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".
非常适合情人节（女）单身狗一个人看。难得有一部不是那么政治正确的爱情片子，女主和男主的身高差萌已经让我决定看完了，何况男主女主颜值都有80以上好吧。虽然故事挺老土的，基本看个十来分钟就能猜到解决那种，但是有什么关系，甜就够了。虽然女主比较渣，男2有点惨，男主太完美，但是。。。。单身狗就爱看这种啊！已经好久没看过这么老套的爱情片了，而且是小说改编的，大家就能了解既然能拍成电影小说也不会差到哪里去对吧。总之一句话，适合爱幻想的女性观看，尤其是单身那种。
这样天天对着又男帅女美怎么不可能产生爱情磁场 好几处真撩人
七分吧！男主真的好蛊身材也太棒了吧！后面有一点点没懂，就是男主和他上司的那段对话，所以是为了激励女主故意说的吗？那他是把职位故意让给女主的?不懂
老套经典，服化好看，男主衣服都很好看😊，太多老梗了，没有特别新意，bgm不错
完全没有逻辑 各种没有道理 男主谨慎冷酷 某天突然一下子爱心泛滥 带上刚认识的失足少年“浪迹天涯” 还要插手撮合人家母子团聚 至于男主的past感觉又是一个故事 硬是穿插进来 太硬来了
赎罪者没有打败假的美国人，打败了真正让自己成为罪人的纯正美国人，并继续享受赎罪
第一次发现Issac美人的演技不够用。他可以去重演《美国舞男》，但这个角色是年轻的威廉达福的，美人没有演出黑暗。
good for time killing
2.27 平行世界的Travis Bickle
布列松是独一无二的，但他也开了一个坏头，至此之后，电影人把节制与高级划上了等号。影片中那些无处不在刻意营造的隐忍和冷清，低饱和的影像色调，但这使影片变成了一杯过夜的凉白开而不是无糖苏打水。
不记得是哪家媒体评了十佳，就这？？？最想吐槽的就是乱配乐，动不动就来音乐交代情绪，暗喻明贬也不高级，那么多救赎题材珠玉在前，捡别人玩剩下的都不能集大成，还拍个啥。太无趣，太多余
小甜饼，颜值高，经典的enemies to lovers梗
現在的美式甜心電影也都沒有什麼新意了，單純看顏、看道化，也膩了。雖然不用動腦子，但也是有點離譜。
剧情没什么意思，不过我本来就是来看帅哥美女的，这俩的性张力太太太迷人了！！
这部电影得是4.5分，奥斯卡·伊萨克的演出绝对算得上他的生涯最佳之一，难道分低的原因真的是因为大家以为这是一部关于打扑克儿的电影吗？施拉德对于一个帝国的内在崩溃的刻画比当今任何主流导演都要尖锐。
我好像浪费了时间看了个什么电影，只记得男主那身紧身衣加棉裤……非常Mugler
just chill and take this shit
现实中，你对面大概率是和你一样满眼写着疲惫的普通人，而不是像lucy和joshua这种每天还能有心情玩the hating game的俊男靓女。
好土我好喜欢 电梯里的吻真是氛围感拉满
故事其实很老套，但是两个人的化学反应真的还不错，甜甜的办公室恋情。
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