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".
有的桥段挺搞笑，但是感觉整部片就是为了结尾“致敬”，细节经不起琢磨，真较真起来得骂男主。
七月寒夜的圣诞电影 jimmy ouyang 小温暖了
艾米丽在巴黎的乡村爱情版本。美国下饭剧里的亚裔家庭未免也太可爱无害了吧。和现实生活中的的亚裔家庭有关系吗？
不得不说这真的是部无比烂俗的烂片，开篇就知道结局，只希望结局他们两个不要接吻，可惜事与愿违。剧情也十分不理解，为什么是女主站出来解释一切，明明被骗的是她，完事男主居然逃跑，真是无语。好久没有下载电影静下心来看，我的女神 全程每一帧都无比漂亮， 还是那么完美。
铺垫的线索很多，不生硬。外加主角亚裔男，加一星，加油💪！
Shout out to my boy 欧阳万成，虽然只是一个轻松圣诞电影，故事没什么亮点，无非是”真爱至上”的亚裔男主版。。。不过连续一礼拜了都霸占澳洲Netflix榜第一还真是争气
Jimmy O Yang这个自带人设感觉是很难脱掉了😂
Jimmy O’ Yang能耐了啊。。剧情cliché but still kinda cute
喜欢女主，很漂亮。 喜欢影片营造出来的包容轻松的氛围，男主一家对女主的喜欢和包容，女主上司对女主的包容。 音乐也挺好。 男主性格很好，虽然外貌不帅，但有自己的魅力。
#打卡圣诞爆米花电影大作战 结尾致敬真爱至上的桥段还是太犯规了! ps.我会选择跟Josh这种特别聊得来又细心体贴的男生做一辈子的好闺蜜诶嘿嘿嘿
超级爆米花无脑电影，每个人都很平面，大致的情节走向也能猜到，但是仍然很解压
整个剧情让人迷惑 欺骗得到的爱情 还要女生say sorry…
咋说呢？我还是挺喜欢的这个反正。追求真爱嘛。没有一个坏人的故事。男主欺骗女主用的是照片，但是之后的聊天思考陪伴都是真的啊。而女主骗男二可是totally虚假的爱好。所以是女主求原谅没啥问题。但是男主真的不好看。明明爸爸妈妈哥哥都好看，怎么就男主不好看。
一边看一边回顾了一下2021碰到的那些人 😮💨
其实很肥皂剧情也很cliche. 但这不正是现在各种烧脑犯罪严肃政治题材一统天下大环境里难得的么？好久好久好久没看过非千禧年及更早的无脑轻松喜剧片了。
已经看上热乎的圣诞片啦！老套又很喜欢，看着开心哈哈哈哈哈哈！
活在空气里的编剧写的一部乌托邦式爱情喜剧，送给前一个圣诞节。女主老得在很多帧看不出曾经吸血鬼日记里清纯可爱的模样。tegg真的帅，最后的结局也有点美女配野兽了。不必了不必了。
It’s still not promising for Asian dudes
这才11月，已经到holiday season了吗！好套路啊，但每年还是会看很多，这就是holiday movie的魅力吗？
一分给欧阳一分给林奶奶，除此以外，演技、剧情、立意都意外的shitty。Nina一个有独立思想的笔杆子上赶着追求自己幸福被catfish了之后竟然只能想到choose between A and B? Aww too desperate for a man which does't make sense at all...... put together and move on, girl!
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