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".
从A片变恐怖片，是old woman被激发起来的性欲却不能有效实现，背景铺垫不够导致整个杀戮略显突兀（不过据说已有第二部前传）。满满七八十年代恐怖片味道，低像素画面，越粗糙反而却越“精致”复古啊。还有《闪灵》砍门镜头不愧是经典，又一次被致敬了。
没抱什么期待，只是个对剥削电影的剥削。当创造者思考的不是内容上的新异，拍出来的电影又怎么能够格。想到这真是对这种电影厌透了，结构狂文本狂自己开个新流派玩去吧，少用食之无味弃之可惜的老元素勾引人
finally出现了老年人需求，和老去的恐惧源头其实差不多，但这种方式就很小成本+娱乐化。
因为杀人狂是老人的缘故吗？节奏是一种诡异的慢。血腥场面非常乏味，反倒是白天的几个日常画面挺好看，模仿古早欧洲文艺片情调。导演估计想另辟蹊径来着，题材也挺深刻，就是老人的岁数太大了，走路都打颤的身子骨就算还有性欲，也绝对没体力杀那么多人。总体不好看。
片中的导演有没有拍出一部很棒的成人电影我不确定，但本片导演确实拍出了一部很棒的slasher film。
妆发:★★
恐怖片桥段大拼盘，能做延展的部分似乎都巧妙地避开了。
X是未知，这两个老人就是电视里说的隐藏在平静生活下的罪犯、恶魔。
恐怖片拍这么文艺要不得啊。看完后回过头来想，活下来的人是唯一没有当面说那两个人老了不行了的人。
小黄片还行，农场的女儿。。农场的老BT夫妇一般般
还不错，对70年代虐杀电影的复古挺用心的，开场是一个谷仓框出的4:3电视屏幕，中间用分屏、片中片和重复蒙太奇切换，突出老少两条线的对位，车灯溅血、爬床、对峙几场戏类型感十足，比芬奇、亚当计划之类的炒冷饭有质感多了。此类电影可以看成一种影像鬼屋，包袱都是老的，但氛围、质感到位，就会带动你娱乐。我反倒觉得主题挺失败的，因为真实生活的残酷远胜猎奇的“老妖”，米娅高斯分饰两角恐怕也是规避演员剥削的手段。
3.5星！老人对于自身的身体的否定，女孩对于自身的生活以及作为花瓶的事实的否定，就如同“X”这一符号，两者的欲求虽不同，但两者内在存在的否定性却是相同的，对现状，对事实，对不应遭受如此之境的自身的否定却是相同的。
我一直对贩卖血浆的砍杀电影嗤之以鼻，但是这一部比较克制，举个例子，有一段血溅到车灯上，灯光变红，于是整个画面变红。而且电影本质的反派是一种衰老的恐惧，电影中很多剪辑构图都在渲染这个氛围，你一旦注意到片中最恐怖的声音是什么，就立刻会知道这部恐怖片的优秀之处。同样，好的恐怖片我不推荐观看。
复古气质挺到位的，剧情太闹着玩儿了。就像剧中主角们想拍有电影质感的A片一样，导演拍了一部稍有质感的B级片吧。
烂番茄100%？没感觉哪里惊喜，很多情节桥段都似曾相识。。一群人去荒郊野岭，变态boss逐个击破，最后被女主反杀。。四五十年了都是这个套路啊。。
节奏不好。不过能把对人老珠黄的恐惧表现得如此恶心瘆人，也算完成制造“恐怖”的任务了吧……导演对老人充满恶意的调侃，看出股喜剧片的味道。
恐怖片拍这么文艺要不得啊。看完后回过头来想，活下来的人是唯一没有当面说那两个人老了不行了的人。
这电影让我想起一个著名笑话：用最短篇幅写一个包含政治、悬疑、惊悚、性、宗教的故事？答：oh my god 女王怀孕了！谁干的？
复古怀旧，寂静夏日，山野农村，古怪村民，大赞，惊悚度很足，满足了我对恐怖片的一切期待，有《好莱坞往事》的范，有《致命弯道》的设定，有《德州电锯杀人狂》的腔调，近几年来非常工整敬业的恐怖片，如果结尾没有降智行为绝对值得五星。
虽然老年人的欲望是正常而且应当鼓励的，但是这片子是不是让更多人对老年人欲望产生不适和抗拒？
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