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".
否认病毒，为了官员的乌纱；夸大病毒，为了排除异己，再让中药商、物资供应的垄断者很赚一笔。科学从来都是被权力支配的，福柯早就洞察了一切。
又一部“COVID-Inspired”的电影，远胜过去年的“Death to 2020”，对人类的思考、合作能力的极大嘲讽，也对美国政治、撕裂的美国的社会极尽嘲讽之能事，人们大概可以从这样一部荒诞、闹剧但又饱含批判意识的作品里get a glimpse into a possible future：两年的大流行提供了太多素材，在气候问题面前，全球合作因各国无法弥合的分歧举步维艰......很难否认该片不是给人类的inevitable doom做了一个虽然简化但不乏预言性的描绘。梗太多（尤其是川普梗），几乎从头笑到尾，但看到片中最后那一幅幅绝望、动乱、宗教仪式、爱、美丽的地球生灵、森林、海洋.......画面的快速更迭，不禁泪流。
爽！又好笑又悲凉，愚蠢的人类啊，可赶紧毁灭吧。《好莱坞左翼工作者协会正告美国人民书》
如何评论这部电影，代表了你对人类绝望的程度
各种讽刺看得挺开心比如stupid tiktok challenges 这星光闪闪的lineup光写完大家的名字都要花好长时间 茶就无足轻重的凑热闹角色 Cate身材好好！对比起来老李被称什么最性感科学家可见鬼去吧他在这里看着的确像我和我的家乡里范伟的扮相 如果知道什么时候会死 在死之前会做什么呢？和亲朋好友聚在一起最后的晚餐其实挺不错
经过了Trump的四年+想到全球变暖问题，有点笑不出来……喜欢最后的彩蛋。
五分满分给4分吧。
想起来《华尔街之狼》，但这部电影的讽刺太多，反而失去了核心靶点。
近日最佳。一开始自己不太想看，最近对美国现代片有点厌烦，最后强迫自己看了起来。开头感觉一般，自己没进入状态，但也可以看。直到渐入佳境，觉得很吸引，就是好看，令人认真其中。尤其是对政治，社会风气，网络环境，媒体舆论，娱乐至死等等的讽刺，简直看到心坎里了，完全和我的感受一致，最黑色幽默的点在于导演完全没有故意夸大反讽，而是真实再现。李奥纳多得痛陈，竟然让我又想哭又想笑，从来没有这种感受过。也许有时候演技不是最重要的，演员合适才是，这段就很适合他的歇斯底里，哭笑扭曲，到了后面，已经是精彩了，虽然每个地方基本都不意外，但却实在完美，家人最后聚餐的平静也让人动容。连音乐都是完美的。凯特布兰切特最好，但甜茶得演技依旧不敢恭维，原来好莱坞也有面瘫，还有那位马克，连声音都不行，其他人都中规中矩。
不管讽刺得直不直白肤不肤浅吧，它好看啊！！！一边觉得荒诞一边觉得真实，这才是可怕之处。
其实让人印象最深刻的是剪辑，真的胆子挺大的
笑麻了就是说，然而笑着笑着就笑不出来了，最后竟有一丝丝伤感，每一个梗挪到现实生活中发现居然并不陌生，这时荒诞喜剧反而变成了现实题材的正剧了。总有人告诉你要做一只把头埋在土里的鸵鸟，总有人在孩子说皇帝没穿新衣的时候说不信谣不传谣，还总有人拼了命努力却不过是他人的一颗棋子而有的人却赢得不费吹灰之力。当下的生活频频让我觉得就是电影里演的这样，大家捂着耳朵闭着眼睛关上嘴巴，假装不知道世界在发生什么，只期待如果有一天谎言信得足够久变成真的了话，那能够这样死去倒也是大团圆的结局。“毁灭吧，赶紧的，累了。”此刻没有什么比这句话更能中肯地形容看完的观感。
魔幻现实，谁说不是呢？相信科学，相信数据。
让一群富人变得更TM富有
7分，彻头彻尾的讽刺喜剧，台上口号喊得再响亮背后也不过是虚伪和自私的利己主义，一切都成为政治角力和企业盈利的工具，他人的生死在有些人眼中已经无关重要。最后的反转来得好，人总要付出代价的。
浑身都是笑点，浑身都是现实，最具有现实意义的一点就是，走到终点那一刻，世界亦然停止，一切变黑，失去时间、空间的概念，没有意识，进入永恒的状态。
3.5吧，虽然政坛什么的翻来覆去都是那些梗，但放在世界末日设定上还挺飞，太适合加进冬季节日的奶头乐片单了。李子依然是有熊追他既视感。
既没有走向杜蒙也没有走向拉斯冯提尔，反而走向了周六夜现场。当我觉得麦凯完全可以更加尖锐一些的时候，背后的焦虑已经将人淹没，人们面对末日可以做些什么，麦凯告诉你除了蠢事之外什么都做不了，在严肃语境缺失的当下将小品拼接在一起是否本身就是娱乐至死洪流中的一支呢？所有那些似曾相识的能在现实中找到映射的桥段需要反省的不止是影片所发生的地方，一部让人完全无法笑出来的喜剧，或许很多年之后再回头看这部戏会重新定义它。一众卡司之中，印象最深的除了J.Law之外居然是A妹，好笑也是她，那段现场倒是放全了啊。
喜剧灾难片，但人性才是灾难的根本，虽然荒诞却无比真实，节奏略慢，需要耐折性子往下看。
玩到飞起，以灾难为引大力荒诞，各种资本主义下人类劣性一律放入笑料，讽刺得体无完肤，看喜实悲，荒诞到衬托现实。
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