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".
生活比较失意的时候适合看，影片节奏比较舒缓，原声带做得很棒，影片取景也很美，让人总体很放松，期间也有一定的跌宕起伏，总之看完很舒服。
铁幕下的华沙，铁幕下的爱恋，铁幕下弥漫至今的压抑、炙热、抗争、呐喊、不公……
感觉这两人之间不太来电，特别是卷毛受，眼里没戏，像个美丽的石雕
还蛮爱的。天哪！只是在想为什么西方国家会这么讨厌同性恋？
最黑暗的还是警察内部，一切真相竟是同为同志的警察头目为了掩盖过火的情欲狂欢。实在太讽刺了，最惨痛的不是人无法自由选择爱，而是同类相残。“这个国家一半的人都有秘密”，人与人之间为何如此缺乏信任？！
酒吧-"人不应该对一切都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。";
其实情节有很多缺陷，但导演从头到尾都很克制，家庭、悬疑、爱情三条线戛然而止，没有抱着讲大道理或是为什么发声的野心，偶尔从周围人身上会有一两句简单但很真诚的话，结尾有些怅惘又有些庆幸，像是楚门走出了摄像机。btw摸小胡子啥的很萌~
这部电影我真的很感触，可能是我最近心情也比较低谷的原因吧，就很共鸣，那种压抑感真的很共鸣、另外这个警察真的很像桑总，我看的稍微有点跳戏，小卷毛也很漂亮，尤其是眼睛、两人之间的那种感情真的很让我感触、不知道为什么这部电影的画面镜头什么的明明是压抑挂的但莫名的很戳我观感、我已经很久没有看过这种能让我安安静静看下来之后内心还会有感触的电影了、真的很久没有看过了、片尾的bgm很宁静很好听
情欲与犯罪，自由与政治，简单却精巧的设计，禁忌之恋在社会高压和权力腐败下更显压抑
女孩我只是不能...虽然这一对很好嗑（特别是Robert审Eric那一段😭是谁嗑到脚趾抓地我不说，但是作为影片主线之一的查案过程有时候真的会让人感到莫名其妙
就着悬疑破案还有时代的大背景，讲一个“凄美”的爱情故事，还挺好嗑的
剧情展开转折都还不错，但是跟踪那块有点扯（也太不专业了）…另外还纠结是掰弯还是深柜…男主怎么跟桑总这么像，还都叫Thomas…
“波兰人就是看不惯同胞幸福，他们憎恨幸福的同胞。”
最黑暗的还是警察内部，一切真相竟是同为同志的警察头目为了掩盖过火的情欲狂欢。实在太讽刺了，最惨痛的不是人无法自由选择爱，而是同类相残。“这个国家一半的人都有秘密”，人与人之间为何如此缺乏信任？！
这些被迫害的人，在警局留下了被迫害的档案。风信子，这么美丽的名字，背后却是如此沉重的一段历史。把这些有迹可循的历史拍成电影，纵使沉重也是有意义的作品。只是在人类漫长的历史中，在不同的时空中，又有多少颗心被淹没被隐藏被遗忘。
隐匿在匣中的枪依旧等待着现世展露锋芒的一刻，舒缓的风中我们又看到了那个美利坚曾经残酷的西部，让枪声再多飞一会儿吧…
笼罩在铁幕下的压抑与迫害，然而对自由的追求与对真爱的觉醒，让主人公勇敢地冲破了这一切，诚实地面对与做回自己。男一男二之间火花四射，CP感爆棚。开放式的结局保留了悬念，虽然灰暗的政治背景令人不容乐观，但爱与勇敢又不至于叫人全然绝望。 “做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
文艺，细腻，写实，有种2010年前后的滤镜感，譬如无尽的天空与人高的草原，阴雨天，干燥的雷声，回响的枪声，悠扬的bgm。共同暗示了这位传奇人物落寞的收场
结局倒是挺利索的，应该是我希望快点结束吧
故事讲的完整有逻辑，这么简单的事情，很多电影做不到。
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