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".
同样是演一个失明的角色，谢苗这个比安志杰的《盲战》要好。都值得鼓励。动作演员要想红，就需要尝试不同类型的角色，要坚持打下去。可以多和导演探讨剧本，别因为演而演。
挺良心的。谢苗可能永远也红不过小时候了，说起来有些伤感，希望他开心。
摄影很好，有用心做画面设计。故事比较简单。
剧情比较平淡，但整体很流畅。
7分高了点吧 制作动作还行 选角一般 剧作也是简陋 会不会是被改了很多 最后成片也剪得急短
拍的真好～最喜欢最后妈妈在飞机上陷入沉思的镜头！在那一刻我仿佛听见她内心的千言万语，些许激动，又些许伤感无奈。忙活了这一辈子，竟没有坐过一次飞机，“是不是觉得你妈啥也不晓？”太真实了，太触痛了。
很简单的一部电影，没有什么剧情，也基本没讲什么东西。但是看得我好感动，眼泪哗啦哗啦的。可能是“妈妈”太过自然太过真实了
挺接地气的，好期待有人能拍个客家人题材的😂
7分。以网大的水准来说，绝对算是高的了。武侠动作片近年来没什么好作品，就算电视上也都是各种假动作飘飘，本片至少还算像那么回事儿。比各部经典是不如，但压压电视剧甚至部分电影是可以了~~当然了，毕竟是网大嘛，就那么点投资，武戏OK了那文戏就没啥指望了，不过本来也没什么期待，就当爽片来看也就可以了。
看完想去汕头看看。一部电影能激起观众想去故事发生地看看，吃吃喝喝，从某种角度来说，就是部不差的电影。
第一部拿龙标的网络电影，制作水准确实高一些，但还不知道这个龙标对行业有没有什么意义，还是说单纯是有关部门在标榜自己审核水准和对影片质量的把控。影片故事是行侠仗义对抗强权的老套故事模式，武打设计偏游戏化，有两处“必杀技”场面设计，呈现效果上来讲还算不错，虽有夸张但在情理之中。祭祀场面和雪景调度似乎明显借鉴自日本剑戟片，武打设计、人物造型上有徐老怪的影子（宇文公子的部分镜头跟《龙门飞甲》的陈坤如出一辙，小boss也是徐克电影里常见的“黑脸怪”）。当个武侠小品看还不错
好久不见的这样快意恩仇的武侠！网大能拍出这样的质感也属实难得！除了特效有些浮夸，整体框架是类似伸冤人和疾速系列一样的复仇动作片。至于为何杀人作恶时瞎子没察觉到，就只能理解为醉酒睡过去了……毕竟细追究约翰威克那么猛还不是被几个小流氓打趴下当面把狗杀了……
剧情比较平淡，但整体很流畅。
三星半标记，2022年第一部院线，方言电影的情感传达就是天然地加分，年轻演员表现力差了一点，总体不错，值得走进戏院看看
网大的局限与极限。
真不错哈哈，民风民俗也有，家长里短也有，小家的故事透着国情，确实是挺有意思的小故事…
潮汕排外这个话题一点都不新鲜了，事实不假，但热情待人更是真。好比娶老婆嫁女儿，其实更多的不是排斥这个人，经年累月的习惯令他们无法接受背景。
因为预期低，结果超预期，快意恩仇，爽！但特效方面过度渲染，建议应该收敛些，注重实感而往拼死往视觉系靠拢。
很高兴看到落后观念逐渐改变
很质朴很有地方味（不单单是方言）的现实主义电影，看到了李安是枝裕和的影子。不过，看的时候也有一些不适，比如女主形象有些不搭，以及深圳的夜景没拍好，像网大。总的来说很意外，因为故事和人物非常走心（妈妈演得太好了，尤其是最后的纪录，分不出戏里戏外了），瑕不掩瑜
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