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".
但也不至于看不进去。
在你迷茫的时候有他，在你开心的时候也有他，他会出现在你人生中每个最重要的时刻。你的家人，会陪着你。
寡淡的节奏，浓郁的男人和男人之间的情谊，忘记辈分和年龄，间歇性的一些金句，像极了男性的人生，一开始往往浑浑噩噩，被别人的决定影响，这时候只需要周围有一帮不离不弃朋友，总有一个时间点，自己会觉醒自己需要什么。
一部比较生活的电影就像平平淡淡的人生没有啥大风大浪，就是继续生活温柔前行。没有太多打动人的点但也不矫揉造作，属于很平静的一部电影，有能够依靠的长辈有一起喝酒的朋友有自己坚定又不那么坚定的梦想，这样的人生何乐而不为。
屏蔽了电台的频率，
早知道这么容易解决问题，直接找那什么延南会大佬就好了呗，搞得鸡飞狗跳，就算吓坏小朋友，砸到花花草草也不好嘛。
被逼无奈看的。有这样的叔叔真好。有一个烂爹真还不如没爹
妈的 我就说买车比买房重要 虽然本人死活不愿意去学车
这个酒吧给了JR一种Alfredo对toto的温柔
舅舅很温暖，美国也一样 盼望儿子上哈佛耶鲁，有钱的嫌弃穷小子
和同期的贝尔法斯特不约而同的有很多相似之处都是67十年代的西方，不是很富有的家庭但是都有一个温暖的家庭，温暖的爷爷辈守护者指导着大家庭，尤其是文凭不高但是读了很多书的舅舅，在男主成长的道路上教了他很多父亲该教的事情。全篇一直在提回忆录的盛行，全篇也是男主的回忆录，回忆童年家庭的贫穷，回忆了初恋的苦恼，回忆了畜生一样的父亲，以及温柔的舅舅和他的温柔酒吧。
很生活化的电影 男孩子成长阶段确实需要一个男性的榜样 会让孩子更好的正面成长
剧情蛮紧凑，有看头的。每个人视角不同，看到的不同，但是你要根据你看到的真相作出判断和抉择。能抓到坏人的警察就是好警察。
毫无逻辑，黑帮竟然会拾金不昧20亿，放港片，警察都会藏车里跑路。
同类型的故事韩影拍了好多 赵震雄也演了好多 看的时候还好 过段时间我可能会想不起来它的剧情内容 警官之血不如翻译成灰警
很有代入感的人生传记，JR从小家庭非原生，父亲酗酒家暴，却有开酒吧的舅舅、温柔的母亲和睿智的外公们的一路陪伴、小JR也是聪明优秀一路考入耶鲁，校园怀拥校花…但人生路不是永远一帆风顺的，以律师为目标的HR，在毕业后面临女友分手、工作无望等因素坚定了他唯一的出路：作家。开放式的结尾，鼓励每一位年轻人，所以的逆境都是暂时的，怀着一颗向前出发的心！
题材和设置相当不错，小崔演技退步了，接不住老赵的戏。
题材和设置相当不错，小崔演技退步了，接不住老赵的戏。
破碎是容易的，弥合是困难的。我有时候觉得人生的重点模糊，以至于不知道自己在做什么。
我们很小，迈一小步，有很小的心，坚定而踏实.
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