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".
前半段其貌不扬，甚至都想关掉放弃了，没想到进入中间部分整个起飞，出人意料的好看，主角智商在线的惊悚片也是不多了，算是惊喜。
6.5低了，最近最好的惊悚，直球之下，是女主撑得住场面的演技，坚韧的亚洲女性！
开场的氛围营造真的可以，进入正题后剧情一崩再崩，连逻辑都不要了。。。
暴雪天气，高速封路，五个人受困于一个没有手机信号也无职员的游客中心，其中就有绑架小孩的罪犯。典型的密室罪案，熟悉的场景设置。虽是小成本制作，但故事讲述得还不错，悬念的设置尚可，情节也是一波三折，还不时有反转。女主角是华裔，一个毒虫却脑子够用，几乎独力死里逃生。她的表演还可以。
最近看过的少有的不感到无聊的惊悚片，亚裔混血女主演得很棒，很有特色的一张脸，记住她了。
中间几场来回对峙逻辑上完全站不住脚啊，真想一出是一出。
这种剧本真是很无聊，结局还是那么老套，反派又是死于话多，警察又是龙套，女主光环严重闪瞎观众双眼，顺便还附赠油腻美式家庭和解团圆。
从演员到布景到后期，感觉制作方很穷，另外，这是要洗白吸毒行为吗……
暴风雪山庄模式，氛围营造，节奏把控都挺好，反转也不生硬，唯一的缺点是经费不足还是如何，夜晚戏有点太暗了。
大雪封路，深夜围聚，以为是一出致敬阿婆《捕鼠器》的作品，没想到只不过是一部粗劣的狼人杀。狼人蠢钝，但预言家接连查出两匹狼，但怂着憋了好长一段时间不爆出来，女巫死掉顺带毒死猎人，最后还是狼人自己蠢死。整个剧情就一个字：蠢。
真是没什么东西拍了，只好找个亚裔女来炒冷饭
看了几天的无聊电影，本来对这部没抱啥期待，没想到居然还不会，没有很难忍受的硬伤。行为也基本讲逻辑，中间还来个反转，节奏也卡得不错，反正我是看得挺爽的。
还有东京男子
小演员小成本，完成度算不错了，不过有点为吸毒者正名的意思，就没必要了。碰毒品的都不是人，别提人权了。
整体不错，没想到给一个海军陆战队员铺垫那么多，最后就这么挂了。
故事普普通通，但拍的不错，本来比较平的故事拍出了一定的转折跌宕，人物行为逻辑也基本合理，整体完成度可以，这剧本上限就不高，也就拍成这意思了。再有，好莱坞电影中有亚裔角色的不计其数，但难得有这么一部用亚洲面孔做主角的。
大雪天，为了见母亲这惹上了一身什么，还好女主有生存意识
暴风雪山庄式杀人事件，海洛因能害人，也能救人，这一点的辩证提升了作品本身及格线的水准。
剧情有经过精心设计，女主要救Jay是补偿自己对母亲的不可抵达。拔钉子前再吸食drugs很多此一举，有美化嫌疑。
大雪天，为了见母亲这惹上了一身什么，还好女主有生存意识
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