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".
“做人不能什么都害怕，尤其在为了自由时~” 片长不是112分钟嚒？
带点悬疑性质的爱情片，想看的压迫与控诉的力度通通没达到，本来很有张力的局长一角，却也只化身成汲取权力欲望的工具人。
浅薄如我，看完之后觉得这是一个你骗我我骗你，最后一起双向付出一同赴死的故事。小卷毛的纯情只对警察展现，警察在小卷毛的吸引下渐渐沦陷，这一场爱情骗子的游戏里，谁都没有赢，谁也没有输。
结局倒是挺利索的，应该是我希望快点结束吧
7.3 快意恩仇的西部片越来越少了。剧情很简单，金盆洗手的枪手隐藏了多年，救了不该救的人，赢了枪战，输了性命。老亨利的演员演技确实非常赞……
BE，不开心(｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡)。剧情没咋看，一直划划划，无非就是讽刺掌权者以及追寻自由那一套。两人的互动有点少，多点暧昧与互动就好了。还以为是架空题材，最后看到是根据历史事件改编直接惊了。ps，我还是喜欢看小甜甜，这种现实题材的电影不适合我_(:3」∠)_
酒吧男主向男二吐烟气和男二扔他小纸屑那段不要太暧昧好嘛？！整个为后面床上云翻雨覆做足铺垫！整部片基调还是比较阴暗但这对还是有点好磕的！
男二狗狗眼好好看，换我我也弯。男一也很帅啊，奇怪的八字小胡子都能hold住
看过了的牌就得玩下去 过去做过的事就得接受现在的结果-来自德克萨斯的山雀比利小子
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。”
酒吧-"人不应该对一切都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。";
可能是个人原因吧，不要太习惯此类阴冷欧式风格的文艺犯罪片，如果按照好莱坞流水线的叙事方式估计片长会缩至1小时30分。但本片整体拍摄水平很高。服化道和细节都充分体现冷战时代的东欧，铁幕之下的冰冷与压抑，暗潮却在细微之处涌动。剧本也是经过静心设计，逆向破案的反转紧紧扼住观众的喉咙。幕后黑手利用警方办案为他寻找知情人而便于一一除掉，让我联想其几年前的一部悬疑电影《愚行录》：调查真相的人恰恰是为了掩埋真相，令人细思极恐不寒而栗。卷毛金发的男二越看越像Kevin Banks
恐同即深柜，亘古不变的真理。男主录像带在手，应该还有其他处理方式，偏偏歇斯底里选择最差的办法。。。有一个问题真的很不能理解，人类为什么对和自己无关的事那么关注，尤其是下体的事，于旁人何干？？？
多的一颗星就给出乎意料吧 （1985年至1987年期间 在风信子行动下 数以千计同性恋者 受到波兰公安部监控、扣押和盘问 波兰公安部设立了 一万一千个“粉红档案” 并利用有关档案 来勒索和压迫同性恋者 至今大部分档案仍未被寻获）
生命诚可贵，爱情价更高。若为自由故，两者皆可抛。
骚瑞 我奔着嗑cp的心态来 结果这剧大有深意 愿世界再无歧视 受也太会引诱了 不弯不行啊 嫌疑部分可以画面也行 前段人物太多太杂太乱 东扯西扯
尤其在国内，有多少人，一辈子活在了谎言里。愿世道能有更多宽容，可以让这些人做自己，大家都在世上走一遭，做不了自己也是可悲。。
但我还是抱有一丝期望
还不错
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
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