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".
[2021.09.15 @bc] 最後半小時好看。
前有埋在隧道里，后有埋再楼里，韩国电影隧道和地陷，不同导演，共同的理念，看来韩国人们内心恐惧被活埋，从而拍了这一些灾难电影。。不过，这部的紧张程度没有隧道好，
怎么说呢，剧情弱了点，但是支持一下这样有正能量的网大是可以的，特别是片尾的歌词有一句叫《凭什么说从实力的地位出发》让我觉得很惊喜，中国强大起来了。林则徐这位民族英雄当年的禁烟并不是毫无作用的，今天的中国是全世界禁毒最严厉的地方。帝国主义也不敢再欺侮我中国。这也许就是林则徐当年只希望看到的吧。
男主小儿子跟着邻居哥哥从车里爬出去走到管道里面是灵异情节吧，那段莫名被感动到了。黄色潜水艇这个idea好有趣，but剧情漏洞好多，笑点也是若有似无，救援人员一贯不靠谱，这种扁平化的处理被越来越多地应用在灾难商业片里，着实有些审美疲劳。
实在是太太太一般了，果然综艺中强烈的印象对演员未必是一件好事。
披着灾难片的喜剧片，特效渣的不行，剧情生硬的不行，可能韩国救援真的这么拉垮，否则知道下雨为什么不搭个雨棚呢……唉
要不是这群人是有主角光环，估计下场和老奶奶也一样。
纯喜剧片，加了灾难元素而已，有日系早期的风格。
评分「6.5」
真的很震撼，天不会永远是黑的，会有明的一天，这漫天的烟火是人民的怒火啊
整个就是喜剧，挺完整的故事，也不过分煽情。
2022.05.29/小兵看看 灾难3.5/大楼陷入地下。新搬来的科长、儿子、男女同事、邻居父子被困。邻居小孩死，老奶奶留下。躲入黄色大桶，水上浮出全得救。
看过的最不正经最不严肃的灾难片。这么大的突发灾难，一开始居然没有人受伤？看不到希望的时候，居然还能有说有笑地吃叫花鸡？最后几个没求生知识的人居然在没有任何外援的情况下完成了不可能的自救任务。我想导演大概是想通过电影为了说明现代人死都不怕就怕买不起房的现状吧。
为什么一个灾难片拍得这么好笑 但是实在太扯了啊
韩国人拍烂片也是不觑多让，不能只烂一点，要整片都烂得均匀才好。
6.0
#VIFF2021 两星半，但评分比想象中要低，可能很多人抱着看灾难片的预期观影。很疑惑豆瓣的分类为何不是“喜剧”排最前面，笑点很多，煽情也合适，现场的老外一边乐得拍手掌一边抹眼泪，至少娱乐性做足了。另外作为东亚人，对于“买房焦虑”的议题深有同感，可惜讽刺也是浅尝即止，外加五毛特效和太多实在无法忽略的bug，让整部片子更像是半成品，应该打磨得更精细一点的。
类似极限逃生的灾难轻喜剧，韩式灾难片架轻就熟，加点轻喜剧完美化解特效和剧情的不足
本片开创了灾难综艺片的类型，后半段就像乱哄哄的综艺节目，反而前半段还有点意思
冲着灾难片的标签来的，对过去几年韩国小成本的灾难片印象很好，比如《极限逃生》和《隧道》。但这次却有点失望，我可以理解小成本灾难片没有末日大场面，但至少不要糊弄我。相较于之前同样是密闭环境下的小成本灾难片，《隧道》明显就要优秀很多。韩国某公司的营销部组长终于靠拼搏在首尔的麻浦区买了间公寓，邀请同事来家暖房的次日 一整幢5层的楼房就因为地面塌陷了一个深不见底的巨大坑洞而下沉，最后，三男一女一男孩最终利用下雨天的雨水浮力而逃出了这个500米的大天坑。有意思的是，电影在豆瓣的译名叫做《地陷》，而我下载的电影资源译名叫做《天坑》，一看就是一对儿。这部电影既想拍出一部够震撼的灾难片、又想拍出人物之间社会和家庭的温馨关系、甚至还想抨击一下首尔病态的房价和当代年轻人病态的买房观念，想要的太多、反而捆死了自己。
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