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".
着实还是中年危机惹的祸呀...剧情台词挺考究，整个格局比较沉重压抑，也预示着前方的路充满阴霾，不同于推翻阴谋的孤胆英雄，这确实是个沉重心塞的故事。派恩这眼神越来越像本尼西奥德尔托罗了
为国卖命的特种兵强制退役，没钱，为家庭，私人任务。逃命背叛。
尼娜霍斯也是一枪爆头 戏份太少
这让我联想到了当前的新冠病毒，与美国辉瑞特效药了。
一开始是幸福终点站，然后是机械战警，然后是孤胆英雄式的XX营救在行进节奏上显得稚嫩，热闹有余，精彩不足。
中规中矩的美式枪战动作片，所有的一切都是照着教科书拍出来的，基本不用带脑子看的爽片。男主作为特种兵吃药治疗膝盖，但新上司借口药物成本开除了男主，男主没办法只能当雇佣兵赚钱养家，第一次任务就被公司坑，高层偷了疫苗研究成果企图制造流行病再卖药赚钱，那佣兵自然最好都是死人嘴最严，结果碰到男主光环，团灭剧终
印度卖拷贝执导，印度复联九头蛇主演，剧情是印度钢铁侠+盗梦空间+等等
纯印度神片，类似印度神油，把总理和议会大厦都搭进去了，就为了显摆男主改造后的优异能力，而且居然没有歌舞，怎么能没有歌舞呢，气。。。
的确是一个缝合怪，可以看到各种大片的影子，但是我就喜欢大爽文
完美展现什么叫一手好牌打得稀烂。首先是是涉及疫情起源的题材，理论上可以编个不错的悬疑感十足的硬派故事。可实际这故事到底是个什么玩意？一会中年危机，一会阴谋论完全没重点的莫名其妙。再说阵容：派恩、福斯特、萨瑟兰再加个只露两面的妮娜霍斯，都是能单独撑场子的老戏骨了，导演你就让他们演这玩意？今年目前为止最失望的所谓动作片……
是我错觉了嘛，腿中弹的是同一个人嘛？看着好像挺高级的，实际上漏洞挺大的，最重要的是也没感觉有多么战术，不如惊天救援来的过瘾。
PS:我希望中国和好莱坞的电影制作人能想开点儿，搞些什么政治正确的肤色长相，直接大大方方的上大美女他不香吗……
最多三分，30分钟能讲完的东西死撑硬撑撑了一个半小时
看的开心
太牛逼了我操，原来印度本土人看的片子真长这个样子啊，一会儿好莱坞一会儿港片的抄了个遍，基本每一秒都在别的电影里看过，但所有这一切放到印度神片的语境里又变得如此有趣和性感，以至于一旦开打，逻辑合理性和原创性好像都不重要了，完全达到了一种纯粹的B级片类型满足，好爽啊
Home is a memory.
可惜是那种平平无奇的剧情动作片，克里斯·派恩尝试证明自己的蜕变，但角色还不够立体，剧本不太行，根本就没有亮点可言。
什么都好 就是战力太不平衡了，
爆米花电影，爽就完事了。PS：女科学家真漂亮啊。
还可以，有些看点，开篇以为是老兵复员…实际上是动作片，而且此片揭露实验室相关黑幕，反思人性善恶。
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