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".
有点失望，当PTA的电影里缺少了DDL就显得乏善可陈了
比《私恋失调》俗气但不糟糕。令人目不转睛的镜头运动仍然迷人，也有从天而降的转折冲突，70年代电视文化与流行乐和Paul Thomas Anderson脑海中的青少年爱恨/城市情结共谱黑胶之歌。Alana Haim的“本色”演出很不错，《Women in Music Pt. III》的 “Summer Girl”走进片场，平凡与耀眼的矛盾特质在她身上调和扎根，再为爱奔跑(David Bowie那首出现的场景也不落俗套
真是神力啊magical moments
ps，男女主真的看不太出来年纪差了十好几岁
谁说污泥满身的不算英雄！
看完预告片：这是什么啊？ 看完全片：这到底是什么啊？
笑不出来，浪费我100分钟。但看得出来魏翔很努力，电影院好多人笑的前仰后合，可能这个搞笑形式就是不适合我吧。最后cue到《荒野大镖客》，点赞👍
PTA在不羁夜后又玩了回情怀，感觉是攒了一波历史片段，用爱情故事串了一下。但设定又没那么简单，两人在新事物和权威经典间反复；Alana无法融入男性权威，同时又觉得Gary几人终归是玩乐，一边找不到自我，一边又想自我证明；二人即互相吸引，又互相竞争（比拼迎合、又比拼反叛），Alana那句 我比你酷 幼稚到让人笑出声。成长路上在新旧圈层不停地mark自己，找定位，是本片的基础核心，深层核心大概是时代映射吧；年轻人用自己的方法迎合、对抗这个世界，他们抓不住好莱坞的摩托车但是可以山路倒卡车，Alana经常不知如何应付自己的反抗心态，或许，一路狂奔，就是答案；充斥着奔跑的本片与GE结局，我觉得挺好
室内戏为主，虽不是开心麻花的顶级制作，但也算一线水准，魏翔终于成为了男一号，戏内戏外终成佳话。剧本特别好，金句不断，灵光乍现，可惜创意源自日本名剧，算改编成功吧，什么时候我们自己出这种好剧本呢？那一定可以被海外翻拍。开心麻花的优势就团队，所有主配角都演得很棒，开心麻花宇宙即将建成，你看这个小城就是西虹市的影视基地。
It’s 2021 and I really don’t need to see a badly told story with boring characters, filled with racism/sexism jokes. I don’t give a fuck about anything that happens in this film. The romance is so cheap. The not-coming-anywhere-coming-of-age story is so cheap. Seriously???
沉浸于70年代，男女主角永远在互相靠近和互相推开的似爱非爱的轨道中推进这段奇奇怪怪的好莱坞往事，明星、政客、流行和政治事件成为了他们生活中的过客，Gary过于早熟地混迹于街头，Alana却任由十五岁的少年牵引着她二十五岁的生活头绪。在总是无缘无故的“日剧跑”的青春叙事里，总有种反成长的怀旧在里面，或者说PTA从未被时代神话所说服的局外人的友善讽刺与温和调笑。
和《私恋失调》一个调调，一连串事件串起来看得是目不转睛，但可能确实也没讲什么。。。Alana很灵！
上半部分笑是真好笑，俗是真好俗。
有点失望，当PTA的电影里缺少了DDL就显得乏善可陈了
人人青春年代的慌乱懵懂跨越时空大不相同却永远relatable（我会到老还会喜欢coming of age题材吗？）至于显得种族歧视的设定个人觉得是在还原70年代真实的状况吧，观众的笑就和snl的种族玩笑引人发笑一样，总不能全zzzq？
剧本确实厉害，但镜像化后看得我常常出戏。一部电影的时间内我看了会书，吃了东西，改写了儿歌，查询了电视机售价。133分钟片长我花掉了至少3小时，观影体验被撕扯地支离破碎，读书美食码字购物体验良好。
三星半。致敬《雨中曲》部分拍得很美，但个人觉得大部分的笑点都有些弱智，看多了略尴尬和无语。。其次，剧本做得粗糙，有好几次转折都太生硬了，人物关系基本没建立起来。不否认服化道做得很有风格，但这似乎只是对原版的继承？
Good directing. Boring film.
多好啊，因为两个人不能在一起，才形成了不断试错不断冒险的奇怪磁场，经历对彼此的伤害嫉妒和守护，完成了既是各自又是共同的成长。PTA有坚定的自我和深情，表面的疯狂迷幻之下是坚固的心理现实主义，这是他一如既往的写给过去的情书
佩服面对这样的男主能看下去的观众，你们是有多不挑啊，我就不该吃饭的时候看，呕
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