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".
对视，把你变同类。
类似于乡野怪谈大集锦，故事没啥逻辑，但会搞的一惊一乍，各种老式套路去吓人，毫无新意。好在男女演员颜值都很高，表演不会出戏，能让人坚持看下去。
跟最近几年的《世界奇妙物语》一个水平，比不过之前的
总体而言，是一部已经很不错的电影。但可惜城市化主题的影片太多了，这部可能只能算一部完整、清晰的电影，但算不上有什么惊喜。
印象最深的是父亲剪脚趾的段落，不铺垫这么多可能会好一点。
1，隧道：过马路要左右看，没事不上汽车道；2，红衣女：与人为善，和同学和睦相处；3，齿虫：遇到疑难杂症，千万别盲目就上手；4，招魂：学生就好好学习，没事别玩招魂；5，噪音：发现反常，立马报警；6，衣柜：在自家里遇上坏人，一定要补刀，剁脑袋；7，冥婚：身在职场，一帆风顺要小心；8，镜中女人：放松心态，从容面对世上的一切；9，人模：遇到往人多地方跑；10：密室：穷乡僻壤，又有人失踪，还做孤勇者，不是找死是什么？
房顶漏雨的斑驳，父亲烂掉的脚趾，城市变迁无奈之下的选择
阿彼察邦已经把东南亚电影的路子走得差不多了，东南亚的未来值得担忧啊😂😂
一星给科长 全片科长的风格太重了 一星给导演的个人情感
PS：柬埔寨年轻人第一次去酒吧也点长岛冰茶…？
女鬼一个比一个漂亮，头发一个赛一个丝般顺滑，还会物理攻击，拂面爱抚…看得我想让老板和人事组给算算八字了。2022年，女鬼能抡起铁锤了，能一手提溜人还能一手爬墙胜过蜘蛛侠我也是看醉了，而且女高姐妹组容易跳楼死人回来复仇的优良传统依然能够发光发热，看得我秒回大学时期女高怪谈的青葱岁月。老梗基本表现平平，新番偶有亮眼时刻，个别篇章竟然戛然而止，实在是如镜中女人一般，太不自信了！
坐在导演正后方。八方支持，实现心愿的作品。摄影还不错哇。
最后，导演说希望影片的一部分东西能叫醒睡醒的人们（让人们意识到问题），坐在我旁边观看的第四代导演（一个慈祥的奶奶）和一些观众可能实在无法睡醒，我也中途强打精神，偶尔看到一个象征表达才容易集中一会儿。我也希望在影展能看到更多快速、移动镜头的表达，固定镜头看的我厌了…
污名化女生感情的恐怖片真是爱不起来，烦死了烦死了搞什么丧尸恐怖片啊
影片整体质量比8集剧集版强很多，尤其是前4个故事和最后1个故事，在有限的时间内也算是出色的讲完了一个故事，其他故事就比较拖后腿了，主要问题就在主角脑残行为太明显这个通病了。第5个故事本身剧情是很有意思的，猥琐主角把墙壁死尸当美女邻居进行互动，有创意，可惜结尾一塌糊涂，啥也没交代清楚瞬间完事。第10个故事最应该单独拍成电影，密室逃生+恶魔，这个剧本真的有很大发展空间。个人最喜欢（最害怕）第3个故事齿虫，结尾发展成僵尸题材，也算很刺机而且很合理，另外这个故事很戳中我的软肋，在牙龈上动刀，想想就疼...
齿虫这个故事还行，扩展一下可以拍一部丧尸片。人类高质量男性之人体模特故事也还行，密室逃脱也是不错的，除此其他故事太弱了
想到了X 国，挺有代入感的。但节奏真的太慢了，这就是文艺片吧
导演走了一条内心线 似乎拆迁对于一直曾经生活在某处的人们内心某处的崩塌才是情感执念最为真实的写照 又让我再一次想cue一下加加林
长这样，还不接受，那就把你变丑。
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