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".
可惜了一个好框架和好题材。多重反转，密闭空间，人物众多，善恶难分……却很遗憾的遭遇了节奏拖沓，剪辑混乱，导致气氛出不来，情绪提不上去，观众也无法一秒入戏。此乃悬疑电影的死穴。更遗憾的是，拐卖儿童如此严肃严重的话题，并没有在故事中起到更大更升华的作用。
居然有点烧脑，反转过瘾。小孩出来那一瞬间快破防了，为人父母见不得这些。愿世间光明多一些
挺好的剧情，拍的太松散，有些镜头真没必要。
还不错诶！筒子楼，霓虹灯，身份特征明显的几个人聚集在同一间屋子。封闭空间小成本黑色幽默犯罪悬疑电影，多线叙事加精彩的多个反转，剧作逻辑清晰，每个人的行动线也在叙事中逐渐明朗。但觉得最后结尾可以处理的更好，好像哪个方面都差了一口气。总体还是好看且精彩的！
近半年了，唯一一部一次看完的国产电影，不是看不下去弃了就是第二天再看。
还有莉莉，她的酒窝很漂亮，和梅婷一样吧 我很喜欢她笑。这里，她对外卖小哥倒是很用心，发现不对劲就让他走，然后就是老范。
彪叔像一根定海神针，牢牢的稳着整体节奏，这种角色感觉都不需要使劲就比张颂文的“刻意”来的更有功力了，从演技上窦骁绝对要感谢老爷子带得好，所有演员在这种黑色幽默的彪叔营造的调性下，都特别合适，没什么太大的问题
完成度不错的黑色喜剧，故事不复杂，导演在叙事方法上下了大功夫。感谢盗梦观影！@橙天Luone
别带太高期待，这是一部故事能讲圆，完成度还行，在一众求哭求爽求歌颂的轰炸中有点显眼有点另类的黑色小片罢了。
这个就属于不该拍电影的剧本，107分钟全靠张一凡的剪辑，不然估计一塌糊涂。悬念全靠剪出来的信息差，各种重复和无效的信息，比如制造两个人贩子的故作姿态，没有戏，只有状态。全片没有人物的纠结角力，逻辑上也各种Bug。
整体框架其实还是很有意思引人入胜的，但太多让人出戏的内容了。猜想是编剧赶deadline没时间给糊弄了，不然能给四星
不管谁拍的电影涉及到倒卖人口犯罪，不论拍得水平如何，我都必须帮帮场子。
一个房间，不同人物进进出出，各有目的——这是舞台剧的常用手法，没有什么新创意。本片试图以小博大，以低成本获得高票房，部分成功了。
小成本电影。范伟的声音哪个片都这么有辨识度。
范伟为主角的电影，加上窦骁和张颂文，整个卡司还是很值得肯定的。看了一篇文章说这部电影，导演在电影表达上做了很多小动作，可以说在人物和人物之间，段落与段落之间建立了一种互文关系，这种互文又和不同人物的善恶选择相挂钩，这么看来这还是一部蛮多导演心思的作品。但是故事本身缺少新鲜感，插叙手法已经被用烂了，而前面揭穿人物的倒叙又增加更多迷雾的手法也显得太过刻意，让故事显着死板而臃肿，浪费了之前所谓了灵动的构建。 20211218
有想法，有话题，有反转，小成本电影里算不错的。
影片前半程的节奏、叙事和喜剧效果还是蛮不错的，然后逐渐泄气、拖沓，慢镜头太多审美疲劳。范伟老师最近作品超多啊，水准依旧！
这种叙事结构已经不稀奇了，但整体节奏把握得还不错，有些巧合点实在有些强行，就比如张总和小马同村认识那一段-_-有些场景拍得还挺赞，比如小孩子们蒙着眼唱歌那一段-_-演员的表演还是挺加分的，私心为这种国产小制作加一颗⭐
7。孩子出现的时候心漏跳半拍，感觉整个故事都被颠覆了。整体依赖太多巧合，结尾有些乏力。但在近年的悬疑电影中还算不错。不如《扬名立万》。
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