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".
本以为是部烂片 结果还真挺可以 有点罗生门内味儿
这是网络电影？？？质感特别好呀，不管是主角还是小角色，都选的特别好。故事也比较精彩。简直可以放到电影院去。
凌晨抱着「这海报必烂片」瞅几眼就睡的心看的，结果出乎意料的能看一下又过两点了……编剧用《罗生门》结构，将一个事儿讲出了几个版本，每个版本，嘿，都还挺不错。不吓人，妹纸们没爷们陪也能看。网大里的加一星。
好长啊。。两个半小时。。一边走神一边聊天一边看的，一开始以为是略带悬疑色彩的，结果就这啊，拍得又臭又长，到后面忍不住开了倍速。。但演技我觉得都很可以，特别是丝丝很强👍🏻
好长，感觉有点拖沓以至于一直没搞懂一些镜头要表达什么
四星鼓励
网络电影里的诚意之作，故事和氛围已经超过了大多数同一类型的华语院线电影，剧情环环相扣，耐看。特意赞一个！
地牢那里想到了火云邪神，还有《笑傲江湖》。水形怪相比别的怪兽有了点求变。
三颗星给前半部，残缺的人也可以相互救赎拥抱美好。后半部不论是男主不负责任的破罐破摔跪求怜悯还是导演把问题归咎社会环境或者对恋童癖的开脱都没有任何说服力。
升米恩，斗米仇。人比妖魔鬼怪更可怕。有《罗生门》的意思。用心拍了，奇树有鱼有货。
升米恩，斗米仇。人比妖魔鬼怪更可怕。有《罗生门》的意思。用心拍了，奇树有鱼有货。
7.7，网大现在都这个水准了？单说这个电影最好的一点就是节奏感奇佳，每个点推进得都恰到好处，光这一点很多院线电影做得都不咋地
狐仙烟魂、魑魅魍魉只是借古讽今的春秋笔法，险恶、嫉妒、扭曲的人心才是这个世界上真实而黑暗的恐惧。雨夜破庙里的乡野怪谈，讲述者是一群心怀鬼胎的赶路人，如同芥川龙之介小说《莽丛中》一样，身怀罪恶且有所隐瞒的众人拼凑出一个残酷事实：“杀人放火金腰带，修桥铺路无尸骸”。不过在这片土地上，这种事也并不稀奇。
要夸的话，就夸夸题材够敏感吧，pg那趴没啥好回忆的🤣
别说什么人性探讨、什么故事架构、什么叙事技巧，虽然说在国产同题材网大中还算不错，可恐怖片不吓人，其他方面再怎么优秀也白搭
居然把故事说的很有逻辑，现在网剧越来越好了
不错的片子，借妖讽人，一个罗生门，道尽人性的黑暗，世间鬼怪，都不及人内心的鬼怪邪恶
编剧很不错 特效也可以 看得出来是下了功夫的 网剧到了这个份上 也是费了很大心思的 不同人心不同说辞 投射出了世间百态 各如其面 美中不足的是分镜头切换和节奏把握那个点没有到位 第一遍看下来眼花缭乱晕乎乎 准备二刷
OMG这些是蛆吗，买嘎子
做的相对好的地方一是整体采用罗生门的叙事手法，最终回归人性，这是本片的高明之处；再者客栈百姓变羊那块，应该是借鉴了《千与千寻》和《新龙门客栈》，只是惊悚度没到我的预期
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