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".
这水平5.8差不多。这个故事即使拍得再好，估计也不会很高。
电影想表达印度同性困境和女性婚姻自由的主题，个人感觉不太行，故事过于狗血，妹妹和男二的感情戏很突然，没有铺垫就私奔？？？虽然妹妹有那种自由的思想，但是好像爱情和事业没什么太大的关系。
这种略带小清新感的剧和印象中的印度剧不一样
比较有创意 就是有点墨迹 可能是要凑满90分钟
仗着free solo，
个人觉得能给6.5分到7分，是合格的倒霉蛋题材电影，主角在错误的时间到了错误的地点，看到了不应该看的事情。以平民的身份，在政治绑架暗杀中来回穿梭。他喊了半天自己是美国公民，后来才知道，自己撞破的是美国的行动，一脸懵逼。最近希腊怎么了？已经看了好几部希腊有恐怖组织的电影了……
阿三们是不是说话的时候不摇头是说不出话的吗。。。。
全程希区柯克式悬念？网飞这次有仿A24配乐的嫌疑，请来坂本龙一操刀配乐，古典惊悚感直抓头皮，很棒。
最难过的是不管经历了多惊险的过程 他以后的生活都完了 希腊人民现在看来也是
本以为是竞速攀岩，突破极限，没想到却是山腰蹲坑，山顶抛尸
从开头到结尾的古典乐配乐，诗歌、电影海报、雕塑、古籍等艺术元素拼贴+画面光线布置与浓艳的配色+海声、鸟声、流水声背景音+内裤、背心、肌肉、毛发……大概接近绝对的浪漫主义。虽然男二剧情上有明显不足，但是总体还是能看的。最喜欢的是老师这个人物。
我的妈，这拍了个啥？感觉啥都有，但最后竟是逗你玩？政治惊悚拍成这样小打小闹也是够了！除了一直有的悬念营造的还算不错之外，好像没啥优点了。砍妹都沦落到这个地步了吗
讲述了女主惊觉闺蜜被反社会男宝所杀，男宝召集伙伴穷追不舍试图消灭证据，最后因内斗降智被女主反杀逃出生天的故事。
特别古典的希区柯克式的悬疑电影，包括前半部的运镜都挺有希式电影的风格。背景的各方政治角力，每一方都不过是利益集团的代表，寓意了当前的西方世界，。只有男主抱着那点仅存的正义感与赎罪心，踉踉跄跄地独自走在暴徒和警察对峙的骚乱中，很有意思。
渣男一个了把人家兄妹的身体和感情都玩了后，就逃跑了下落不明，男主还为他自杀，真是傻逼呀后面还为他写了一部关于他们之间的小说，真吐了都，还不如和那老师在一起了
极限求生全程看得手心冒汗，但小喽啰无效愚忠加蠢笨，惊险镜头全是近景不舍得特效太掉价了
仗着free solo，
然后女主被追，
情感发展太迅疾，一旦迅疾就变得难以理解。但除此之外，很多东西：场景、布景、道具都还蛮讨人喜欢的，比如书，装帧、设计让人很想拿在手里翻开看看。比如照片。
充满抱负的作家爱上了家里的神秘租客，而他自由奔放的妹妹也爱上了此人。接下来发生的事件撼动了他们传统的家庭。
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