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".
除夕前半夜观影。倒真是跟去玩剧本杀的感觉如出一辙。怀疑所谓网大电影语言含量都能比这个高一点。也许后面有质量还行的诡计与反转吧，但做作的演技、尴尬的对白、冗长的铺垫、油腻的玩梗、浮夸的风格（以上五点也正对应剧本杀的特点）让人忍受不到解谜时（勉强看到了50分钟左右）就先行离场/跳车了。我就打一个中途离场的分吧。
除了不太像电影，其他各方面都还挺令人感到惊喜的，当然是作为一部导演长片处女作来说。
导演与摄像背首锅，演员负次要责任——尹正不是主角的料，李家辉一角不如邀请《毛骗》的邵庄。。。又是一部处女作，又是一次自大自我的展示。。。前有《厨戏痞》《你好，疯子》，近有《第十一回》《扬名立万》，影视从业者似乎真的很想迎得观众的审美认可，切口是少有人触及的，更多被当作佐料而非皇冠明珠的小场景喜剧。对于在文化层面历来不十分重视戏剧这一艺术门类的无论影视从业者还是电影观众，玩儿跨界，无异于进入高维空间的自杀行为。
“虽然我经常被打，但我演的是日本人，所以不算丢中国人的脸。”高能笑点不断，反转反转再反转，开头以为只是好笑，中途以为是荒诞风闹剧，没想到却是彻头彻尾的悲剧，电影这种东西还是得看了才知道合不合自己胃口。一出带着迷影元素的大型民国剧本杀，“暴雪山庄”的形式，笑点和悬疑的融合竟不违和，小小的装腔作势不影响这本不在行程内的观影是十一月的小惊喜。“掌权者最怕的是记忆。”尹正更像工具人，张本煜才是男主，记他大银幕上的第一次出彩；邓家佳的唐氏表演法则可以永远相信！喻恩泰这个烂导暗喻王晶笑死个人！原来警察是秦霄贤，还挺帅…邓恩熙太美……30分钟渐入佳境，娱乐圈潜规则、影视圈的歧视链、资本和权利的隐喻、女性物化、性虐、借古讽今，还有千万不能碰的军事政治……作为导演的第一部大银幕，值得鼓励，年度华语十佳备选。
剧本杀式的好电影，结局给人多方面的遐想，一些致敬也比较惊喜。看电影喜欢思考的可以发掘出很多东西，纯看的也可以获得一些感受。
难得在国产片看到结局暗示主角团灭的，但是演技实在有点浮夸了，夜莺唱歌邓恩熙连嘴型都没对上，设定和想法还可以，也吐槽了很多演艺圈现状，但落实的有点点粗糙。
比惊喜少一点惊喜，很多场景转移过于刻意，部分演员痕迹感太重，张本煜好评，入戏，有电影的质感。
做成话剧更合适吧，我知道韩寒想玩什么套路，首先这个核不行，不够硬，还是侠义精神英雄救美借古讽今那套，玩得密室推理也很不行，总之就是哪哪儿都不行，戏剧冲突设计感太重太牵强了，表演也太用力了，这就是个话剧本子临时改的吧。
剧本杀大电影，推理拍得算很难看了，后半部分稍微好一点。几个主要演员演得都挺差的了，一个比一个用力，一个一个恍若刘天池徐帆附体。只有余铠磊和张本煜两个配角算是够松弛。
2.5 《闪灵》深度爱好者迷影片，像看话剧，满满时兴的网言网语台词，满脸写着小聪明和投机取巧，讽刺满格，成品却是自己先前嘲得最厉害的那类影片，根本没有实力去嘲笑人家啦——毕竟你们笋的那些充斥着很low的元素曾经也是诞生过好片子的，推理推着推着突然为影评人正名(尽管借着记者的名头)，接着又化身女性主义了，怀疑本来还有不少讥讽电影审批啥的被“自我审查”删除了；不过得承认影厅里气氛倒是真的很热烈，几处“反转”之时我邻座的邻座激动得捶起扶手，呃行吧，就算烂片之王也好，漏洞也罢，观众喜欢就行
剧本真的好扎实 演员的劲儿也很好 中间穿插的包袱也很喜欢 看完了内心有点澎湃 万万没想到都多久了啊
影片对电影业内的各种讽刺，那些恰到好处的台词！
值得鼓励，尤其是后半部分有所升华，比《不速来客》要强得多了。
这才是2021年最牛逼的国产电影好吧
主角团里最喜欢烂片导演和过气影帝，灭火小分队队长压迫感好强，但我还是想睡齐乐山
我怎么感觉我没有看懂这部电影啊，即使看了影评，也觉得很多细节没有看到啊。#20220201
难得在国产片看到结局暗示主角团灭的，但是演技实在有点浮夸了，夜莺唱歌邓恩熙连嘴型都没对上，设定和想法还可以，也吐槽了很多演艺圈现状，但落实的有点点粗糙。
观看之后 脑海中浮现的是《驴得水》《嫌疑人X的献身》
野心很大，囊括了很多东西 呵呵各种对电影的致敬。完成度算是很不错的。
万合天宜，再加上同福客栈，爱情公寓和德云社的加持，真的是太棒了！
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