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".
3.5星，先码后评。三个演员演成这样蛮不容易了，虽然逻辑上感觉有一两处捣糨糊式过渡过去了，但剧本基础还蛮好的，可发挥的空间挺大的。
明显能看到《彗星来的那一夜》结尾的影子。
挺不错的，国产小成本佳作，值得鼓励，但故事性略欠缺，稍显单薄
导演执意要去走上一条科普性质的软科幻 让前面好似拙劣的模仿外国电影的分镜到最后还是沦落成一种普普通通的网络剧本 如果能在创意上卯足了劲保持神秘感 还是挺有发挥空间的 希望欧美买过去别搞砸了这个具有潜力的剧本
果然如果平行世界的另一个自己过得比自己好，那自己一定会杀死另一个自己…能不能有点别的思路呢？比如好几个自己一起生活，看看能过多久…
57。很棒的剧本和节奏，正是因为女主的自私才不致于烂尾。
彗星来的那一夜➕时空罪恶，也有恐怖游轮的影子
三分半，故事叙述流畅，运镜手法娴熟，一个只有三个演员的故事能讲的那么出彩也是需要本事的，有一点小缺陷，是不应该在影片一开始就通过对白透露太多信息，要知道观众是没法在很短时间消化大量信息的，它应该是平均或者集中散布在影片各处，但不应该在一开始，我的建议是把影片扩展增加十几分钟，让影片更加自然，还有一点值得说的是，影片在进行到二十分钟才出现影片名称，是比较少有的制作团队敢这么做的，印象深刻。女演员演的是真的很不错，赞一个！
与我的周俊导演《七日笼》疑似同款男主。
导演很明显完全驾驭不了这种高概念题材的作品，全程尿点。
1.谢苗是个好演员 机会太少了 2.题材中规中矩 但是在东北应该大量原型 虽然犯罪被这么高科技化 但是具体的黑社会组织一定有 3.东北怪王太多年没出来了 老丈人的老一代江湖气和破财买平安的感觉 演的还是到位的 老流氓老了也怕死 都想老婆孩子热炕头
很粗糙，导演提出的 “空间悖论” 一句话就带过了，穿越方式也不讲，是因为导演自己也没想明白所以干脆不解释了吗？我认为这个问题和经费无关
44-算是国内很不错的科幻片了，有一点《恐怖游轮》的影子，平行空间们放佛一个永远走不出去的大迷宫。节奏有些缓慢，但是在一栋房子、一片湖、一片森林、三个人，拍出这样子的科幻电影还是很不错的。
Ps：海报明显抄袭Alan Wake居然没有人发现吗？
进入多个不同的平行空间，遇到多个不同的自己+老公+哥哥；
国产版《彗星来的那一夜》。最后去到了自己想要的完美空间。
剧本真的好好，可以推敲的地方很多，你觉得没续上再想一想又续上了，但是缺陷确实还存在。场景拍的太好看了，实景拍摄就是美，演员演技真的不错
结局算是个亮点。叙事手法和技巧还是比较稚嫩。鼓励一下吧
比《彗星来的那一晚》差些火候，前奏太慢，后面的空间叠加、平行存在概念又拍的太简单。这个剧缩短到40分钟的话，可以打4颗心。
网大的良心作啊，恐怖游轮+彗星来的那一夜+暗黑
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