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".
这次终于不用找秋刀鱼了！（噗！出彩的地方全在演员们的演技上。
这个酒店的场景也实在是好看 典型的欧洲式内饰 各种装饰性风格用得恰到好处 每处细节也打磨得很是自然 这点真的不得不佩服日本的美工和造景人员 至少在见识和态度上我们都差了好几节
日式全明星欢喜贺岁推理片。唯一的亮点就是埋了手表的线索，出人意料。别的相对普通，1更精彩。给木村拓哉和长泽雅美多打一星。
真想不到有一天会对木村拓哉有好感，就觉得这年纪还有这状态真的好帅，泽部叔同样 。剧情，那咋说也比勿言好看吧，最起码不是靠嘴破案。
给仙女mie酱、冈田弟弟、甜圭加一星。前半部一直在想两条线是一个时空吗？中间两线合并，mie酱毕业典礼上弹钢琴，串起故事的时间线，感动，感动甜圭作为继父的使命感和爱。但十元的角色还是怪，人物的动机很奇怪，不能生育就为了一个可爱女孩嫁了自己？女儿要钢琴，再嫁，感动是感动的，但也怪。所以十元的人生里最想要的是当母亲，她好像没有两性之爱的欲念。冈田弟弟弹钢琴，也是击中我的。冈田和mie酱我都喜欢，这个cp我也喜欢。吐槽一句，现实里三个父亲可没那么美好…爱不可能这么接棒。以及除了甜圭傻看不出十元不是喜欢自己，别的人看不出？这么多男的陪她玩，也是醉了。
没有前作好看，手表的伏笔是唯一亮点。然后去洛杉矶我觉得应该还有第三部吧
东野圭名气很大，但是却总是备受争议，其实就是因为他弱化了推理的内容，过于专业性的逻辑推理和烧脑的诡计会阻挡很多人，受众永远是一部分人，东野圭吾就像是讲了一个故事，里面有一些悬疑的部分，实际上是降低了阅读的门槛，看不了高难度推理和诡计的人也能看得进去
强行催泪，也是累了。看到十元的大牙花子怎么也没有代入感，下次不要找这种美人系的女优演苦命妈妈了好吗…
比第一部好看 木村君是不是到60岁还是会这么又拽又帅
这cast还真是豪华，一直到看到犯罪地点选在了婚礼礼堂我才差不多确定真凶。以及没想到さんまさん是以这种方式友情出演的啊……
相比于第一部的几个故事，这次变成了一个故事，几条线也算是各有特色，但相比于第一部差了一点，推主线的时候有点没交代清楚。
如果这部电影换成是国产剧，估计肯定是4分左右的评分。
各取所需的亲情，所以相当的稳固；当然是最喜欢森宫先生，性格发展最稳定的期间能如此被爱着，当然可以成长为一个温暖的女孩。
这个酒店的场景也实在是好看 典型的欧洲式内饰 各种装饰性风格用得恰到好处 每处细节也打磨得很是自然 这点真的不得不佩服日本的美工和造景人员 至少在见识和态度上我们都差了好几节
永野芽郁太可爱了，演技自然不做作。这种天然派的感觉不由令人想起了奶遥，再说这两人真的气质风格都好像啊！
鱼叔这次的出场很显眼了~ cast表才是重点 太多熟人脸一下子都猜不出谁是坏人了……
插个题外话，看的时候，电影名字“爱的接力棒”让我想起电影“祈祷落幕时”里女主说过类似 母爱的接力棒在她妈妈那里丢失了，她没能接到，所以觉得自己没有母性。照这个逻辑，优子未来对孩子的母爱应该会爆棚了。
從小到大都被溫柔與愛包圍的人才是最富有的人
原本以为十元要最后来个恶女大反转，没想到是这个结局，但是爸爸们都真的好好啊，老公也不渣。看完超治愈啊~
果然，只有我们两个人组合在一起，才叫罗西尼啊！（PS：华纳换片头了；十元一出场，整个剧组得准备多少套服装啊。）
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