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".
我这么打个比方吧——很多城市都有黑咖啡，但是上海那种“吃清咖”的滋味，和别的地方都不一样。这种电影的存在，说明了敏锐和趣味的有效。因为敏锐，电影得以独立在女性题材的某种怪圈之外；因为趣味，电影对一些日常困境都显得平和，有理解力。
3.7星。有趣的清淡的中年文艺男女爱情面面观。1.这是一部女性意识很浓的电影，但又不会让大多数男性观众心理不适。2.主题很简单：中年人的爱情要面对现实，但，也请心怀童话。3.索菲亚罗兰那个故事让本片多了一股仙气，调和了本片所谓的烟火气。4.有些很妙的未解留给了观众：倪虹洁爱徐峥嘛？索菲亚罗兰的故事是真的吗？5.三个女人一桌戏那段和马伊琍倪虹洁吐槽中国男性编剧那段很有力道，编剧挺有东西的。
非常接地气和生活化的电影，尤其是在看了那么多悬浮剧以后，这部电影更显得难能可贵。在上海生活过的人会更有体会，这真的非常上海人，他们会用咖啡精致生活，买东西会比较，但这TM才是真实的人啊。
像是看了一部异域片 对于蓬头垢面窸窸窣窣在电影院盘腿吃奥尔良全鸡的大粗大糙人来说 对这般程度的精致生活老传统的讲究追求 到底是怎么一种感受 实在是很难想象 就是那种很amazed的感叹但又感觉遥远的懵 为什么上海人老师们能这么认真密实地生活 (虽然知道经过影视剧夸张 (但我真的感觉一对比自己心更如寸草不生的荒漠
不知道为啥这部动画片评分这么高，皮克斯这几年的动画片都是为了讲道理而创作，虽然没有啥硬伤，不过剧情实在太公式化，让人看一半就知道结局。
梗还是不少的，但是作为一个纯北方人我确实没get到在讲啥
2.神预言：吐槽翻拍电影是财富密码（内涵误杀2？）不要乳化（雄狮少年中枪），还出现了hi stranger（王力宏调情）
还是一贯的好莱坞式中国故事，套用一个古代离奇传说设定，表现现代与传统价值观的冲突，家庭代际之间的矛盾与和解，又加上了青春期的自我找寻。故事本质还是停留在很浅层的东西，说实话，很难共情。
《爱情神话》
1、觉得导演名字很熟，问了知情人，才知道她就是几年前卖电子烟的北电女生，当年以此为引子写过一篇爆款公号文。2、此片公映，邵导也算咸鱼翻身了，发现其豆瓣页面的主照片都换了，形象焕然一新。3、邵是张老师的学生，张老师发了一条动态，遭到群殴，甚至有人身攻击。记得某年在某影院，见到张老师，张老师说影院里放的这些片都是啥玩意啊（大意）。张老师对院线片的“敌意”，可能是有“鄙”无类的。4、费里尼，《爱情神话》，索菲亚•罗兰，我全都理解为致敬与迷影吧，当然，也是调侃和解构，一如“变态”与“可爱”同义。5、上海话的爱与撩，城市的市井与韵味，不那么低级的喜感与闹剧，配乐的美妙与疏离，以及，一颗装腔作势的文艺的心，都是大体妥的，算是近年爱情片这个类型中四平八稳的奇葩。
灵的！导演很牛吖 完全看不出新手，故事起转承合，矛盾爆发，收尾点题 相当成熟工整又不失趣味性的一部电影！（诶呀原来是红佛夜奔！微博之前还关注过她 确实是有料的才女！）
勉强可以上五星了，挺有意思的。全片上海话必然是最大的亮点，方言电影有必要支持。前面还在想为啥叫爱情神话呢，看到后来才懂。爱情里其实没有神话，但每个陷入爱情的人都在渴望神话。没想到老乌最后成功逆袭，抢走老白的C位。台词很有意思，尤其第一次三个女人一桌互呛那段太好玩了。马伊琍和倪虹洁都很灵的，尤其倪虹洁，表现亮眼。
求中年男演员放过熟女题材，拿三个女主饭桌那段当宣传噱头，结果把观众骗进电影看中年男人的幻想？演员不错，剧本不错，镜头也不错，但是视角不对。这两年我们已经透过太多救世主（性别男）的眼睛去看中年女性的狼狈和得过且过了。导演以为女性观众看到的是第二春是新曙光吗？不，我们只能更加看清罩住女人的那层玻璃罩子。
好灵的啦，又讲腔调又有生活感，挺有欧洲电影和伍迪艾伦的气质。
还有看完电影之后终于明白为啥叫爱情神话了，原来是致敬。
全程风味沪语已值四星。其余那有惊无险、偶有波澜的法租界生活，必须要在武康路置业后才能略略咂摸一二了吧，当然抖点小机灵，“celebrate”一下新女权也不是什么坏事，总体在中国电影市场上也算一股清流了。
前四分之三都挺好看的。 剧感大于电影感。 虽然我知道那个叫夜奔的咖啡店是和那家叫红拂的杂货店一起的（导演网名），但是看到一名曾经演过林冲的演员在一家叫做夜奔的店里喝咖啡的时候，那感觉还是挺好玩的。 对倪虹洁的上一个印象还是“放着我来”的无双，没想到直接开始进行离婚局了。 另外仔细想想，一男两女三主角，全是有钱有闲人，演点神话也正常。
还行，轻松简单的故事。有些地方不太真，有些地方也不假。
看出来了导演是真的有父母造成的心理阴影。这次迪士尼在亚裔文化上的表现是OK的，对相当一部分亚裔二代来说应当很有共鸣…虽然看完也不知道为什么是小熊猫但是后面念咒和流行歌合二为一的时候真是非常好笑。
灵额灵额老灵额！倪虹洁杀我！特别要讲的是，在过度媚青的国产电影里，能看到一群中年人坦然的情情爱爱，又跳探戈般你进我退，何其可贵。我反正是第一次看到中年人的故事和情爱渴求被看见了，艺辉了不起！前途无量！（ps:看到她在电影里夹带的红拂杂货铺和夜奔咖啡馆种种，都会忍不住笑起来……
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