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".
看了一周勉强看完…… 挺浪费生命的……… 而且片尾曲……… 是翻唱………the cure的版权是买不到吗
完全没有突突突的枪战。不衬男主，女主唔够 hot，减一星
看片名以为是动作枪战片，看开头以为是悬疑谍战片，看一会儿以为是惊悚悬疑片，看完才知道是爱情片。
摄影美，音乐美，派派的眼睛也美，冲着惊悚或谍战来的当然要失望，是我的菜，片尾曲好好听，可是识不出。
氛围戏。各种气氛营造的很好，就是最关键信息的处理似乎显得很潦草，过度的不自然，突兀....
披着悬疑间谍片的外衣演绎爱情
老情人老同事最后的晚餐，针锋相对，互诉衷肠，镜头和剪辑将悬疑值拉满，中年版克里斯真是将气质狠狠怼人脸上，唯一让人不觉得不合适的就是两位演情侣是真的不搭。
什么狗血剧情，也就质感还不错，宝刀未老是说床戏那段么，
还可以，比男主同期的承包商好看，一个为爱出卖，一个为爱隐瞒。但不看不亏。
2022.4.22 剧本演员演技都是还不错的，只可惜导演太烂，剪辑太混乱，叙事线索不清晰。回放了很多次才大概明白电影讲的什么。女主有点老，还好几处露点了，外景也是非常美的。一个爱情片被写成谍战片就有点不伦不类了。
这个立意比较新颖吧——“特工为了心爱的人而背叛全世界”
2022.1.1晚 朝阳剧场 我的天啊我为什么会哭
都尽力了，没啥意思。唯一的价值是坦迪·牛顿上身裸。这就无法评分了。但问题是裸的不值钱了，这片子不咋地！ 幻想一下，如果她这一裸放在当年《碟中谍2》里与汤姆·克鲁斯。那真是哇塞了……
6.5分。这种倒叙的形式还是挺喜欢的，一个重大案件对不同人物的影响。但这故事设计得太烂了，男主这是为爱反叛么？整体上想走惊悚片的路子，但实际却拍得味同嚼蜡。。。你要知道你拍的是倒叙啊，都已经是过去时了，还怎么提得起观众的兴趣啊~~~Chris Pine的中年造型还算不错，但他和Thandiwe Newton完全不来电。。。
这是一个悲伤的故事，一切都是因为爱，而万恶起源来自美帝，承受的却是个人，虽然最后留下了孩子，但一切都无可挽回。。。
以为看的是悬疑、谍战片，最后发现是爱情片。。。3.0
我觉得还好啊 绝对比普通流媒体平台电影的水平高吧
太难看了，没看到结尾的时候没想到那么难看。女主太丑太老了，男主和女主都怀疑对方是二五仔，但是在两人都决定就算对方是二五仔也不出卖对方的情况下，为什么就不互相问一下呢？问一下是你吗？是你干的吗？结尾是有一点小反转，但结果竟然是为了爱情？就离谱，感觉很牵强
本季电影迄今为止最佳。非常欣赏这种配置：剧本作者有料，台词密集然而全员演技在线，摄影、音乐都有亮点。可惜导演火候不足，关键几场戏都很泄气，全靠剪辑才把节奏稳住。小学生多半会觉得这片子沉闷，又不搞笑，又没有打戏，女主还是个高龄黑人。然而女主的表演有望拿奖。
让人昏昏欲睡的悬疑片😅唯一就是觉得男女主角吃饭的那家餐厅景色真美，但没想到居然一个场景拍到底…
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