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".
自编自导自演，男主驼背好严重，而且感觉永远站不直🤔剧情很平淡，达妹依然美。医者难自医，更何况感情。
7 温情自然舒服的类型 大家在这里在这一刻相遇了 短暂地相爱了一下 最后又回到各自的轨迹中 达妹举手投足都是风情 卷毛弟弟太可爱了吧
一部对话流电影，自导自演的宝藏导演，直白的讲了一个要爱自己的故事。将时间、金钱、精力、感情都花在自己身上，年轻迷茫的时候，适当的have some fun也无伤大雅，谁能一下子就认清自己呢。如果像这样约好了再也不见面，那曾经一定是相当在乎的人吧。
不知道评论什么，没找到共情的点，隔靴搔痒的感觉，但是男主的演绎很棒，可以看出是一个有趣又有才华的男孩，很可爱～
淡淡的惆怅，每个人都很可爱，女主酒后笑嘻嘻含情脉脉的眼神，谁能受得了
达妹可真美啊！挺喜欢这种自编自导自演的，风格是一体的，看着舒服。
杰西·巴克利和罗里·金尼尔的表演称得上精彩。
无法共情，再也不想看到这种不痛不痒的故事拍得不痛不痒的了
Oh～～～so simple but accurate。回味是塞林格味儿的！
要素過多，總結一句就是社交牛逼症男主愛上大姐姐又失戀的故事。半大成人還是小孩，一邊幼稚一邊又很成熟。大家都很social但是關鍵時刻又很real，不戳破，破了也沒關係keep clam & make it smoth～～～男主雖然話癆但是很暖。
3.5 算是Shithouse的续集，在大学毕业后的过渡，但感觉没有上一部灵性，可能是因为着重在于剧本金句刻画~
这个男主好神奇，我的关注点全在“他演的真的不是一个gay吗？”“他的牙齿好独特！”上面，我有一半时间都在看他的牙。较深入又完整的美式追寻发现自我鸡汤片，男主突然被录用有点勉强，看演员表他还是导演和编剧诶，是我不配评头论足了。
母子 兄弟 重组家庭 自闭症 抑郁症 单亲妈妈 元素很多 什么都沾一点 但什么都没深挖 甚至只是“说一嘴”的程度 btw 导演是对soulmate有什么天大的误解吧？真的挺“自我感动”的 建议打发时间也别跳这部了吧
但老实说，并不喜欢这类故事放在一个天天派对与蹦迪的环境。不过喜欢最后的结尾部分，并不是所有感情的最后都能以坦然释怀、平静告别的方式结束，这是可贵的，尽管这依然充满痛苦不舍。
男主自导自演的小成本治愈系小品电影 免不了平淡 免不了话痨 免不了无趣 在此时此刻抱着猎奇心理看这样一部新电影 收获和期待不成正比 但拍得再廉价 剧作也在克制之下显出了一些心思
so so so so boring~~~~~
《男人》2022年科幻恐怖类型电影的一部佳作！
圣丹斯版老美青年成长教育片，虽然没get到片名几个意思但是帅哥男主在多个情景和身份之间的转换（包括但不限于好姐妹兼炮友，贵妇的宠物情人，暖男，自闭症少女保姆，快餐店店员，派对暖场dj等）确实挺丝滑的。
真就取向狙击了！人物、故事、尺度全都正中下怀。这个自编自导自演的库铂将来一定大有所为，保留1星给将来。之前没觉得达妹特别，但这部真的魅力轰炸了，可太smooth了。
婚姻关系是什么，这个话题可以有无数作品去乐此不疲地探讨。domino和andrew的感情实际探讨的是婚姻关系的本质。domino之前婚姻生女后被抛弃改变了自己对婚姻关系的看法，于是认为婚姻的本质是为了有一个commitment，而不是soulmate。这还有andrew的妈妈与继父这条线来印证，另外andrew弟弟初吻的爱情萌芽故事线也和commitment关系对照。
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