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".
一个美国演员演了阿联酋出品讲罗马尼亚的影片
麥卡夢露跟蹤專業戶 個人覺得這部要比偷窺者好
就这???铺垫那么多就为了最后两枪?
还行，氛围和镜头很赞，最后结局虽然有些不合理倒也颇具戏剧性。
剧本比较工整合格 但是主演演技不可 尤其女主太矫揉造作了 反而反派演得比较深入人心
语言不通带来的疏离和孤独感萦绕全片。大约也是正因此才看到了大家所看不到的。女人虽然敏感多疑，男人啊，老婆的话要听进去，要当真啊。
让人不寒而栗，手枪立了flag，就知道女主一定会用到。
最后还躺在女主隔壁摸了一下手，这不是在摸脉搏确认是否生还吗？怎么最后出门就被女主反杀了？
感觉故事里主要人物们情感流露的分寸感很好!
陌生坏境里的窒息感 本infp看的非常有感触🥲事实证明 男人真的不可靠🥲最讨厌把一切简单归咎为“你太敏感了”
异国他乡语不通，卷帘对楼有人盯。
影片大体上中规中矩，这个故事还是比较普通的，就是一个变态窥探+杀人狂跟女主斗智斗勇的故事，剧情的紧张惊悚氛围比较低，偏于平淡，节奏偏慢，也没有反转；不过有一个大的问题，就是女主最后被割喉后，那出血量未免太多了些，床上/衣服上/地上都是血，何况地上还淌了一大摊，即使不死也应该陷于昏迷状态才对，可最后女主竟然站起来，去摸了枪再走到门口打死凶手，这体力真不是一般的强，平时也没看看见女主锻炼身体啊！如果没有这个问题，我会给6.3分，现在只能给3星5.9分，删掉！
氛围很到位，想起来之前看过的《84年夏天》，差不多的剧情，都很简单，很有意思
不太喜欢，匆匆跳过看了个结尾，不太喜欢这种无缘无故的单纯心理变态的情节
始终有一种压抑感，氛围很好，故事线不复杂，但总觉得缺点啥，缺点啥呢？？那个邻居太可怜了.....
文本很老气，女导演要表达的女性困境一开始就已经说清但在随后一个小时里并没有更多的深入以至于整个故事都缺乏变化和惊喜，倒是选角很合适，麦卡很适合演这种身处困境中的孤独女性，而戈曼就很适合演寡言的变态
不想谈现实意义，直接聊剧情。整体的剧本结构真的是老本子了，感觉在中断就猜到了后面的剧情，基本没有经验的感觉，开篇女主的表现很有感觉，把被监视的状态表现的很彻底（失败无能的丈夫的设定真的拴q），然后时长拉长之后，就略显疲惫了，如果说是为了符合全篇的基调，感觉还是不够高潮，唯一被吓到可能是那个列车开过….甚至在最后男反派抓人那段我甚至期待不要出现，希望不要套路，但还是来了…顺便呼应了那把手枪…唉，可恶啊，我自己将电影观感大幅下降。同时里面的男性角色确实都挺无用的，加上剧本里有一些不合理的地方，可能这也是导演故意忽略时间跨度的问题吧…小成本制作，被气氛火热女主演技打三星
每次都有人说什么都不信，说什么都不听。这种另一半留着干嘛嘞
三星都给女主的美貌 每一个造型都风情十足 惊艳动人 特别是一开始女主独自逛街还有和老公偶遇犯罪现场
这剧看完就跟白开水一样平淡，还有几个血压高的地方，一个是跟踪变态男那里，二是女主遇到这样问题问男主怎么解决说不知道。
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