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".
你看，男人招🐓不用前戏，女人买🦆还要先过心里这一关，男人完事拉起裤子走人，女人事后还要更深层次的探讨，一些个两性鸿沟。多一星给男主美好的胴体。
讲真对我来讲 结尾的diy高潮和艾玛的裸体对镜 是减分项，太顺拐没新意了吧。咖啡厅偶遇昔日学生今日侍者的段落则有趣得多。
哈哈，对白和表演很棒，男主有点像林皇林加德。身份设定略显刻意，主旨更多地是两个人的相互“救赎”而非性的社会学探讨。又一部“聊天/话痨电影”，以前好像说过，敢于拍这种类型的，拍出来都不会太差。
后半段不太行，当然一个这么小切口的片子在故事落点上要寻求一点普世价值讨论也不是不能理解。艾玛汤普森棒。
人生的痛苦岂是几场与陌生人的性事就解决得了的。
很有趣，讲述一个退休教师，寡妇鼓起勇气斥巨资请来一位高帅的性工作者完成之前在婚内从没有实现的性探索。
塑造出完美的“性幻想”，以此为切入口探讨我们身上的束缚、本能、救赎欲、控制欲，所有一切我们认为可以通过外在的某物实现的人生满足心魔其实都在于自我接纳的困扰。电影以猎奇和欲望引入，最后还是归于学院派般的存在主义讨论倾向，枝桠工整之余少了点意外。
各自治愈了自己，所以亲密关系其实是来自匆匆过客，最后还是要自力更生吗？（手动狗头）
看完感动了，对服务生坦白后那一整段都很有劲。orgasm的镜头也太真了吧。
Emma演的太好了，四次见面时的人物状态，最后和自己和解。鸭太帅了，帅到腿软！！
心情複雜的三星：一面是觀影中時常猜中劇情的無趣，一面是被猜中的女性情意。過分規矩「正確」的人物設定和宛若心理治療一般的解碼推進顯得四平八穩，連同「誰在抑制女性情慾」的內核，整體工整有餘而野性不足，太像是一篇小論文，而不是一場淚汗淋漓的暢聊，儘管二人的可愛對話時常帶來會心一笑、卻也難以消解這層平淡——而這是否又構成了對女性的刻板印象呢？女性對於自我情慾的探索又是否只能寄望於身材姣好的、「服務性」男性呢、情慾本身為什麼不能夠成為一種更天然的驅動力呢？/一個範本：疫情期間如何拍攝一部低成本電影（不是）/一個疑問：女性對親密關係的渴望是進化本能嗎，還是社會規訓？
电影是一个顶着让人窥猎的题材实际表达伦理和治愈内涵的影片。两人物出场，令人印象深刻的是一个面对真实自我矛盾又拘束。一个回避隐藏自我，眼里有光。人物的接触里有倾听、交流、尊重、坦诚、理解、关注、接纳，文明礼貌潇洒幽默，更像是一种疗愈过程。
有点像亚隆写的心理学小说，咨询师和访客相互治愈什么的。整个交互太像心理咨询了，作为性工作来说就太假太理想化了。一切哪有儿有那么美呢。作为美好小品类的电影来说，裸露也没必要(要露就多露点，男主角的居居只露了0.1秒，看都看不清。)
这真的很可爱啊，虽然绝对会有很多争议，不过也正是因为还不错到需要寄予厚望。有些问题被提出已经值得夸奖了，哪怕2022了
再再次，亲密关系不限于为爱鼓掌，每个人的需求不一样，可能只是倾诉和被倾听，过程获得关注和认同，但结果都是获得安抚。更高质量的可能是双方彼此为镜，看见未被自己发现的优点，照见自己的视差之见，纠正认知偏差，获得更好的自己，心理生理上都come。
另，现在好大的雨
设定很美好，但是说教太多了，我们不一定要和家庭或者身体和解。希望落点在不管老或少，美或丑，在欢愉面前皆平等。
啊 真没想到这电影居然能把我看哭 第三次会面把前两次理想状态拉回到现实 与人交往自身的丑恶 私欲展露无疑 却接着在结尾回归理想甚至更深一层 不过其实从一开始 leo的出现就是个理想哎 女性就是太容易自我反省 被动和主动自我压抑了 转性的话 可能只会是苦妓回忆录而不会good luck to you啦 最后感谢汤普森的优秀演出～
Nancy人肉Leo的行为实则是一种生活中四处存在的道德边界感缺失的现象，导演细述了Nancy产生这种行为的背景与她心中的渴望，同时又剖开了Leo这位性工作者的过往，予以了不同的人平等且包容的凝视，从而将这种道德审判讨论引向对现实的反思。
越看越觉得是女导演果然真是！
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