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".
点映场。又是一个借多线叙事手法，把普通的故事搞悬疑搞复杂。演技在线，编剧差点意思。
一般，剧本的丰富程度撑不起主创人员的野心和想法。
刚好是看完扬名立万补了这个片子，刚好相反这个电影在镜头运用，场景氛围营造，演员上更好。剧本问题挺大，首先人物背景全靠自己说倒叙，这个手法太拙劣了吧，本来我以为外卖员杀人事件之前一直有新闻提醒，怎么的也应该是老李不小心注意新闻上的物证发现外卖员马明亮的杀人犯在逃身份，完成身份反转。老李和阎正联手和马明亮搏斗，完成人物关系的反转，和电影开头对应。结果没有，靠犯人自曝……
反转到疲劳，巧合到离奇，青年导演为了讲个故事真可谓绞尽脑汁了。
有些反转太容易猜到了 比如谁会叫张颂文老头呢
怎么都在说疯狂的石头？这明明就是学的《玩命记忆》。同样是“密室剧本杀”影片，跟隔壁《扬名立万》的命运简直天壤之别，虽然两者的推理反转都比较尬，但还是能看到国产导演叙事能力在慢慢进步。
最后，我希望没死的人，都没死，不错！
可以理解为三个版本结局 所有小孩得救 范伟 张颂文 活下来，第二种窦骁杀了所有人 警察来了被捕 其他人都死了，第三种 窦骁拿钱 跑了。
电影剧情是生活化的，但是剧情的展现却还是舞台剧形式。舞台是平面的，生活是立体的——人和人说话，在房间的人怎么会听不到？房间那么大响声，范伟怎么会没被吵醒？很多这种明显漏洞，在舞台剧上也许没啥，因为心态是看戏，但是电影却是生活感的沉浸。
已经是一部不错的国产悬疑电影了，反转不断，就连结束也不忘再带一个反转，也算是全员恶人的设定，每个人又有各自的苦衷，只是感觉结尾收的有点急促了
#211017##CYDY金逸#盗梦的提前场。作为一个长片处女作挺好了。节奏可能初看有点怪，但最后还是可以接受的。故事不错，就是干姐夫有点刻意（像是小品节目的桥段）。导演解释的西西弗斯对理解场景还是挺有帮助的。有个提问说看窦骁的外景是在北上广这种一线城市，看来重庆的城市宣传还不太够啊（狗头
整体结构不错，故事多方穿插，层层递进，善恶难辨，但是剧情生硬，人物动机都不符合正常逻辑，人物个性前后矛盾差太多，配角穷凶极恶但一碰就挂，主角开光环一次又一次残血反杀，最后结尾强行升华啼笑皆非，作为话剧应该挺不错，但拍成电影实在有些无聊
3.5 可真是比我和我的XXX系好，也比很多院线国产片好。
剧情单薄，经不起推敲。想玩多线叙事，却只学到个皮毛。本来就不出彩的故事的，最后还非要塞段shit。勉强给个三星吧，算是鼓励不骗钱的国产电影人
感觉很多青年男导演处女作都偏爱这种非线性叙事，通过一起入室偷窃引发的连环事件，不断通过各种闪回交代碎片化的线索。整体结构完整，但有几环有点牵强。技法纯熟，但创意略显不足
沉浸式剧本杀+小品包袱大合集。娱乐性超强，一步一个笑点，一步一个反转。上一秒笑出鹅叫，下一秒直呼卧槽。真正做到了最后一秒都是笑点。最后善恶终有报，皆大欢喜。导演野心很大，成品差强人意
节奏稍微有点慢。
看不懂豆瓣评分，是一部被低估的片子。故事过于巧合所以有点不适，除此之外，演员、剧情、故事、反转，我都很喜欢。尤其给范老师、窦骁点赞！
说虚伪点，挺好。说真诚点，真挺好。挺高兴能看到国产黑色幽默电影能有这样的制作水准。有点《夜店》，有点《轻松+愉快》，又有点《疯狂的石头》。金马影帝范伟搭配窦骁张颂文梁超，演技都是在线的选手。剧情上来讲虽然有诸多点还可以仔细斟酌，BUG也不在少数，但整体剧情推进、节奏、剪辑都还不错。尤其摄影要给个加分，悬念制造上也挺高级的。但是老闫那愚蠢的同伙（戴眼镜被关在厕所里的）编剧是不是还可以把他再润色润色，唯一在人设上有点失败的角色。整体三星半。
有点意思，也差点意思，主要在于这个环不够“圆”，就是随便捏捏，实在圆不过去，就强加一块（加人物）来补上。
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