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".
看完觉得有这么温柔的男主人设吗？原来是自导自演 哈哈 不过男主很可爱啊
泪点1：告诉母亲自己有一个非常快乐的童年；泪点2：弟弟的表达。导演超级可爱，可爱是对人的至高赞美。
每个人都在成长，只有体验过后，通过之后才能长大，刻骨铭心。 最后那段男主给妈妈打电话来接他，有点类似请以你的名字呼唤我的桥段。
杰西·巴克利和罗里·金尼尔的表演称得上精彩。
我们都曾以为自己是别人的灵魂伴侣、是世界的中心、是一块璞玉，同时又无法抑制的自暴自弃、对生活感到迷茫和羞耻。但成长是如此迅速，我们其实普通又幸运，ta不是不爱你，而是成人的世界里有更多远比爱要复杂的事情。
另外楚楚可怜但坚强的domino在家里随意摆一个姿势对andrew来说实在是暴击，怪不得andrew情根深种，虽然结局没能在一起
达妹真的无时无刻都在散发魅力，这种爱而不得最好看最好哭了呜呜呜呜呜
在三星和四星之间犹豫，毕竟质感上是比不了甘草披萨的。当看到男主角表白被拒绝的那一刻，虽然很显然两个人是不适合成为情侣的，我的心还是碎了。给出四星。人生确实有那么多不完美，也不可能和自己预期的一样，每个人都在试着找到自己的生活方式。导演兼主演真是个宝藏男孩。
被幸福包围下的一点怅惘。幼稚的怅惘，重要的怅惘。导演演得好真诚，22 岁的青春片就该是这个样子吧，下不完的雨，跳着舞的云。
废材帅哥爱上邻居妈妈求而不得的故事。全片唯一亮点就是后爹替他妈出气打了恶霸家长一巴掌，全车人高兴得屁颠。
其实挺讨厌安德鲁这种满嘴跑鸡汤的年轻人，暖男又谈不上，有脾气有毛病的暖男不讨喜，但故事还不错。
#豆瓣电影
惊讶美国还可以拍这么白的电影，尤其是Apple
1. You don’t know who you are yet 2.so uncertain but so exciting 3. The memories aren’t going anywhere
I’m just a dumb kid. I’m drunk now. But that probably was the best time.
单是那场女人冷眼看男性弑父式自行分娩戏，让我瞳孔地震之外还能看清针对女性的欲望与暴力的轮回重复，就够我记住它了。A24这变态的人文关怀，恶趣味的个性，电影届的“亚”还得是你。
终于等到了。最近hulu apple都很爱拍这种波澜不惊的非法情事。感觉是泰勒丝会喜欢的类型。。。跟预告片不一样 男主并没有一见钟情女主 感觉就是像两个有年龄差的infp平淡地开始再结束一段illicit affair。
我真的挺喜欢这种。轻柔温暖的三句话暖她一整天实录（不是）。22岁也许已非少年，但那些心事与动情在“私小说”般的流动里这样生动。克制，温柔而真诚的亲吻和冲动后的一两步退却，挺美好的
前半段小清新，后半段小血腥，来自女人对男人的恐惧
All characters are well-behaved 恰恰丝滑。音乐加分！
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