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".
四星不足，但三星也苛刻了。2022年北京第二轮疫情开始想给看过的电影留个痕迹，想不到是从这里开始，或许是因为它的戏谑，让人觉得从这里开始轻松容易一些，而且即使错了也可以被原谅。提炼不出主旨，只说一些感动了的瞬间，一次是在机器人们开会讨论“或许我们更像他们（人类），更有幽默感，他们就会更爱我们了”，一次是在Monica为了完成男主人下达的任务给人类降温时，一边往冷气上挂衣服一边自言自语笑出来“还有袜子🧦”，还有一次是在大家都提到的“我坏了之后请一定把我修好，我把我们的枕边话都备份了。你的胸部是让我解渴的百合花”。
非常单纯的“黑镜式”人工智能叛变故事，没怎么触及社会背景，也没太纠结人性阴暗，用热内一贯的荒诞恶趣味搭配儿童科幻级别的CG特效，乱炖出来这么个东西……拖沓是真拖沓，色调与运镜看着也是真舒服。
就喜欢这样的喜剧片，导演的手法可太稳了，观影时笑到喘不过气
AI的big bug是错把敌对人类清除计划搞成了自我清除计划……
叙事搞得很奇怪，其实并不是那么晦涩的故事吧。酒席上的注视，幻觉中的吻。
优点是中途的剧情还蛮顺畅的，结局俩可爱小孩也在一起了，两个又坏又蠢的大人也在一起了，好耶(ง •̀_•́)ง
如果是放很多年前看这个片子我大概会臭骂法国人到底拍的什么狗屁不通的玩意。现在嘛……算是习惯了吧……法国人的讽刺和吐槽基本就是这样不痛不痒看似力道不强。觉得片子荒谬吗，但实际上你法国随便路上抓一个人身边都一定能找到与每个角色都相似的人。所以我一边觉得好笑一边芒刺在背哈哈哈，到底是谁在窥视我的生活。（不是
。。。。让·皮埃尔·热内。 。，似曾相识。。。
脑洞大开，家居机器人想成为真正人类，还拯救了人类。有笑点，还带着些法式浪漫。影片的色彩搭配，人物造型，观感也挺好。
画面挺好，一如导演以往的风格，看着也有点意思，但真没啥感觉
一部很细腻的真实事件改编，将个体与组织的关系从不同维度都刻画到位了，只是台词太密集了，鲜有留白，多少有点疲劳。最后母亲应该是为了保护小哥退出了审判，但也让人觉得很遗憾。还是更欣赏小哥，哪怕孤身一人无法战胜一个腐坏的体制，但坚持真相，是一个人能做的最坚强最伟大的成功。
我们就称之为串烧MV吧！没什么内容，情绪也不够，音乐也不太舒服，画面也只是糖水片。电影拍的还没素人vlog好看，单单是片头动画差点就被劝退。
是那种过一个月一个字剧情都想不起来的电影，别看。
这么好的题材拍成这样真是遗憾！电影视角非常的莫名，以受害者的视角开篇，中间切换到了施虐者一方，造成观众的沉浸感缺失，也没有做到应有的批判，如果不是这样的题材，很难及格.
面部识别灭了自己哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
电影海报电影片名各加半颗星～
还挺喜欢这种花里胡哨的色彩 时长太长了 适合倍速观看
机器人挺好玩的，吸机油跟吸可口可乐似的，庄周梦蝶也是脑洞大了
太长了。但是还是值得看，以万物为刍狗的何止天地。
我们就称之为串烧MV吧！没什么内容，情绪也不够，音乐也不太舒服，画面也只是糖水片。电影拍的还没素人vlog好看，单单是片头动画差点就被劝退。
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