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".
希望zoe可以多演一点脸臭有格调纯耍酷不需要多少演技的角色，那样我们女的做梦可以方便一些
追赶社会潮流的史蒂文·索德伯格，可惜是一部空有躯壳的电影，既没有观感刺激也没有思考深度。两星。
犯罪剧情小品。推进紧凑。小范围内的情节推进处理得不错。蹭了人工智能、互联网隐私等热点。最后出现的那个胖子有点突然。
疫情时代的《后窗》，索德伯格拍这个真是掉身价，但是完成的不错。Kimi（Siri）类人工智能深入渗透日常，罪案与反杀都符合现在的生活场景，女主人设也让人信服，蓝发帽衫造型，对性和亲密关系的渴望，对失控的恐惧，正义感和愤怒，都合格。胖邻居从偷窥狂变身义士，Kimi完成最后反杀，都有小而美的精巧。
如此简单，如此娱乐。导演大于编剧的片子。还有Angela的公寓简直就是dream house. 要不要太舒适，太有味道。
前半段的新时代后窗营造的十分精彩，中半段故事展开后街头追逐悬念十足，后半段的公寓博弈相比较弱，老派悬疑片的新时代应用，算是向希区柯克一次优秀的致敬。
就是现代版的《后窗》，探索大数据时代带来的道德伦理问题。
就……不喜欢。晃动的镜头，前期大量没啥用的铺垫，还有偶尔降智的剧情真的是让人烦躁，总觉得有三小时一般漫长，分分钟想弃又为了结局强忍。既然最后都要报警为什么在办公室不能自己打呢？还有杀手在办公室公开追杀职员都没反应的？
我为什么要看这么烂的片，女猪无论颜值身材人设演技四合一灾难，剧情无聊兼闷到侮辱智商，尤其后半段都是些什么鬼，这样都能被反杀也只有智商为0才会有，kimi原来是工具人...
我也不知道为啥，八成是因为我的刻板偏见，这女主上来就让我讨厌，甚至到最后被恶人抓住时我也讨厌。影片节奏比较慢，前面30分钟与主线的犯罪故事关系不大，都在介绍女主的人群社交恐惧症，展现女孩怕出门+KIMI的智能化，智能化这部分和同步的另一部影片《支离破碎》相同，都是人工智能系统帮助主人对抗闯进家里的坏人。不过我还是更喜欢《支离破碎》，因为佐伊的容貌比《支》的两位女主差远了，而且关键是这个犯罪故事有点确实稍显无聊！我给3星6.3分，删掉了！
故事内容很简单，拍摄氛围感十足，尤其是描述心理障碍症状发作时；看完最后一幕好解压！
重看。当然要抛弃对观感上的过分追求，仅需沉浸于（长）镜头，剪辑和电子屏幕所营造的疫情世界便足以挖掘更多可能。前面二十多分钟是极其“无聊”的生活日常，人物刻画简单陈旧，却也足够质朴，更多的是电子屏幕和人工智能的支配，以及“致敬”《后窗》的房子设计和窥视感。直至犯罪记录和强权资本家的介入，本片才逐渐脱离俗套。摄影机彻底操控并驱动人物，故事的前进。手持摄影的晃动和略有掉帧的影像足以塑造出危机感和窥视感，也在逃亡途中发觉被着重提及的疫情常态，平民百姓与强权的对立。至于一些人说钉枪反杀的反转莫名其妙，我想前面二十分钟在电话被提及的钉枪就足够打脸了。
但剧情还是从一开始就吸引住了我，想知道结局，想知道原因，结局也真的没毛病。
题材不新鲜，剧情设计也不新鲜，总体上看完更觉得是一个小成本制作，部分运镜算是可圈可点。如果最后女主爱上了救她的胖子，我觉得才是我所希望的结局。
犯罪片里的小清新，女主最后显额头有点大，之前的装扮好看。杀手🥷先强后弱
低开高走，压抑到释放，好几个镜头看得超有感觉，想赶紧跑，zoe太帅了！
前半段的新时代后窗营造的十分精彩，中半段故事展开后街头追逐悬念十足，后半段的公寓博弈相比较弱，老派悬疑片的新时代应用，算是向希区柯克一次优秀的致敬。
我也不知道为啥，八成是因为我的刻板偏见，这女主上来就让我讨厌，甚至到最后被恶人抓住时我也讨厌。影片节奏比较慢，前面30分钟与主线的犯罪故事关系不大，都在介绍女主的人群社交恐惧症，展现女孩怕出门+KIMI的智能化，智能化这部分和同步的另一部影片《支离破碎》相同，都是人工智能系统帮助主人对抗闯进家里的坏人。不过我还是更喜欢《支离破碎》，因为佐伊的容貌比《支》的两位女主差远了，而且关键是这个犯罪故事有点确实稍显无聊！我给3星6.3分，删掉了！
无聊的片子，就不去比较情节与演技哪个更差了。
后疫情时代让人群心理障碍的这类人甚至是大部分社恐人群适得其所，可惜让很多正常人很难感同身受。疫情和人工智能也难以阻断罪犯的猖狂和权利者的野心，边缘人物的坚守、挣扎以及绝地反杀是对这个社会的暴击。
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