的一塌糊塗…
最后结局是几个意思，被耍了的感觉，全篇妻子着墨这么多，结果最后真爱是别人吗？
能看出导演想表达对于电影的热爱可这剧本确实太陈旧了些，仔细想想这不就是一个不负责任的渣男的故事吗，不是所有缺点都能被才华二字掩盖的。不过看电影看到死真的是影迷最好的结局了.......7/10
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这才是过年该看的电影。平凡人平凡事拍出了花儿。
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