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".
前半小时跟拍女主进入疗养院，结识47岁便患有阿尔兹海默症的男主。
对于新冠很真实的写照，讲一个故事，记录一段事件，拍的真好。长镜头+虚焦把焦虑和无助完全表现，朱迪演技真棒！今年已经好几部大片了，大火！
题材相当不错，触碰社会敏感话题，相比相同题材养老电影，故事深挖不够 ，缺乏亮点 。
其实拍的挺一般的，但是却能感觉到真实的崩溃。。
中国医生yyds《中国医生》电影拉垮
20分钟长镜头让人难以喘息 对比出来🇨🇳真的很强大
哭成牛，尊严是对生命更高的敬意，如果《中国医生》能理解这个本质关系，就不会把好政策拍成那种洗刷刷的感觉…
不宣扬英雄主义，不过分强调正能量，而是从一个特殊人群的角度来看C19对人们的伤害。这才是疫情的正确打开方式
如果没有最后二十分钟，这其实是一部能打4星的片子，尤其是摄影非常出彩。半程的时候我甚至都忘记了腐国的辣鸡抗疫政策并开启了身为医护的共情模式。但是这最后二十分钟真的让前面所有的努力都白费了。你当然可以有政治主张，但是这样直白的政治表达是非常幼稚的，这甚至让片尾白纸黑字的数据都失去了真实的力量。这他妈根本就不是个别政党的问题，这就是你们制度的问题，shithead！
被遗忘的他们，or被选择性抛弃（战略性放弃？）的疗养院，我们习惯了feel sorry for them unlucky people，但却没有付诸行动。
早就受够了伟光正那一套，像援助这种少一点套路的多好
热评可拉倒吧，什么样的人才会天天把洗脑一词挂在嘴边啊。
作为一个利物浦球迷看这个真是欣慰啊，阿尔茨海默病的男主哪怕忘记自己母亲的死亡，都不忘利物浦队辉煌时期的主力队员名字……朱迪科莫奉献了去年年度最佳表演，那26分钟的一镜到底，确实直戳人心。一部电视电影，预算肯定不会太高，朱迪作为一线的演员，还可以回到家乡接这么一部戏，还贡献这个级别的演技，真是让人动容啊。格拉汉姆这个角色，最后没有结合利物浦时隔30年的夺冠，有些可惜了。关于疫情中的人和事，以及国家政府的表现，本片已经给出了比较完美的答卷了。我不想拿某片拿来对比，因为那片根本不配！
他们将灯光照向了弱势群体，他们不是新闻上滚动的数字，而且真实鲜活的个体，每个人的离去都是冰冷黑暗的切实痛苦。最后的独白是一种无力的控诉，而我们却想为这种无奈的勇敢鼓掌呐喊，这部戏里的朱迪演得太好了！
看到Jodie饰演的护工在照顾了一夜的感染新冠病人之后痛哭的时候
不知道后人以后看到这段时间的新冠电影，是什么感受。
挺写实，也挺揪心，因为是短片合集，确实有点割裂，如果是肯洛奇拍估计我会看崩溃。
上海疫情加重的时刻看这个剧很有感触，不过好在奥密克戎致死率已经大大降低。一部反映2020年新冠在英国爆发期间，养老院感染的悲剧故事。主人公是一个刚刚受雇到一家护理院做护工的女孩，在护理院大量护工和老人被感染的情况下，她不得不在夜班期间独自面对照顾病危老人的工作，而医院又无法派出医生，只能求助护理院里一位四十多岁尚显健康强壮的阿尔兹海默症患者托尼。在老人陆续死亡女孩也被休假回家时，她私自带出了托尼，自我隔离在一个度假区的房车里，但最终他们都被警方带走。该剧故事不算完整，但纪实地呈现了新冠对英国的冲击，质疑了英国政府对护理院机构支持的不足。
态度真诚，直接问出问题，不是随大流和歌功颂德的电影，片尾三组数据展示让人深受冲击。
朱迪科莫表演吸睛，就是口音英语有点难受。
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