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".
好适合过年 圣诞 下雪 聚会 该有的元素都有 而且演员绝美 音乐真的太好听啦 诚意满满的贺岁电影啊 质量飞起来 音乐好好听 我就喜欢这种俗套路有新意
这种类型的电影大概永远不会超过《真爱至上》了
整个剧情稍微有点慢，全程是用二倍速看完的，看完之后心里还是有痛的感觉吧，看到最后的时候会有想哭的冲动。不过片中妈妈的做法难道不会给小女儿心里留下一些阴影吗？即便是亲人也……整个故事讲的是很市井，很普通的生活，但是小女儿有一些的情节设置的过于文艺，比如卷窗帘那里，我能明白她是想表达生活把她包的密不透风，但可能就是因为前面电影把市井生活描写的太过细致，从而把小女儿写的性格有点儿过于不接地气了。（个人观点，你杠就是你对）
But not everything can be forgotten
就这一生人，暗藏很丰富的情感。最后，基督岂能救赎？
台词完全可以打磨的更好更精炼，整个片子看下来像是在看电视剧，老年演员还不错，青年演员的演技真的很差，片子本身只能给两颗星，另外一颗给导演吧，毕竟是青年导演处女作，完成度还可以
元真儿到底是为啥是为啥是为啥一直一直在用力的睁眼睛挤眼睛，她的部分真的想跳过。而且这部剧过于无趣了
确实挺平庸，作为群星汇聚的贺岁片，本该更有趣吧。
“至亲离去那一瞬间，通常不会使人感到悲伤。而真正让你感到悲痛的是，打开冰箱的那半盒牛奶，那安静折叠在床上的绒被，还有那深夜里洗衣机传来的阵阵喧哗。”
去年的同类型是新年前夜 说实话真爱至上也算不上什么影史经典 但确实是比较符合节日氛围的群像电影 hgr怎么这么热衷于打造本土版真爱至上？
好恶俗的跨年烂片，不懂有什么拍出来的必要性。
老掉牙大合集，老套到无以复加。但一众演员魅力拔群，作为年底的贺岁电影也算养眼应景
【①心疼允儿才出来十分钟……
整个剧情稍微有点慢，全程是用二倍速看完的，看完之后心里还是有痛的感觉吧，看到最后的时候会有想哭的冲动。不过片中妈妈的做法难道不会给小女儿心里留下一些阴影吗？即便是亲人也……整个故事讲的是很市井，很普通的生活，但是小女儿有一些的情节设置的过于文艺，比如卷窗帘那里，我能明白她是想表达生活把她包的密不透风，但可能就是因为前面电影把市井生活描写的太过细致，从而把小女儿写的性格有点儿过于不接地气了。（个人观点，你杠就是你对）
开始上来就10分钟的长镜头把犀牛一家的历史说了一遍，快速简练，不错。
也许这样的电影很适合在暴力犯罪的人群中播放，它有它现实中极其重要的意义，也有它超越现实的意义，最后一刀一刀又一刀，你说它是救赎也好，说它是忏悔也好。
《皮囊》里，儿子几次没能扶起偏瘫后摔倒的父亲，甚至父子俩一同瘫倒在地，久久沉默。最后是父亲勉强调动面部肌肉，对儿子挤出一个滋味难言的笑。
平遥节看的第三部“从山西出发”单元作品。出人意料地质量扎实，演员整齐，特别是山西话剧舞台的老演员精彩：托数字摄影的灵活，导演把家庭单元住房内的众多场景调度得真实、流畅，长镜头出色。后半部加入虚幻笔触，有些多及晦涩，影响了高潮戏的清晰与饱满。祝贺山西出发的新人新作！
2022.01.01.01:01 咱就是说我现在心情好到爆炸 新的一年要充满希望谨慎行事
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