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".
有点感人 能吐槽的点太多 有这时间宁愿去看书
已经变成水怪的弟弟为了救人被砸死有一丢丢感动
定位很成问题。如果确实是给孩子看的，那这种精神污染程度即使对于胆子最大的小朋友都刺激过头了；如果也兼顾了年龄更大的受众，那无论是惊悚桥段还是脱困段落，也只够得上儿戏的水平。更重要的是，明明主角之一被设定成爱写恐怖小说的nerd，到最后也没讲出一个像点样子的故事嘛，只是可惜了贫穷但用心的美术了。
可能是太早猜出女巫身份的原因味同嚼蜡。除了大漂亮很漂亮，两个小孩子浮夸演出这两个记忆点外，没更多亮点。特别是你以为分段式恐怖短片会有看点，你会发现从没有过更加让你失望的片子。多一星给了无毛猫。 另外，祖国熊家长千万别看
故事结构并不连贯，人物立不起来，一切都在按照编剧想当然的发展，Kate完全就是一个bitch啊，相比之下M简直小天使。唯一能看的也就只有颜值了。
芭蕾题材，干脆更加暗黑点更加神秘点，亚马逊出品的影视剧质量有待改进。
6分。套路满满的喜剧，还能看，就是女主太丑了。不可触碰的老黑，可能是我为数不多的几个还看得顺眼的老黑了。
仅看lesbian emotional line即可
冲着这个黑人演员来看的 为什么他就是自带搞笑天赋啊！
没有人能讲完一个故事而不暴露自己的内心，好故事永远是包含了真实的故事。剧情完成度极高，高潮反转收尾气息全部给得足足的。小孩子演友谊桥段简直真诚得逼人，未经雕琢的泪水和同情能让人瞬间破防。丽特的反派可爱又无比邪恶，黑妹小小年纪已经起范，细节里笑点相当可观。以及“魔法图书馆、同伴大冒险、勇敢做自己”，just sign me up FOREVER!
作为一部儿童恐怖片，它在“儿童”和“恐怖”两种类型之间平衡得很好，既有属于童话的纯真、奇幻和成长意义，也不乏惊悚效果极佳的恐怖桥段和元素，对主角的塑造也充满恐怖影迷情结，甚至还能将“糖果屋”这一旧童话故事进行续写并成为情节发展的重大转折。当然对大多数成年观众来说，这种低龄化的简单故事未必还能引起太多兴趣，但能够在有限的尺度范围内做到这种程度已经算相当不错了。
故事一般吧，只是能看到克里斯滕我还是很开心的~这妹子资源太差没几部片子可演了（掩面泪奔）
二人搭档挺有意思的，虽然不搞笑，形势不错，案件内容也是一开始以为就普通贩毒杀人案，没想到小地方隐藏的恐怖主义，随后国家宣传片拍得不错。
居然是儿童恐怖片，更多的通过音效达到恐吓的效果。仍然是套路的被孤立的个体战胜自我战胜敌人从而寻找友情和亲情的故事，仍然是在政治正确的同时不忘把亚裔作为虚伪不值得信任的一方，这很好莱坞。
弟弟整天赶稿烧书删文，所有写文的写手都应该来看看这个片。想看安妮海瑟薇x克里斯滕里特的双巫婆片。
女主选角很成功。
不过人物设定上跟第1步是有衔接关系的，这里处理的还蛮不错。
恐怖氛围渲染的着实仓促了 不少细节没有交代清楚 整体感觉就是 没法让人沉浸进去 国产恐怖片舞台本就这么大点（这部其实顶多算悬疑）有进步了其实 美术还不错的 叙述环境的手法挺喜欢的
我吐槽了一整集，但我还是多给一星吧，水猴子做得好
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