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".
！真的很好看，陈默那个狗东西，活该，我的林音😭气死我了，演员都演的很好！和猎罪图鉴一个题材，和猎罪图鉴一样精彩！非常值得一看
但是他俩一起跳舞太绝了！
摄像挺厉害！但是逻辑上硬伤有点多，营造悬疑感差点意思，拿文艺范又拿得很刻意，两个重点都没抓好而且没啥信息的地方还讲的啰哩罗嗦的
文艺感可以，悬疑感不足，故事不新颖，略冗长拖沓！
咋说呢…镜头真的好生涩，感觉一下就能看出来导演没拍过多少片子，结果点开导演主页一看，果然是…有《杀人回忆》的滤镜，没有其内涵。如果单纯当作悬疑片来看也有点牵强，觉得人物在被剧本推着走，很机械的感觉。三颗星，全给那段舞。
色调不错 剪辑镜头还不是很到位 感觉应该也是没达到导游心理的样子吧 剧本也单薄
很朴素的悬疑片，虽不完美，但确实是很实在的电影了。
陈默：低配周铁
6分且作鼓励吧，烂片太多，所以这种用了点心思的片子显得格外出众，节奏慢了点，整个故事性太弱，人物的各种动机太浅薄了，都靠台词来渲染，一些设定多余且无意义，队长弄个癌症算什么意思呢？就为了不停地说时间不多了？对主线非必要的东西都是画蛇添足。编导看了些外国刑侦片，结尾那个强行反转啊，到底谁死谁活都没啥感觉了，还是那句话，整个片子故事性太弱。希望下一部片子在剧情上下功夫。
故意拖节奏，剧情藏掖。独白只有气无力没有情绪表达，和剧情配合不佳
节奏有点慢，片长太长。
感觉电影想告诉你什么，可是并没告诉我什么；电影的整个色调想反映什么，可是我也没反应过来到底是什么。比普通大电影还是好点的。
中国电影的希望，在这部电影里可以看到希望的曙光
给低分的评论我看了，基本就围绕“叙事不清晰不合理”上，好像他们个个是公安系统里的老司机。我想这演员要都换成洋人，估计那些给差评的人就个个叫好了。
芭蕾舞的优美气质确实让人感到身心愉悦，举手投足之间，将身姿展现的淋漓尽致，人的故事也扑面而来，文艺的气息非常浓厚。
让人感到惊艳的悬疑文艺片。破案并不是这部电影的主要内容，悲伤才是它的基调，用旧案追查的形式来完美串联。节奏极好，每个角色都照顾到了，它更像是一部群像戏，17年前那些人们的悲哀和17年后的悲哀如出一撤。台词说“现在没有人会那么无私为别人了”，但是真相却进行了最彻底的驳斥，过去有时代的悲哀，但是也有难能可贵的纯粹。被轻视的画像师、一腔热血却委屈的刑警队长、被困住的舞团首席、想要摆脱旧生活的仓库管理员......交织成了远山淡影。除了剧本细腻之外，夸一下视觉，镜头调度水准非常高，后期的调色也高级，质感极佳。很久没有这么走心的文艺片了，希望除了线上以外也能登上大荧幕，它值得。
一部网大，两个小时，没有一名大牌演员，但是画面质感、演员表演尺度、叙事节奏都很好，剧情不复杂，比较容易推理出来，但是比较合理。真的是出乎意料，五星鼓励。
看影评对这部电影评价颇高，但就我自己的观感而言，是一件平铺直述的半悬疑电影
有些镜头语言其实很好，喜欢林音的女演员身上的那种忧郁和眼神，两个小时太墨迹了，重情绪而少悬疑感，总体还是可以的。22.06.20
编剧: 张良学 / 贺泉 / 吴童立
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