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".
就，带点惊悚要素的儿童冒险剧，一点都不恐怖，平平淡淡比较无聊。不过伊桑霍克饰演的反派是真的好，发尾还染了白色，很有细节，造型面具也非常棒，对儿童冒险剧来说刚刚好。裸着上半身带着皮带等小孩走上来我真的笑死。伊桑霍克的眼睛真的好美，闪亮亮的
一部套路模版片却这么爽，反派更加凶残变态归功于伊桑霍克，勇敢的妹妹和五位受害者的力量保护了男孩，最后的反杀复仇电话嘲讽真的爽翻了，Mason年纪小演技好撑起了不错的独角戏。
除了节奏随意，全员演技捉急外，对这片子最大的疑惑是：这真的是个恐怖片吗？
俩小朋友很可爱，伊桑戴着面具也觉得帅，剧情就一般啦，比较无聊。我是年纪大了么，鬼片让我毫无感觉。
5.5/10。有那么一点斯蒂芬金的味道，但是故事拍得好分裂啊。
今年看的第一部恐怖惊悚片，整体恐怖娱乐性还可以。故事概念强于情节，当时预告片出来的时候就期待值拉满，很难不让人联想到《鬼妈妈》当中的一个情节，也是类似于鬼魂帮助主角逃脱的戏份。史蒂芬金惊悚小说的即视感更强一些，小镇青少年、变态杀手、超能力等等。剧情存在硬伤，但是还挺好玩，伊桑霍克全程没怎么露脸，妹妹这个角色真的挺好。
“你说，总有一天我得为自己而战。”
面对各种暴力时的友爱、坚定、互助，可以跨越生死阻隔，甚至创造奇迹，但最终一定是回归到自立，永不放弃。惊悚奇情的外壳，热血意气的内核。几段纪实复古质感的影像声画以及正能量的导向是亮点。小男主反击时全场鼓掌。
还以为酗酒又家暴的父亲能给个什么反转戏份洗白一下，没想到真就是一点作用也🈚，挺好的，不恶心人。
伙伴们比变态还吓人，感觉更紧凑一点会好很多
探讨了青少年生活中遭遇的各种霸凌和暴力，以及如何反抗暴力、更好地保护自己。各种暴力内容和伊桑霍克扮演的变态杀手都能给人带来梦魇。两个年轻主演演得非常好。
7/10 就有点stranger things x IT的感觉。可圈可点。
设定和概念都很棒，最后的反杀也很爽，但还是不够精巧，有些部分甚至有点中二
我本来以为这是一个。捆绑，然后色色的片子。
但剧情有点说不清道不明的割裂…
非常喜欢！送主角一首小学生精神领袖孤勇者，‘爱你孤身走暗巷，爱你不跪的模样’，哈哈非常适合他～最后的反杀帅呆了，尤其最后响起的电话，‘this is for you’，看的我都激动了～跟自己好朋友逐渐同步的挥拳动作也非常感人。不能说是恐怖片，可以说是一部非常精彩的悬疑作品吧，即使主演是小朋友也绝对不输成人～稍微有点遗憾的是对于绑架犯的动机没有过多描述，不过其实完全不影响观看和电影的主旨。
电话这个设计还挺好的，不过还是太单薄啊……
中段开始就毫无悬念了。这片要是能像暗黑那样，比如凶手就是主角自己，或者几个孩子被绑到不同时空去，再叠加电话和不同年龄的声音，可能会更有意思些。
中规中矩，伊桑霍克就是想演个变态杀人狂就找个剧本给他拍着玩吧 ？！
【C+】看预告还以为是新的《险恶》，结果原来是children help children的「儿童恐怖片」。中间多次尝试逃脱的铺垫做得不错，反观结尾就有些匆忙，可惜伊桑·霍克继《月光骑士》后又演了一个毫无存在感的弱反派。
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