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".
满屏的美好，尽在那空气中的尴尬。高考生第一次不用30+大哥大姐演少年，爱情片第一次对准直女与隐柜，青春片第一次不写双向奔赴后有缘无份。暗恋者不做作，被造谣者不叽歪，拒绝欲盖弥彰的矫情，大大方方联手对抗世界与规则。母女戏太好了，琐碎平凡，生动随性。郝蕾塑造了一个极接地气的妈妈，你几乎能想到她的一生，在没有女儿的时空里多么真我多么倔强，终于不用苦哈哈独自抽烟了。每一场戏的功能和氛围把握精准，该笑笑，该哭哭，该怼怼，该爽爽，陈正道全面到可怕。剧情前期老师骚操作观感奇妙，又像外国电影，又像扯淡国剧，但是奇奇怪怪不让人出戏生厌。电影必须浪漫，盛夏才有未来。最完美的人物是海南水果王，身为朴素的工具人，却善良坚韧，温柔贤淑，还好用，还好吃。张子枫妹妹的奇怪口音吐字有必要练下了。过审上映不易！
另外，电影把电子音乐和电影节带进了大众视野。
95'或许，我们都应该学会接受喜欢的人不一定喜欢自己吧
啊，青春真好，爱情和性别无关。弟弟和子枫都长开了，how pay！三石弟弟这么帅（尽管是抱着帮朋友的态度所以在交往里显得尤为真挚），哪个十七八（或者二十七八）的女孩子受得住😂 。以及看字幕，一直“她”都用的MING而不是“SHE”就大概能猜到剧情走向。ps. 又有郝蕾和祖峰，从隔壁八角亭转过来又看到他们，www
喜欢很自然的情节段落，弹琴唱歌那段简直像即兴发挥。像《蓝色大门》，吴磊哭泣的样子有点像邱泽
?我竟然没看懂?不管了，ming可以拼成明，我的名字里有明，四舍五入吴磊喜欢我我拒绝了他，最强王者是我。就这样。
国产青春片清流了，生动诠释“青春片不和青少年恋爱那点破事较劲之后会有多广阔的空间”。主题词是“接纳”。吴磊花期快过了演技也马马虎虎，但帅。张子枫太抬戏了，快给她发奖！结构很像《壁花少年》，五月天的歌声响起，陈正道算是初心不改。
学渣+富家子+电音DJ小网红，为见对象高考弃考，复读。
PS：本人对CLUB毫无好感，甚至被列入到一辈子都不会去的地方名列里。
不过由于这部被爆出有隐晦BL成分，所以想要去一探究竟
天啊，无敌难看，如坐针毡!难以置信现在还有人拍这种电影，第一次觉得电影票血亏。
NBA粉丝必看，客串的球星太多了，詹姆斯客串一下会更有趣！剧情其实很老套，但由于对NBA的了解，让这片的励志显得更加熟悉。比较尴尬的是''Bo Cruz''后来在凯尔特人没能打出成绩，打了18场比赛后就被交易了，这个赛季也是各种流浪，如果结尾加盟的是埃尔南戈麦斯的第一支球队掘金可能还好点。爱德华兹演得真是坏啊！p.s. 本来是想拍来中国寻找一个草根球员的，但由于种种原因改成了西班牙，也是非常可惜。
3.5/5，和张子枫主演的《新年好》一样，演员和故事都不错，但故事本身的一些设定离大家的生活太远，再真实些就好了。
NBA粉丝必看，客串的球星太多了，詹姆斯客串一下会更有趣！剧情其实很老套，但由于对NBA的了解，让这片的励志显得更加熟悉。比较尴尬的是''Bo Cruz''后来在凯尔特人没能打出成绩，打了18场比赛后就被交易了，这个赛季也是各种流浪，如果结尾加盟的是埃尔南戈麦斯的第一支球队掘金可能还好点。爱德华兹演得真是坏啊！p.s. 本来是想拍来中国寻找一个草根球员的，但由于种种原因改成了西班牙，也是非常可惜。
这部影片没有青春片的特点，但全是青春。太不一样了，很惊喜
延续了台湾青春片的清流气质，片名也致敬了《盛夏光年》。用真诚和勇敢构建起了内地近年最好的青春电影。没正经八百看过张子枫演戏，但是在这部里的表现实在是太自然了，让人刮目相看。和吴磊弹唱《拥抱》一段，甚至超越他们后来的一吻，有种即兴发挥的真实美好感。陈正道回归到了自己熟悉的领域，用丰盈的感情证明了徒有躯壳的《秘密访客》只是一个意外。想要传递信息没问题，前提是它得是好的作品，否则就变成了理念先行。
前半段校园生活蛮真实的，那些同学间的起哄，非常班主任的班主任，暗恋暧昧的小心思。中间电音part的节奏有点垮。要学会接受喜欢的人不喜欢自己，接受父母的分开，接受失去和遗憾，然后成长。
跟自身经历太过相似，5星打的并不客观。我想人永远不会忘记那个时候喜欢过的人吧。
听闻有LGBT的突破特地前来鉴赏，其实少年人的性向这件事更多是被陈正道当作一个工具悬疑梗，它的存在更多是为了打破内地青春片桎梏的商业服务。但是二人黏糊在一块的动机完全就不合逻辑。不过陈导兴许留了一些蛛丝马迹给观众去猜，比如吴磊的爸爸到底是亲爸还是干爹为何眼神和行为模式那么蹊跷。算是GET到了吴磊的初恋脸。算是鉴证了历史，鉴证了郝蕾从十七岁不哭的高中生演成了高中生的妈妈，成年人角色里当仁不让的门面，几场和孩子的对手戏都特别让人佩服，总算看到一个不是脸谱化的家长了。虽然各种毛病但是自己也算在立秋的第一天蹭了一场电音节吧，突然就很想去看一场LIVE。“如果你喜欢的人也刚好喜欢你，现在就是未来。”发现自己真的和年轻人有壁了。
配乐有点对味口~
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