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".
长大后，你是否长成了自己小时候讨厌的那个样子？ “这世界百分之八十的人都是垃圾” “那剩下的人是什么？” “人渣” 长大后，我们变得无趣，变得乏味与无聊，变得失望，变得失去梦想，但喜欢过你的人，还有你喜欢过的人，一幕幕，过往历历在目，你好似失去了什么，又没有什么值得失去的。 我就是片中的男主角（我们长的相似），奔赴在未来与回忆中，“你的身体也充满了尚未成佛的词语”，别让你的人生变得无趣，往回看，你看到的都是普通，真的很普通，我们都无法成为大人，不是因为别的，而是因为你的现在，总是走走停停，时间就算存在，但时间不存在之时，你会如何表演你自己？
最后竟然被这部差点在1/3处弃剧的作品给带泪目了
想要过上普通人的生活，其实也很不容易，拼尽全力，也未必可以……
能特別我也不想“普通”啊，每個人內心都有一部分不想成為庸俗無聊的大人吧。是成長還是墮落成普通大人的內心獨白文青電影。為什麼我會把大島優子當作池脇千鶴了？
怎么哪哪都有东出昌大，脏眼睛🙄️ 好久没收到过手写信件了，有个笔友还是挺幸福的
有很强很强的代入感，又因此而泪流满面。
比小说好。普通像是唯一的终点，又有多少人能守住曾经的梦。
越到后面看的越上头，（东出昌大还能一直活跃荧幕算是日本陈赫了吧？
好多日本电影都在讲痛苦的社会化生活…可以列一个类型的程度，一看脑袋里能想起很多，大概归于高压社会
我太喜欢这种风格的电影了 我最自由的日子是2014-2017年 现在想想过去 好像上辈子的事情了
#磨样实验刷片#网飞啥时候投资一下大陆啊，日本韩国都蛮成功的。
年轻的时候拒绝普通 后来发现 大家都终归普通。倒叙的电影真美好 越来越年轻越来越美好。森山未来演20、30、40都毫无违和感，厉害。
因为是回忆所以整个感情过程都透露着伤感，很不喜欢这种支离破碎感，整个感情都被回忆给感伤到了。我们的万能女配居然演女主了～不过看到最后最真挚的感情居然是那个男胖胖
找不到共情，让我这种没体会过，所以狭隘的看待男女主恋爱的人，满眼只看到了男主约p和谈恋爱，成为不了大人做的到挺欢实，像我这种人才成不了大人吧，浅意理解。
倒着拍太难看了，而且这片子对于我这样的脸盲实在的太不友好了。
倒着拍太难看了，而且这片子对于我这样的脸盲实在的太不友好了。
没有融入到情绪里，倒叙的线索，男主前后的反差还蛮明显的。
好久没看过这么可爱的电影了，各方各面都好可爱，我好喜欢💕彗星好好听！
日本确实很喜欢拍这一类恬淡风格的作品，很多人拿这部和花束比较，个人觉得花束会好很多。也许是零碎的倒叙剪辑，让我出神了。
适合有一搭没一搭的看着，就像人生有一搭没一搭的过着。你以为的刻骨铭心，都是幻象。
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