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".
故事挺简单的，但是效果好，有些场景有点黑泽明电影的感觉
剧情上有点牵强，动作场面利落，相信充足预算会更好
故事开了二倍速的感觉，推进的极快，人物交代相当简单，只能说是顺利讲完了一个故事，远远没到精彩的程度，欠修饰。另外配乐挺好听的但是感觉和本片不是很搭，吉他的音色太抢了
一个西部片里赏金猎人的故事，套上了武侠的外壳，演员用谢苗找对了，几场武打戏拍得还是有点粗糙，把技能点都点在了布景和近身错骨动作上了，细节部分都是一带而过。想要复原港片武侠的硬桥硬马，还是颇有难度的。摄影技术上够硬了，剪辑风格凌厉快速，导演很聪明，利用好技术+简单讲清楚一个单线索的故事，成就了至少75分的作品。
动作片里最近少见的好片子了，就是剧本稍微简陋点，制作不错
短小精悍，丝毫不拖泥带水，动作戏份也是可圈可点，可就是这样的作品只能上网大，因为不会有什么票房，疫情时代，还要忍受其他垃圾作品荼毒影院。
挺简单的故事，朴素的感情，讨一个“公道”二字。精彩的打斗和美术设计，内容和形式都没得说
瞎子去陌生地方挑场子，一个跟头扎人堆了，真猛士也
还可以诶。这个剧本也太装逼了，还好男主演得很低调。画面也还可以。
谢苗的打戏真的帅！就凭他的打戏，我都要给五颗星！
有点儿大唐座头市的感觉，成本不高，但好在干净利落，没去整一些花里胡哨的特效。
谢苗老帅了～情节就那样吧，有经不起推敲的地方，台词也有差火候的地方，但谢苗老帅了～老帅了～
整体就非常的日漫，可见真的每一代导演编剧看过的影响他们青少年时期的文艺作品都是非常重要的
还不错，虽然故事简单到极点，甚至有点粗糙，但至少讲好了一个故事。而且这部网大最大最吸引人的亮点其实是打戏，上次看到这么爽的打戏还是在吴彦祖演的美剧《荒原》里。
考虑能投入的金钱和精力有限，基本是网大天花板了，短时间内讲了个一张一弛的故事，打斗方面也都及格，达到了今年很多院线都难匹敌的水准。不过，男主这战力基本上是编剧说啥是啥，以一敌百不是事，请再试问，这样一个武林高人，为了一个谋面一次的女人，倾家荡产给她复仇，这样的剧情真的合理吗？也只能认为，编剧所说的这一人，便代指苍生了。
瞧瞧，什么叫电影，故事简单不简单？太简单了。俗套不俗套？太俗套了。
挺简单的故事，朴素的感情，讨一个“公道”二字。精彩的打斗和美术设计，内容和形式都没得说
2.5，看得出尽力了，有几幕颇有舞台剧感，但这是2022年，实在无法说什么鼓励和赞许，国产片是有多难？
国产版《座头市》，翻拍的很一般，台词啰嗦，画面不错，节奏不稳
短小利落，动作舒畅，难得的合格武侠片，值得嘉奖
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