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".
#我想做你荒漠的那个渔夫。
Total Eclipse of the Heart
男二虽然乍一看不太好看，但有一种妩媚又温柔的气质，很吸引人。整部电影节奏太慢了。
人物和故事可以忽略，风景和动物真的很美很可爱
男主莫名的魅力。粗矿又细腻，但是网恋骗感情在我脑子里挥之不去。
人物和故事可以忽略，风景和动物真的很美很可爱
想扩展一下视野，找个拉美地区的新片，看了这部。今年世界电影的主题实在是狭窄了些，和到处获奖的《犬之力》一样，本片又是探索同性、异妆群体的故事。虽然我看得还不多，仅就看到的，感觉去年世界是个电影小年，大题材、大思想、大格局的片子不多，也许该去多看看系列剧了吧，毕竟网络时代融媒体完全改变了传统影院格局，多关注网剧、系列剧也是应该的。
大猫猫和大狗狗的美好故事。如果不是CG动画的狮子和狼，那真的要给最佳演员奖！
有些比较有趣的地方，而且王朔作为编剧调侃“写书的那个王哥”以及经典的重逢有戏梗还算动了丝笑容；然而王传君诗朗诵的念白仿佛把人拉入科教频道的医疗纪录片，并且从未停歇的抒情音乐，扯了快两个小时…当然，都是「作者电影」了，也不计较我们喜欢罢了。饰演“王小莫”的是王啸坤- -害，谁还不是“番茄台古早选秀宇宙”出身的人，也算某种奇妙的荧屏重聚。希望此生能看见王珞丹和“京圈”、“大妞”、“京腔”割席的一天，姐子你清醒一点。
1668。作为一个警察分辨不出来男扮女装，我个人是不太相信的。但整个故事还是真挚感人。
#第78届威尼斯电影节# 在这片私人化的荒漠里有着太多的秘密和故事，但也正因这片荒漠的寂静与脱俗，能够让两个在错位关系中相识的人重新认识彼此。有着同样煎熬的过去，又难以看清未来的方向，这次见面意外地让两人从冲突中产生共情，从迷失中找寻希望。但整个电影在剧情布局上还是有些不足，开始30分钟才出片名进正题，最后30分钟才开始剧情发力，中间的部分则有着拖沓。不过还是很喜欢这个结尾，“and I need you know tonight, I need you more than ever…”
1668。作为一个警察分辨不出来男扮女装，我个人是不太相信的。但整个故事还是真挚感人。
以前看亲情的电影我会哭，变成现在看动物和人之间的感情要哭。
配乐用了西语的心之全蚀，双厨狂喜!
深柜崆峒警员selfacceptance的故事
一部分裂的电影，一边是如《阿甘正传》一般的爱情故事，另一边是似科教片一般的生命探寻，如果单独独立，是两部不错的题材，一个拍的细腻温润，一个拍的前卫大胆，但两者结合一起真的觉得怪异😂PS.虽然小时候的故事发生地在青岛，但你们说的是我大潍坊话！可太亲切了。
能理解男主为什么最后会跟他做一次再离开。很爱而不得，是最让人难过的。至少得拥有一次，有时候这不是性取向的问题更像一种执念（虽然被骗了但还是在他心里很想她），得到后也许会真的坦然放下罢了，可能不合适或者感觉也没那么好，至少尝试过，男主中年危机，很难得心动一次最究是错付了哈哈。电影好臭好长。但我希望有个别通讯录不要去乱骗直男，骗他们感情，男主这得亏是遇到脾气好的，遇到差的小心被打到β飞奶炸罢了。
人物和故事可以忽略，风景和动物真的很美很可爱
在如诗如画的大自然哥动物世界里，人和故事都是多余的
一名警察在经过内部调查后被停职，他在全国各地游荡，寻找自己的网恋对象。
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