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".
老洪脸皮也太厚了！这也行？比之前任何一部作品都要赤裸裸吧，剧作挺好玩的，但是看到最后已经不想咂摸那些，好吧！我都懂，这就是真爱的力量啊！
很喜欢的故事 女演员采花那段让我感觉很甜蜜
导演这自己这套风格玩到得心应手，随便拍拍就很有趣，拍一个电影，顺便向金敏喜表白一万次。
能说会道自尊心还挺重的小说家给金敏喜夫妇策划的狗粮vlog 演员和摄影全由夫妇俩自带
太沉闷了，台词太密集了，我跟不上节奏。全片黑白，最后有了色彩，还是有色彩看起来舒服很多。太文艺太诗意，对我来说难以get。
整部电影的最大精神喜悦就在于观者感知到创作本身的活力的时刻。影片中所有角色无不为创作瓶颈所困，站在了或多或少的精神迷茫中，一次次巧合的偶遇，激发了一次对所有人而言都伟大的创作，好像每个人心中的阻塞都在不知道什么时候通开了。但最后，这次创作终究彻底地以背景板的形式一笔带过，最重要的落点还在人本身因生活因奇遇因创作而焕发新的丰富的美好感受。世界真美好啊。
现在这部电影和《独自在海边的夜晚》、《出逃的女人》成为我心中洪氏电影前三名，导演真的很爱金敏喜，结尾的彩色部分能感受到这种爱意要溢出来了
松散的由媒介赋予情感的影像，在一场场自反性的对话中，构成一种关于“作者性”本身的统一，当经验者变为了观众，当观众借由经验者变为了创作者，这种人与人之间微妙的结构赋予了这看似粗糙的影像背后的诗意情境。
不是记录，却生发出无限的真实。洪-金的婚礼在过曝的黑白中冲洗出彩色，是属于影像的温柔。
在酒桌上睡去，在电影院里醒来。片尾字幕已经浮现，金敏喜还在梦中。元电影。
即便叙事性再一次地被削弱，他仍能使每一情境保持着敞开，体验各个角色身处的当下并对此有所感悟，同时可以经由我们自身对谈论内容的理解联结起戏外的现实使其进一步的升华。一切都变得更加自由和轻松，会心一笑的时刻变得更多，更何况还有惊喜的秀恩爱环节。
很喜欢的故事 女演员采花那段让我感觉很甜蜜
她太美了😭
看完我沉默了...洪导影迷麻烦解读一下，这个故事有任何值得称赞之处吗？镜头语言不就是大段长镜头突然推一下？如果说只是一段私人情感的影像化表达，那柏林电影节评审团大奖难言实至名归了吧。
对洪金cp不关心的观众是不是get不到这个电影的兴奋点啊...虽然我已经被洪导训练出了质疑镜头现实性的本能，并且在变焦的时候能自觉地识别出这是“偶然与想象”，但整体而言还是太重复了吧。洪导是拍完拿奖了事，阐释的功夫就留给影评人来做吧。还是得先看一看里维特、卡萨维茨这些讨论剧场性（虚构性）与现实性关系的导演，再来谈洪这样的导演。
后知后觉我已经在一次次洗礼中默默接受还祝福了😢。
要是哪天我结婚了，我也要拍个这样的东西在婚礼上放！
我还没有达到想豆瓣里的影评大神那样“吹捧”这部电影的境界。只能说，有的人就很喜欢好莱坞式的情节剧，有的人就喜欢阿伦雷乃式的意识流，有的人真的get不到韩影魅力......萝卜青菜各有所爱。影片中一万次都不够夸赞金敏喜的美金敏喜的演技好，，，无聊且自恋般的喃喃自语。制片金敏喜，摄影音乐编剧一众活都是洪尚秀，可是真正保持了自己的个人风格的纯真性，不愧电影作者的真正名号。
洪常秀的电影有两大法宝：一、在因巧妙地虚构因而又变得真实的日常生活的对话中，真挚地表达自己的创作哲理；二、全方位无死角地呈现给观众金敏喜的美以及对她的爱，如同荣耀一般。故此，结合现实，可做推论：电影是一门具有自反品质与魅力的艺术。
这部电影真像洪尚秀给金敏喜的情书 把金敏喜拍得好纯真
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