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".
卧底和大学生，与其说是被吸引更进一步该是认清内心深处的自己，他发现爱上了对方却无法救他以至于赔上了自己的前途。男主的眼睛特别漂亮迷人
如果你爱的人欺骗了你，或是越过了了你的底线，你还会爱他吗
以为会是一个苦大仇深的大型政治迫害事件，但只是公安领导被拍到色情录像里导致的灭口行动，与所谓风信子行动只是有一点联系吧。罗伯特和埃里克化学反应不错，很加分，两人的前戏拍的非常出色，审讯戏也很好，最后埃里克能跑掉也是没太想到。
3.5 比较成功的商业片 总体还不错 足够合理的内在矛盾和外在冲突使故事的戏剧性极强 虐恋的感觉有了 也就是说足够好看然而或许是悬疑破案和感情戏的比重不够合理 感情描绘又不够细腻 所以会让人怀疑他真的那么爱他么？他怎么就那么爱了呢？但是最后那句 我会去找你 还是让人有些惋惜
故事不错，故事背景也很好，叙述方式虽然老套，观赏性还是可以；属于声讨***主义背景下的对人性的扼杀，以及*****背景下的统治系统内部的尔虞我诈……总体上拍的还不错，灰色的调子，压抑的氛围，表面上的“规矩”，这不正是前苏联背景下东欧国家的格调么？！
「一个烂编剧，想到了一个好创意，又遇上一个烂导演，于是拍砸了一部本该是经典的电影。」不理解为什么有人偏偏要抓住波兰当时的铁幕政策说事。这本来就是一个在任何年代、任何国家和任何社会制度下都可能发生的事情。从古至今西方歧视现象屡见不鲜，这并不是社会主义制度的专属，根本与铁幕无关。再说电影，赢在创意和表演，输在剧本。很多台词非常莫名其妙，有时候说了很多但交代不清讲的是谁，不知道想表达什么。转场转的让人摸不到头脑，连贯性不强。人物关系也很混乱，许多人的出场基本上是毫无用处，又着于笔墨描写，舍本逐末。说白了就是糟烂的剧本台词剪辑毁了一个好创意。三星。
我也想
那天晚上，和你一起在街头飞奔，逃离警察的搜捕，我就知道，我的心已经和你一起逃掉了。
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昨天在抖音看的介绍，今天看完了。男一男二的床戏看的我热舞沸腾，果然和自己爱的人做，感觉是完全不一样的。还行。
笼罩在铁幕下的压抑与迫害，然而对自由的追求与对真爱的觉醒，让主人公勇敢地冲破了这一切，诚实地面对与做回自己。男一男二之间火花四射，CP感爆棚。开放式的结局保留了悬念，虽然灰暗的政治背景令人不容乐观，但爱与勇敢又不至于叫人全然绝望。 “做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
做自己不仅仅是性取向，都是爱自己的，还是选了小奶🐶(真相
但我还是抱有一丝期望
“做人不能什么都怕，尤其是害怕自由。”
那是时期的波兰固然黑暗，可当下的波兰也并不好啊！剧情的确是老套了点，但男一男二的故事线不错，二人床戏性张力十足。
男主身手还不错，不过应对力量型还是吃亏；在警局冲出去叫着Arek的名字，看到局长下了暗杀指令又冲出去救Arek，这还不是爱？我不会丢下你的。-我会去找你的。居然没有final kiss，好可惜。
Tomasz好帅！小胡子都能驾驭得这么好看！两个人好配啊！妈妈说的好，你欺骗了所有人，但你没有欺骗自己。
那个年代的反思电影波兰已经拍了不少，这次加了同性元素，仍然有波兰电影学派朴素无华的特点。
这个故事告诉我们……工作太认真就会有危险！
刺破黑幕，后面是幽深的渊薮。贯穿两个板块很勉强，可惜。
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