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".
又甜又开心，看个片干嘛还要苦大仇深，开心就完事啦（PS，女主的打光让颜值总在仙女和路人直接横跳）
好圆的月亮。在适当的时间开始恋爱，在开放多元的世界拥抱未来，纯情可爱的校园恋爱真的是宝中宝，喜欢一个人的时候会有慢镜头和彩绘背景，看这部也会跟着crush一下。
I can enjoy it without thinking. Forget about the holy shit reality! 是文化差异导致的审美取向不同么？AJ感觉在东亚地区会更受欢迎。
太喜欢这种美式青春荷尔蒙糖水片了，且还是酷儿，他们的父母好开放，不干涉孩子出柜与否。他们的高中教育和我们最大的不同就是尊重并充分发掘自己的兴趣和释放天性，但我们主张成为做题家夯实基础教育，这两种模式可能前者更能在艺术等这些需要创造力的领域或者体育运动培养人才。最后一幕巨幅涂鸦落下来的时候有一丝触动，看完电影才知道为啥美国的田径项目这么厉害了，kingpun双关语涂鸦蛮可爱的。【WEB/H264/NAISU/3.7GB/英字】（下了个字幕翻译错漏百出，最后看生肉了，语速有点快，有些地方没跟上节奏）
夏娃的时间精神续作，吉浦康裕玩sf还是一把好手，但是校园剧不太行（总体7分吧
女二女三是亲姐妹这个设定没必要 真的没必要
最爱的音乐是一些悲伤的暗恋情绪。
20220528——148；同样是一部校园青春剧，不过主角是女生。
主题不错 节奏也凑合 就是最后那部分有点太尬了
青春校园LGBT，太美好了！小甜饼太棒了！每次我看轻松洋溢的美国中产校园故事，房屋宽敞有草坪，生活富足充实，家长性格平和心态开朗，都会由衷羡慕，这是什么地方？天堂吗？
硬生生把我看睡着了，这电影适合很小的群体，时间不富裕人群无浪费时间和电！
美利坚甜水青春片 always good for Friday night
青春片，满满都是少女感。很多少女心事放到现在的年龄来看，会觉得离自己好远。就像Paige妈妈说的，我曾是Paige，曾是AJ， 曾是Gabriela，被人伤害也伤害别人。青春感觉更能和Crush联系起来。真好啊
酸酸甜甜的拉拉青春校园片，剧情全程无脑，人物刻画也很随便。但女主和AJ在浴室亲亲时，和女朋友依旧露出了姨母笑，嘿嘿嘿
当一个AI穿越天际来到你面前，问你：“ 你现在，幸福吗？ ”生活在智能世界里有多方便？AI的出现，是为了服务人类而设计的，当真只要你的命令正确，AI就能明白你的意图吗？假如没有写入“喜极而泣”这一命令，人类的弯弯肠子AI岂能懂得。最简单的道理总是最简单的“人”会记得，这也是现在许多科幻作品在阐述的命题——人工智能的初心。如果真的可以发展到非常便利的程度，希望是人与人之间而非人与机器之间还能记得互相问一句：你现在，幸福吗？
前面的轻松气氛直接让我联想到相同题材的《爱你，西蒙 Love, Simon》了。艺术生的故事我太熟辣啊哈哈哈哈。CalArts真是梦中情校之一呀！！我做这样的作品集也能让我去吗哈哈哈？虽然电影中好像只是CalArts的夏校项目。还有墙绘部分也想到了上个月观看的《真心半解 the half of it》。青春校园同性片真的很喜欢墙绘这类plot！或者别的艺术形式咯。（豆瓣是叫《悸动》呀，我看的中文版是《心烦意乱》。）看到别人的短评想到了什么，我再补充一句：这个妈妈真的好酷呐！！！！！
看完听一晚上phoebe bridgers
可是这是he诶！全员甜心！天哪 🥲🥲🥲片尾曲真的好好听
I can enjoy it without thinking. Forget about the holy shit reality! 是文化差异导致的审美取向不同么？AJ感觉在东亚地区会更受欢迎。
AI妹子太可爱了吧！就是突然唱歌有点尬，很治愈的片～
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