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".
11.2 一直好奇索伦迪诺和马拉多纳到底有什么渊源，看完这部片子，终于忍不住查了一下才知道，原来这部片子里的情节是真实的。忽然原谅的了这部片子的情节有些散乱，因为人生本来就是那么的没有连续性，你永远不知道下一秒有什么会闯入你的生活，又有什么会离开。（所以是该看费里尼了吗？？？）
4.5 前半部分观感异常之好，意料之外情理之中的情节和画面让人拍案叫绝，扔橘子之类都是神来之笔，直到医院都是大师级场面调度，既远且近、目不暇接；意外发生之后密度骤然降低，虽然偶有像与男爵夫人做爱这种惊人段落，但还是难免陷入某种“挨个见面”的固定节奏之中（总觉得走私犯和导演可以更精彩），失掉了一点《绝美之城》的韵律之美和升华空间。若比之《阿玛柯德》肯定还是差了一口气，但也不妨碍远远超过金狮奖《正发生》……还有一个变量：需大银幕重看重评
上次看到这么精彩且幽默的动画大作还是《疯狂动物城》！希望能有续集～
除了太老梗以外都挺好的。很酷！狼也太帅了吧妈的。狐狸也太帅了吧妈的。
索伦蒂诺的那不勒斯青春往事，自传性色彩、带上超现实元素的群像散点叙事与诗意和粗俗交融的气息都契如费里尼[阿玛柯德]变奏，不过在节奏把控与配乐使用上离费费还有不小距离。前半段喜剧性突出，亦浸染着费费对杂耍的钟情，小姨妈在游艇上的裸身日光浴及反打中一群痴望着的亲属朋友则是索伦蒂诺典型的“男性凝视”段落（比较[年轻气盛]）。父母意外那段拍得既深情又冷静，恰似沉入死亡之乡前的宁谧温存。男主面对沉痛噩耗后难以流泪及滞后的猝然饮泣特别真实。后半段节奏愈发凝滞，但部分台词与场景设计稍显刻意直白，使影片余味失散不少。电影致敬：片场倒吊者（费费经典意象变体）、[美国往事]录像带、佛朗哥·泽菲雷利、罗西里尼[火山边缘之恋]的斯通波利岛。| 坠地仍长明的水晶吊灯，老男爵夫人赐予的破处启蒙，永远在厕所里的姐姐。（8.5/10）
真正的坏蛋真的是那些臭名昭著的人吗？也许是那些有权有势，高高在上，以好人的身份掩盖罪恶的人；还是那些做过坏事，却选择掩盖过去，重新做自己的人呢......
@金馬58 這是什麼鬼地方，美成這樣，我也想要一言不合就跳進天藍色的海裡。然後也想要認識一個走私香菸的朋友，帶著我在夜裡，開很快的摩托，然後到海中央放玫紅色的煙火。
一开始坏的表现不深刻。
索伦蒂诺为什么能火无疑是本世纪欧洲影坛最大谜团。让我想起了血气方刚的少年时代爱不释手的那本杂志：《萌芽》。
为数不多的需要第三次，靠……祂们都左右不了的命运
索伦蒂诺的电影很擅长用神迹时刻来提升电影的情感层次，尤其在《年轻的教宗》里对神迹的应用达到了最佳，而本片索伦蒂诺却减少了对这种神迹的应用，他回到故乡重新审视自己的少年时代，那些隐秘的伤心往事和成为导演的铺垫之路都在那不勒斯的海水中慢慢浮现。电影很私人，涉及导演自我往事的映射，也因此很轻柔。费里尼和马拉多纳，分别在电影技法上和往事中像两尊神像是精神的图腾也是模糊时光的印证。上帝之手的隐喻潜藏了所有对命运的唏嘘，而在离乡的路上，少年的心绪和时光也一去不再复返。但这部电影对于索伦蒂诺来说所表达的还差很多，甚至有些对索伦蒂诺电影的重复审美疲劳。
是属于索伦蒂诺的「阿玛柯德」「天堂电影院」和「痛苦与荣耀」 印象最深的时刻是男孩走在喧闹操场时突然忍不住痛哭失声 最始料未及的崩溃有时不是发生在四下无人的夜深 而是眼睁睁看着周遭一切如常的热闹喧嚣 发现自己却再也无法拼凑回轰然倒塌的一角
不如欢乐好声音2带来的趣味，太标准了有点可惜
前面还不错，后面又是套路式走向，这结局我一度以为是天朝特供结局，结果好像不是。
青春片的结尾，总是有一列火车开向未来。可是，我们心里想的，总是回到过去。
马拉多纳去世引出的一段私人叙事，前半部是非常不错的喜剧，后面线索开始多起来之后有点失去重点。
但又觉得剧情一般，尤其看到后半部分就觉得很多剧情异常熟悉
坏蛋们的良心好像长在了尾巴上，无聊中勉强嗑一嗑狐狼cp
3D版，2022年5月14日19:45於萬達佳永盈熙廣場5號廳。
这部片子最让我震惊的是那不勒斯人竟然随时随地里面穿着泳衣，走着走着就会突然跳到海里游泳？？？？
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