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".
没有想到还能听到这样的一次七十年代政治惊悚片的遥远回声，开头的神喻，到尾声的“i should die”，错误的人出现在错误的地点，半世纪后仍然指向宿命，未如往昔隐却入黑暗之地，解救之下却更为悲观。
美国情侣在希腊发生车祸却意外卷入了一场政治绑架。前戏略长，紧张感还是不错的，男主光环太猛烈，可以一看。★★★☆
[视]海报有<信条>感，超出预期。之前有天点开，发现开篇第一个镜头所暗示的本片节奏风格挑人，换了一天，在合适心情的日子里看完合适风格的电影很幸运。异国他乡，语言不通，白人国度的黑人，摄影文艺，配乐有点A24，场景细节丰富体现内心焦虑，<糖果人>元素。劳拉客串，<老去>女主眼熟，<狼3>反派很像<警3>天使和马尔福，美大使馆室内设计还行，与希腊街头形成鲜明对比
普通人被卷进这种事里真是倒霉，想抢辆摩托车逃命都抢不到。还是把主角设定成退伍老兵、前特工之类的靠谱点，起码能占个爽字，最后单枪匹马把黑帮打手干掉了也显得没那么离谱。
可以全程快进看完的片。各方面，就一般吧。PS 冲着Vikander去看的这片，结果10分钟就领便当了？然后就没兴趣认真继续看下去了是怎么回事……
漂亮国码农度个假，还得化身蝙蝠侠，帮别国解决政治悬案~
坎妹真的是来打酱油的！死了就是死了！没有反转！有这类想法的同学要马上改正！不然别看了！
总体来说除去电影交待的信息还不是特别完善外，其余的都很不错了，值7分
【4】撑起这个电影的是演员阵容，以及某种程度上对于希腊人文风情的展现。但综合来看，最终分数可能还是会不及格(低于6.0)。【5】一看到Boyd Holbrook就觉得他演的角色不是好人[笑哭]。
一场因疲劳驾驶引发的一连串事件。白人特工跟个弱鸡似的，而男主不当特工也浪费了，各种反杀乱杀。
勉强称赞一句的话，也就是相对近年各种浮夸风动作片比较写实吧，前半部分的希腊风光是亮点，后半部剧情开始各种套路，故事衔接极不流畅，有注水感。
在现实生活中是
6.3分。比较写实的剧情惊悚片，但停车场跳车简直是败笔，让唯一的优点写实的部分也荡然无存了！我鄙视白左，只要是黑鬼被虐的我都是欢迎的！就算是华盛顿的儿子也没用。哈哈😂
异国旅游出车祸，妻子去世丈夫被追杀误打误撞破获绑架案
怎敌大义入云天
#豆瓣电影
总体来说除去电影交待的信息还不是特别完善外，其余的都很不错了，值7分
[视]海报有<信条>感，超出预期。之前有天点开，发现开篇第一个镜头所暗示的本片节奏风格挑人，换了一天，在合适心情的日子里看完合适风格的电影很幸运。异国他乡，语言不通，白人国度的黑人，摄影文艺，配乐有点A24，场景细节丰富体现内心焦虑，<糖果人>元素。劳拉客串，<老去>女主眼熟，<狼3>反派很像<警3>天使和马尔福，美大使馆室内设计还行，与希腊街头形成鲜明对比
前半段蛮好的，后半段是什么鬼，肮脏的街道加莫名其妙的政治。。
惨的一。跟女朋友旅游女友无了，疲劳驾驶出车祸，被陌生人打枪，被警察打枪，被大使馆内奸打枪。还是中国的和谐稳定社会好
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