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".
节奏还是比较紧张，是一部人性恐怖片，女儿对蛋的孵化，同时也是母亲对女儿成长的孵化。精英式教育，最后让女儿灭亡，也是女儿内心体现。
咋说呢，虽然看了不到一半，就猜到后面的剧情发展，但是设定我还是喜欢的，但是本片中的人物动机，行事作风就很奇怪，莫名其妙的，智商也属实不在线。
曹东七说的没错啊，阿媚的对象当陪酒的不让碰还喝那么贵的酒，自己都有对象了，还出来干陪酒的，装清高？不是乞丐也是臭要饭的。真拿所有人当怨肿了啊
有点黑帮哲学的意味。。现在纯真的有意思的犯罪黑帮，还是得棒子来啊。。港片不行不行。。哈哈哈。。
一个小破岛上的黑道，每个人身上都闪耀着人性的光辉，他们玩阳谋，打明牌，整日眼含热泪，一往情深地相互杀戮。他们彼此都认识，经常能坐在一起喝小酒，互诉衷肠。更为搞笑的是，一个无勇无谋却有情有义的混混，被人耍得团团转，差点丢了命，却被双方视作人才争相引进，似乎能无条件得到任何人的信任，且每个人临终交代都要提到他。他最后坐上小破岛老大的位子，还要感慨高处不胜寒……韩国人是这样理解“热血”的，这部就算了，以后还是别拍黑道片了吧。
韩国黑帮片一直都是拳拳到肉 刀刀见血的真实感 都是黑帮小头目人在江湖 身不由己 与卑劣的街头一起看 会有一个字头的诞生的感觉 提携自己的大哥 与自己的好兄弟 砍向他们的刀只要犹豫半点 死得就会是自己
虚假的外衣，最终无法逃脱人性觉醒时的审判，故事看似不符合逻辑，但却感到异常真实。他的痛苦之处，也许就在于深刻的知道自己生活在自己的骗局中，却无法自拔。
真的不好的电影几分钟是可以判断的，快进拉完之后，确实不行啊。
果然还是不能相信人 要相信人所处的情况
镜头晃的头晕，故事线混论，可能小帮派太多了吧，一号演技在线，不过这种电影还是比较贴近现实的
结局太仓促，没有交代它变成人后的故事，小女主演技很好，结局替那个怪物挡刀太假了
我喜欢最后形态的女孩儿，才是真正的人，善与恶并存
感觉很恐怖，恶心以及震惊！映射现状吧！小女孩演的很好！不建议胆子小的去看。
2022是韩国电影黑帮年吗，之前刚看过《江陵》，两部电影相似点太多，都是小地方黑帮内卷，杀来杀去，警察是陪衬，行动听指挥……
争夺港口控制权这么大个事，没有千把人怼脸搂火儿，就一把小点38解决了是不是有点飘了？玩儿涅
莫名其妙的电影，事情交代的乱七八糟，一堆不知道什么时候出现过的人和人名，比目鱼是谁，被塞海胆的是谁，阿媚他女朋友为什么会去那个酒吧，男主为什么很乐于跟他的债主合伙，最后男主是跟谁合作了，为什么哲镇不把孙老直接弄死，为什么男主又要杀了孙老，浪费2小时
经过大海的一番磨砺，卵石才变得更加美丽光滑。
发现自己还挺喜欢这种类型的恐怖片诶～看完后会有所感悟，会有需要找解析的想法，故事会有点怪诞的感觉，但是就是这种无严谨逻辑的电影才会吸引人吧
“一老凯(这么多)”黄金配角老戏骨们，生计所迫接了这破剧本，韩国电影药丸。整体就是老千/新世界/恶人传/与犯罪的战争/黄海的演员们打乱重组，结果演了一部《灰太狼》。
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