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".
五星有私心，真的好喜欢。二十一世纪电子彩蛋情书，岩井俊二快来学学！！
好看程度可以五星的，各种游戏梗、漫威、星战都有蹭到👌🏻少一星是因为拒绝接受结尾回归三次元恋爱，这不是直接否定了前面铺垫这么多的AI觉醒吗？不还是纸片人不配有自己的独立意识？拒绝接受❌（也可能是太爱RR了。
轻松的科幻喜剧小品。无忧无虑看完全片，最后决战的彩蛋有惊喜。整体都太轻巧了，典型爆米花电影。
1.电影主旨：不要玩GTA了，来玩模拟人生吧！（可模拟人生也免不了杀NPC的啊！）2.游戏玩家和迪士尼粉狂喜！好久没有看到这么好笑的电影了。3.虚拟世界的部分好看，我这四星全是给虚拟世界的，一转到真实世界就整个站不住脚，经不起细想。4.女性角色还可以再设定得好一点。5.有本事不要拍续集啊！（然后已经签续集了吧……）
胖保安真的可可爱爱
AI觉醒的故事内核，不过此片比《西部世界》的高明之处在于，此片中的AI其实是程序员小哥有意让他觉醒的，程序员小哥创造的就是“可以学习和成长”的AI，这也是符合真实逻辑的，因为如果没有人为设定，AI想要有自己的思想是不可能的。
后半有点乏力
电影院看其实还可以，主要问题是剧情太散了节奏感也不太好，整体的设定其实蛮有趣，但太浅了，确实禁不太起推敲
万达杜比 设定和细节还算有趣，但没多少共鸣。
代码之吻 2021/8/30@保利with阿增
趣味性很强，结尾还是落于俗套了，一直在讲ai的自由意志，结果人与ai还是无法打破物理障碍，可惜可惜，终究还是一俗片。
5.0分。原本对和这部《失控玩家》题材类似的《头号玩家》并不满意，但如今看了《失控玩家》之后才算体会到斯皮尔伯格在视听上的想象力和操控力的确业内顶级。跟《头号玩家》比起来，《失控玩家》不过是一部学生作品，在视听和故事层面的乏力让它只能选择用《死侍》般的插科打诨来填充，以致于喜剧元素成了本片唯一有记忆点的地方，但它的主类型明明是（软）科幻啊。这两部高下显著的电影，却都有同样一个颇具讽刺意味的地方——《头号玩家》一方面用最华丽的特效强调着游戏世界里的百无禁忌和无所不能，一方面又在虚伪地劝告你“现实才是唯一的真实”；《失控玩家》则是先打造了一个可以任玩家为所欲为的游戏世界，然后又让这个世界成为追求温良恭俭让的现实世界的翻版，不妨说它们的创作者都在言不由衷地撒谎，都在最后时刻背叛了自己的表达。
飞机片 so fit for such occassion
看得很欢乐，有没有可能看电影的我们或许也是npc呢。
电影完成度确实很高，爽点、笑点、泪点、深度都齐活了，是大厂才生产得出来的圆润，但也少了分野蛮生长的粗砺，对我来说恰好是不大不小的缺憾。
非常有趣！西部世界碰撞头号玩家即视感，软科幻外壳下稍稍触碰AI存在性话题，没有过分深挖到影响观影体验的程度，但在爆米花里增添了一丝人文气息。画面和色彩精度都很高。
2021-52 我还挺喜欢这种类型的游戏电影
一部披着华丽外衣的俗套故事，但是依然看得好爽啊！NPC们其实就是一个个楚门，每天说着一样的口头禅，重复着一样的生活，但不同的是他们得靠自己成为自己的主角！
非常好看，瑞安简直就是另一个金凯瑞！小贱贱太适合这个造型了！客串牛逼！
前面的设定酷毙了，越到后面越拉胯，直接变成俗套爆米花
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