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".
电影风格还挺独特的，故事有点狗血，看过了有记忆点。
最后两男成功劝说女警放走自己，成就了三男对决，转变于第一个被主场男人的不诚实，说好解决完来救助女警结果自己吃饭去了，最后呢，和女警对决，故事也就随着该死的都死了，巴特勒成为唯一一个逃脱的人而结束。
还不错，近一两个月来唯一能看下来的电影，但是我就想知道毒蘑菇事件，罗圈腿男主具体怎么操作？
挺好的，同态复仇式的结局很合我这种落后红脖子的胃口。
同じタイトルの小説を書いた人は俺の友人の大学の友人だ。それは俺この映画を見るきっかけだ。内容はあまり面白くないけど、まあまあ青春を感じた。
这是部空间较小、戏剧性很强的影片，当成舞台剧演也没问题。整体说，故事很集中、流畅，悬疑感也很强，人物个性非常鲜明。黑人女主给人耳目一新之感，虽然有点稚嫩，但挺有气质，比较硬气、勇敢，也有些机智聪明，与大牌一起表演并不逊色。
泰迪靠做黑帮和第三方的中间人、说客谋取钱财，替赌场黑帮去游说检察长未果，黑帮杀了检察长并不支付给泰迪佣金；泰迪抢劫赌场逃窜，赌场雇佣杀手鲍勃追杀。杀手安东尼和黑警席尔杀害了泰迪的前妻和儿子。泰迪借袭警被拘躲避，鲍勃则假装醉驾进警局；安东尼杀入警局，仅菜鸟女警瓦莱丽幸免；瓦莱丽信任泰迪而将其释放，鲍勃则自行撬锁出牢房刺伤了安东尼并让泰迪复仇，泰迪却恩将仇报杀鲍勃，并忘恩负义不去救女警；女警经过枪战击倒泰迪，席尔却现身击倒女警，幸亏鲍勃未死干掉席尔、泰迪，救下女警。鲍勃拿着安东尼的头颅和泰迪抢劫的钱离开，女警却负伤追击鲍勃
开头还以为是局外人。还好比较短，不然我肯定不愿意看完。我就想说，弗兰克，不要设置一些他妈的plot twist。不知道是想表达absurdity of life还是什么，并没有达到这种效果。屠宰猪出现在房间里那一幕还不错，至少有视觉冲击力。我的夏洛特呀…
和故事一样正今晚已凌晨两点，一样的夜晚
竟然看到takumi的船戏… 明明还是个孩子样哈哈哈哈哈哈救命
有钱人的任性、不顾一切、潇洒放纵，令人羡慕。直至结尾，夜间城市街道游走、阳光下的海浪、椅子上的衬衫、地上的鞋子，给全片做了一个很好的总结——虚无。
标题太具有误导性了，应该叫：社畜的真实人生。两位主演有点拉胯，笑与泪都很虚浮，情感转折也显得生硬。日本也有这么无趣的电影啊。
呵呵，男人控制不住自己的言行导致了家庭悲剧把锅甩到女主身上，还觉得自己报复有理？？？有病。
倦怠、不明来由而难以驱散的倦怠、突如其来的变故与死亡也无法阻断的倦怠、神经质的病理的倦怠，想就这么耗费这时间这生命这世界、什么都不做。
打不死的老家伙，喋喋不休的各种人，小偷小摸的好人和变态话痨杀手，所以是一部西部片，最后的燃烧镜头都是PS的，好假。
尽可猜中的简单剧情，不甚出彩的枪战场景，但好在中规中矩不闹妖，所以也是及格的。
特意营造而导致的突兀感，没有那种通透感，后边甚至变得狗血，缺的火候不是一点点
漏洞不多，但很不应该，好在小小空间，利用人物关系和节奏张力，竟拍出了有点过瘾的西部范儿，女警气场不怵两位动作大佬，有前途。。
为了完成预设的情节反转，如此浪费时间真的是大可不必，米歇尔·弗兰克莫不如把狗血路线走到底，显然比这有趣太多。蒂姆·罗斯、夏洛特·甘斯布的优秀，是那种深陷粪坑也能绽放骄傲姿态的向阳而生。
作为悬疑片有点过于平铺直叙了，悬疑点设计地不错(有原著加持？），但拍得不够抓人。
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