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".
即使不是凯奇粉丝，这也是一部非常不错的动作喜剧。
三星半，红毒蛇的小粉丝表情萌萌哒，演的也蛮有层次。感觉致敬（自己致敬自己？）和梗还蛮多的，剧本故事就松松垮垮吧
以自身为寓言，将电影的摄制与电影剧情的走向相融合，尼古拉斯凯奇这几年每年都能给我们带来一些“非主流化”的惊喜（如前几年的《星之彩》，《猪》一般）当然里面从尼古拉斯凯奇延展开的一些迷影情节也很不错，《卡里加里博士的小屋》 当然可以与《帕丁顿熊2》共存，电影从不是非此即彼的二元对立，人与人的关系亦然。
挺好的，希望能打响Nick Cage翻身第一枪。Pedro Pascal演的这个迷弟大佬角色太可爱了，贡献了大半笑点。//看完之后果断把帕丁顿熊2和卡里加里博士的小屋加入想看列表。
凯奇新片，恭喜偶像还完了债，恭喜偶像重回主流商业片。但是，这部顶多只能算是普通正常的喜剧，谈不上回勇，因为和凯奇的那些经典之作，没法比。作为调侃喜剧，拿自己开涮，不够狠不够深刻犀利也不够放得开。整体值得一看，就是别抱太高期待。凯奇能不能回勇，还得看他的下一部作品
太无聊了，看了10分钟删了，毫无观看欲望，一个老男人在顾影自怜，这有啥看点？以前也没演几部好电影，后来演一堆烂片，然后现在在吐槽现实中的自己，嘚吧嘚，嘚吧嘚的，有意思么？什么时候电影这么廉价了？
凯奇债务终于还清，片子虽然属于自嘲恶搞类型，但是片方正式看上了这一点所以将其发挥到了极致。总体观感类似王牌保镖，喜剧+动作的设定百看不厌。
真的是顽梗玩到飞起 导演不是凯奇的铁粉都写不出这个剧本 基本把凯奇重要的电影都致敬了一遍 连《曼蒂》都带到了 一次次突破次元壁 分不清这到底是电影剧情还是凯奇真实生活 另外就是真的别让帕斯卡再演傻子了 真的太像了 你可是红毒蛇呀
因为没看过多少凯奇的片子，所以感触较少，不能共情，只能看个热闹
一百多年来有如此多优秀的电影，这个问题的答案受限于这个季节，我现在的情绪。
尼古拉斯凯奇自己演自己注定了这是一部喜剧，他和佩德罗帕斯卡的双雄风格比较出彩，前半段很搞笑，可惜第三幕拉胯了。剧情也有BUG不能细抠。
仅有双重背叛那刻触及扮演
以为会很解构很好玩，结果整个一靠彩蛋堆积起来的凯奇个人秀，整个跟红色通缉令和王牌保镖一个模式。彩蛋方面也没头号玩家 游戏之夜 死侍2有趣。只能说是凯奇接了一部好莱坞疫情下正常制作的商业大片，在反讽自己的角度来看没有什么亮点，应该说是浪费了这种角度和题材了。
后面好严肃来着，为什么不能把乐子贯穿全片。
主线、B故事都属于三流类型片，唯一的突破是人物设置：凯奇演凯奇
3.5啊！！Nick is back!!!
戏谑 影迷 爆米花 这种电影演的再烂 口碑也不至于差了吧 哈哈
挺妙的，戏中戏，就是情节有点一截一截的，黑帮帅哥好萌，哈哈
就是部尋常的戲中戲故事 劇情其實蠻俗套的 夫妻聯手救女 落魄演員闖入殺手世界 如果沒有凱奇演自己 捏他自己的演藝生涯這個噱頭 就真毫無看頭了 不過我還是覺得兩男主角色互換會更有意思一些 審視的感覺會更濃 片中的自嘲與回擊也會更強烈 但這片兒看到最後 怎麼感覺像是給帕丁頓熊2拍了部廣告片呢
作为爆米花都不太合格，虽然致敬了一大圈，各种元素也搞了一圈，但就是，没啥意思。预告涵盖几乎全部笑点，如果不是凯凯烂片粉，还是别浪费时间了。
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