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".
❶温子仁的恐怖片是可怕的（更可怕的是它被删了4分钟）。尤其是看守所屠杀的有无，绝对影响剧情。删减正如片中失败的切除肿瘤的手术。
看恐怖片的经验并不多，导演一直“误导”着观众，到后段解谜时才让人恍然大悟，然而除了那个揭示谜底的镜头之外，基本上没被吓到，不过整体氛围的营造还是可以的，楼道追逐与警署大屠杀这几场戏的调度也有点意思。7
前面可真是让人昏昏欲睡，后面真相揭开后虽然又让人为之一振，但逻辑上又不自洽了。
沉浸式见鬼
7.8/10看完谁能不说一句温子仁yyds！！
3.5 真孤儿怨。揭开真相的那一刻，真是又变态又惊奇
影片开始时有一行提醒是孩子需在家长陪同下观看，但是看到这组字我就顿觉不妙，一查果然删减了四分半，而这四分半中的其中两分多钟，简直就是全剧高潮。有这两分钟，四星。没有，三星。抑制不住情绪在看守室的情感爆发，那一段的戏剧张力和刺激就反复《双瞳》被删减的大楼庙里的杀戮一样。
即使在电影院看也不刺激，很多桥段倒是有喜剧效果。温子仁的毒液+驱魔人+魔法石+异形，被部分影评人称赞的第三幕也没有什么创意。
我有多怕恐怖片，就证明这片有多不吓人，说实话，这套伏地魔、画皮2、驱魔人都早玩过了，但温子仁镜头真不错
7，成熟且目的性明确，温子仁的类型片掌控力极其扎实，在原本拿手的鬼屋恐怖的基础上，加入了非常丰富的其他恐怖片元素，铅黄、梦中杀人、心理恐怖、畸形人、杀人狂血浆，各种套路信手拈来，非常精准地调动恐怖片影迷的肾上腺素分泌。特别是第三幕爽到家的虐杀段落，那种诡异扭曲机械的动作设计风格感觉偷师了他的好基友沃纳尔拍的《升级》，畸形怪物的造型则有那么点卡朋特的《怪形》的神韵。我觉得只要是喜欢七八十年代恐怖片，是阿基多、德帕尔马、柯南伯格、卡朋特的影迷，绝对一本满足。
思路不错，故事不行，温在忙什么，没用心还是再也没有招魂12那种作品了
对一个人住大公寓有阴影了/要了命了，每到血腥情节就开始给我卡顿，一帧一帧播放，观影体验不要太沉浸
异形加鬼玩人 不能再剧透了 没有宗教的恐怖 温子仁第一次让我有点失望
太垮了，好好打磨一下做成超级英雄片倒是可以，XX侠什么玩意的？
鏡頭調度喜歡。除去女主的女性選角是照著一個模板來的嗎。Where is my mind的这版改编合适
真就应了国内引进的恐怖片不会有鬼的铁律，温导大概是想拍一部致敬对自己产生深远影响的恐怖片，整个片子从形式到内容都充满了上世纪的复古感，反派造型和手段又很cult，估计爱奇艺版本直接把片尾高潮部分剪没了，片尾的反转挺凸现女性主义的，作为母亲对失去孩子的愤怒以及作为姐姐想要保护妹妹的心切而诞生出足以扭转整个形势的力量
千万不能看引进版！千万不能看引进版！千万不能看引进版！
一定要看未删减版……警察局那3分钟实在太酷了……设定有些老套，但反关节打斗真的是无比诡异，简直想玩这样一款游戏了……
四星半，真正的“脑洞大开”，打斗场面暴力血腥，但只是团灭了群演，对主角下手并不是太狠。对惊悚画面心理把控的真好，尤其喜欢屋内的戏码
温子仁对惊吓的熟练把控让这部电影不至于沦为一部平庸的作品，只是再也找不到当年看《电锯惊魂》那样的惊喜了。
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