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".
把恐怖和色情揉在一起拍还是蛮聪明的，但算不上创新。看完觉得有点不舒服，甚至有些悲哀。（可见还是不够吓人，我坐在那甚至开始思考老了该咋办……）
故事非常垮，前面努力铺垫半天，越到后面越起不来，要人物也是没人物，连男主张涵予都支愣不起来，最后点烟凹造型之流最让人头大，范伟靠个人特色抢了不少戏，但这个人物转变没说服力，突然觉醒扔手榴弹也太突兀了。
血腥与色情并存，如果再加个傻儿子，活脱脱《德州电锯》的场景。不过也告诉我们一个重要点：在美国，没事别乱窜门，在别人家里被爆头，那是无罪的，正当防卫。
就把山东拍得跟东北一样，天天下雪。不飘雪还拍不成电影了这是？
7.0/10，用最原始复古的手法，把黄与红两种来自身体气息的颜色混和，搭建一场性猎杀，诱发对身体机能衰老和青春欲望以及神之信仰的一系列偏锋论道。Cult就完事了。
网大的制作水准，电视剧的用镜 可惜了范伟老师影帝级别的表演
听说影片中拍摄的色情片是真实存在的，我去，这就有点诡异了
制作和摄影精良，全面商业化的桥段和人物，但丢了《铁道游击队》好好讲故事的朴实。
范伟真好呀，让张涵予显得单一，以及他那帽子是焊在头上了吗
氛围其实营造得还不错，但是前面铺垫太久，后面也没有特别烘托起高潮
看看挤挤时间再去微山湖
【2.0】又俗又无聊，也就靠jump scare吓吓人。
I don’t want to be horny anymore. I want to be happy. 谢谢你，A24
2个扣分点。1是因为剧情雪景夜景很多，不知是打光还是滤镜问题，看着我眼睛疼，人林海雪原也没这样。2小护士去报信时已经被监视了，怎么就突然安全跑出来，还直接参与入党宣誓仪式现场，从涵予叔受伤时和她的对话可知，之前不是组织的人，加入得是不是太快了？缺乏铺垫。还有诸如范伟老师和小煤工二三事之类的情节，真的，从范老师对他莫名要喊爹的执拗开始，就猜到了接下来会发生什么，结局一点也不意外。怪不得大家觉得节奏不行，对于可预知的剧情走向，大家想要的是赶紧看完，而不是被过多的纯审美式装逼式镜头消耗了耐心。
最最常见的美式恐怖片元素还能拍出新意，直到影片最后一句台词还能让你叫绝
片头幻灯片的背景介绍仿佛是大家常规主旋律汇报ppt。影片会感觉铺垫过久，意图是好的，但没做好。关键铺垫的点都没铺垫上，在矛盾的推进过程中基本就重复推进，主线人物劫车，反派布防，各走各的线，只是时间在推进，铺垫的的生涩，导演的意图是很好的，但功力不太够。在塑造人物方面，主人公像是在执行任务的工具人，而不是活灵活现的人，生活细节并没有让撑起人物的性格，导致主线人物功能性占比过大，人物缺少灵魂。场景的风格和故事也不太搭，有些风格化过度了，例如火车站的风雪场景，有点奇幻了，这样让故事仿佛是发生在一个特定虚构场景。有点可惜范老师的表演了，很多人物的戏剧动作都让人物减分了。类型片不见得要把人物类型到脸谱化，好的类型片人物一定都是“活”的。导演继续努力。
铁道间谍们反侵略的生死火拼。这部影片的票房失利，我猜也许因为《铁道游击队》这个红色经典IP太深入人心，造成了观众的刻板印象，所以可能让很多人对这部影片没有兴趣；或者是因为在这个题材方面，观众已经被成龙的《铁道飞虎》伤害了一次，所以期望太高失望太大。但不管是什么原因，这部影片的节奏、以及动作戏都表现不是很好，只有几场文戏还算有些亮点，我想导演更适合拍纪录片。整部片节奏太拖沓、头重脚轻，前面铺垫那么长的人物，最后决战的动作戏就是像美国西部牛仔那种一枪决斗就完事了，没有酣畅淋漓的对决场面，最重要的是让观众的情绪无处安放，像泄气的气球。这也许是合格的故事片，但不是合格的商业片，最后一查发现导演似乎还是个新导演，好像没有拍过几部作品。
现在抗战片这都是啥节奏…照着电视剧拍吗…除了范伟cut没啥好看的
国内好多导演是不是觉得把片子拍得时间越长就越好啊？
全片最好的是摄影，全片第二好的是老王范伟给小鬼子讲的那个故事：我给你个贼讲故事！讲你奶奶个腿啊！
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