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".
虽说各种人设情节走向都是能想到的设定，不过整体看下来还是比较轻松有意思的小甜片的，适合拿来放松身心
星星给配角们。这个故事也......是要用莫名奇妙的软色情这张牌？正常点，有什么不好呢？
被原著吸引过来的。感觉这个改编蛮成功，剧情快起来了，无关的人物也去掉了一些。但俩人的演技真的不咋地。
就是一部很轻松的恋爱电影，俊男美女，适合闲着的时候无脑看
一气呵成的完美。突然就理解了isaac的自我流放，是因为他过去的被荣誉感与目标感所驱使和训练而成为了无我的工具，因此他的重新寻回与坚守，反而表现在日常的循环和淡然。
与《算牌人》最相像的是斯科塞斯的《爱尔兰人》，二者都在本是绚烂张扬的类型里拍出了萧索之气。施拉德那新教徒般的节制在这个寓言中显出恐怖的一面来，他的男主角的道德性即体现于这种节制，他是一个能算牌的人，能看透坐庄的美国体系里自洽的极权性，却只稍作利用以维系生活而不加追究。直到最后，他才成了真正的威廉·退尔，一个斗士。他在自由之时却似乎活在玻璃监牢里，而在监狱中反而获得了真正的自由。
剧本值得细品，前期铺垫算牌人过往的部分很老辣，不知不觉就被算牌这个麦高芬带到他的内心世界，挣扎和期望建立起来之后再推倒。Tye Sheridan的角色算是外化算牌人内心矛盾冲突的其中一方。节奏控制很好，创造出惊悚悬疑感。Paul Schrader说把男主角安排成算牌人是因为算牌是等待的游戏。不足的可能只有视听，朴赞郁拍的话可以再拔高一个台阶。
不明觉厉，但是情感上给不了高分，感觉有点雷声大雨点小。整体克制的调度挺提升逼格的，一些特别的情况的镜语，比如虐囚监狱的类VR感的场景，非常有冲击力。音乐我很喜欢，选的很托氛围，其中有些好像是奥斯卡伊萨克自己唱的？
男主好典型一白男，看多了政治正确居然还挺有新鲜感（洗眼了这年头中外影视想看主角长得周正点都难)，人设性格是我喜欢的那类虽然有点creepy，女主是我爱的小辣椒型，蛮可爱的。导演的画面色彩我都挺喜欢的，节奏也不拖沓，不讲爱情也有种单纯的好笑，在这类电影里都算是做的不错的了
低情商：小成本电影
办公室恋情。剧情实在是太简单，好多梗太生硬，死磕到底。好在定位就是爆米花轻松喜剧，又有帅哥美女搭档，比较养眼，还能说什么呢。就是女主的身高实在是一到迈不过的坎，跟男主相差太多啊
3.5。片子细碎而冗长，弥漫着一种萧索的氛围，一如主角的心境。还以为是讲述一个天才的赌片，没想到最后是一个人的赎罪之旅。这种独立电影的气质略显沉闷却又莫名的引人入胜。大反派居然是威廉达福？
男女主真的很搭，但是转折的真的太硬了，咣甩过来个包袱，很生硬的只为了推动剧情发展，四星～
不过也算是没有快进的片子，6.9/10 21/09/20
情人节老公安排的电影 就非常俗气！每一个俗气的点都准确踩到了！但是女主角颜值可以 男主角身材可以
bgm好听是真的。
是大脑的电影，而不是手的。这对玩牌的手，虐囚的手，杀人的手，在荧幕上近乎隐身。是禁止运动的电影，停滞的电影。布列松的手凿，摸，偷，是欢愉的手，冲动的手，而施拉德的手是冷漠的。大张旗鼓地包起所有家具，简朴到铺张，也背离布列松本意。刻意低调的表演不过是一种赘饰。
是我喜欢的电影风格，活泼，清新。颜控喜欢的电影。
美的都刚刚好，chemistry也刚刚好，非常棒
前面铺垫不够
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