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".
非洲那段太耶和华了，本质来说这样就是演技嘛，王传君们魔怔了还是
父母是挡在我们生命面对死亡的一堵墙
有想法，虽然口碑两极分化很严重，但是看完之后再思考一下好像也是通的，并不是单纯说爱情和男男女女那些事，也并不是延时症，干细胞等等的学术问题，只是借了这些东西在讨论人生和活着这样的大问题，这样想似乎就不是那么难以接受了
角度比较清奇的片子，用了一点点超现实主义，来重新探讨这个人时常会感到迷茫的问题。从切腹自尽的关谷神奇到郭小鲁，从唱歌难听的杜拉拉到苏凌芳，演员自身的蜕变也正巧印证着这个主题。
不知道从何说起，蛮特别的。了解王朔的人一眼就会知晓，风格很明显，是他的剧本没错。整个故事很厚重，文学性很强，对生死的思辨探讨也很能引发思索。导演略有露怯，两个多小时里填的内容偏多，影像和节奏也有些问题。可能需要多些经历才能完全明白。
影片还是很真诚的。
很棒的一部片，抛开物质聊精神，就是文艺片的底子。
王珞丹太難看了 又沒演技 拖垮 加一星給老了的王朔吧 傷心
结局没收住，可能连编剧到最后都不知道怎么编了，题材挺好的，几十年的跨度故事也很丰富，可惜的就是结局思维枯竭，非常平淡且下坡的收尾，但是鼓励下给四星，毕竟诚意还是有的。
或许王朔的加持让本片增加了逼格，而选择王传君做男主还是很合适的，他就适合这种类型的演绎。
好电影一定是能调动情绪的，调动情绪的却不一定是好电影。如果导演想要表达人生的混乱、无序与终将失去的话，无疑还算成功。一切都是离别、一切都在失去、有情人成不了眷属、明白总要晚一步。
但选择二刷本杰明
看的时候，我并不知道是王朔的片子，但还是很明显地感受到了王朔小说的味道。
我大概知道你想说什么，但是你前后很割裂啊……以及，王朔他们那波儿老院派好像很喜欢这种没心没肺的北京大蜜（盘儿亮条顺，但智商不高，忽悠两句就能睡到），徐静蕾是，王子文也是，嗯，这种性癖也是挺混蛋的……
或许王朔的加持让本片增加了逼格，而选择王传君做男主还是很合适的，他就适合这种类型的演绎。
造化弄人，爱而不得，分分离离，永在心底，疯狂一念，执着永恒，生死远去，陪伴永远，可能只有经历爱情思念一人的才深有体会。探讨生死有限、爱情无限的哲理片子，王珞丹、王传君、“丁萌萌“包括父母亲、六姑等一众各演员表演忒棒了，原声音乐缠绵萦绕，非常好听。因为看预告片剪的乱，没去影院看，现在后悔了。年度国产十佳，适合海外发行或评奖。
片名很容易让我联想到《本杰明奇事.》，也有人说是结合了《阿甘正传》，我也发觉哦。
我很喜欢中国软科幻、又说话文艺像话剧的电影。
王传君的表演真心谈不上喜欢，就算在《兰心大剧院》里，也许不差但就是不出彩，始终觉得他不适合主角，配角还可以
王老朔爷，不觉已经年逾花甲了。几年没出手，重逢还是熟悉的味道。那个阳光灿烂的七零年代有诗有梦的八零年代写的都是京圈大佬们肆意张扬的青春。入学长镜头简直魂穿娄烨的清北大学。慢视快手的设定挺有意思，可惜后半段科技脑洞脱节了，生命再久远也不能比爱更永恒。
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