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".
1. 洪常秀不喝真露/初饮初乐，改喝塑料瓶装的玛格丽塔（？）了，这个宇宙是不是要崩坏了！2.导演就是想让我们看看金敏喜捧小白花、哼婚礼进行曲、说“我爱你”对吧？甜晕了，齁死了，怎么这样！
前面是个衔尾蛇结构，然后是一个尾声式的情感升华，说实话有一点点跳脱，不过浓度够高，不用计较
充满了对洪惯常技巧的调侃，似乎暗示着他在玩笑性地自我指涉。也就是说，他以对话驱动、视觉上相对朴素的电影风格经常被认为是“文学性的”，而这部电影以更广泛、更奇妙的视角审视了一位已在一种媒介中取得成就的艺术家如何在没有任何规则和标准的基础上进行另一种媒介上的创作尝试。
洪常秀已经放弃什么技术了，所谓的结构、黑白影像等等，看不到洪导的突破在哪里，甚至还有很多退步，这部电影最大的优势是金敏喜。这样的电影就是八卦电影，属于洪导的私密自嗨，顺带给娱乐周刊贡献一点正面回应材料。
洪常秀是一位不折不扣的情境缔造者。每个情境始终与整体保持着某种动态呼应，情境之间彼此融通、互渗与勾连，又始终保持着某种开放特质。所有这些看似独立的情境共同牵引出了一种行动趋势，并在影片末尾得到了最终进化，流贯成为一则影像、世界与个体的“三位一体”式寓言。一种影像的创造论与进化学。
三星半//如果是柏林评审团大奖 倒觉得有些过分了 仿佛一种私影像 整部电影都在等着一个可以赋予那句“我爱你”绝对合理性的瞬间//在中间段 他们站在公园洗手间前谈论着电影 穆老师突然问“你以前找人拍片子也是这个样子的吧？”//她也会猛地感受到那些藏在镜头里的爱意 然后回过神来 金敏喜像猫的话其实她也很像 于是我似乎越来越能理解这样的女性演员和角色了
慢热，四十分钟才入戏。结尾的彩色太私人了。
看了两部洪尚秀的电影之后本来心灰意冷，以为可能他就不是我喜欢的类型，这部完全改变了这个想法。故事并不是重点，有一个想拍的演员，捕捉到她和有连结的其他角色之间的自然互动和气场，一部电影就成型了。最后十分钟是绝对惊喜，谁能不爱这样天真烂漫又随性的金敏喜呢？
洪常秀一如既往用镜头去捕捉人物的特质，在一次次对焦深望里反而坠入了无可估量的眩晕失重，是日常对话里的不适，也是熟悉场景中的陌生。
固定变焦中景镜语不变，精致的文本互文性不改，流变的是他们俩投射出的爱意更深了，连烈人的烧酒都变成宜人的马格利米酒了。
看完我沉默了...洪导影迷麻烦解读一下，这个故事有任何值得称赞之处吗？镜头语言不就是大段长镜头突然推一下？如果说只是一段私人情感的影像化表达，那柏林电影节评审团大奖难言实至名归了吧。
语言变成手语之后还会有诗意吗？金敏喜光靠动作能让人感到爱意吗？答案似乎并没有撼动语言的地位。这部显得如此尖酸刻薄，所有的讽刺都在李慧英一声声冷笑中。甚至形成了一种尴尬的幽默感。我太爱她在听到别人的夸奖后，喷吐而出的“我？”，愤怒、尖利、苦涩，像一把毫不留情刺向自己的剑。
艺术生命仿佛从高塔上的推镜之处得到延伸，在一个“窥见”的视角得到创作的灵感，以半封闭式人际结构包裹的叙事半圆，最终以小说家的逃遁逸出收尾，生命和情感的力量注入进一个「彩色」的世界——由此，我们从怨怼的黑白进入欢笑的光彩；因此，我们是否可以认为「小说家」即是本片创作者的投注体，他发现了她，打动了她，拍摄了她，最终共同完成一个观众并不能窥见全貌的“故事”——而且或许本身并无故事性可言（亦祛除了以往更复杂的结构），而是从虚构情境中生发出真实，这才是他们共同的目标。
柏林电影节金熊提名。
“天色尚早，但是很快就会暗下来。趁着白日漫漫，我们一起去散步”。捧着花哼着歌的金敏喜像个天真无邪的小女孩。“我爱你”。“我也爱你。”
老三样：偶遇，尬聊，喝酒。另外，这部片子是不是用手机拍的啊？
自我的表达，有种举重若轻的感觉。（或许再刷我会给五星
导演真是有逆时代的自信啊，但抱歉不是所有观众都有颗怀旧且文艺的心。
—没有
无语，洪老头怎么还换着花样撒狗粮啊。对洪老头这种絮絮叨叨自我表达的电影越来越没兴趣了。单纯想看一眼敏姐，过得好我就放心了。但凡让敏姐露个正脸，魅力秒杀所有人。
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