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".
剧本太一般，表达刻意，即便是原音配音，但效果特别不好，非常跳戏。想法很好，不同人物衬托出的疫情中不同的境况，但情节太漂浮，强硬硬来煽情，观众不傻，浪费题材浪费演员。
正如某条评论所说的，演员全员工具人。而且剧情冗长拖沓得要命，我不明白有些故事搞得那么长是为了什么？导演自己把自己感动得不行了吧？可是我只想睡觉。
很一般的片子。碎且不说，几个泪点也是故意往出挤。有些地方刻意拔高，要展现人性光辉，但搞的跟神一样乏味无趣。我们不经历，你编，还会被哄。我们经历过，你再编，就得考虑我们的智商了。
作为一个湖北人，当年经历过疫情，我肯定会把这电影看完的。老年人爱情那一段看的不是太适应，感觉太肉麻了。演员用贾玲和朱一龙两个湖北演员挺符合这部片子的意境。
很好看～有笑有泪很温暖的电影～不过分煽情也不刻意搞笑～一切都是很自然的展现～很喜欢看似毫无关联的人物线后来巧妙联系上的奇妙感～爷爷奶奶和武哥叶老师这两对真的好喜欢呀～叶老师那么美好的人怎么是那样的结局～我看完三天了还在为叶老师流泪～
家人们，建议放低期待去看，剧情没有说服力，人物不立体，看的时候没有代入感，没法真情实感，很容易从电影里面跳脱出来，剧情末尾强行催泪，为了煽情而煽情……
感动，平凡人有大爱。希望香港早日迎来春天……
有笑有泪吧，去掉高亚麟和徐帆那条线，尴尬程度能大大降低
演员和题材都不错，但是故事就差点，情感起伏弱了些
你很难说它是杰出的电影，但生活本身自有其力量
我明明记得写了影评啊，而且写的什么都还有清楚的印象，怎么却没有呢，奇怪的感觉。偏就不按印象里写啦。该片题材本是热门，但有点用力过猛，便显得该震撼的地方做作，该感动的地方尴尬。还好贾玲朱一龙cp结局的处理没有槽点。一场突如其来的疫情，打乱了世界的秩序，影响着每个人的计划，毫无征兆毫不客气，什么时候能过去又是如此的遥遥无期。幸运的是在中国，多数人懂得听指挥配合国家防疫，方能较正常的生活。期待众志成城下，疫情赶紧过去，大家可以想玩玩想约约想聚聚，多好。
1.2看的。泪点满满，现实题材特别触动人心，就像看豆友说的，导演影片的压迫感拍的一点不含糊。平常人平凡事嘛，但没有太惊喜。特别出演总是要挂掉的，像周冬雨和朱一龙。
2022.3.14我们依然在寒冬里，留下的眼泪也是因为被疫情偷走了三年，而不是电影本身。
如果后面没有那两个角色的陡然变故，这个电影可能只值1分，节奏太差了
从头开始哭，一直哭到尾，有的是伤感，有的是勾起了回忆，有的是扼腕，有的是人间的温暖。新年第一天，用这样的方式开始，珍惜身边的人，反思自己漏掉的情感，珍惜眼前的生活，一粒米，一顿饭，一句问候，一个微笑。
毫无cp感，求求了，抛开爱情不谈，这部戏在其他方面的刻画都过于浅显了，在有这么多抗疫片的当下，一部这样浅显的影片并不能带给观众多大的惊喜和触动。
这么些美好的人，是寒冬的一团火，温暖人心，让人忽略了疫情的残忍，剧情稍显单调; 朱一龙真合适叶老师的角色形象，儒雅温柔
又哭又笑。三个爆哭点，年三十晚女孩路中央手抱白菊花，琴奶奶被召回院支援，晓晓遗照。最好笑的是叶老师微信步数，真是小机灵鬼，哈哈哈哈。平常的细节最能引起共鸣，终于明白大家说导演的细腻，真的润物细无声。
可惜了这个阵容，很俗套的电影，强行制造泪点，没有很感动。
就是一个半小时可以结束的内容硬生生扯到了两个小时……
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