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".
剧情稍显俗套，动作场面不错，演员表演OK，服化道也不错，希望谢苗以后能多拍点动作电影，打个4星鼓励一下
挺好看的，但是但是一点也不爽，太憋屈了，干他呀😡
替小朋友看的，未成年人一定要在成年人的指导下观看哦。
看完忍不住装个国家反诈骗app, 做这些事的人真是丧尽天良！
中国部分是在西安拍的，雾霾，电信诈骗，这导演是在西安生活过吧
从古至今，我们都是把他们按在地上摩擦，，，以后也是。
网大中意外的精品，谢苗终于不再是演些装疯卖傻的角色了，剧情虽然较简单，但也不是欺骗观众智商的啥剧情了，反而有那么点深度。总体来说是拿得出手可以放到院线的片子了。虽然还有那么点瑕疵，比如正派永远不补刀，明明砍一刀就解决的，总能让反派复活。网大要都是这类精品，那也相当不错了。
很好的一个历史题材，剧情也不复杂，很沉稳的叙事，希望以后多一些类似《龙之战》这些爱国正能量的题材电影，前提不能翻车~
聚焦电信诈骗，属于悬疑科普电影。不仅很紧张，也很有现实意义。可以试试给老年人观看，防电信诈骗效果绝对不错。
不知不觉中当年新少林五祖的小英雄这么大了。。。这算是一部合格的网大，尤其是开篇的动作戏，反而最后的打戏有点虎头蛇尾了
这算是小谢演的这么多片子里略微好一些的，可能是题材成熟，投资和演员班底都跟得上一些～只是编剧仍旧短板，结尾有点莫名其妙的安排了～姚橹演坏蛋多了，怎么都不太像正气凛然林则徐，老觉得他会卖官贪腐，气质问题～杜玉明对打谢苗，还是有些可看的～可能谢苗想学当年的劳模刘德华，大量拍片堆积磨练，总有出头的一天～
典型的乳化电影，每一个镜头都充满了刻板的羞辱和歧视。想用美国个人英雄主义，但是却非常浮夸，0星都不为过
敢拍，题材蛮好，但主角光环开挺大，细节漏洞层出不穷，一开头的好感，看到中段儿就败干净了
每次听闻电信诈骗的事情，看到被骗者懊悔不已痛不欲生的场景时，我总会想，那些诈骗犯们难道不会去想到这也许是一个家庭所有的血汗钱，也许是一个病人的救命钱，也许是一个绝境中的人唯一的希望吗？看了电影终于知道了，其实他们都明白，只是他们已经为了利益失去了人性，甚至他们在享受着诈骗带来的畸形的快感。这一点表现的很好，足以掩盖其他的瑕疵。
主角一副臭脸从头到尾，确实跟台词说的一样“你就不能笑笑吗 ，**”。
结尾比较拉夸，强行制造悲壮，让剧情走得不是很合理
我就看看谢苗长大怎么样了......嗯.....真打我还是佩服的
国家反诈中心宣传片，片尾可以发一下二维码升华主题
情节紧凑，剧本质量不错，对群众有一定教育防骗意义。
挺不错的，不论是冷兵器互搏还是徒手打斗都属上乘，同时也叙述了历史
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