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".
这就是花钱做counselling吧。女性永远在自我审视。为什么要调查人家的名字？冲突设置稍感不适。
看得我哭哭笑笑的，她牵动我的一丝一毫的情感，笑她的尴尬，哭她的难过，感觉自己也在一点点把包裹的外壳撕开一丝口子。还记得他告诉我，你对自己要求太高了。我总是浑然不觉。我又总是处在矛盾中。但他也告诉我这个过程要自己度过，可以借助帮人的帮助但仍要有自己的力量。接纳自己，接纳真实的自己！他告诉她你可以的，然后变成，她告诉自己你可以的。然后不为了外在的标准放下judge 的态度，正视自己也正视别人。放松，我也学不会的放松。当我看到她真的放松下来，一方面为过去的生活哭泣，一方面为获得前所未有的自由而愉悦。自由，精神的自由，就是生命力的释放。我爱她最后面对镜子里衰老的自己，那亮晶晶的眼神。她不愧是这个世界上我最爱的女演员！
pleasure is a wonderful thing.好温柔的电影
你看，男人招🐓不用前戏，女人买🦆还要先过心里这一关，男人完事拉起裤子走人，女人事后还要更深层次的探讨，一些个两性鸿沟。多一星给男主美好的胴体。
看前面部分还在郁闷这类谈话文艺片怎么会被百度云盘和迅雷秒删，结尾虽说也没啥，但和前面比起来算变异了。
心情複雜的三星：一面是觀影中時常猜中劇情的無趣，一面是被猜中的女性情意。過分規矩「正確」的人物設定和宛若心理治療一般的解碼推進顯得四平八穩，連同「誰在抑制女性情慾」的內核，整體工整有餘而野性不足，太像是一篇小論文，而不是一場淚汗淋漓的暢聊，儘管二人的可愛對話時常帶來會心一笑、卻也難以消解這層平淡——而這是否又構成了對女性的刻板印象呢？女性對於自我情慾的探索又是否只能寄望於身材姣好的、「服務性」男性呢、情慾本身為什麼不能夠成為一種更天然的驅動力呢？/一個範本：疫情期間如何拍攝一部低成本電影（不是）/一個疑問：女性對親密關係的渴望是進化本能嗎，還是社會規訓？
A fantastic sexual therapy. Maybe I need it too...
elegant, beautiful.很真诚坦率的一部作品。
1、追求愉悦，是人的本能。
8分。这种主要就两个演员，几乎全程都在碎碎念唠叨的电影本来不是我的菜，但架不住本片真的是太有意思了啊。老年妇女的求爱之旅。论做鸭，这一位是专业的！！！里奥算是满足了女人们的各种幻想了吧，但反过来也能看出太过完美而显得不真实。Emma Thompson的表演非常精彩，我觉得是可以放入今年最佳讨论的级别~~那种又想又怕，不断放开心灵的过程真的是绝了~~~~五星推荐啊，哈哈~~
倒是想起之前和ex睡前睡后并肩坐在床上的对话，那些沮丧的、欢欣的、诚实的、矫饰的、难解的、无法重演的。
3.5/5 男主好帅哦 看有评论说来个脸叔gay版 那就再来个大魔王姬版吧hhhhh
哈哈哈，应该成为“公共服务”和“强烈推荐给需要你的人”
+ 转入人际的部分似乎回归英语片传统，部分消解了里奥所处的现实；关于工作和自我的部分亦显断裂。不论如何，关于身体和性 感的部分便已足够好——只是，为何要以最终实现的方式结局呢
心动了，才会有高潮。
哈哈哈群众眼睛是雪亮的，不论性别，并不存在这么敬业的技师和这么诚实不自信的甲方
万万没想到，我可以津津有味的听两个人在那儿对话一个半小时而全程无倍速
让女性把这些话说出来非常棒，影片中高潮的来临是女主对自身的接纳，对取悦自己这件事的坦然，这个是心理对身体的一种允许，不是由男人带来的，而是自慰带来的，是自身主体性的开端。但故事本身也很悲哀了，等到死丈夫才能有性高潮，而不是和丈夫一起，很孤独的，为什么有伴侣还要孤独，没必要吧。
男主这个声音我多多少少是有点上头
很舒服的性教育片，并不太露骨，印象深刻结尾女主对着性感的男主身体gc，这样的男主在现实里少之又少吧，三次见面密集的对话很像是一场心理咨询，尤其是Leo很懂女性，非常给人安全感。
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