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".
青梅很可爱！！前辈很坏女人！！但是演的都很好！石田光很厉害！垫情绪专业！
这个电影的设定挺有意思的，虽然电影制作很单薄，但灵魂寄宿探索死亡真相这个设定还是可以撑起整个电影的，虽然演员的演技稚嫩，最后的结局也有些老套，但都可以被这么一个设定所拯救，不过小成本电影毕竟是有上限的，虽然想法很新颖，但还不至于成为佳作，如果能深挖一下这个新奇的想法、改改结局，电影说不定会更好。
酷老太的設定但拍的并不酷，人物之間的愛恨糾纏沒表現好。
其实我还是蛮喜欢设定的，给了100天去找到附身的人和自己的死因，不去考虑找到或者找不到的后果，这个本身就很有意思，而后的一切就像是在拆盲盒，一点点挖掘自以为的真相。结局是阳光的，本希望更黑暗一些，更能反映社会的问题一些，一下就落了下乘，如果阳光的让人精神振奋也是好的，可给人的感觉太浅了，流于表面，就无聊了
“高中生”的我看翻拍电影从不挑剔的去比较原作，这算成熟的表现么……过好寄生的后续篇章吧
主旨是喜欢的人不喜欢自己，爸妈给不了家庭温暖，哥哥也不让跟了，想学画画也不让，全世界与我为敌😰
故事老套但奶奶很酷，7.5以上才是正常分数好吧。by the way，我老了的时候也想像奶奶一样有尊严的死去！
意外的幸运签的真人版，我就说好像看过呢。演员还都不错
“我想陪你通宵去等首班车，我想和你生活下去”，国内导演来好好学学纯爱绝症电影该怎么拍，这已经是日影最差的模版了。
开篇觉着很有意思，后面有些可以猜到结局的俗套了
其实有人一直爱着你，要过好每一天。
½ gin, ½ water and a squeeze of lemon.
八木好好看(♥∀♥)，
没想到2022年了还能看到这种得了绝症不给恋人说，反而搞消失玩冷战，骗人家自己心另有所属强行分手的大烂梗，图什么！结果他们两个，没有一个快乐，烦死了！（女主可爱可惜露脸时间不多，男主悲痛大哭的戏看得我直皱眉，本来挺好的悲伤情绪，被他仿佛小拇指被狗咬的演技全打断了！
配饭吃的
冲着ztmy的主题歌来看的，
3.78 日内瓦和好友的下午。摄影一星，音乐一星，Charlotte Ramping一星，男主没有预期的那么用力0.78星。剧本铺垫可以重新编排一下，以及可以匀出不少时间讲出更多的过去。用了更多的时间讲了一个更少的故事
恭喜岛又演了一部不上不下的片。不过这个结局其实比想象中的烂大街版本要好一些，人生总有一些遗憾和错过……另外真是好久没在和他搭戏的女演员里见到过比他演技还烂的了。
有《世界奇妙物语》的味儿，很温馨很治愈。也有了一种生活思路：把生命当做一种寄宿生活。但是美月学姐喜欢女生是我万万没有想到的…
生病真的是太惨了 不想看苦情的 可以只看前35分钟（
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