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".
作为一部网大，我愿意给四星。
很久没看到这样的武侠片了。十步杀一人，千里不留行，事了拂衣去，深藏身与名。侠客，好久不见。
“用你酿的酒洗你的血海深仇”，不是很复杂的故事，但拍得很精细，剧本、节奏、运镜、取景都看得出功夫。3.5星片。
看了导演说的，这些素人撑起一部戏，连台词很多都是临场发挥，必须五星好评，真实接地气的生活，潮汕话的歌也好好听，边看边点了个广式外卖。
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谢苗跟着杨秉佳和秦鹏飞这哥俩算是在网大里找对路子了。
好久不见的这样快意恩仇的武侠！网大能拍出这样的质感也属实难得！除了特效有些浮夸，整体框架是类似伸冤人和疾速系列一样的复仇动作片。至于为何杀人作恶时瞎子没察觉到，就只能理解为醉酒睡过去了……毕竟细追究约翰威克那么猛还不是被几个小流氓打趴下当面把狗杀了……
总的来说是一部挺精巧的民俗家庭轻喜剧，导演细节做的很好，那段去亲戚家送礼的情节真的太有生活了kkkk…有些细节还需再打磨下，文化差异的原因吧，潮汕地区的某些风俗在我看来不是很好接受…但尊重当地人的传统。
美术、摄影、导演，简直不要太牛了！好写实好真切的江湖！这才是真正的武侠！没有那么多玄幻，没有那么多阴谋，就是凛冽的江湖。
国产“座头市”小成本网大武侠片标杆。虽成本看来不高却拍出武侠片应有感觉，剧情透着江湖气没有过多感情戏让整体叙述简介明快，武打效果出众看来谢苗功底还没废掉。今后国产网大都能如此有良心拍我们电影也是有救了！
实在太喜欢太喜欢这种家庭小品了。 所有没有一丝表演痕迹，本色出演的阿姨妈妈和奶奶们，荣耀属于你们！！！ 🍲潮汕乡下的房子，那些雕在屋脊上的龙，实在太好看了。就是潮汕话真的很难懂哎……
我看的时候还挺有代入感的，觉得片子是不错的…本土温情系，潮汕地区真的蛮有意思的，有机会想去旅游…母亲这个角色诠释得特别好，和我妈妈那一代很类似的，本身自己没读过很多书，但很爱自己的孩子，老公不太给力，唯有靠自己撑起了这个家，伟大的女性…
摄影好过一水的网大，当然也还是网大的开局三分钟高潮。中国网大的通病在这部作品里依然存在:剧本台词极差，台词废话太多，导演对整体故事叙事没有把握度。魏君子制片也起不到什么作业。中国影视难道要和中国足球一样，被打回原形了?。。。
（仿佛看到了5年后的自己）
只有74分钟，耍流氓。
三星半，谢苗人设不错，但部分日式服化道太恶心了。
琴娘临死前称呼成乙为瘟神有些不妥，琴娘对成乙不只是感激救命之恩，还有爱，即便搭上性命也义无反顾，这不应该是一个生死之交的挚友应该的称呼。但是我还是看了两遍，今年难得的好片
我不是潮汕人。这部有《俗女》那种家庭温暖的感觉，广东南粤闽南地区那种强宗亲观念拍得很深刻，很喜欢，必须支持呀。片里的妈妈是我们妈妈的影子，操劳家庭又强势，不过是为了保护她的“小家”，而片里的男主也看得到自己的影子，在与家里人的关系和追求幸福中找平衡，有矛盾，也有爱，亲人疏于表达的沉默，自己理解但又不得不反抗的坚持……
算是了解到了不找外地人的潮汕文化，接地气。拜老爷，唱戏，很有意思。简单不做作的故事。
天，我哭得好大声。我要给最后那段vlog十颗星。 （虽然嫁潮汕男真的要慎重 放大标红加粗 但是如果真的有正缘这种东西，就是无论如何都不会错过的那种吧
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