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".
友邻均分7.5分，觉得蛮符合。阿婆迷很能接受这种方式（说剧本杀也好，说暴风雪山庄也好)，演员也没拉胯，细节也可圈可点。而且最后“真相”也无非是另一个“真相”这点很喜欢。就是偶尔几次的强行喜剧效果有点出戏。宅家在B站边看边吃掉半份披萨一把开心果一杯黑豆奶一个苹果一个橙子，居然还挺下饭🐶
你知道了你敢拍吗？拍了能批准公映嘛？“可他妈老子也是一个有良心的艺术家！”最终剧中的制作团队被“不可抗力”团灭，“潜规则”超级强大的哈。
故事讲述“三老”贪污军火费，导致战役失败，幸存下来的士兵和死去连长的女儿一起复仇杀“三老”的故事！
虽然很喜欢《报告老板》，但真的不敢对他们的电影作品抱太多的期望，毕竟不是同一种东西。但。。。。。我真的笑跺脚了、拍腿了。里面那些喜剧的部分，我很喜欢，让我放松。那些演员和略微的戏剧腔调，也都不差，可见导演还是有一定实力的。推理的部分竟然也一波三折的，很有意思，引得人一步步往下看。虽然我看完想想也有很大的bug，不过细节很好啊，过程很好啊。而且我也没看过没bug的推理片。毕竟无巧不成书，无bug不推理吗。还有迷影的部分，也很有趣，如果再多一些就好了！对这个团队很有好感，编导演都能撑起来，在当前的国产片市场绝对属于比较强的，比较有特色的。
“虽然我经常被打，但我演的是日本人，所以不算丢中国人的脸。”高能笑点不断，反转反转再反转，开头以为只是好笑，中途以为是荒诞风闹剧，没想到却是彻头彻尾的悲剧，电影这种东西还是得看了才知道合不合自己胃口。一出带着迷影元素的大型民国剧本杀，“暴雪山庄”的形式，笑点和悬疑的融合竟不违和，小小的装腔作势不影响这本不在行程内的观影是十一月的小惊喜。“掌权者最怕的是记忆。”尹正更像工具人，张本煜才是男主，记他大银幕上的第一次出彩；邓家佳的唐氏表演法则可以永远相信！喻恩泰这个烂导暗喻王晶笑死个人！原来警察是秦霄贤，还挺帅…邓恩熙太美……30分钟渐入佳境，娱乐圈潜规则、影视圈的歧视链、资本和权利的隐喻、女性物化、性虐、借古讽今，还有千万不能碰的军事政治……作为导演的第一部大银幕，值得鼓励，年度华语十佳备选。
首先是惊喜，然后是感动。惊喜的是能在院线看到这么一部剧作精巧、番底连翻的国产电影，足够的呼应、互文的元素，却又能基本不脱离三一律、舞台效果拉满，一定程度上放弃群像的人物深度刻画来实现的精彩故事，这是我最梦想能写出的剧本。 然后是有感叹于十几年前万合天宜这帮有才的年轻人，在拍了那么多只为了赚钱的网剧、烂片之后，还能有这样的才情、拍出这样的电影。这不是《如月疑云》，也不是《利刃出鞘》，更不是什么剧本杀电影，但这就是在这个优秀国产电影荒年里的久旱甘霖。
前半部分真的给人优秀春晚小品的感觉，包袱抖的利落，嘲讽隐射的话很多，射程范围广，虽不太像电影但看得很开心，而后半个小时出乎意料，可以看出主创真的热爱电影，也分得清主次，是很用心的在讲好一个故事，顺便抖抖机灵，而不是用个随便的故事去生硬的串联一些搞笑的段子。
对真相执着且怀有正义感的勇者
在两星与三星之间摇摆的片子，故事题材可以，可惜把握不了。所有的东西拍得都很漂浮。一看是韩寒出品也就明白了。野心很大，可惜才华不够。节奏上气不接下气，演员也是相对浮夸。最后结局翻回来一点。可惜没法挽救一部电影。
本意应该不是走剧本杀的捷径，有点想玩利刃出鞘的复古套路，完成度和迷影元素融梗尚可，但前面总有些冗长。
喜欢电影的人会有很多会心一笑的地方，话剧感，挺多讽刺
完全没看过预告，没看过影评，甚至没看过简介来看的电影，没预期倒是意外感觉还可以。
万合天宜，再加上同福客栈，爱情公寓和德云社的加持，真的是太棒了！
万合天宜出品，还是有点东西的～感觉挺完整～小姨妈演技真是绝了～
题材涉及电影行业的，一定要慎重，很容易沦为自HIGH。这片子挑了条最难的路，喜剧和悬疑天然是很难混搭的，最后的完成度也确实不高。唯一能够夸奖的是能看出认真了，努力了，剩下只能说才华不够了……
就还好吧，差不多的一堆人拍电影就老是一个味儿。
两个小时，前半段感觉情节有些拖沓，后半段反转挺多，但是有些地方感觉为反转而反转，不是很流畅，结尾莫名的升华了，他们不用吃饭吗？最后那个电影的投资哪里来的？满头问号
撇开所谓的剧本杀模式，放弃观众先入为主的对立观点，好本子才是一切。以及非常想知道末尾被重配的那些台词是什么
柯达……哈哈哈，承包了我所有笑点的蓝人！简直笑不活了，虽然感觉在电影上还带有他原来拍网剧的蠢萌风格，有点怪，但仔细想想，他这个人物常年当替身挨打，而且大多是打头，所以变得有点憨傻也是可以理解的，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，太喜欢柯达了，感觉他这风格更适合星爷那种无厘头的剧，经典假笑配上瞪大的眼珠子，不用说话都能逗乐人。“小宝贝儿！”
剧本杀式的好电影，结局给人多方面的遐想，一些致敬也比较惊喜。看电影喜欢思考的可以发掘出很多东西，纯看的也可以获得一些感受。
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