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".
前半小时看得昏昏沉沉，后面随着阿姐寻妹的行动的逐渐深入，错综复杂的关系逐渐戏剧化
没有前提的爱是存在的。
算是把事情讲清楚了。但是各个角色都非常单薄以及女主演的脸实在僵得。。。不敢自然地老去真的好吓人啊
为什么非得这样暴力驱赶啊，她也只是个孩子啊哪怕已经成年了🤷♀️非要采取暴力，哪怕是嘴上说着要给两个女孩腾出房间的男人在暴力闯入的时候也不是什么好人了不过是glorified的警徽暴徒罢了，条子真的不配，他的蠢货儿子们也是两个放不下daddy issue的有毒男子气概条子进入system再为这个没救的system添砖加瓦罢了 桑婆演技很绝，和另外三个女性的互动也写得好好，女性导演的作品就是令人舒适
真相的揭露有点生硬，有些角色的设置必要性不大浪费卡司（yeah我说的就是Viola）。亲情、罪犯服刑期满后的艰难生活，要表达的糅合得不大好。Sandra演技还是好的。
看完觉得不错 细想又有种不知道电影想表达什么的感觉
其实这部电影的故事架构并不新颖，但是女导演的细腻，剧本的铺陈，女主的投入，都让这部剧没有落入俗套。但生活并不会因此而美好，但我们依然努力着。
改编自2009年英剧，Netflix出品2021年末佳作！虽然有些淡化了妹妹凯蒂成长后的经历，但故事线的多角度，使观众更能感受到人性的冲击和社会的阶级化对立！最后姐妹俩的拥抱，关于记忆和真相已不再重要！桑姨表现太精彩了，如果可以请把小金人给她！
这种救赎题材已经拍不出啥新意了，但女主演技大爆发真的像是圣经故事出来的人一样，其他就真的没啥了。
两星给剧情，一星给桑德拉布洛克。剧情片的基本水准就应该是这样。总有机灵鬼说剧情狗血，我承认，剧情的确有那么一点coincidence，但是牛逼就牛逼在这个coincidence，在这么coincidence的情况下，这么让你难以信服的情况下，桑德拉布洛克演的让你信了，不仅让你信了，还让你感动了，让你哭的大鼻涕冒泡了。这时候还返回来一口what a coincidence，那就是…。
2022年第一部让我破防的电影，姐妹最后拥抱的时候，看哭了，
为什么非得这样暴力驱赶啊，她也只是个孩子啊哪怕已经成年了🤷♀️非要采取暴力，哪怕是嘴上说着要给两个女孩腾出房间的男人在暴力闯入的时候也不是什么好人了不过是glorified的警徽暴徒罢了，条子真的不配，他的蠢货儿子们也是两个放不下daddy issue的有毒男子气概条子进入system再为这个没救的system添砖加瓦罢了 桑婆演技很绝，和另外三个女性的互动也写得好好，女性导演的作品就是令人舒适
女主一直隐忍着自己的情绪，只有见到自己妹妹的那一刻，情绪迸发了出来！
1. Sandra Bullock最近和Don’t Look Up里的Cate Blanchette一样，肉毒杆菌打过头了；2. Emily被kidnap，Ruth为什么不直接告诉Steve他绑架错了人？3.为什么要顶替5岁的妹妹去坐牢？5岁啊，什么惩罚都不会有，最多就是去看心理医生吧（有人可能会说，会被从Ruth身边带走，要送去寄养家庭，可是Ruth如果顶替她去坐牢了，那不也是被送去寄养家庭了吗？）4.Emily被绑住了手腕，可以轻松地撕下嘴上的duck tape啊！
社会对于这些受过法律惩罚的人，态度都不会好，并不管进去的理由是怎么样，只要进去过，就是坏人。其实呢，并不如此。
刑满释放的杀人犯真的只值得人们贬低鄙视吗？不管何时，欺凌别人的人都是丑恶的。
自己默默承受一切的負面，只為保護自己最愛的人，結局暖心。
张弛有度，收放自如！
剧情平平无奇。主要欣赏Sandra Bullock的演技 悲痛而又克制
后半段确实…崩坏得很严重…五岁小孩怎么拿起猎枪的…女主演技很好
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