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".
这电影拍了个寂寞，剧情简单的一匹，几句话就说完了，以为男主流放归来后剧情会达到高潮呢，结果是想多了。不知道说啥好，这种剧拍出来真不是洗钱的吗。。。
侠之大者，为国为民吗？只为一口饭而已，为国为民那是官
挺古典的，四平八稳，人物少了点魅力，但看得出是用心之作。
拍得真好，非常写实，故事也完整合理，陆谦这样的结果是最好的，金满堂最后一句话绝对到位，比同期目中无人（抄袭借鉴太多）高一档次
舞台剧一样的西部小镇场景，假的要命，剧情爆米花不难看，就是情节简单的过于粗暴。
虎毅兄能持之以恒在武侠上终得成果难能可贵👍
没报什么期望看完后居然觉得有惊喜，索然剧情俗套但看得出诚意满满，三星的水准是有的。其中台词不乏亮点，“他妈的，又捅这里。”“命运都是幻像，一切早已发生”，不错。
要不压缩一下，节奏紧凑一些。要不再续写一些，人物饱满一些。 拍得没问题，人物形象真的没有记住。有些着急想讲清楚这个故事，又感觉草草收场。
风格武指还行，剧情及逻辑有点突兀，这十来年好的武侠片很少。
故事很简单，打戏是真的用心，良心之作，值得一看。
原来中国也可以有森田芳光，这部戏更接近《黄昏的清兵卫》的内核。
好久没看到过这么认真拍的武打片了，只要认真拍电影，就值得推荐，虽然还有很多不足的地方，男主老婆人设太白莲，选角长得不像江南儿女，倒是像北方的姑娘，苦相倒是挺贴合片子设定（没有人参公鸡啊，就片子谈论，如有冒犯那肯定就是我错了），动作设定值得一看，画质不像是电影，倒是像电视剧，嗯，就是这个感觉，瑕不掩瑜吧，导演和演员们还是很用心在拍电影的，呈现的成片质量不错，比那些摆烂的同行们端出来的狗屎不知好了多少
真的是比相当多的院线电影强太多了。
没有一个人在讲人话，剧情稀碎，一个小时过去了还不知道主人公到底想干啥，塑造的江湖架空，架空并不意味着失真，每个人做事都没有逻辑且非常直接，每个人都在端着。你要学王家卫就学到底，要学徐浩峰就学到底，哪怕说你抄袭日本剑戟片你也抄得真诚一点好吗？否则就是四不像、丑八怪
毕竟是网大，拍的东西就是东拼西凑，明显可以看到《东邪西毒》《绣春刀》《水浒传》和徐皓峰的影子，又多处致敬邵氏电影，但画虎不成反类犬，人物表演和服化道不伦不类，主角一脸面瘫，明显是cosplay宋洋，名字竟然叫大卫；反派一副脏辫二混子样，一看就是深受热血高校毒害
武侠片已经成为历史了，扶不起来啦。不建议看，最多三星。
意外竟然勉强能看，不算太烂。打斗动作场面是最能拿得出手的东西，一招一式，有板有眼，又不失没感。更让人惊喜的是，主角在教授刀术时，没有胡说八道，反而是很在理的东西。不好的地方当属剧情了，单薄，老套。根本给予不了人有趣的感受，更不会有情感上的触动。我不禁想问下，十年都能忍住对她出手，最后强上是要闹哪样？
剑戟片可太难了
一旦拿起刀，就逃不过破戒。造了业，就逃不过冤冤相报。何况，拿起过刀的人，很会拿刀的人，能放弃拿刀的自己吗？
让人观影感受不佳的主要原因就在于故事设置与人物化妆上。作为一个小成本的网络电影，别整那些巨大的时间跨度，即考验演员也考验道具，何苦来哉。
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