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".
如果说Daryl的肉体惊艳了我，那Emma的演技则让我佩服到五体投地...how could she be so perfectly beautiful, vulnerable and satisfied at the same time...Emma身体上的每一条皱纹都让我看到了岁月能带给人的智慧和美好
电影是一个顶着让人窥猎的题材实际表达伦理和治愈内涵的影片。两人物出场，令人印象深刻的是一个面对真实自我矛盾又拘束。一个回避隐藏自我，眼里有光。人物的接触里有倾听、交流、尊重、坦诚、理解、关注、接纳，文明礼貌潇洒幽默，更像是一种疗愈过程。
四场会谈。男的是真的帅！女主也好棒，60几岁演脱戏，这才是女性电影啊。
南希从妈味中解放，开头那身印花衬衣真是吃不消又恰如其分。谈话比做爱更好（但两者必须兼具才能构成）。一丝好笑，几分动人。最后的幻景是真的吗？女性终极幻想了。还好我们比南希早知道这些事，不用等到55岁～～
如果可以，我希望每一位婦女都能毫無負擔和顧忌的感受一次美好的愉悅！愛自己的身體好難，很喜歡Nancy最後一幕，她仿佛在發光（ps. 男主真的好可愛，美得不真實，不愧是滿足幻想的聖人~）
1，Leo Grande非常敬业；2，想有一个Leo Grande
为男主的颜值点赞。完全长在了我的审美点上。
特别高雅的正确，特别典型的性压抑女性与心碎男孩，现代女性与性工作者双向奔赴的典范，虽然这一切都太理想化了但我仍然希望这种理想化能成为现实。请让我成为那个只想聊点八卦却承受了太多的的Becky吧！
拍得真的好说教看到后面就“像TED…”。性转一下丧妻男嫖年轻女孩儿还要给人当爹上课最后说其实我也性压抑，就是个毫无被拍摄成电影可能的稀松平常又让人讨厌的事吧。看不出来除了男主的脸和身材有啥好赞美的。
啊 真没想到这电影居然能把我看哭 第三次会面把前两次理想状态拉回到现实 与人交往自身的丑恶 私欲展露无疑 却接着在结尾回归理想甚至更深一层 不过其实从一开始 leo的出现就是个理想哎 女性就是太容易自我反省 被动和主动自我压抑了 转性的话 可能只会是苦妓回忆录而不会good luck to you啦 最后感谢汤普森的优秀演出～
也许社会需要专业和敬业的服务，比如63岁的艾婶就无比敬业
女性主义确实有，只不过是“有钱有闲有文艺的女性”的主义。
3.5，很好笑，艾玛汤普森很棒。因为想要精简场景完全靠对话推动，故事难免有点刻意，有些地方也难以让人信服。男主也太可口了
Nancy Stokes /stəʊks/ to add fuel to a large fire and move the fuel around with a stick so that it burns well and produces a lot of heat. 添加燃料以撥旺（爐火）by Cambridge Dictionary. 看到最後一場戲時上個月碰巧在HBO 刷完Wit的我真實哭成傻逼⋯⋯親親我湯嬸子！
一个又真诚又像童话的故事，情欲探索的电影可能最怕的就是虚伪，搞来搞去最后都是一些做作的互相理解和彼此尊重。这个故事也让我重新思考了“人要互相看见”这些说法背后的真正的代价。界限分明的幻想乐园崩塌了，但导火索也不是非得要是“不受控制的浪漫爱”，渴望真实渴望对方完整，这也会关系里的脆弱一览无余。想想其实人可能到老也不知道一段关系到底可以承受什么，但只要真诚，总会有机会可以一起抵达深处。
太棒了，我希望我认识的所有女性朋友们都看这部电影
哈哈哈，应该成为“公共服务”和“强烈推荐给需要你的人”
作为这个题材的电影也太不性感了，中间浓浓的说教令人窒息。男主角的形象也过于理想化。
可以直接改一个小剧场。以及这么多年过去了……女性的处境似乎也没有太大变化……Maccormick蛮可爱的。所以性工作者的伦理课作业答案应该很多……宗教课老师是不是可以类比政治课老师，或者道法课老师？改一个中国的应该很带感
老人需要做爱，太监也需要做爱，做爱是一件美妙的事情，活塞运动只是一个环节。你要正视你的欲望，你还要发泄出你的欲望，如果总是压抑自己的欲望，那和一个变态有什么分别？
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