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".
哇哦，原谅我不想剧透……
安雅泰勒乔伊这两年演技越来越成熟，独有的复古气质让她从以前的小清新小可怜直接进化为当下年代剧女王。当时就很喜欢的乔乔兔里的犹太女孩，表演神经质也很稳。两只小女神都没的毛病，但是赖导啊……你还是接着用你那两个好基友吧……
美還是很美啦⋯_(:з」∠)_
剪辑版。女性主义的部分真的相当好评。但是这种结尾过于刻意，否则这部和前程似锦的女孩那部就类似了。这部还算是HE和有希望。女主们好美
和麦肯齐的长期呆滞相比，安雅的表演又一次得到印证，即便拿到的是那个更泛滥的角色，堕落舞女，她依然能很迅速地用一双灵动的眼睛赋予其人格魅力。
硬是把伦敦版lalaland炮制成了让人疑惑到底什么鬼的鬼片
大一新生外租1B1B即使不带VR也是过分，甲鱼的年代风情和菲利普开始渣之前确实大于全片，然而开始嗑药满街跑就有点傻，最后自述包袱又双叒烧黑胶只能说平庸无聊没劲
居然是年度最佳（女性&惊悚）！我靠，埃德加奈特生涯最佳，没想到大家喜欢的西蒙佩奇反而是埃德加莱特的拖油瓶。整部剧感觉非常的浪漫，且很会讲故事，开篇的感觉直追《守望者》。我要颁给赖特最佳导演奖，剧本奖，摄影奖和音乐奖。
emmmmmmmmmmmmm我觉得还是不错的。。anya确实美
可惜编剧显然不知道怎么使用这些点子，最后的“反转”更是极为突兀和逻辑上说不通。
哇哦，原谅我不想剧透……
好铅黄好表现主义好复古好喜欢，也注定不是一部属于当下的电影，但绝对是一部属于影院的电影。
直线崩坏。全员全景做作。女主也不知是演技还是天然，言行举止太二了，很久没见过这么讨厌的主角。“阁楼上的疯女人”故事题材也很老套，因此哪怕被赖特充塞自己的各种审美怀旧cult趣味，也一点不觉得就可惜了这部片。想不出还能换其他什么拍法才扶得起这么“无聊的讽刺”阿斗剧，赖特也算是被“拖累”了——《僵尸肖恩》的水准嫁接到这么个本子上就显得很蠢。全片还滥用60‘s歌曲，好看也就罢了，难看的话，再好听的歌都得把人折磨到要快进。
女主累死我烦死。所有人都喜欢站在马路中间聊天。
不会真有人觉得嫖客死了就会变得很可怕吧？不会真有人觉得妓女反杀就是大反转吧？导演对性别运动的嘲讽振聋发聩啊，何必结尾再一番讨好呢？到底有没有ball啊兄弟？
徒有漂亮的畫面，各種混搭不倫不類，男主角比王青還丑。
有失水准。故事架构，服化道，演员都没有大问题，镜头也好看。可一个反向开膛手故事，怎么能讲得如此空洞啊，埃导是不是也不会写女人，嗨呀。
剪辑、音效都没有以前奈特内味儿了，也没啥黑色幽默（这个怎么可以舍弃！），但好在故事还是那个“闯入者”揭露恐怖现实的故事，是热血警探那种感觉。奈特电影的地域风情值得讨论。安雅的灵性渐渐消散了。总体还是推荐看的，四星。
99 镜头精彩、流畅，选角优秀，情节回想起来是俗套，看的时候还是很入戏的，恐怖部分恰到好处
天哪我就想看看有多烂没想到！本片的精华浓缩在开头两分钟和两位女主角的美貌里，精彩的反转不是随便揪出一个人来硬生生掐断故事好吗！it can be so much more
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