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".
关于文学和写作的欧洲电影总是很性感。还致敬了最爱的opening nights中的Gena Rowlands....有点像世界上最糟糕的人。
真好看。阿娜伊斯穿着她的小裙子，一直在人生中奔跑。
真的太美了！这部电影简单热烈得就像她的剧情一样！我太喜欢了！南法的热烈直接和缱绻知性，这两个女主简直是南法最美的两面啊啊啊啊倒计时25天！南法等等我！
风风火火的青春气息，阿姨57了真是完全看不出，男的怎么能这么自信哦🙄
台词实在是太好，和女主深切共情。这就是那种适合一个人用小银幕看的私人小品，不用深究逻辑和脉络，享受法国盛夏的明媚阳光就好。
No matter love or illusion, catch what you can grasp
长镜头带出的法国街景，海边美景，还有片子里明亮的色调，看了让人真是舒服。
真的太美了！这部电影简单热烈得就像她的剧情一样！我太喜欢了！南法的热烈直接和缱绻知性，这两个女主简直是南法最美的两面啊啊啊啊倒计时25天！南法等等我！
？ 女主怎么这么大手大脚，实在是看的很难受
看前面总以为自己是1.5倍速，Anayis风风火火毛躁不安的状态就出来了。她的性格真是不讨喜，莽撞的有点自私，但被她偏爱的肯定会心动，因为年轻和美丽和热情的确无法阻挡。没想到最后爱情的走向是这样的，在热烈的夏日发生的爱情，同性之情的张力似乎比异性强很多，同理可见请以你的名字呼唤我。
说着世界就是地狱，却又灿烂勇敢地驾驭了所有的渴望。 “c'est la vie ” “我不同意”
落在我身上的吻，咸咸的，带着海沙的粗糙颗粒。
现在满脑子都是年下妹妹穿着红裙子跑来跑去的画面。
不要挥洒它，用它做点什么。
“凡此种种，皆超脱时间”
选的两女主很合适，都演过欧容电影。选瓦莱丽确实挺妙的，charming又温柔，从阿娜伊斯看到她背影的画里开始。里面的轻音乐不错。还出现了Gena Rowlands！两女主还夸她好看！“所有人都应该在七八岁的时候读叔本华”
呜呜我好喜欢最后两段她们互相写信和餐桌前的对话
2022年看过最好的电影….人的一生都在问自己是什么，自己活着为了什么———以及，对大部分难以沉溺于宗教与虚无的现代普通人来说，我们通过抓住爱的体验来抓住生活，可是爱，尤其是对于女性来说，我们需要的怎样的爱？我们如何承认有一种超越本能的爱可以忽视一切剥削、危险与随之而来的控制让我们充盈一往直前的勇气？我喜欢看安娜伊斯在自然中奔跑的样子，自由、热烈、野性…但她抓着艾丽莎的手走进逼仄的电梯，然后亲吻，等待电梯门缓缓关上。爱是牢笼，也是因为你而无惧于牢笼的真心
法国的电影为什么都这么絮絮叨叨哈哈哈哈大部分的情节和冲突都是靠对话来完成的。
阿娜伊斯是夏日，用奔跑来缓解不安，用情欲稀释虚无。“你爱的只是illusion”
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