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".
改編自王定國的"妖精"，不過相較原著短篇有比較大的變化。主角是一個拘謹龜毛的家庭主婦，她的孩子已長大離家，已屆熟齡的她，與丈夫生活在一個屋簷下，卻比陌生人還不如。有一天，她接到丈夫曾經外遇過的小三消息，那小三失智了...從此一點點撬開了她隱藏多年的內心。壓抑著太多痛苦與不甘心，她尋求靈修卻從來沒有放下過...如錢翔與陳湘琪合作的上部片"迴光奏鳴曲"，電影100%依陳湘琪的表演所建構，她演生活流的角色非常強大，表面上平淡，實際卻是一座休眠的火山，你可以窺見乾涸土地下那些暗湧的岩漿。演完大概會脫一層皮...跟迴光不一樣的還有，他是沒有出口的。不會有那扇可以盡全力就能撞開的門。只有各自爆發過後回到原位的窒息，假裝沒事的過完剩下的人生，沒有盡頭的"修行"
甜圭不适合这种大冰题材 还不如被中年油腻大叔鲨④ 片里女友提到一句あなたの番ですね轮到你了算是联动？
还挺好看，表现得很有趣，这方面可以展现更多。剧情单薄，人物感情塑造也是。还行吧。
爱情故事不够甜，结尾也没交待。应该是一个爱情喜剧类，但是笑点笑不出来。设定还行，但是整个故事一般。小偷偷了东西不变现，那是怎么维持生活的？世界太小了吧，校长和同学都去干了精神病专科医生
导演的镜头没有效率和信息，靠舞台剧般的自言自语，拍出来就很扯淡。
欧洲片 从生活中 到生活里去 二陈好演技 陈湘琪太棒了 湾湾最好女演员
边玩手机边2.0就刷完了，就是展示了一下被杀爱好患者那种不正常兴趣状态，以及一次失败的被杀策划。
古屋兔丸的原作+脚本，成定秀夫监督，本以为会是个如《性之剧毒》版充满猎奇X性X恶趣味X变态的「终极杀器」，结果呈现效果却出奇的差。Autassassinophilia是个极具爆炸力与挑战性的议题，但导演在表现方式上却过分注重于行为而脱离了对于心理因素的探究。且近期成定秀夫的选角一直是个谜，如今的田中圭已经「油腻」到不忍直视，却还一而再再而三的饰演人设很帅的「万人迷」角色着实违和。总结起来是要猎奇没猎奇，要表演没表演，要深度没深度，故弄玄虚，平庸之作。
焦俊艳的脸两颗星
中年婚姻生活肯定会是空洞、乏味、无趣的，就像这部电影一样。有的地方没必要走神叨路线，陈湘琪再次在电影里复制了有如当年的“撞门”的表演神迹。镜头切换看不懂，很多无对白的镜头，导演刻意用这种镜头语言的表达来体现情感？看得好累。
在2号厅看睡着了… 再次睁眼 浴缸弑夫 婚礼两对中年人无言 计程车上的僵局
虽然王彦霖和焦俊艳都是不错的演员，但是没想到也接到了烂片。这个电影的剧本想要搞笑，变成尬笑；想要挽救，变成无药可救……
能让人在心情不好的时候笑笑。不用考虑合理化。
四星是浮了，有感情分在。男女主角的演技與氣質、氣場都有撐不起角色的情況出現。女主角更嚴重。反倒是一眾港台老戲骨與反派、配角們更稱職。但這種題材在國內拍得少，且常拍得大砸。就算剪輯有突兀，劇情連貫與邏輯性都有瑕疵，但勸善懲惡的立意，以及溫暖人心的效果，確實有，起碼對我起作用了，所以我願意多給點鼓勵分。純論技巧的話，三星都有點虛。但這種片能在國內這環境中拍出來，拍得不崩，很不容易了。
真是很有特点的片呀，全员东北腔开口就是搞笑，然后物化人也特别形象，非常有趣的电影
看完还算愉快，几首歌都挺好听的呢。
兩星不能再多，電影主線故事與其說是故事，更似一種狀態的描述，而其他一切scene都只是狀態或者情緒的延伸和表達，而最重要的暗線之一的「修行」缽音確是毫無節奏，也無明確cut……導演似乎忽略了一點，哪怕是想拍做意識流，也是要以講好故事作為基礎的。
对中年人生的呐喊，但无论是危机还是出轨，都没有任何劲道。影帝影后各自在努力发挥却没有任何火花。
片名让人好奇 看完感觉就是科普了オートアサシノフィリア 既不恐怖也不搞笑 不过快结束我爆笑了
创意有余，但故事性太差。又散又乱，可惜王彦霖了。
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