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".
youtube上找到了稍微清晰一些的资源，跟那个时代的台湾电影一样，聚焦社会和流氓帮派斗争。迟缓的旁白，静态的画框长镜头，一切都太过侯孝贤。平行时空下另一种可能的小马覃志刚依然是本色出演。片子的音乐实在是太多惊喜：1看到了年轻的林强和唱台语版皇后大道的罗大佑2两人同台表演3当年还是吴俊霖的伍佰，同名主题曲的歌声作为背景音贯穿全片。
音乐真的太棒了，纽约首映片尾字幕除了导演只有作曲出现的时候全场掌声雷动。
2022年5月5日，GV Suntec。 音乐好听，剧情不太投入，我还是很困😭 现在工作日不适合看电影
放硬盘里一年了才看，黑帮片+分，悲剧+分，颜正国+分。
画面真的好看，配乐好赞！
现在台湾已经没有这么江湖和生猛的片子了。当然，可能跟现实社会的转变也有关系吧，治安整体变好了，没有那些兄弟情，更多的是关注现代生活中的困境。但那时候的江湖往事就是这种年轻荷尔蒙的爆发，不管不顾，没有将来，这也是侯导口中家常的故事吧。小的时候特别讨厌闽南语歌曲，现在感觉特别亲切，就喜欢这种讲着闽南语，听着闽南语歌的年轻，虽然我也不是混混，但身边也有这样的朋友（当然没有那样的枪支混乱），太接地气了，也是一个时代的特别的青春片吧。
尽管我也有孩子，但还是觉得各方面都有一丢丢的令人费解……音乐不错但电影看着真的好累😔
两天过去了。如果冷静的剪一星我觉得就缺在母女关系上，毕竟我也是抱着这个期待去看的。当然有预设不是好事，剧本拿了柏林也算是对Maggie的一种认可。Olivia Colman和Jessie真的功不可没，演得太好了。很多人都觉得Maggie的把控飞了，但是我看的到她的努力。她已经做得很好了，为她骄傲。我身边有一个女朋友就是不怎么喜欢自己孩子的“后悔的母亲”。在此之前我不太相信有这样的存在。可是电影里的三个妈妈的每一个反应每一个情绪我都无比清楚。至于说是只拍给母亲看的电影的人，浅薄到令人不可置信。那你为啥去看科幻呢？你又不是科学家。
扣曼演得实在太好了，浑然天成，毫无表演痕迹。
画质感人啊 没妈老汉管的孩子就是容易玩火 侯孝贤味儿浓烈
女主这种脸型就是不显年轻的类型，而且手臂肌肉松弛的象六十多岁的，她怎么好意思强扭成年纪反差观的？看的替她尴尬死了
Flashback和現時的剪輯銜接處理瑕疵明顯，造成觀影時情緒氛圍斷裂 : 一邊是現時的詭異，一邊是往昔的憾恨，兩邊無解的意識流堆疊。(交叉點: 洋娃娃還給對方，試圖勸誡他人的人生與療癒自己。)
奇幻影展30周年數位修復首映丨顏正國和譚志剛，兩個衝動的少年組合，一種台版《小教父》既視感，數位修復狀況非常好，香港8、90年代一堆黑幫片代表作，但是代表台灣的少之又少，本片是正好可以代表台灣的經典黑幫片，雖然對故事頗無感，但是風土味很對位，能看到30年前的西門町也是別有一番風味。歹路不好走，走了出事了也只能認命，顏正國戲裡戲外竟跟這部片劃上等號；30年前的高捷對比現在差異不大，已經從小大哥變成老大哥了XD。侯導來拍應該會更文藝些，但是鏡頭語言跟徐小明拍的不會差太遠，開場的長鏡頭處理的太好了，鏡頭都用的頗克制，另外也滿意外陳國富是策劃本片的人之一，7月會重映，如果想涉獵台灣早期黑幫片，不能錯過。
C-. 简单的故事，幽微的情感，却完成得捉襟见肘而一地鸡毛。科尔曼游荡，科尔曼崩溃，科尔曼回忆，再用看似压迫实际毫无情感意义的特写镜头串起来，就成了本片。希望导演们能明白，表达微妙复杂的情绪，不是要全程怼着脸才能拍的。
比较内伤的母亲影片。先是孩子失踪，孩子哭闹的背景音，孩子打妈妈，然后各种出轨，夫妻吵架。又一人独行，内心愧疚，自我检讨。可能是对失败人生的独自悔悟吧！小音乐还行，拍的也算过关。吉伦哈尔的首部作品即获得26个奖项85项提名，感觉捧得有点高。6.4
罗大佑和林强表演皇后大道东那一段很high哈哈，台北版小武（比贾樟柯的还早），电影版一佰万（和新宝康乐队同一年），配乐也不错！
3.5 女性应该拍电影的原因之一。近距离手持在亲密和共情中切入神经质的焦虑，娃娃与女儿如同定时炸弹。男人存在，却是静立远观的背景板、无用的安慰剂，和举止张狂的威胁。非常期待Maggie未来的作品。
然后同期的港产黑帮片真的秒杀台语片
孩子，没事的，一切过不去的都会过去
偷娃娃，清理娃娃时候的虫子着实有点让人不适！最后我们还是忠于自己吧。新年第一部不婚不育的电影，这女的是不是有什么精神疾病？？
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