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".
作为一个武汉人，我很难完全客观地评价这部电影，太多熟悉的场景和镜头，太多平凡却伟大的人们。除了高亚麟那一组有点过于刻意，其他三组还是特别能打动我。苦难远没有消解，只是我们得向前看。
好难看啊……难看到我现在正在看电影…然而我宁愿玩手机避免这尴尬😅
晴川历历汉阳树，芳草萋萋鹦鹉洲，2020年武汉疫情，原来已经是两年前的事情了，恍如隔世，又好似昨天。
电影本身真就一般，唯一让我动容的老戏骨那条线。实际情况多糟糕确实都知道，但是你又从糟糕之中领悟到什么呢？我只想说，一定要珍惜眼前人！
我明明记得写了影评啊，而且写的什么都还有清楚的印象，怎么却没有呢，奇怪的感觉。偏就不按印象里写啦。该片题材本是热门，但有点用力过猛，便显得该震撼的地方做作，该感动的地方尴尬。还好贾玲朱一龙cp结局的处理没有槽点。一场突如其来的疫情，打乱了世界的秩序，影响着每个人的计划，毫无征兆毫不客气，什么时候能过去又是如此的遥遥无期。幸运的是在中国，多数人懂得听指挥配合国家防疫，方能较正常的生活。期待众志成城下，疫情赶紧过去，大家可以想玩玩想约约想聚聚，多好。
虽然电影的慢节奏和故事的编写明显与疫情防控现实完全不符，但是看到医护人员离世，听到片尾曲还是哭了
感动，平凡人有大爱。希望香港早日迎来春天……
经历过那个寒冬的人才能深刻体会到那冰冷中渗出的丝丝温暖，在春暖花开时我们拥抱彼此，热泪盈眶，活着就好，就要好好活下去……在那个时刻，每个平凡的人都是英雄
黄昏恋的两个老人真是太可爱了，所有人都说不好看，我看之前就不抱什么希望，没想到还哭了两三次
开场哭到散场，但主要还是联想到了实际发生的事情
剧情太散了，而且也完全没有提现当时大家的紧张恐惧，不服输的精神，赶紧就是他们谈谈恋爱忽然就成功了，这……
情人节一个人在房间爱奇艺花了6块钱看的，6块钱我买瓶啤酒喝不带劲么🙂
挺喜欢小故事叙事手法的，特别是连接转场挺特别，冲着贾玲来看的，还是喜欢她的小故事。强行煽情吃不消，看看就好。
疫情里的小人物间的真情，也太好哭了吧！！大家都演的好好哦，每一段感情都让人泪流满面，我也想要叶老师呜呜呜呜
雨中大桥拥抱+高龄产妇。真的好无语。黄渤的part也是。只有老年cp有戳到我。不如看纪录片吧。
以武汉疫情为背景的小人物 温情剧、可以吧 没有什么惊心动魄 普通人。黄渤贾玲为主线。
愿悲伤不再，愿山河无恙！20220313吉林新增本土确诊1412例，最近疫情又开始反复，啥时候是个头啊，哎……
剧情也太碎了，台词尬到天际，全靠演员演技在撑
你很难说它是杰出的电影，但生活本身自有其力量
一次非常难熬的观影体验了属于是，完全靠贾玲和黄渤硬撑，几段故事彼此之间有着小小的穿插和关联，但是中后段大量开始水剧情，不知所云，东拼西凑，直到结尾突然依序让三个故事线的主人公强行下线，很想反映现实却远远脱离现实，想来点轻松搞笑却又衔接尴尬抠地的台词。
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