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".
还以为故事就这样“圆满”告终了，但结尾处还藏着惊喜反转，价值观多加一星！婚外情题材能脱离苦大仇深的主旋律，拍的这么轻巧，不愧是日影！用漫画一点点挑逗、瓦解、蚀空丈夫的内心，在情绪即将崩溃的时候再递上温柔一刀，可谓高手（唯一的不足就是有些情节太温吞，对于我这种对恋爱剧本就耐心不足的选手不太友好，gomen～
所以，你出轨了吗？所以，你原谅吗？所以，虚构 or 非虚构？太迟了。男人一副死猪不怕开水烫，又没被抓包出轨，这个时候当然说没有了。复仇，终了。我考虑一下。注意前后左右安全，松开手刹，换D档，轻踩油门。佐和子终于掌握了人生的方向盘。
真无聊。近年来的日本电影有两个极端趋势，一种是越来越克制抽象概念化的剧作模式，还有一种则是越来越外显与表面化的剧作呈现形式，而这就是后者的代表，以至于让原本优秀的主演都变得暗淡无光，就像两个听从命令的提线木偶。
编导演都棒，结尾棒，我最喜欢的居然是那个女配…
一切皆可狗化 但狗化需要契机 小红是怎么转变的？为什么转变的？
不愧是漫画家的报复啊！最后没人把丈夫当回事我真的笑死了
故事好单薄，夫妻之间的故事是不是可以补充一点，没感觉两人有任何感情，所以两人的互动看着内心毫无波动。最后奈绪惊叫着"他们....他们.....坐在一起画画了"真的是在搞笑吧，这个角色是粗线条还是缺心眼，太漫画了。里面的漫画确实好少女漫，Plastic Love好听。
跟可可一起看的，小红小蓝很可爱！有隐喻当下，美国四处散播中国威胁论，还有全球到处拱火，挑起俄乌战争！有什么办法？我们有一天也只能应战，对于这种霸权主义，没有协调余地，和平只存在于动画片里！
套路满满，两倍速看完都觉得慢，可惜了好的画面。
故事性太牛逼了
婚后的爱情就是这么难以捉摸，但现实不是漫画，任凭你如何修改故事走向，变节终究击垮秩序。黑木华演得好。
“虽然我出轨了，但我从没想过丢下你离开这个家，我想在这里，跟你重归于好。”哇，肯浪子回头nie，谢谢你吼。哼，兔子还不吃窝边草呢，这货倒好，直接搞老婆的责编，还好意思介意老婆是否也有出轨，还有脸恬着说要重归于好？！责编小三工作跟私生活的伦理情商真的是分的特别开，也是奇葩一朵。因为结局，所以加一星
喜欢！快被嚼烂的话题的新表现 和片尾曲的老歌新编一样让人喜欢。
2.5/5，平台爸爸让为手里的项目做功课才来看的这部片子。。。看完之后更加迷惑，这跟我的项目毫不相干
3.5 登堂入室漫画版吗，虽然不新鲜了还是可看。最后虚构与现实汇成一条线不错。但这种报复也就还好吧…
I like it so shut up😠
跟可可一起看的，小红小蓝很可爱！有隐喻当下，美国四处散播中国威胁论，还有全球到处拱火，挑起俄乌战争！有什么办法？我们有一天也只能应战，对于这种霸权主义，没有协调余地，和平只存在于动画片里！
形式很有趣｜那句：我的先生只有你一个 好感动｜没有人知道和教练的事情是真是假
丈夫出轨后，女漫画家也为自己创作了一场外遇，引发丈夫的嫉妒、内疚，是那种元叙事虚虚实实切换的故事。片中女主角从不会驾车到学会自己开车，不依赖丈夫，这是个暗喻。整体拍的比较温吞，东亚女性果然含蓄，连面对出轨都如此淡定，不过最后看似和解的剧情转为了女权宣言，这是值得称赞的。片尾曲是《塑料爱》哦。
把主角人设搞得这么讨人厌是不太想让人看吗？这小孩一说话就招人烦呐，看着剧情也是套训龙的路子
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