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".
观影感受：手机短信音很影响观看体验，希望大家有良好的观影习惯，观影前手机静音！电影本身：1、女主前段恋情推动她回家 但交代得有点过多 离职前跟前男友的那段戏有点多余 表演有点尬 ，2、回忆学生时代 课堂讲述中央集权制的演变 跟主题并无多大关联，3、电影虚实部分并未深入展开 特别是最后老家故乡的虚生活 女主最后水淹的梦境，感觉值得描述，4、妈妈与姐姐吵架这个桥段很莫名其妙，5、本片的方言是加分项 有代入感，6、两位老人的表演是本片最让我感动的点 爸妈提前备下寿衣的举动 ，浴室戏里 由于自己年老无力和病后无助 爸妈面对子女的羞耻感 无力感 ，生活戏喂饭咳嗽 摔勺子等细节。这些都值得夸赞。7、死亡主题 叠加 亲情 轻松达到我的泪点 立马回忆到自身，大概从爸妈开始买寿衣开始 我应该就已经在抽泣。
这种小故事合集泡菜也开始拍了？？酒店代表爱上打扫小妹……不愧是玛丽苏韩剧
被林允儿和姜河那的高甜片段骗进来的，还以为是什么惊心动魄的爱情故事，好家伙整一出韩国版《真爱至上》。养眼是真的，老土也是真的，好在韩国人还是有点认知在，没把总统从修罗场里拖出来谈恋爱。
从第一次不自觉的小便时女主人公爸爸的无助、躺在床上小便失禁的自责、重病后坐在凳子上大便失禁的无奈，病症的变化，一次次加重后女主人公爸爸的变化，尤其在第二次小便失禁，在床上意识清醒时感受到得病给家庭带来的灾难：老婆长期伺候身心俱疲，洗澡时无力抱起他脱下衣物，筋疲力尽后是女儿慌乱中帮助他洗澡完成整个过程。
影片里很多真实纪录式的长镜头，平实地讲述着一个像发生在身边的故事，感人肺腑，趁着周六日休息回家坐在爸妈身边唠了很多以前没心情听的家长里短，这样的感觉像回到了小时候…
想法是好的 但是想表达的太多 就想老太太的裹脚布一样 显得又臭又长 建议留下时间看别的电影
从一个底层的黑帮，经历过一切后，在一个偶然的机会，和教会的交错，终寻到心灵平静的那一刻。
新年快乐，元旦就是需要这样没营养但开胃的小菜。
…………这种电影还要有灰姑娘和白马王子吗？？？
2022年想被甜一下，结果打开后有点老套，故事穿插起来有一搭没一搭，人物故事有点老掉牙，有种命运的巧合既然如此，我也就干脆拍个应景的东西出来凑个热闹吧的感觉！电影里没有疫情当背景，所以更像是发生在不知道什么时候的故事。
开场的长镜头太强了，以至于后面的内容令人失望 3.5
最好看的竟然是老年组，霸道总裁的线最无聊老套了
有幸在学校观影了这一部影片，总体来说非常不错，能够引发对人生和人物形象的思考，情节质朴，前面给我一种看百鸟朝凤的中国民俗氛围，情节的推动使整部影片更有深度。感谢这么优秀的制作，感谢导演。
大杂烩式的莫名其妙，没有一条线的剧情是合逻辑的，根本就是想到什么就写什么。新年快乐，根本是强行快乐。
爆米花电影！还有那个15年的男女普通朋友？我干嘛要做你朋友，我宁愿失去你
这部电影很好的展现了老龄化这一社会化问题以及普遍存在的情况。
阿尔茨海默病无法剪断两代人的纽带。
狗🐶都笑了
二女儿的感情戏部分，俺不理解。
剪辑不好，剧情也不真实，不过还算热热闹闹，过年的时候看还挺温暖就是啦。叫醒服务允允！！！
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