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".
没看过《黑道家族》的没必要看。主角Dickie就是Tony推崇的Strong silent type，但跟Tony一样，生活也一团乱麻，可惜电影时间短，不够从容，拆成八集迷你剧会好很多，还是需要些时间跟角色相处。卖了很多情怀，但就吃这套呀。
3. 5星，宛如剧本杀，前期铺垫一圈碎片线索，最后终于串起来了，小说和现实穿插的节奏很好，整体故事很完整。
我觉得不怎么好看，不知道为什么大家怎么看，藤原龙也怎么会有这样的剧情
一星给长度，毕竟两小时的莫名其妙比一小时半难办到！导演很努力地在讲故事了，虽然我没听懂，但是看到了苦工。嗐。
两星半，剧情平淡冗长，佩服自己居然看完了。
感觉挺好啊，选角花了大心思，托尼、托尼姐姐，托尼叔叔，以及另外几个打手和黑道家族原型非常神似，那时候就有卡米拉了？6.3分太低了，确定你们都看过黑道家族？本来想打四星的，为了中和一下打了五星，哈哈。
主要缺点是没以Tony为主线，而是Dick这个在剧集里没露面的人
一个97分钟的电影，还是真事改编的都能改得这么烂，我真是不得不服。
3万假钞是主线，渣女应该被杀了，她的女儿送到孤儿院，3千万也乱给了孤儿院……
其实就是那么点相当凑巧的事儿，学学毛利小五郎难得糊涂一回不好吗…
小说改
②infinite: without limits in space or time.
单独成片的话，剧情确实有点松散。但作为黑道家族的前传番外篇，也挺有意思。特别是那股不露声色，不发则以，一发致命的狠劲。
影片基调，音乐，人物刻画都蛮好，剧情清爽，不拖泥带水，杀人也脆一蹦即死，主角杀爹和情妇，这个情节太狗血了。
没看过《黑道家族》的没必要看。主角Dickie就是Tony推崇的Strong silent type，但跟Tony一样，生活也一团乱麻，可惜电影时间短，不够从容，拆成八集迷你剧会好很多，还是需要些时间跟角色相处。卖了很多情怀，但就吃这套呀。
有点类似刺杀小说家，在日本电影院看的没有字幕，看了个寂寞。为了土屋太凤才看的，但她出场也太短了，就是个花瓶啊。
救命🆘 这个卡司怎么能拍出这么无聊的片子。。。
这部电影就是他奶奶的狗屎！！！
格局拍的小了点，要是找个好导演，凭着娜奥米的演技，可以勾一勾小金人的边的
Naomi Watts开始在近年来不断地重复着一种角色- -装着个人悲剧却异常坚毅的勇士，在各种环境下都将挑战自己的平凡英雄；每次付出的心血让人尊重，也慨叹她从不怠慢任何故事。这里的趣味和新鲜或许应该是Małgorzata Szumowska用完全不同身份掌控很常见的求生故事，但这里却没被允许有任何充满个人特质的发挥；只能按部就班地走着，先各种极端之下从放弃到振作，其次是托陈心魔…即使从摄影、动作到表演都游刃有余，但很难再有更多的感悟。意外是Naomi和Billy Howle齐力提供了如《远山恋人》「Kate Winslet与Idris Elba」那般的默契与不错的配合，期待一个再合作。
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