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".
故事淡出个鸟来！震慑校园霸凌者，缓和父子关系的方法是干掉镇子里的掳童杀人犯。以为小男孩长大后会是伊桑.霍克，很像他小时候，是不是照着霍克小时候找的演员？
幼稚，男孩演技太差。换成女孩演可能评分能高一分
背景鋪墊可以再多點叭，喜歡通靈妹妹～ 恐怖片普遍分底➕一星。 2022.7.31 in.Tokyo
就是小孩版密室逃生，但是各种bug，逃生线没做好；然后又加入妹妹通灵，哥哥接鬼电话，也没啥好看的；之后还想用心理困境强行拔高，硬生生想把恐怖片往文艺片上凑，更乱。
搅动掀起战争的那些人永远不会反思战争，他们只会研究轰炸的战略。而被打的却在那反思战争的残忍。可笑可叹。
受害者电话所勾勒出的人际关系和幽暗封闭的地下室产生了一种别样的氛围，是成长的烦恼变种，其他方面一般般
后面有点大同小异，不过我们还是要世界和平，电影3星题材+1星
空袭前半段剪得像MV，然后变成了各种误炸。
已经厌倦如此千篇一律的人物关系设置了……人设刻意、很多台词也有种说不出的做作，剧情走向猜出了个大概。看的过程中最大的感想只有两个字：够了……
7.0；被朋友推荐看，期待很高，但看完感觉一般。男主角小孩的表演比较弱，表演痕迹很重，其它小孩的鬼魂帮助男主，这种帮助算什么呢，友情？同情？反抗？就是不太能找得到一种可以带入的能够共鸣的情绪进去，只感觉到有一种小聪明在里面，不感动。
构思还挺有意思的，不太刺激，为什么呢，因为这不是恐怖片，这是一部有惊悚情节的童话。
太致郁了太致郁了太致郁了，下次心情不好不要再看战争片了。
有些电影，意义大概在于记录时代。很多镜头拍得很好。最后一段Eva妈妈一直跑一直跑回家后看到Eva在喝粥，就处理得很好。在整个被占领时期死亡人数不及这一次英军的轰炸行动，是战争的残酷之处。
原来短篇小说原作者乔·希尔是老金的儿子，难怪有一丝小丑回魂的熟悉味道。伊桑霍克不知从什么时候开始，成了各个片子里的吉祥物。
兒童的部分用兒童的視角來演繹，充滿童貞，但最後反而更沉重。
三个可爱的姑娘打扮得美美的准备去参加婚礼，（丝袜破洞用指甲油救急我也用过）吻了开车老头一脸的红唇印，悠扬的口哨声，颠簸车篮里的鸡蛋，那么美好……
4.0，细节节奏台词演员如此完美，摄影写实的应该是没有打灯（现实主义应该有的样子，不美化不矫揉造作），我喜欢，就是结尾实在太完美了，是是枝裕和年老了嘛？对人性有的善意了吗？“是枝裕和近年来愈发心慈手软了，敛锋藏芒的他甚至连一根芒刺都不愿轻易施诸于故事与人物之上。”
我俩一起在沙发上看这个片，看到炸弹出仓的镜头她直接转过头去，再也没看过来。她可是一只猫啊。
美好瞬间首尾相连，是死亡发生的征兆，在时间轴上做的多点透视散点，缺点是在于人物上失焦，好处则是群像提供了更丰富的采光，真的非常喜欢这部影片，尤其几个孩子刻画得无与伦比，一头一尾互文相得益彰，导演还有一部高分剧集1864，务必找来验证一下再做分享
金式儿童的友情打败邪恶的故事，部分气氛可圈可点，最后Robin一步一步教Finn搏斗技巧的时候最感动。不过影片还是缺少爆发点，通灵电话的设定有些潦草了，甚至一时不知道可怕的是哪方了。
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