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".
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3.导演不爱国呀，电影里展现的情节一定是道听途说，应该谴责他！
一开始听到几个角色的口音就猜到了大概是英格兰西北部，民风淳朴不像伦敦国际都市范，更有英格兰本土的气质，这部片子算是把普通国家应对新冠的无知、无奈和无力展现的淋漓尽致，结尾好绝望，小变态片中几段长镜头怼脸拍演的太好了，那种无助慌张和不安情绪直接溢出屏幕，算是新冠题材的电影里比较好的一部了
【2021年第126部】很有意义的一部电影
因上海疫情而看
电影还行。
很棒 对啾各种怼脸拍 每种情绪她都能游刃有余地处理 很喜欢最后她和观影者的对视 要关注具体的人 而不是数字
看了前半段没明白在讲什么 再看才发现原来是以新冠为背景的故事 小人物的视角 用了多个一镜到底的长镜头 把那种焦虑 无助 绝望到歇斯底里和慌乱的状态展现的很真实 比某国医生拍的好 新冠下不讲家国情怀 只讲小人物的悲欢 拍出了灾难来袭下 受害又无法得到及时救援的人们的挣扎 死亡与无奈 也是一个很好的角度 只是没想到结尾是这样的 如此压抑 充满了无力感
正对镜头的拷问传承了四百下，浪潮的精神。我们的平凡故事，无人书写。
以小见大，挺好，四星给真敢拍真的东西，比那些冠冕堂皇歌功颂德假大空的伪纪录片好的太多了。
抛开讽刺政府的部分，在疫情背景下讲一个真正关于人的故事依然很难得，别国比咱们拍出了更有人味的抗疫电影
好心痛啊最后的三十分钟... 该死的疫情，那些人，啊他们高高在上，深谋远虑，心系国家天下，那他们又真的为人民做过什么？/ 作为抗疫最积极的国家之一，甚至没有之一，这样的电影本该是我们拍出来的不是吗。可是，看看国外在拍什么吧，再看看我们自己。看看。不过也是，这样的电影太真实了，可能会戳了某些人的脊椎。这里面，不管是那段崩溃的哭戏，还是电话里和最后出现的有关部门的嘴脸，都过于真实，几乎犯规的程度。"No one is comin"
从护理院这个小类别切入，展现英国对新冠疫情的防疫过程和普通市民的心理变化，结局不落俗套，挺好的。
不是只有胜利的战役才值得出现在影视作品中，疫情正在消磨这个世界的所有人，我们遭受的无力与痛苦都是真实存在的，都是值得记录的。
新冠疫情下，英国政府对私人疗养院和护理机构的忽视，以及对英国nhs体制的抨击。就像最后莎拉在警车上说，什么时候我们变得不再平等了？中间那段莎拉深夜照顾病人的长镜头展现了朱迪的演技！
这场新冠疫情究竟会对人类历史产生多大的影响？英国人对政府发出的质问会让西方放弃对自由观念的盲目崇拜吗？拭目以待。因为《新冠时期的爱情》才看的。
When did our lives stop being worth the same, eh?
同样都是片尾黑底白字的解释说明，用意和某些地方却完全不同呢
在现实抗疫上 中国确实做的比西方国家好太多太多了 但是在电影上 中国被甩的太远了 我们的同类型电影简直就是屎
本来以为主题是英国初期疫情，结果后面是对社会和政府的控诉，如果结合得好 那还是挺棒的，但显然结局太赶鸭子上架了反而显得很仓促。整个看下来略显凌乱。。。
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