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".
[视][19.10.24想看]导演<黑色弥撒><逃出熔炉>，小男孩像<神童>2019，陀螺监制，怪兽部分一直不错，微血。两个破碎的家庭，西方对父辈的执着，有点烂尾。今年还有奈飞剧版<鹿角男孩>
导演的审美比较在线，怪物的设定也比较新颖，雾蒙蒙的灰色调画风和小男孩的演技撑起了前半部分，但剧情较弱，结尾也太敷衍了，实属高开低走
怪物有点意思，女主主角光环好强单人手刃几个壮汉都对付不了的怪物
白嫖学校的放映，奉劝没看的降低期待，浪费设定一作。
阴郁的氛围不错，最后鹿魔露脸也挺“惊艳”，剧情略微平白。
Judd Apatow的随心自黑之作+隔离疫情命题第13000次炒冷饭+各路喜剧咖团建，先期口碑差成那样，但看完后却意外能找到惊喜的地方；很适合和拥有同样精神的《不要抬头》组成连映安排，并召集朋友来个观影主题夜- -“反正人类已经药丸”。调侃系列电影的喋喋不休和拙劣的特效技与绿幕，对各种系列电影的拙劣模仿，“我用手机拍摄赢得圣丹斯”这些信手拈来的梗；虽然它的感觉和成品相当糟糕，但因为傻，因为热闹，它就是在这愈发无语的时刻唯一还能让你有话说的电影。【里面的英国小哥下部《英版百分之十》常驻，yoyoyo!】
美术非常优秀，两个小朋友很会演，但是剧情真的好苍白。阿美利加是没啥恐怖传说了吗怎么又是温迪戈【。】
好久没看恐怖片了，选的这一部也是期待了好久的电影。影片的基调很冷峻，小演员的神情里有一种极度的冷静，还有纯净的无辜。女教师独自弑杀怪物那段很像甘道夫独击炎神……
导演完全没有把故事拍好，就当做是当地旅游环境宣传片好了
女主一个手无缚鸡之力的老师把父亲怪物打到批爆这真的合理吗.......
女主和小孩演的不错，但整体画面暗黑，看起来费劲，典型的老美风格
抖音里吹的呜呜渣渣的，也就那样吧，没有新意
卢卡斯和茱莉都好惨，不仅父母都死了，卢卡斯弟弟也死了，茱莉的哥哥也中招了。都没有调查清楚这个东西会不会传染就去救人，真的会杀敌一千自损八百的啊……
实在是太装腔作势了，包括由大段长镜设计形成的迟缓的影像质地；旧时期人食人变成了现在的毒贩，笃信不疑的体制人面对“创伤”瞬间阳痿，结局甚至写得更干脆：他感染了。很老生常谈的现代化问题工具理性的质疑是拿来就用，用也就用块皮，就跟结尾的怪物一样，面上挂层人皮，但是人不是人是兽也不是兽。这场打斗调度也蠢爆了。
前面立意和气氛真的不错，后面结束得有点草率，略微处理的好点妥妥的五星——10.28香港中环娱乐行9:50场
PNW的天气，灯光，音乐，把气氛烘托得完美。剧情肯定经不起推敲，看着玩儿
2021了还在依靠主角智商掉线推动剧情发展。
谁说这是闪灵续集？完全不挨边，除了景色好看，这是一部非常平庸的全是被讽刺好几遍的桥段穿起来的一部烂片
这到底看了个啥？除了那个鹿魔怪物造型出来吓吓人之外，还有什么东西？看得我差点能昏睡过去，这是恐怖惊悚片？
这都是什么啊…😂 （冲着岳母喊那么多声doctor是故意的吗，让一美打这个酱油是当年的帮粉丝抓小偷梗吗
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