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".
残缺抱团捱苦年，官家低保吝发放。
真爱不是刻意，是永烙心底的，无可取代。人和人之间是有磁场的，磁场合，一切顺遂，相爱永久。
原以为翻拍自本杰明奇事一样的奇幻电影，却是完全不一样的故事，但很相似的地方是影片的质感都非常棒，感情温婉如玉，叙事细水长流。开篇如散文诗般的娓娓道来，中篇的年代爱情故事轻松且颇具趣味性，结尾却让人笑中带泪，饱含着对生命轮回的思考。这次王传君挑大梁又一次淋漓的展现了做为演员的沉淀和积累，感情的转变和小细节等都拿捏到位，证明了药神的惊艳感绝不是昙花一现，这样国内少有的题材绝对值的细细回味。
3.5。女主全片最佳，几个不同阶段均发挥出色。头一个死者也不算是个坏人吧，为啥经常皮笑肉不笑搞得像个该死的坏人，这样或多或少影响了影片想要表达的深度。
没有推理逻辑也很缺失，但是现实和当下往往更加魔幻（04102022）
3-4星之间。联想到现在经历的新冠。灾难影响是以十年甚至更长来度量的。灾后重组家庭的亲情让人动容。剧的节奏有点拖沓。
新意且神奇，但故事有点乱，王传君挺适合这样的孤独气质，王珞丹也能大张大合驾驭各种风格，旁白冗长和说教风格有些败笔了，不过总体来说还是不错的，如果能认真打磨剧本和细节应该能成为荧幕经典
眼下看这个真的是……在天灾人祸不断，各种问题防不胜防的今天，看这部电影只会让人觉得更难过～
被封控在家将近三个月，那些发生的事就在身边
王传君人物塑造的不错，王朔台词有意思，王啸坤演的也不错，哪个什么王导演长得跟韩寒好像。
灾后创伤可能真的一辈子都修复不了～～shanghai lockdown期间看这个片子更有感触
本来以为是个讲地震的故事，没想到是在讲低保。确实是真正需要保护的人总是永远得不到保护，虽然演员演技很生硬，人设转换也太过文艺，但初衷是好的，哀痛是血淋淋的。
看名字我以为是返老还童，结果先看了十分钟旁边配画面儿童剧，然后就是复古风甜蜜蜜但比甜蜜蜜差十万八千里，两个人物毫无灵魂，尤其王传君，结尾去搞干细胞都快给我整笑了，这是完全不值得拍出来的一部戏，只有烂尾缝针那段有点小趣味，但，竟然能做到和主题毫无关系
阿布大叔甘草叶，双青反转最悲怆。
故事编排没有重点 体现了“泛” 但见不到“深” 即便在每个人都很疲累的震后 依然有尤其需要被保护的人 议员道歉的说服力只有吉冈秀隆苦大仇深的脸在支撑 忘年三人的羁绊也展现得不够 因为给果耶撸了几个奖所以两星打不下去手 但是对濑濑敬久真的不能有什么期待 明明认出了抽屉宣传册上的西田尚美但没有反应过来也是我自己的错
披了犯罪片外衣的社会问题片？两个多小时的片子，但是人物挺单薄的，林遣都的角色安排不知道意义是为何。利根一个沉默寡言的蓝领，怎么就敢放火了……我能感受到的只有灾害的伤痛可能比外人想象的要大。这次上海的事情也是一样，只有真正在漩涡中心，才知道被夺走的是什么。
我总觉着，人的生命还很漫长
看片名和开头我以为要讲一个类似返老还童的科幻故事呢，结果是假借干细胞概念让人保持年轻的设定。拍的有点混乱，主旨可能是开篇第一句独白“如果有一天我忘了他们，忘了过去的一切，那这个人还是我吗”。王珞丹依旧女神。6.2分17827评价
看名字我以为是返老还童，结果先看了十分钟旁边配画面儿童剧，然后就是复古风甜蜜蜜但比甜蜜蜜差十万八千里，两个人物毫无灵魂，尤其王传君，结尾去搞干细胞都快给我整笑了，这是完全不值得拍出来的一部戏，只有烂尾缝针那段有点小趣味，但，竟然能做到和主题毫无关系
只可惜，略微出彩的只有音乐。
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