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".
二战谍战剧为什么跟国内抗日神剧一样搞个占比大的感情戏，让整个剧本末倒置，一点都没有二战关键战役前的紧张感，压迫感。
二战故事迷！英国小幽默到处都是，拍标准照那里快笑死了。
为什么要加入那么多婚外情戏份，我想看的是精妙绝伦的战争故事！
感觉纪录片可能会更有意思……
惊心动魄的历史事件也能拍得这么平淡 堪称本事
这片脑洞大开，不失为对未来的一种想象！类似天使爱美丽饱和度超高的家居设计。机器人写的人工智能之诗。可更换纹身与智能模拟味道的香水。Cosplay梦露的女主人。会写字已经是未来世界的文青。吃的小零食是烤蟋蟀。可以克隆替换的小狗智商堪忧。飞行汽车和无孔不入的tailored ad广告。人类是有缺点的生物，机器人的阿克琉斯之踵是芯片。发明了机器人，却惨遭背叛。恐怖谷效应。果然随意可调智商（降级为1）的是人类的好朋友，譬如那个可爱萌哒哒扫地机器人，人类还是喜欢智商碾压的快乐。爱因斯坦机器人的话唠模式。
搞一个情报员最好的方式就是放一个迷人的异性在身边
热内果然是个拥有无限「低级恶趣味」的导演（无论《天使爱美丽》还是《黑店狂想曲》）。我曾大胆预言，这个男人总有一天会用一部「反乌托邦喜剧」来满足他个人所有的「怪癖」与「私欲」。不幸言中。科幻外壳包裹下的各种荒诞的、猎奇的、无厘头的、光怪陆离的「法式浪漫」，没点毛病的人真的难以消化（庆幸我有毛病，消化起来不费劲）
又好笑又无聊🤦♀️求同款Tom机器人，我需要他来帮我整理房间🤪
好家伙这么个小故事塞进多少元素啊，演员演技大赏。小胡子的间谍系统等于没有，让各种忽悠瘸了，还不如死脑筋就守该守的地方。
有一种在看未来真实世界的惊悚感，ai拿捏人类🤭
又是一则科技隐喻，但是娱乐性非常强。借用推理片常用的密室逃生类型，讲述科技的异化性，非常讨巧，也非常实用。
好烂，人物的好或坏都非常无厘头，觉得是单看剧本就能先把人无语死的程度，视觉呈现出来就更让人无语了，看烂片的时候就时常思考投资制作的意义，视觉废料的生产也是某种资源浪费吧...汗颜......
很早就从袁老师那里知道了这次绝妙的行动，观影时自然好感加分，一些细节还是处理的相当不错。
制作精良，演技到位，可惜一个本来应该跌宕起伏扣人心弦的故事被拍得黏黏糊糊拖拖拉拉，真是非常遗憾。有点想看德国那个情报大佬角度的故事。
制作精良，演技到位，可惜一个本来应该跌宕起伏扣人心弦的故事被拍得黏黏糊糊拖拖拉拉，真是非常遗憾。有点想看德国那个情报大佬角度的故事。
3⃣️傻女婿的形象太深入人心，总让人感觉不太聪明的亚子
法国果然是喜剧天花板，满屏幕的哲学思辨问题让人难以自拔
幸亏智能机器人也继承了人类的漏洞，否则不好收场了。
一般般 ，看过之后令我记不住名字的电影。
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