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".
一场乡野怪谈的罗生门。故事还算曲折生动，结尾略显苍白凌乱。
和去年那部是一个系列吗？感觉风格好类似，其实还可以，但因为我最烦明明可以讲清楚的事情，硬是浪费在“别放，求求你们听我解释”这种没有意义的话上，然后还被反派一枪毙命……就真的太让人恼火了。
……一开始没感觉什么，还流了泪，但是但是但是到最后那里，多少擦嘴那里，真的多少达咩，正常人的情感不允许我……
偶尔从哪看到说模仿了《罗生门》的故事，有兴趣找来看，没想到超出了预期，故事情节、烘托的氛围、对人性的批判都有眼有板，群众演员也很融合，导演是用了心的，节奏紧凑，引人入胜，片尾的彩蛋让影片有了回味。不错。支持一下。
没什么特色的文艺片 清高不活在世俗规则里的无法成长的脆弱男主 永远不开口解释
没看过原著，在不知因果的情况下，本应该抽丝剥茧呈现的秘密感动，变成了明知你痛我痛他痛但却无法为他们的脆弱流泪。主演三位真的演得好一般，丝丝的情绪流动和起伏总觉得不对，桃李这是发现夺奖路线的人设密码了？但最后摸嘴角番茄酱那里，对于只看电影的我来说，真的感到了不适。
偶尔从哪看到说模仿了《罗生门》的故事，有兴趣找来看，没想到超出了预期，故事情节、烘托的氛围、对人性的批判都有眼有板，群众演员也很融合，导演是用了心的，节奏紧凑，引人入胜，片尾的彩蛋让影片有了回味。不错。支持一下。
剧本有些意思，但制作没宣传的这么好，情节的展开和叙事都存在问题。
网大才是国产恐怖片发展的正道，毕竟尺度要大一些。
一开始对这个网剧风的美术设计产生了一定的排斥，但看进去后还是不错的，只要你选一个分辨率不要太高的屏幕。特效有点五毛，选角个人感觉还是不够农村。但是，除了前述之外，我还挺惊喜的，上一部让我惊喜的国产电影是只有芸知道。国产电影能做到这个份上还是相当有水平的，不论是惊悚部分还是最后的落脚点，既有冤冤相报的宿命感，又有人性丑陋的现实感。最后不知是一场梦境还是一个轮回，终究留给观众一个美丽的表象，让有情人终成眷属，不受穷山恶水之刁民造成的无妄之灾。编剧好，摄影次之，声音次之，导演再次之，美术最后。称不上罗生门的多视角，糅合光怪陆离与人性本恶，节奏把握得还是不错，视觉效果和适当倾斜的镜头还是体现出了一定的水准。感谢惊喜！
很喜欢原作小说但是这个拍得实在是有点……莫名其妙
有如《三言两拍》的话本故事，用的是东北世俗怪谈的底子。表面上讲狐妖鬼怪，里子却道尽人性的幽暗复杂。借用黑泽天皇的《罗生门》架构，几个版本的故事真假难辨，以小见大，环环相扣。网大故事有此格局，实属难得。
三个版本的故事，其实是重合的，外来户发达以后在大旱三年里一直救济村民，旱灾过后不再救济村民大怒。大婚前夕下药绑走了谢的未婚妻要送给山上的土匪不料未婚妻及其儿子路上醒了，你追我赶被赌徒二号掐死，儿子也被他扔下悬崖，帮工与其同归于尽，半仙也就是赌徒一号选择落草为寇。谢看到妻子尸体依然选择办冥婚。后来村子发生了瘟疫。
特效和剧本在网大中属于比较出色的水平了，看得出来认真做的电影。
大陆来说真的很棒了。好几年都没有这么用心的编剧和演员了。不再是帅和美，而是各具特色。
又看了部烂片，无语，怎么谢锦时帅时丑的....
至于说细节和惊喜度方面，确实差了点
有如《三言两拍》的话本故事，用的是东北世俗怪谈的底子。表面上讲狐妖鬼怪，里子却道尽人性的幽暗复杂。借用黑泽天皇的《罗生门》架构，几个版本的故事真假难辨，以小见大，环环相扣。网大故事有此格局，实属难得。
烦透了讲有钱人的故事，有钱人善良，穷人不知好歹
人们只能看到想看到的东西。善意被曲解成恶意，理解会变成误解。雨点落在书上，你看见了我，我看见了你。
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