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".
导演编剧都不太行，美帝人民的daddy issue这种主题更是看烦了……
诶嘿评分竟然不高，但其实它是一部很温柔的电影哇。最后的自我对白也是和自己和解的一个过程，到最后，真的成为了一名作家。
结局也是理想化的 不过生活需要些理想化 另 大雄真的老了 岁月啊
7.娓娓道来一个“温柔”、没有太大波澜、甚至有些无聊的成长故事。这种平淡的确没有什么张力，但偶尔看一下，观影过程却很安静舒服。
寡淡的节奏，浓郁的男人和男人之间的情谊，忘记辈分和年龄，间歇性的一些金句，像极了男性的人生，一开始往往浑浑噩噩，被别人的决定影响，这时候只需要周围有一帮不离不弃朋友，总有一个时间点，自己会觉醒自己需要什么。
一段温柔的故事，适合一个慵懒的午后，到一杯鸡尾酒，一边喝一边看，再点上一根烟。有时候生活就是这样，你追求了一大圈，结果最好的就在身边～
抛一段引子线性平述，然后再抛一个引子继续线性平述，转折非常生硬，逻辑非常别扭，看完都不知道所以然，不过洗白黑警这点我是搞明白了，正经警察都是无能死板的，只有黑化以暴制暴的黑警路线才能干出实绩，只要能捉“中”老鼠的黑警就是“好”警察，大老鼠捉不到无所谓，最终的社会收益是正的就是正确，有点像当年刚战败后的日本，黑社会组织能够促进社会安定而肯定他们的合法存在，这种模式或许也是适合当下的韩国社会
对我来说 有点慢吞吞了 不过 导演至少把把故事讲清楚了
也太順理成章了，哪裡懸疑了⋯黑白灰都是立場與價值，不變的是要堅定自己的立場。
感觉观感取决于个人家庭经历…对于有类似经历的还是非常有共情的
崔宇植是90年的啊 好想知道他是咋保养的 像97年的一样
演技都很在线，虽说前面这些手段都比较低级，但整体故事还是不错的。不过根本上来说，我还是认为制度大于人，人是靠不住的
3.5 不仅独自撑起一个酒吧，还得撑起一部电影，舅舅不容易啊。
也就棒子能拍这样的电影。确实很多东西不是非黑即白的，很多卧底也是游离于灰色地带，并非都是伟光正。但他们的牺牲和付出都是对警察这个职业信念的坚定。去抓比我更坏的恶人。
很喜欢这种小清新的调调，一个男孩的成长是依照着父亲的模样，对于父权的未知让男孩的成长遇到了这群叔叔，他一直在寻找的父亲形象，其实一直在他的身边。
嗯，很温柔，相比导演，我更加喜欢乔治克鲁尼做演员呀
前半部分挺好，又温馨又温暖；后半部分陷入了无序的没有目的的沦丧中，最后的重回正轨感觉也很草率。
得放弃掉成长中来自长辈的（崇拜也好，伤痕也罢）阴影，带着爱和梦想，才能抵达成就自我的彼岸。
过了二十多年，《心灵捕手》里的大本还在小镇里痛苦挣扎，却也自学到了满腹的理论。这次送别的不是坚强的绝对天才，而是更脆弱、更自卑、更像个普通人的人才。电影意外地温柔，可惜这温柔的力度太轻，撑不过电影结束后的十分钟。
崔宇植你不会挑剧本的吗？？？这是什么老掉牙的灰色地带警察故事啊... 导演以后也避开，节奏稀烂！
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