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".
疫情后看过的第一部所有人都戴口罩的电影。洪尚秀现在每一部的主要用途是用来向大家报告最近的生活动态：我很好很幸福很松弛，我什么都不在乎。
Everyone is nothing more than a name or a number on the quarantine list, on the vaccine shot roster, on the survivor or death roll. Expect nothing of a public system or a government whatsoever. A good person helps and treats you like a person, that's all.
所以这究竟是真实的生活还是影像呢？最后灵光一现般的彩色简直一举打破前面波澜不惊的基调，金敏喜太有灵气了吧。
年更一部稳输出，带上敏喜欧洲游，拍7分电影拿柏林银熊。
从什么时候起我们的生命不再平等。（看一半时到豆瓣翻了下短评，看有些短评说什么爱情、亡命情侣差点弃剧，看完了😯我觉得和爱情一点关系都没有啊？帮病人出逃，我个人觉得只是女主抗争、呐喊的一种方式罢了，病人只是个工具人。咋的难道当年帮犹太人出逃的也都是因为爱情吗🥰
这才是疫情电影的正确打开方式！朱迪科默可以封神了！
小说家就是洪尚秀，女演员就是金敏喜。电影和现实的互文。充满导演的自嘲以及对自我创作的捍卫和反击，比先前几部更具备趣味性。众人尴尬的寒暄和酒桌对话依旧很有味道。以及，洪导真的很护妻～满是对金敏喜的爱意，像情书一样。
这是一部洪常秀电影的说明书啊，演员要摆在舒适的位置，不重要的故事，反制纪录片。他制造一个没有亮部细节的浅景深世界，所有的人物都是他们本身，在这个舒适圈里，电影就像vlog一样被洪常秀轻拿轻放。甚至直接就拍一个vlog吧，像将奶油抹在美术馆一样将这样的电影放上银幕，给予这样轻盈的美一个郑重的画框。
我想在路边的脏摊儿撸串啤酒吐到天亮。
3.5，很有导演风格的一部导演的作品，活得久有什么意思吗？的确
最后的手持vlog着实让我的心软成一滩水了
好惊人的互文，女演员失去了演大制作的机会，只能演独立影片，并被路人导演说可惜，然后被女作家反驳，这不就是现实中金敏喜的境遇吗！？还有女作家与洪的对应，真真实实在拍自己啊。那一段敏后也太美了，受不了！！
看完就感觉这个剪辑不会做转场 导致剧情看着都不太连贯 剧情细节也不够 情绪纯靠演员表演和台词输出 不是被忘了 是根本不在乎 最易感的人群也是在优先级里最先被剔除的人群 再配合着这几个月愈演愈烈的唐宁街聚会丑闻来看更加讽刺了 （终于有一部还能看的疫情相关电影了 看的是英国 想的全是武汉 情感是相通的 顺便呼唤Ricky回来写Derek3
没有歌颂，而是用溢出屏幕的人道主义关怀。
中间反反复复循环在背景音里的NHS语音提示，想要增加焦虑感和无力感，但明明那一段其实有朱迪的表演就够了，背景音真的要多多余就有多多余；还有反复切的虚焦远景。
除了没有在海边裸奔，基本完成。
《草叶集》里有一幕金敏喜对着花盆笑，这部在结尾安排金敏喜捧着花束唱结婚进行曲，想狠狠踹翻这碗狗粮。看《独自在夜晚的海边》时感慨金敏喜的演艺道路似乎已经被洪困住了，但千金难买她愿意，双向奔赴拦不住，作为围观者只能祝福她。喝酒聊天戏还是洪氏出品的最舒服，整体感觉确实比以前松弛轻盈了很多。
真正的灵魂拷问：“When did our lives stop being worth the same？”
请正视存在的问题 不要只提功绩 听到了吗我的国
金敏喜还是小女孩啊，被爱的人会闪闪发光。你说要彩色那就拍彩色，最后一段太好磕了，好幸福。什么是浪费生命呢，她有在做自己喜欢的事情。
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