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".
戏里有当下特别缺少的真挚细腻的情感。突然特别怀念不被手机打扰，人和人之间只能通过面对面交流产生感情的时代。
生活再难但也可抱有善意和诗意。电影很法兰西
就做的挺到位的小成本既视迷影推理，几乎片中所有亮过的元素都有回响，像那个致敬闪灵破门经典镜头，跟最后的老照片收尾就回响了一把，甚至片头贴片预告片还有投钱的韩老板贺岁档的画外音背书：这回该轮到我们扬名立万了！总得来说，还是完成的比较有意思的一个东西。
我觉得这是国内为数不多为女性群体发声的电影。
温柔感性笑起来很好看的母亲 与一家人在一起的淡淡温馨 看完感觉很治愈 爱真的是人生解药
看梗概觉得点子不错，看剧本觉得差点意思，没想到成片比预期还低（还好没投，扫了眼根本没人投只有制作方）表达有深度但又没有那么独特，无论是拍电影还是里面涉及的社会议题都是草草了事，当然不深刻也不意味着下沉，还是下不去，观赏性一般，123分钟大概30分钟有个笑点，掐头去尾不如弄个短片，本身创意就很短片，不足以支撑两小时。这种高不成低不就建议选送平遥，还能搏个好彩。跟剧本杀也毫无关系，剧本杀是带入角色，能入戏，这只是围观一群人开剧本会，强设定的情境，情感上很难共鸣；其次是视听设计跟立意表达毫不匹配，用电视剧网大的普普视听去讲一个拍电影的故事，不知道该说导演是新手（好像也不是）还是导演对电影的理解就这么个程度。形式类似的很多，同样表达只想到《一步之遥》，还是比《一步之遥》好看点。
数字电影机和超8胶片记录下来的不同画幅的画面好像时空交错恍如隔世，看完好像在春天沉醉的夜晚躺在草地上听完诗歌和虫鸣鸟叫的合奏，也像看完沈从文或者郁达夫的书。也可能是我对是否催眠有着主观而尖刻的区分。谢谢人们选择拍电影，谢谢导演致敬侯麦，谢谢你选择爱我，谢谢你巴黎🎬
他们去看《圆月映花都》，在屋顶聊到它，巴黎的柔和夜色，生活中不经意的一瞥、一次相遇，导演将温柔贯彻到底了。
现在看到这种片子想的竟然是“这么多暗喻和讽刺居然能过审”。是我不对劲还是这个时代不对劲了？
paris paris paris 每一个元素的堆砌都是在向巴黎示爱 巴黎我爱你的正确表达方法
不过还是一个优秀的“视频”，电影语言几乎没有。
电影最后李家辉终于看到了真相。
我知道为什么会有喜剧悬疑这个类型了，是为了让演员浮夸的表演可以被说成是喜剧效果。
有些地方确实能让人发笑，但更多时候我却只是在叹气。好在几处反转比较奏效，而片尾的部分或多或少也能看到导演的野心。
我看来是标准的三星半电影，这个电影优点是剧本做的完整细致，缺点肉眼可见的穷；镜头语言太单薄了；导演功底实在不行，演员也太一般了。 前面有些废话，例如发现齐乐山是凶手也太磨叽了，李达爬通风管道的镜头太长了可以改进。 为了反转的惊艳齐乐山前期应该亦正亦邪，中期应该更凶恶让人感觉他就是真正的杀人犯。但是电影一上来就感觉齐乐山是好人有隐情，看到最后也只能给人一种果然不出所料的感觉。如果这个角色换成孙红雷在全民目击里那个感觉就比较对，但是齐乐山是全剧戏眼，现在差意思了，所以电影也差意思了。当然主要是导演的锅，在搞笑上花了很多没必要的废笔（比如跳舞那段整个没必要）。梗很多，但是很多是没必要加的梗，看到了《闪灵》《无间道》等众多经典镜头/台词，甚至还有爸，我回来了？ 很多演员表演痕迹挺重的，实在出戏。
每一次，我们都只是外来者
被离婚的单身女人，带着两个孩子，之前没有工作经验，人生重启……这样的故事，法国人拍出就可以这样，一点都不酸楚，依然的浪漫，依然的优雅，依然的温馨，亲情爱情工作一样不缺，生活就应该是这样的！
不只是夏洛特，小女孩也好好，再加上这个演员水汪汪大眼睛本来就很像欧吉尔，中途也有圆月映花都和北方的桥，公交那场戏也好冬天的故事；Hers还是适合拍这种没有现实性的电影，选的音乐也照样对我的胃口；好久没看电影看哭过了，可能也是因为圆月映花都吧，都是莫名打动我的电影，看到最后有点希望不要结束。。。
剧本杀式的剧情和展开，若是都能说成开创了一种电影的新类型，那电影的本质和地位可能需要都重新评估。
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