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".
视觉风格很浓烈的恐怖片，可惜剧情很低幼最后的人物反转挺无语。。。
很喜欢女主演王真儿的表演，坚毅的气质都有很好的诠释，又美又飒！
第二部比第一部《城郊的第一边》好笑多了，最有趣就是他们在酒吧讲的那个关于鹦鹉的笑话，还有商场卡丁车追逐赛还是场香蕉面包的道具赛，拍得很新颖，另为还有每部双男主必有的睡一张大床房的搞笑情节，开头勾引心理医生那段也蛮刺激的，车顶割头笑死，最后讨厌黑人的白人市长自己也顶着一张大黑脸太讽刺意味了，法国这个系列10年出一部，演技也不减当年，搞笑情节更是有了大大的提高，他们的对视也越发感性了，期待第3部
以为是儿童恐怖电影所以才点开的 结果还是被吓到了 没看完
配乐挺好听的，就是总感觉有股小时代味儿……
这个评分这么低？不可思议，被朋友安利到，刚看完，哭的稀里哗啦，民间故事结合鬼怪力神剖析人性，看到最后才反转的好片子
还行吧，最终能自圆其说还是比较有逻辑的，氛围营造也ok，女主气质挺大气👍
男孩儿的尖叫有点吵，糖果女巫和时尚女巫的造型不敢恭维，剧情还行吧
年龄分级7+。。看完感觉很平淡，只能说是合格的儿童恐怖故事类影视吧，主要是为了krysten才关注这部电影的
小朋友恐怖故事（什么小朋友会敢看恐怖电影），鸡皮疙瘩的风格，（过于）简单的表演方式，每个小故事都挺有意思的
出乎意料，我几乎是不看国产惊悚片的。近两年看的也只有河神系列，但这个故事确实还不错，虽然用了的都是不知名的演员，但演技都是在线的。唔，到最后还有点忧伤。最可怕的哪里是鬼神，都是人………
看到中间真以为你们要共同进步奋斗双双得奖顺便谈个恋爱😭凯特你为什么不相信她😭
算是不错，只是这片子受众到底是谁呢？克里斯滕的角色一早就猜出来是独角兽女孩了，最后的反转没啥精细。
我太热爱这种儿童向邪典了，看冒险小虎队长大的影响。
刚看完，在恐怖片里还算是不错的，到最后水猴子救孩子那里很感人。
前半小时还是可以的，提高了我的期待值。时隐时现的猫奸细增添紧张感，但中后段乏力，沦为儿童片但偶尔又重口血腥。最后变成儿童演绎的暗黑童话。两边不讨好。
气氛营造的很好，虽然糖果怪兽根本吓不住我滴。同类影片安妮海瑟薇的《女巫》也不戳。看结尾的亚子，期待续集。好像养一只隐形的🐈，注意别喝咖啡就行啦。
有些刻意了。。 过于耍宝，也不是很懂为什么女警察突然就成了反派
感觉这个剧情已经圆的挺努力了，相比之下，好电影了
故事编的在网大中真的还可以啦，看到最后竟然有被感动到！弟弟还真中国版《水形物语》了😂
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