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".
从制作质感到怀旧情怀来说都很不错，故事逻辑稍稍有点粗糙，误导从一开始“女主被埋下”就部下了，这不有点不公平。不过自始至终好好讲完了这个故事，背后绕有深意，算得上是成功了。导演编剧在耐心讲故事，这个点值得鼓励。
色调 还有每一次望向的远处都是 真的远山淡影 很舒服，但情节不要硬抠 摄像师杀人那里解释得不流畅 不算悬疑剧 但叙事的节奏和色调很搭 总体四颗星
· 镜头好看，确实有种远山淡影的朦胧感。虽然悬疑的部分不算太出彩，但浪漫至极。
感谢全体团队
摄影 剪辑没问题 配乐 演技 故事配不上 就越发的显得短板明显 看在网大的份上多给一星
要说是悬疑，那肯定是及格了，只要不加推理标签就一定是及格的。为什么是四星而不是及格的三星，私觉得女主像邓家佳，所以我就偷偷加了一星。
作为一部悬疑片，悬疑的元素设置的很多，很多细节都前后呼应，吸引人一步步寻找真相。
质感一流！！剧情略有BUG
美术、画面、光影、色彩都挺好，年代感和山水的意境都好，文艺范儿是够了。剧情节奏缓慢，拖了悬念的后腿，案情交待得零散观感欠佳，从悬疑片角度看，不是很过瘾，从文艺片看，剧情有人命怎么都有点别扭。当然整体来说还是过得去的，6.5分是有的。
下次改个标签吧，镜头拍的不错，但是算什么悬疑片，剧情太无聊了，还有，破案不是只靠一张侧写图就可以的，严谨一点。
很认真的的在讲故事，但是故事没讲圆，剧情很多地方经不起推敲。
影片给我最大的感触就是勇气，林音能为了新人选择放弃舞团头牌的位置、严华决定以另一个身份活下去、章欣在刑警和画像师之间的抉择、沈队长一心要破获这些陈年旧案、站街女要抚养可能不知道父亲是谁的孩子，事情看似平常，但平心而论，能决定如此，是需要勇气的。
陈默：低配周铁
这部电影 看完之后干的第一件事就是去搜导演 来豆瓣戏写影评 九十年代的淮川发生一起杀人案件 从上海请来画像专家来为嫌疑人画像 故事由此展开 故事又讲的很完整 画面构图又很舒服 电影调色我也超级喜欢 两个女主角的感情有很真挚 总体来说是一部瑕不掩瑜的电影 我都找不到什么词来夸他 以后会关注贺泉导演的作品 看完好电影之后 总会有一种担心 以后要是再看不到这么好的电影了怎么办 力荐
片名、节奏、色调、人物内心戏，都非常合拍，冷静中的暴力，很有观感
美术年代感营造得不好，细节各种穿帮。故事立不住，节奏也不好
影片类型姑且叫它“文艺悬疑”，那么片名上来讲，远与淡对应文艺，而山与影则应对悬疑。其实文艺与悬疑结合，不好把握，很容易不伦不类，但反过来说，处理好了，就是相辅相成。情节的悬疑和镜头的文艺并行不悖，是这片妙处。导演对镜头的把控隐约有当年老谋子的风味，而灵秀甚至局部过之，且拿捏沉稳老练。主要取景地随着镜头，像一幅氤氲的水墨山水画卷缓缓展开，美学效果出众，也映衬了迷雾般的线索。当然，情节有bug，但瑕不掩瑜。属于冷门小成本佳作。
逻辑bug挺多的，但是画面是好看的，剧情反转都在意料之中，达不到悬疑片的高度，就是剧情片。6分
不好看但是也看完了，平平淡淡，暴躁狂男领导莫名其妙的，胰腺癌晚期也不化妆的憔悴一点瘦一点，破案全靠画像师自己悟。。。。但女生跳起舞来都很漂亮，画面还是蛮有质感的
比想象中的好太多，虽然片中的文艺气息，能够瞬间将观感拉回到那个年代。但前中期的推进速度，该是稍显缓慢。
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