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".
我承认是个不知所云的烂片，可有些桥段难免让我共鸣。毕业、人生失去目标、对一个人的执着迷恋和依赖……默默等待这些消失在人生大背景里
看的自己都要变精神分裂症了，要不是冲着雷神我才不会看
责问抑郁症患者“你有想过家人吗？”实在是太扎人了。
平淡的成长故事，的确很温柔，但确实没什么戏剧冲突，所以不免觉得无聊，尤其是男主离家去上大学以后。其实酒吧才是男主的家，每个人内心深处都有这么一个地方，过的再艰难，只要想到那里，就能够克服一切，因为他们知道自己总有归宿，知道总有人爱着自己，愿意无条件容纳自己，就像男主的妈妈总是在付不起房租的时候回到姥爷家一样，家永远是你的庇护所。本不面瘫了，还减肥了，这样温柔帅气的舅舅谁能不爱
被dy上安利过来看的，俩男演员的演技比较平庸，导致角色没共鸣，导致强烈怀疑吻戏是男主硬要加的。虽然时空错乱但中段哥哥要杀了亲妹妹丈夫想弄死亲媳妇这种心理逻辑实在不能苟同。前期摄像后期调色都没带出悬疑的feel，剧本本身绝对有潜力拍成gone girl风格。
不会游泳的男孩最后还是跳崖了
看了个寂寞，也许编剧自己都弄不明白其中的混乱了吧
虽然没有《彗星》那样烧脑，但还算数有始有终，剧本还可以复杂一些，多几个知道时空错乱的人
这种题材不适合我。电影拍的算是可以，小制作有新意，穿越来穿越去，也不知道自己在哪里。我是看不懂这些情节是否有现实意义。
3.5 剧情一般，但还是非常喜欢不停奔跑着的画面、喜欢滑板少年、烟花、摄影、喜欢北海道函馆的静谧冷清，并且喜欢奈绪。最后一场东出光脚在草里跑起来的戏也很喜欢，希望从此我们都能找到属于自己适合的道路吧。
你好。早安。午安。晚安。 你好吗 ？你好吗？我也被困在那里。
东出说，越跑感觉状态越差，好真实，纵有疾风起，也别言弃不言弃了，就听听草的沙沙回响吧。戴眼镜的奈绪太美，函馆太美。合上电脑脆弱地躺下。有段时间一边备考一边每天仰卧起坐和跑步，就像记不住的知识点，我越跑越觉得没用：今天跑了，像昨天一样，明天也瘦不下来，下周也考不出。前段时间，晚上去跑了一次步，做了一次力量训练，就觉得今天能完成这一件事，今天就是好的。现在我一动也不想动，安安静静地看完电影，关灯睡觉，梦里如果有海浪声和风吹过草的声音，那就很好。
和雄的“跨越栅栏”结尾已经十分明亮了，踏出草坪的那一刻更疯却也更自由，冲破束缚并非软弱者能作出的决定。一直以来他都是个只关注自己的人，衷心希望他永远自由，因为他很有可能就是某一个的我的缩影。而真正被遗留在世俗里的纯子，该有多孤独？迁就、忍让、小心翼翼，想找话题却毫无回音，生活琐屑里藏着她被否定的价值，于是她带着破碎的人生驶向未知。当那张脸变得毫无波澜，眼神变得静止，然后并不期待作答地问出“我们为什么会变成这样”时，是啊，我也想问佐藤泰志，是不是世界总会走向熵增，人生总会通往更糟。
前半段上大学前挺好，温暖治愈，孩子长大后剧本似乎找不到要表达什么，职场爱情社会阶级，一通表达后再生硬地往回拉。Ben这个舅舅演的挺好，但可惜后面没有连贯起来，和JR的情感表现有些断崖，人生哲学male science讲的不错。
外形挺俊朗，淡淡的忧伤。现今社会，谁还没点儿心病呢？呵呵
开头有一点点突兀，没有一个前提解释一下女主为什么这么淡定！比较老的题材了，故事不提，摄影不错
立意很好，故事很好，导演的讲述能力还要在练练！
（题外话：奈绪真美）
一个多小时的电影其实就是解释了什么是平行空间，没听过这个概念的可以看看，估计还会觉得很玄乎，其他东西就别期待了，剧情很拖沓，我用1.5倍看也完全没问题，演员的演技马马虎虎及格线吧…
感觉和《恐怖游轮》和《彗星来的那一夜》是一个套路。而且被雷劈中产生的效果和彗星降落产生效果好像也是异曲同工。虽然片子只有三位主演，但是感觉大家的演技都还是在线的。
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