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".
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比尔问老白需要叶子吗？老白说：我不知道那是什么东西。
这么离奇的故事居然是真实故事改编，看的过程中一直提心吊胆担心老夫妇爆雷，没想到结局这么温情。
来自一个少女的慌乱青春，相比于成熟女性的美，两种女性的差异克制与奔放，很有意味，有的电影跟着故事看人物，有的电影跟着人物看故事。你会好奇这个满嘴谎话、慌乱、热烈的少女最终情归何处。
有点俗套的，但是巴斯光年好可爱5555 ps根本没注意到那个伴侣是女性，真是无语
试飞太多次穿越过度错过了挚友，然后与挚友的孙女结成搭档，真就平行世界史蒂夫
这么离奇的故事居然是真实故事改编，看的过程中一直提心吊胆担心老夫妇爆雷，没想到结局这么温情。
用双脚去丈量壮丽山河的广阔，用热爱来指引自己前进的方向。踏上征途，一往无前，乘风破浪。
擅长数学真是一件很酷的事情，退休后能有杰瑞和玛姬那样喜欢冒险、为家乡做贡献的兴致更酷。
工作了一周之后看着会很开心的电影，总是羡慕比我聪明又人好的人
不出意外是我年度最佳影片了，虽然我也很爱基耶的《机遇之歌》，但这部实在是太牵引我了。观影过程中我的心变得好柔软湿润，许多台词与情节也都恰如其分的如我所料一般，不断和我之前的人生经历深深的resonate。这是一部动态的法式生活哲学爱情图景，如此私人又强烈的观影体验，也让最近频繁思索爱情的我坚定了某种想法：我所希冀的生活在远方以及一定要和自己真正喜欢的人在一起啊～以前的我太过盲目了…以后每隔一段时间我都会拿出来看一遍提醒自己的hh
冒險的過程中，傑瑞找到了人生的意義，與妻子關繫越發親密，重新彌合了與兒子的關繫······
本中国人在看电影过程中一直心惊胆战怕暴雷怕全族受骗怕不幸发生，没想到全片没有恶人，最后是个sweet happy ending.感谢电影让我了解，世界还是有简单温暖幸运on progress.
找到一件喜欢的事并全身投入真是令人向往！！！
温情片，老白藏钱让人熟悉，希望我退休后也能有事做，应该没问题。
演绎了一出平凡的感动，年纪越大的人越理解生活的真谛。
視覺效果當然是進步了，創意卻大倒退（尤其是置於以創意與深刻見稱的ToyStory作品序列）。
好久没有看到这样老套充满人情味的故事了，结合疫情背景下更显得珍贵，生活中有比钱和赢更重要的东西值得守护。
演绎了一出平凡的感动，年纪越大的人越理解生活的真谛。
8.0分，不是稳赚的还得有很大的冒险和赌博，公式的成立是建立在没有一等奖中出的情况下，当然48中6的概率和30-35个数字里选5-7个号不是一个级别，48中6的中奖概率极低因而赌不中的机会较高。倘若本期一等奖出现了，那你要继续赌下一次不会出一等奖，所以迟早会赚回来的。国内彩票没有下滚规则，漏洞是不存在的，只有运气！运气！国外彩票出售金额大部分用于返奖，而国内的大部分是留下用作福利及体育事业，你买彩票就是为祖国福利及体育事业做贡献，并且给从事彩票行业的人员饭吃和过上好生活，而且我觉得正是因为前者才让很多人去买彩票，如果是为了后者就没人会买吧！所以除了运气和祖国事业别的就不用妄想了！
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