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".
剧情真的不太好。现实生活没有这样的男生。！！！要是真的有那就快跑。
没看过点国际新闻都要看不懂这部片子了，再见了2021，虽然迎来的2022也不怎么样
男女主角，电影画面，都很唯美，配乐也好听。是久违的，阳光的，温暖的，光明的爱情电影，喜欢。
好治愈呜呜呜 画面好美 可是曾经美丽的吸血鬼日记女主nina 怎么老到开始演妈妈的角色了 花期好短💔 男主明明很帅 很有性张力 他好像很有钱但感觉明明很辛苦啊 he太好了
没看懂时，几次因为男主为赎女主花的钱不值，几次因女主还离开他感到气愤到关掉。心想男主为什么还爱她啊！ 但这就是为什么人的爱如此脆弱。剧中男主的爱，映射着神爱我们的方式。神重金将我们从罪中赎回，以恒久忍耐，不强求的爱来爱我们，等着我们回转。所以非基督徒可能觉得男主的爱很不真实，世上哪有这么好的男主。这恰恰说明了世上任何一个人的爱，都不及神爱我们的万分之一。
祈祷在各个人物的身上发挥了很大的功效，迈克尔的祷告也好，安琪儿的祷告也好，都经历了一定的时间才实现。所以祈祷后，我们要学会等待，也要做好手头上的事，到了时候，祂必然成就。
女主被男主救三次再自己回去卖三次……多说两句解释清楚误会会死？
怎么会有这样好的人。每个人都有罪，活着的意义就是原谅和爱。原谅自己，爱别人。
2021比2020更糟糕，但这只是小问题。因为2022年全世界会继续发烂发臭。
片面翻译的很有意思，陈述句仿佛翻译成了疑问句，那答案是什么，宗教信仰者看到的是上帝，浪漫主义者看到的是爱情，现实主义者看到的是真实的不堪承受生命之重，爱是什么，爱是不带目的不计回报的救赎，可是爱情真的只存在于童话故事和宗教信仰之中吗，谁可以这样爱我，翻译更多了一层现实主义意味。
好看！！看哭了，女主太可怜了。幸好遇到个好男人！
居然这也成每年的固定番了。比起去年我觉得今年没啥区别吧。除搞笑点调侃都是除咱们之外其他国家那点事儿，疫情还是主角，人类还不长记性。直接等明年底Death to 2022好了
女主小时候的妈居然是吸血鬼日记女主，老了。女主实在太作了，逃来逃去干嘛呢，好好日子不要过，哎。。。。。还好这玛丽苏结局挺完美的，美女帅哥真养眼。
感觉比2020去死要能看一点点 但我大概只能看懂4成暗讽但也觉得好好笑 像说美国选举讲扎克伯格讲疫情等等 说我小粉红也好腹黑也好 我真希望外国发生的这些糟心事都是真的哈哈！PS休格兰格怎么老了那么多！相对地 刘玉玲怎么一直都长这个样！
依然諷刺的文化觀察，2021年世界依然糟糕，希望不要有下集了。
2021的政治新闻回顾：用了伪纪录片的形式，用明星演员来自我吐槽，和奈飞一起的不要抬头形成配套（后疫情时代的批判跨年？）但都不算好看…
Shit.What a year.Bye 2021 bye.
糟心的一年，也许比2020年还要糟心，世界已经开始了去死的节奏！当然包括我们
女主的颜值飘忽不定，可能是脸型原因？必须特定角度发型才好看？男主倒是一直挺帅（居然有人说男主毫无性吸引力是认真的吗，搞不太懂现在的审美了） 剧情反正挺无聊的，就是想说一见钟情，毫无理由的付出爱，男主作为丈夫来说简直完美无瑕，难以想象2022了还有这么老套的爱情片。
让我们承认吧，荒谬已是我们生活之常态。nobody even cares，多么可悲的时代。
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