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".
惊悚氛围和镜头美感都不错。男主从始至终就没信过女友，挺窒息的。有时候面相这东西不能不信
不是一惊一乍要故意吓唬你的恐怖片，整体节奏很平缓也很阴森，可能这就是现实吧
铺垫很长，没有营造出氛围。而是让我觉得无聊。。 女主来到了男主的国家鸟国，都讲鸟语语言不通。偶尔有年轻人说英语可以沟通。男主天天要去工作。女主偶尔配男主聚餐。自己只能无聊一个人在城市闲逛。但是她突然发现家对面楼里会站着一个男人一直看着自己。看不清。但是跟对方招手，对方竟然也招手。女主十分害怕。草木皆兵。去看电影也觉得后面坐的人跟踪自己。去超市也有人跟踪自己。吓得后面溜走。男主耐着性子跟女主去超市查监控，拍下了照片。并且报警让警察和男主去看看那个男人是不照片里的。男主回来表示女主无理取闹，就算是，也只是邻居去同一个超市买东西很正常。然而一切是因为男主女主逛街路过凶案现场。电视也报道说有个连续杀人魔杀了四个女性，还割头。女主反向跟踪发现住对面的人是一个酒吧清洁工。刚好里面一个舞女是自己邻居。
女主有点像凯拉奈特莉，唯一的亮点，实在没兴趣看情节发展是什么，很认真的讲一个这样的故事干嘛，去骗小孩子吧，
这电影拍的真省事，全片有内容的就最后二十分钟……前面一个多小时全是猜忌加漫无目的的空景，旅游宣传片了属于。
意外的非常古典派的惊悚悬疑剧，里面女主那种害怕和他人以为她想多了，别人是爱慕她才观察她……这种感受太真实了（估计女性会有更多共感）个人觉得本片风格融合了很多经典希区柯克影片，如《后窗》（突然一时之间只想起这部的名字）我挺喜欢的，唯一最后让我觉得反转过头的是：真的有可能割到颈部流那么多血，没死？？？什么时候任何人之间才能没那么多恶意 Love&Peace
正常操作的变态杀人狂惊悚片，没有血腥和暴力场面，以女主的心理恐惧为主线，有几个画面确实有细思极恐的效果，比如对面窗户人影挥手的片段。另外画面的色调和人物的阴郁感也很配，整体来说及格水平吧6分
女主在要遭到追踪者的杀害时反戈一击。/陪同男友在异国生活的女主，语言不通，陷入危险境地，本质上还是男友的不重视。
是的，我好像就是喜欢这种“房子美女大夜灯惊悚片”，不知道跟我宅有没有关系。 女主要是再有逻辑一点，再聪明一点，可以再细思极恐一点就更好了，最后这个点不够爆…地铁站塑料袋那我很喜欢！
妈呀吓死我了 要相信自己的直觉 最后只能靠自己了
60分。及格吧。小成本，有几个地方确实被吓到。女性的直觉以及遭遇的恶意等等。很担心最后她连丈夫也射一枪。可难道那样处理岂不是更爽哉？
我觉得正是因为一开始就知道了凶手是谁 才更突显女主的恐惧与绝望吧 这类型的剧就是所谓“煤气灯效应” 总能把女主变疯子
“he probably just has a little crush on you” 男人心目中对crush的表达在接收端看来是一件多惊悚的事；电影对气氛的营造太棒了，看完之后坚定了我学拳击的决心（以及女主的男朋友…这个HE是你的救赎，要是女主真折了你最好忏悔一辈子
节奏太慢，但是女主美。最后的枪击早早埋下了伏笔。
不太行。女主的很多行为看不懂，女主的男朋友就是个撒比
氛围特别棒，被人监视跟踪的敏感与不适看得我简直喘不过气。这样来看，男性在生活中习以为常的某些场景在女性看来都是一场冒险。
本来还期待女主去找被害女邻居的前男友在一起的 结果就那么结束了 那个男人比她老公靠谱多了感觉
虽然俗套 但是氛围营造的蛮到位的 看得好紧张好刺激啊哈哈哈哈
最后的主角光环太硬翻转了，结局没悬念，但是你起死回生的桥段就太玄幻了
最后的反杀看得我一愣一愣的，这个设定让人一头雾水
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