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".
看不下去。。上一个疯魔得这么残忍还是老手里的刘亚仁
终于改回套装这个名字了，之前莫名其妙的叫誓不低头都找不到了。。看前一个多小时还以为是普通的黑色电影，看如何用话术和表演互相智斗博弈最后大反转。结果编剧竟然还能在此基础上创新，把反转搞得像圆白菜一样，来了个层层剥离，直接把戏外观众骗了个团团转，直到最后不到十分钟的时候才彻底明白了所有的事情。逻辑还没有因为反转搞事情而没失去黑色电影推敲的严肃性，这个好，这个巧妙，可以加一星
If we only allowed angels to be customers, soon we'd have no customers at all.
教科书级的复古小成本电影，杀人全靠嘴炮，一个场景干了两个小时，全靠演员撑着。
一部不错的编剧转型导演的单场景作品，构思严谨，调度舒畅，马克叔演技如火纯青。
#22#38剪裁师就是要突出一个优雅…妙手一手接一手
孙锡久的反派帅疯球了！！Real GANGSTA
比老派黑帮还老派的低成本高智商反转电影，高超的编剧技巧和演技给人久违的眼前一亮的感觉，完美诠释了什么叫老谋深算。
一天深夜，黑帮大佬罗伊的儿子里奇和他的副手弗朗西斯闯入了店中，里奇身受重伤，在弗朗西斯的威胁之下，雷纳德处理了里奇的伤口，将他从死亡线上救了回来，但与此同时，他也被卷入了这个黑帮家族的纷争之中。
个人感觉有些过誉了，一个场景下层层反转是亮点但不新奇，看过太多类似影片反转并没有多亮眼。
其实不够缜密，转场接得太紧，缺少必要的过渡，但格调太高级了。(我个人的小小遗憾就是:黑帮要弄一个录音机那么难吗？带那么多钱买磁带，不听一下就付款了？
剧本扎实，情节紧凑，画面质感，人物塑造经典，叙事节奏很好，于方寸之间尽显腾挪跌宕，看似波澜不惊，实则暗流涌动，乃至波涛汹涌，除却偶尔有些剪辑略显突兀之外，每个节点和反转都适得其所。
没看明白！莫名其妙！裁缝的动机在哪里？他怎么就知道拉封丹黑帮在哪里！又准确的把黑老大支过去火并呢？逻辑说不通的地方不少！
还是和第一部一样的毛病，警察不用枪，全靠拳头解决，哪怕对面拿刀拿斧头也是一样拳头硬刚。
马哥一如既往地神勇，五毒追风掌，一掌你就躺，阿一塞凯！本来是以暴力奇观为卖点的爽片，动作设计却非常陈旧，拧手腕，大背挎，怼肚子，掐脖子，翻来覆去就是那几招，没能打出应有的爽感。孙锡久的反派和哈尔滨张晨如出一辙，都是抡斧子耍狠卖命的亡命徒式人物。最大惊喜是死而复生的张夷帅社长，上一部混黑道，这一部搞偷渡，但每次都被马哥教训的明明白白，又菜又爱玩的人设果然讨巧。其实最适合马东锡的剧作设计思路是：一力降十会。反派不能只是单纯的耍狠，还是要有手段有能力，哪怕练过几年螳螂拳什么的也行，这样又能满足动作上的奇观，也能凸显马哥谁来灭谁的霸气，一举两得。这个系列想要延续下去，光骂脏话可不行，必须得让马哥身陷险境，势均力敌，去征服一些“不借助凶器也能让人感觉害怕的人”，否则就只是警匪过家家，迟早有看腻的一天。
Leonard直接坦白自己是rat的时候，就猜到这个cutter不简单，收尾简直轻车熟路啊。不过Richie父子的智商实在是有点低。
说不上来 但我就觉得哪里有点问题 有种强行反转变boss的感觉 他设计的这个局漏洞也太多了
看看人家这演技！其他有些人还好意思说自己是演员吗？整个故事只基于一个场景，却足够惊心动魄，足够演一出完美的舞台剧。
非常精美的小成本电影，全程发生在小裁缝铺，出场角色也十分有限，但真的非常精彩，剧本扎实，每个角色都拥有一个脑子！另，cutter这个职业太棒了！我太喜欢了！小时候老家都会有裁缝店，做衣服好的裁缝价格也不低。后来裁缝店都关门了，成衣便宜又时髦，还不用等待。
多机位、频调度提升单一场景电影完成度，黑吃黑型反转剧本，有些惊雷式亮点，男主身份并不难猜，毕竟Mark Rylance的表演是那么精彩，谎话随口就来，面对大场面如此淡定，怎可能只是一个单纯的裁缝。
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