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".
演技，节奏，配乐，逻辑都在线，难得，没有装神弄鬼故弄玄虚，难得，就是最后结局太怂了。
网大竟然还不错！我以为船家身份会是男主呢！
本来是当恐怖片看的，结果是一部悬疑剧啊，故事有点意思。
在网大里算优秀的了
最后抱孩子抱起一团空气让人后怕，所以真的是有鬼？瞎子好心怜悯死去的孩子，所以鬼保他平安？
三星半。之前看过原剧本，成片还原度虽然高，但是没有达到我的预期。
演员演技还可以，故事叙述能力一般，娶狐妻的片段是全篇的高光吧
看完以后觉得特别眼熟，后来搜了一下编剧，发现果然看过之前他写的兴安岭猎人传说。自己抄自己可还行，不过水平不如之前了哦，好在互联网是没记忆的……
为了看东北民俗进来的，意外看了个还不错的片子
想学罗生门的结构，但填充的却是败絮其中，之前那个人讲的还是谢锦赌博输了，才去盗墓，才遇到狐狸精，后面时间全错了，成道士先遇到狐仙，感觉乱糟糟的，那一个点没对接住
这故事构思真的有点意思。冲着小成本制作，多加一星
罗生门式的情节～前面感觉向着烂片的套路走了，没想到40分钟左右情节开始反转了～在网大剧里的质量相当不错了。因为让我想起一个对话“有鬼啊，好可怕”“你居然怕鬼？来，让我带你看看人心”
除了特效很差外，故事性还不错，比一般的院线电影要强。
6.5 剧本不错 用一段段真真假假不同角度的故事叙事 着实很抓人 问题也有 首先就是恶人脸谱化太严重 其次 谢锦和两位女角的表演过于生硬 演技有待提高 继续加油！
日语水平不行，断断续续地看了半天，片长两个多小时，感觉有点子长。剧情大概是斯德哥尔摩和恋童癖的爱情故事？还挺狗血的（理解不深入请不要骂我）。整部电影的色调除了女主和男主在一起的时候都很暗，氛围很压抑。中间回忆的片段很冗长，虽然能理解到是导演想要表达女主的无助，但一次回忆就可以了，没有必要一而再再而三地回放，感觉有点累赘。桃李老师的🍑咱大概是第二次见了hhhh，最后坦诚相见还是有点冲击。丝丝真的太美了，我哭了，她真的好漂亮好漂亮。流星的演技有没有质的飞跃我入坑晚不太清楚，反正看完这个片子以后我看他就不大对劲，有点怕怕的，也能侧面说明这个偏执狂控制狂的变态演得深入我心，最后自残也很令我shock，和小说的情节不大一样（这就是让流星的ins掉粉三万的角色吗，我爱了）。
一场乡野怪谈的罗生门。故事还算曲折生动，结尾略显苍白凌乱。
演技，节奏，配乐，逻辑都在线，难得，没有装神弄鬼故弄玄虚，难得，就是最后结局太怂了。
总要破除迷信，鬼怪全在人心。
全程摆着做听力的架势看完了电影，不知道是不是因为这个我才没能欣赏到这部电影的好来。整部电影故弄玄虚，净是意识流镜头堆砌。电影剪进去的镜头谨遵原著几乎完全没有改动，但又删去了很多原著里很细腻的心理描写或者是人物性格的形成起因结果。本来就是童年和重逢后的场景穿插着叙事这样容易叫人混乱的方式，再加上大量的删减和让人摸不着头脑的阴暗文艺意识流镜头，整部电影显得非常老太婆裹脚布，又割裂混乱。所以果然是文艺片吗？哈哈哈。不过丝丝真的进步又大了，开心。
于是特意在b站搞了个视频说这个电影
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