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".
三星半水准电影 其实挺惊喜的 得益于创作环境吧 不是传统国产励志片的单纯打鸡血 叙事轻训练困难重社会困难 而且找的演员真是太牛了 但很多桥段还是很尬 真实感还是很欠缺 可能确实没那么多钱吧
用力哭不如用力跑，因为起步慢所以才要奋力追。奇迹来源于相信 坚持 和爱，新年的第二波鸡血
居然是个意外惊喜，看见范伟就能乐，值得了。
看了点映，剧本打磨的非常优秀，在一个房子里发生的故事，每个人出现都有用处，不同角色视角一点点展开信息量，伏笔衔接有时候觉得细思极恐，有时候有喜剧的巧妙达成的高级搞笑，为了不剧透点到为止透露。（这种剧本也超级适合改编成舞台剧啊！）
觉得导演给出了电影时间的正确使用，每一重时间都有它的故事。
只要你信，就一定可以，鸡汤与银河补习班异曲同工，但是是恰到好处地融到剧情里。开场就下足心思煽情催泪，故事是真人真事改编，剧情没有跌宕起伏也是无可厚非，不过更为深层的是反映了香港，乃至国家的很大一部分运动员的日后生活，哪怕不是残障运动员，刹那的光辉不代表永恒，天才迫于生计也只能屈服于现实的残酷…然而那几句走得比别人慢，跑得比别人快，为的就是追赶别人还是充满正能量的！
优先场：进场前就知道大半剧情的类型片，担心的是拍摄手法和表达手法会否煽情过火。没有报什么期望，但有惊喜的，除了演员演得非常好，拍摄剪辑也交代得很好，good👍🏻
三星半水准电影 其实挺惊喜的 得益于创作环境吧 不是传统国产励志片的单纯打鸡血 叙事轻训练困难重社会困难 而且找的演员真是太牛了 但很多桥段还是很尬 真实感还是很欠缺 可能确实没那么多钱吧
今天有幸看了提前点映，本人最喜欢悬疑犯罪喜剧，所以题材对我的菜！范伟老师yyds，无论演什么角色都自带喜感，但对人物特点的把握也永远恰到好处，真实可信。剧情并不是全开视角，不断加入新人物代入新的背景、展开新的剧情，又引发新的悬疑和惊喜，大呼过瘾！笑点挺多但不过分，唯一不足的是结尾太仓促，一把火的意外引发成了最后的高潮推动点，相比于《疯狂的石头》、《平原上的夏洛克》格局稍低，这也是狭小空间单一背景影片的弊端了。
配音太不贴脸了，普通话配音总会让人出戏，不如直接用粤语配音更好。
电影拍得很一般，完全没有以前港片拍这种片的细腻。唯二的亮点就是它是真人真事以及反映了残疾人的生活艰难。好吧，其实也没怎么反映，以及从头到尾的音乐反而让人出戏。
剧本杀式低配版《疯狂的石头》，黑色幽默式的故事，加上回溯式的叙事，充满反转，场景有些单调，剪辑也拖沓，感觉是在故意拉长节奏，让整部电影有些松散，情绪不能完全调动起来。但是，货物出场那一段，虽然猜到了一些，震撼感也依然是有的，不知道为什么很难过，甚至有些想哭QAQ 整体我认为是值得4星的。【7.1】
2.5，观影过程很累，这种基本靠对话推进的故事更应该在视听或动作上想想办法，音乐倒是挺动感的，视觉节奏完全没起来，拍摄手法太匮乏。《惊世狂花》和《浅坟》永远是新手的学习圣经。
虽然有些矫揉造作，也有些生搬硬套，但就像小学生的作文，立意，文笔都不错。#20211123
改编自真人真事。残疾人的成就获得需要比正常人努力很多倍。
「你以为你以为的就是你以为的吗？」这部电影看得出是小成本作品，但剧本扎实，环环入扣，好几处套路，但又总能拍出绝境逢生的紧张感。范伟和窦骁演技好棒。电影我觉得可以4.8，为老公骁私心补0.2星。
广影 悬念设得不错，就是有些巧合过于刻意，而且这么大动静也没引来朝阳群众？
“你残疾是天生的没有人会怪你，但是他们会怪妈妈”
睇嘅係點影，粵語版，據聞係根據香港一個殘奧冠軍真人真事改編，主打勵志加親情？ 先講結論，3星，不過不失。 典型三段式嘅結構，開局交待背景節奏還挺好，唔拖遢，青年時代嘅故事個人覺得節奏感，情節處理，情緒邏輯發揮係最好，但最後講到成年之後嘅一大段故事就拉垮了，無論從 明顯睇得出刻意安排嘅故事衝突製造嘅煽情段落以及虛構嘅經紀人設置，令到整個可觀性明顯下降，最後變成感覺體育勵志以及母子親情兩不靠嘅地步 相比較主要演員嘅發揮還是在線，特別扮演有殘障嘅男主以及一眾配角，君如姐拍呢啲煽情戲有那麼一兩幕好似睇緊歲月神偷嘅感覺 最後個人覺得，要睇親情，遠不及歲月神偷，要睇體育勵志，不及 點五步 ⋯⋯
怎么说呢，今天北京残奥会开幕式，六公主来放这部片子，当然要给六公主面子啦～
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