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".
利用信息差，利用剪切，就是不太厚道的悬疑，看着懊悔
剪辑有点过于煽情，但还是非常推荐！点映不多，看到有排片别犹豫！
蛮扎实的，情感铺垫的很足，细节呈现到位，更多笔墨还是放在了母子关系，以及几个重要时间节点的比赛上，对于残疾人的生存困境有点点到为止，但整体还是很动人的
3）为了反转而反转....这片看到最后，主题是啥？看完就忘，劣质剧本杀电影。
勉强两分。《夜·店》《老笠》等片的同类，一个封闭空间，几个谋财角色，猝然相撞造成的戏剧化。空间里不断增加新角色，回放场景逐步还原他们的身份跟关系，看似狠毒阴鸷的角色，终归逃不出国产电影的限制，必须加点喜剧设定，甚至加入了为儿子手术铤而走险盗窃、贩卖致残儿童的社会话题性——加的太硬了，连窦骁的角色都在吐槽范伟为了救儿子尝试盗窃，要在一个晚上偷到几十万——这角色设定完全属于胡说八道了，可能编导就是想混合各种近年电影市场上有效/常规的调料，效果不伦不类的。此外也有些莫名其妙的桥段，比如朱珠见到陌生人张颂文就抱上去啃，被贩卖的小孩里恰好就有一个张颂文的闺女，张颂文都不在医院了，他闺女在医院干嘛？这都什么乱七八糟的？导演技法也不行，开场张颂文摆脱束缚那段，应该拍手而不是拍脸啊。胡明和蔡鹭的恶狠演得挺好
擦枪即可以走火，也可以走心
中规中矩，整体的叙事结构都还不错，多线叙事也一直环环相扣的。演员演技也都不错，只是感觉节奏还是有点拉的太长，总觉得差了一口气
剧本杀式结构，整体在剪辑和叙事上做出许多花样，极致单一空间里随视角切换不断带来反转使电影足够引人入胜，大方向上逻辑算是通顺，但几个人物和故事线都比较牵强，有无法自圆其说的细节破绽。电影更像是为范伟量身定做，荒诞的身份错位制造黑色幽默，贡献了不少笑料，但喜剧和悬疑的捏和还欠火候，最后又落笔在贩卖儿童的严肃题材上，过分强行拔高。非线性闪回叙事的因果缝合终究因更多的巧合让电影不能一嗨到底。
且不说编剧用了太多巧合，在这种特殊环境下的人物行为就没几个合理的，都是工具人
给四星主要是觉得豆瓣的分数有点低了，像这样的类型片在中国电影里不应该被支持吗？跟那些打了鸡血一样的电影比起来，这个简直不要太好。
正片开始的俯视镜头与仰视镜头拍得还挺有电影感的，也便留下还不错的初印象，哪知随后就逐渐被跳跃的剪辑手法败坏了好感……哎，《不速来客》于我终究还是没能成为《无名之辈》。
有些期待难免失望。就像是把故事板拖到观众面前，拉扯开上课，宣讲自己那些个包袱和递进。光顾着自得其乐营造悬念，不顾任何的节奏起伏和情感张力。
对国产悬疑电影不要太苛刻，这片怎么也值8分啊，4星+1星鼓励。
残疾人运动员真的不容易，由于不受重视获奖或带来的奖金无法与那些健全运动员比，但却要更努力，希望通过电影大家可以更加重视这类残疾人运动员，他们或许更渴望被关注
香港的电影真是堕落到极点,那么好的题材能拍的那么烂也是醉了
脉脉温情，陪伴成长，爱永远充满魔力和奇迹。
剧情大结构挺好的，但细节没认真打磨，小BUG不少，小偷睡着尤其不合情理。
pov用在这个故事里绝妙，制造了一次又一次的意想不到。没想到在《无罪之最》之后这么快又遇到一部pov用的这么好的片子。黑色幽默在我这里也很加分，有点高级感。
依赖巧合与反转堆叠的剧本，虽然有趣，但并不高明，贩卖儿童这么社会性的问题一笔带过实在可惜。
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