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".
病患做到的，政府却做不到或不愿做，这个讽刺很揪心。
Jodie 可太能演了/角度选得不错 但不是很理解负责人的人设崩塌
-女主演技太好了 脸也好好看
中段长达20分钟的长镜头太过出色，描绘的却仅仅是疫情之下再简单、真实不过的场景，然而在我看来其压抑、惊悚的程度更甚于现如今一众恐怖片：凌晨三点半几乎只身一人的看护院之中，闪烁的走廊灯、肯尼急促的呼吸、不断转接中的电话，这一切构成了这全片最为绝望的一幕（有几个瞬间给我以很强烈的mgs v中亲手杀死母基地被感染士兵剧情的即视感）。同样朱迪-科默在这段惊艳的演技更是这一段最后也是最完美的一块拼图。可惜的是，第三幕带着托尼出逃看护院的情节实在脱节感过强，也抛弃了之前犹如无声呼救一般不断浮现help字样的空镜，而最后萨拉在警车中通过戏内的台词对着镜头外的英国政府进行批判、呵斥的一番发言，则显得编剧表达诉求与立场的欲望太过直接而直白。
一开始听到几个角色的口音就猜到了大概是英格兰西北部，民风淳朴不像伦敦国际都市范，更有英格兰本土的气质，这部片子算是把普通国家应对新冠的无知、无奈和无力展现的淋漓尽致，结尾好绝望，小变态片中几段长镜头怼脸拍演的太好了，那种无助慌张和不安情绪直接溢出屏幕，算是新冠题材的电影里比较好的一部了
五星的理由1 电影没有聚焦在疫情的主战场医院，而且选择了千千万万个疫情已经蔓延到但人类却束手无策的地方。五星的理由2 中间的一段长镜头，女主角在黑暗中孤立无援绝望得到处求助但是很遗憾事实就是这些人无暇被顾及或者说已经被放弃了，这样的场景是疫情刚刚爆发时无数个中国人的缩影。所有的镜头冷静又克制。
一些不好的事情在发生，大家都能看得到，但有有人假装看不到，甚至蒙上了别人的眼。
热泪盈眶，酸楚的眼泪。灾难之下，人道主义被国家机器拆分成冷冰冰的优先级，处在高优先级的人们——我们，在和平时期不费力地怜悯他人，这时候也紧抓着既得资源无暇他顾。when did our lives stop being worth the same？有几人能没有羞愧地正视这句话？
这个视角讲疫情挺不错的，拍的也不错，只是因为讲的是更英国的故事没能那么有耐心看。最后也是创作者抨击英国体制的落点，但这个片的视角确实值得借鉴。
没有家国大义，没有感动中国式的煽情，只有孤立无援下的绝望和直接单纯的善良，演员们演技都太好了。有时候都忘了疫情最开始的无助，不知不觉已经戴着口罩过了两个夏天了。
其实电影挺中规中矩的，但是新冠题材能直面指出政府的问题，以小见大，还有小变态的出色演技。对了，最重要的是同行的衬托，差十万八千里呢。
20分钟长镜头让人难以喘息 对比出来🇨🇳真的很强大
护理院是英国目前实施最严格封锁措施的地方之一，因担心在脆弱人群感染，居住者无法以任何重要方式见到所爱之人——最后他们悄悄地离开了
7.9三星半，感觉很复杂，一方面觉得片子说的这事真的很有深度，另一方面又觉得这个故事太简单剧情太空。个人对抗体制完全无解，甚至连呻吟都叫不出来。大英这群体免疫真的是坑死这些弱势群体了，甚至可以怀疑是政府故意的，清理这些所谓低端无价值的人口，哎，苦了这些护工真的关心弱势群体的人了。
聚焦疫情中的小人物，结尾戏剧化处理有点失败，见仁见智吧
朱迪演的太好了，大量的面部特写镜头，表现的非常有张力，题材很好，很自然，就是剧本薄弱的太靠演员支撑了
-一直很担心女主和tony会有所谓的男女情感 还好没有
Stephen和Jodie都演得太可以了！！一个眼神就让你心碎的咔咔的 Sarah一个人半夜走廊来来回回忙活 从无助到崩溃的那段 灯光、声音和镜头都掌握得太好了 感觉自己也在经历她的心情 嘤嘤嘤 暴风哭泣
那些阴阳怪气的人看个电影也优越感爆棚。
还说 Jodie Comer这口音学着得多难啊，刚一看，原来就是正经的利物浦人。
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