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".
1. 既然发现黑色气球，能否顺藤摸瓜，寻找近期大量购买黑色气球的人或者与气球相关的职业？不至于让这条线索废掉。2. 死去的孩子们既然怨念强到可以控制酒瓶高速旋转起飞的POWER，能不能趁面具男进屋，一瓶子干晕他，让男主逃走？3. 反派被男主割伤，为何不检查他身上带了什么？4. 妹妹被父亲抽皮带时的哭戏是真好！但总觉得即便她最终没报警，男主也能自己逃出来，等于妹妹通灵线也没啥用。5. 伊桑霍克接这个戏，只能理解为助力低成本小片？他的马戏团魔术师身份没啥用啊？或者是他自己编造的？总觉得他抓孩子时穿的红黑套装更兼具变态和优雅感，可惜后来再也不穿，他脸好好的，为啥面具被摘就痛不欲生？6. 《奇异博士》导演拍这个戏为了啥呢？是被漫威开除，没戏接了？还是弥补自己的童年阴影？
儿童成长的内核，却用了一个被囚禁和黑色电话的精神上的象征，不高明也不合理，不伦不类。
并不是徒有其表的恐怖片，应该算是心理惊悚片，有些沉闷，大中午吃完午饭看的，中间睡过去了
3.5 已經快被拍爛了的變態密室綁架還算拍出了點新意。雖然不算恐怖，但在恐怖片裡質量也還算上乘。
近期看过最好看的惊悚片。有几个镜头吓得我尖叫了一下。。。小男孩可塑性还挺强，杀人后回学校眼神都不一样了。还有导演如果好好去拍奇异博士2，估计不至于那么难看吧哈哈哈
不至于那么低，一个酗酒家暴的懦弱父亲。两个勇敢的孩子，经历绑架后，他们找到了自信，真的保护了自己。但是中间一些突如其来的吓人真的没啥必要哈哈哈哈哈。
你这拍电影还是玩游戏啊？合着男主就是不停的领任务（接电话）、做任务，最后等着伊桑霍克下来送？
虽然小男孩的“地下战争”确实有惊险有爽快，但核心动因始终没有交代清楚，就是：怪人到底为什么要囚禁他。虽然片中有提及说怪人要找人玩个游戏，但一直到他死这个都没解释这是啷个游戏，咋个玩法……所以总让人觉得莫名其妙。
太喜欢了，被杀掉的孩子们在电话里唱起一首复仇的歌。（男主和妹妹骨科好好👍
好多cliche。是不是致敬20世纪stephen king小说改编的一系列b级片？被绑架的内容观感不错。妹妹剧情意义不明。
是好看的诶 不是那种靠暴力血腥和惊悚取胜的恐怖片 这种妆造和剧情反而有点童年噩梦的感觉 挺适合给重口儿童看的 微恐+画面精细度+上价值 很足够了//想到了《我的天才女友》里传说中抓小孩的Don Achille 应该就是那种存在吧
太平庸了吧，男主角妹妹的存在完全就是多余的，这小演员是不是制片方的关系户所以给她特别加那么多戏……
伊桑霍克演变态挺绝，以前怎么没发现？之前噱头挺足，导演综合素质不低，但本片细节处理还是粗暴随意，小女孩演得不错实际没啥作用，凶手背景近乎于无，关键也不吓人啊！
超自然能力互换的小丑回魂，你不是一个人在战斗版的房间，反客为主版的小鬼当家。有些设定虎头蛇尾，面具是多重人格的切换键吗？看着像，也没说。有两个jumpscare吓人，其他也算紧张，搞得我睡前看着看着就熬夜了。破除恐童魔咒的方法是，找一些长得好点的熊孩子来演🙃结尾还挺励志挺感人，三星半
也很史蒂芬金，有很多金老师常用的元素。但是总体比较无聊吧。
和恐怖不沾边，算悬疑惊悚，兄妹情谊刻画得挺舒服。傻逼反派无动机无智商无战力，整个一个三无产品，绑到第六个人才没反杀实在有点不科学。
重孩童齐心协力阴阳联合与变态杀人狂斗智斗勇，最终成功唤醒小男主的智慧之灵，一举做掉杀人狂逃出生天。
不错子，一点也不恐怖～
真正的天降神兵利器，百万富翁的求助热线都不带这个黑色电话这么帮的，妹妹的演员特别有灵气，两位小演员都棒的不行，节奏在线的小成本惊悚片。
还行吧。没太大感触。我和我的鬼朋友一起干死杀人犯的故事。杀人犯礼貌又磨叽，一脸活不过一部电影时长的友好模样。
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