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".
自编自导自演，Cooper Raiff这位新人有点意思，处理情感那股子细腻，好温柔好舒服。达妹也比『五十度灰』那会儿舒服太多，属于她的上升期来了。
DJ好像全程在flirting，she so hot
#2022 圣丹斯# 每个人都会经历从少年到成人的那段时期，本片导演兼主演用自己的故事书写了真实的青春，想给对方安全感却还没有足够实力的青涩男孩终究会成熟
You will always be a part of my life.
You will always be a part of my life.
It may not be a 100/100 film, but it makes you feel things. 尽管故事不太新颖且人物有些理想化，但胜在坦诚真挚，并且意外地很能共情，尤其是有过同样情愫的人。即便没有，谁又能拒绝这样的达妹呢？
终于到来的2022暑假看的第一部，成长确实挺难的，但电影没那么drama，好像是你的我的生活艺术化处理，我挺喜欢，可以小哭一下。对假期也开始期待起来，突然好像放下了必须放的够久的执念。四星半，入选年度系列。
一个小男孩对于爱情的侧写以及因涉世未深而不知为何的心路历程
安德鲁是那种生气时踢了路边的草坪，下一秒会立刻用手给小草呼呼的人。他们的恋情转瞬即逝，但他们的故事里有好多好多爱。
又可以是世界上最善良的人又可以有点儿烦人，真的好讨喜的角色，非常轻松舒服的小片，适合结束疲惫的一天…短暂的相遇相知相爱，又各自回到适合自己的轨道中寻找自己人生的意义，真的是恰恰丝滑～导演好招人稀罕，第一次get到达科塔约翰逊的漂亮，她说话真的好温柔哦
富有正义感与爱的好男孩。20岁的年纪，就是需要身边的人帮助他认清自己。喜欢妈妈的性格，太知性了。
女主太美，但看完最大的感慨是找到内心peace前不要生小孩啊！
不知道评论什么，没找到共情的点，隔靴搔痒的感觉，但是男主的演绎很棒，可以看出是一个有趣又有才华的男孩，很可爱～
感觉是导演的半自传，有点自恋但还算可爱，达美太美了~歌曲太赞了~
男女主角都有对象，但是却是彼此的soulmate？看他们两眼神拉丝我总觉得那是性方面，看不出来他两的爱意，可能是我很难接受这种不忠诚的爱吧！
观感像《甘草披萨》和《花生酱猎鹰》。我算是摸透了这几年Dakota的选片套路了——诡异奇情的惊悚悬疑片或者清新文艺片。而在后者中，她总是一副气若游丝、人淡如菊的样子，情绪很激烈的时候也能淡淡地笑着哭，明明应该很没存在感却总让人觉得扎眼，可能这就是一种“婊气”？男性最爱吧！学习了！
片名显然是个多关语：聚会上的流丽舞步；男主角的讨喜人格；情节进程的顺畅不惊。三者，都踩着“恰恰”的节拍、无限“丝滑”。
母子 兄弟 重组家庭 自闭症 抑郁症 单亲妈妈 元素很多 什么都沾一点 但什么都没深挖 甚至只是“说一嘴”的程度 btw 导演是对soulmate有什么天大的误解吧？真的挺“自我感动”的 建议打发时间也别跳这部了吧
真的很细腻丝滑啊这个电影，只是部分场景真的很像MV…大学刚毕业的男生和十几岁孩子的妈妈，本来像是活在两个世界的人，他们短暂地碰撞又永远地分开，两个灵魂只能跳一段恰恰，却不能真实地生活在一起。挺好的电影
3.5 I want commitment and to be firmly planted in adult world, but you, you are full of possibilities.
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