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".
Channing Tatum 导演作品首秀。老兵Tatum在送军犬Lulu 去参加战友葬礼的路上和狗子结下了特殊的感情，最终在结尾按照计划送lulu 去安乐死的时候决定收留她，虽然放弃了重返军队执行海外任务的机会，但是男主也在拯救lulu的同时拯救了自己，重新开始面对自己的生活。剧情虽然普通，但是性感猛男和威猛灵性的军犬的组合还是让我这个直男也忍不住动容。葬礼上lulu趴在主人遗物靴子上那一幕真的煽到我了。 想起了我去年去世的狗子Roffee,一只可爱勇猛的罗威纳犬，lulu 很多地方让我想起了Roffee,愿他在有天堂里快乐开心，RIP
btw，钱宁瘦下来真的帅到让我差点以为他去整容了，更锋利好看了
公路片来说还是有点俗套…虽然养了狗看不得温情宠物片但这部真的没有打动我
她想要一张软软的豪华大床，也想要一顿好吃的印度菜
剧情讲述美国陆军游骑兵布里格(查宁·塔图姆 饰)的任务是将比利时牧羊军犬露露从路易斯–麦克乔德联合基地沿太平洋海岸及时带到亚利桑那州诺加里斯，以便及时参加露露训导员的葬礼，一路上人狗间培养出了深刻的友谊。
太一般了，基本上讲狗的片子都不错，除了这一部。
蛮牛仔风格的人狗交往过程，跟日本的人狗交往电影不一样。
虽然很俗，但是不难看，跟一般那种蠢到不行的狗片不一样，
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安东尼·福奎阿怎么总是拍一些不过不失的电影，就像是行活制造机，让人看完之后觉得没什么亮点但又不能说它烂。本片完全是通过对话构建的场景，所以文本要很强大，可惜看到一半就会猜到真相，后面就了无乐趣了，男主塑造过于躁狂，把一个可怜人帮助可怜人的故事诠释得没有共情力，也是比较失败的地方。
3.5 狗狗演的真好啊～～Nottingham为了NDT 2的一日游，算是美好结束。
狗+公路+自我救赎题材的片子居然能拍这么平淡……
一人一狗饱受战争ptsd（包括肉体和精神）之后互相救赎的故事。看多了ptsd会觉得好老套好矫情，但外人确实无法体会那种伤害吧。一人一狗的公路片，其实并不是很轻松，有时候还有点沉重。6分吧，为狗狗多加一分。
狗的镜头不多，比想象中要好些！人和狗同样的经历，同样的救赎之路，虽然是公路片的同样套路，人狗同路同命运也就带来不一样的化学反应！重生才是最后的目的，过去的让它过去！
有被感动到。一辆车，一条狗，在路上，这种感觉真好
一人一狗的公路片，最后也很俗套的回到了相互救赎相互陪伴的结局。好久没看钱老板演的电影了，上一部好像还是《王的男人2》。里面那只狗子和我的猫名字发音一样，还好最后没送去基地处理，要不我都会心疼。有宠物的一定要善待自己的宠物，他们也有喜怒哀乐，更重要的是他们生命里只有你的陪伴。
很奇怪，为什么不穿插进一些战场的片段，那样岂不是更精彩更丰满？
电影结束看到演员表，Lulu是三只狗演的😂
比较平淡吧，但是我对这种题材就是没有抵抗力，怎么拍都觉得很好哭。
经历过战争的人也好，狗也好，PTSD都是会存在的！
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