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".
20211202居然是新冠背景下的片子 怪不得一来气氛就烘托得特别温馨/没有物资 英国政府 护理院 S级难度拉满 跟灾难片一样了…/女主带Tony出逃 是想用自己的方法去拯救另一个人 但是怎么说…太出格了 搁现实里出格 搁片里也出格…/这部片里的英音好难听…
4星半 要是不涉及某些政治元素与愤懑 可以打5星了 由小及大 由点及面的佳作
该电影讲述了全球疫情灾难期间英国🇬🇧一家护理院的日常生活情况。
1.电影并不是抗疫的主题，新冠只是背景，表现的还是人。
nobody is coming.医疗体系崩溃真是太绝望了
Jodie 可太能演了/角度选得不错 但不是很理解负责人的人设崩塌
在经历了那些国家主旋律电影的情绪轰炸，以及极其粗制滥造的电影制作与电影技法强暴后。这90分钟的影像使我的情绪得到了格外的释放。浅焦影像的特写捕捉出了人物细小的情绪与长镜头下完整的人物状态都使我获得了美妙的观影愉悦感。相比那些电影之下，这些影像中的悲伤愤怒或喜悦都显得无比舒缓与平静。因此，那些粗制滥造给我带来的悲伤与愤怒，也在这90分钟里得到了舒缓的释放。
“没人来吗”“是的” 一部抗疫的电影都没看过，但我们自己拍的一定强调格局。这部片格局就在养老院这个被最先抛弃的边缘，英国这种做法一直都被喷只不过这部最后喊了话，而且就差把首相名字加上了。朱迪科莫那段像纪录片一样的部分确实很厉害，大家都是想活下来，为啥还要分个高低贵贱呢
7.9三星半，感觉很复杂，一方面觉得片子说的这事真的很有深度，另一方面又觉得这个故事太简单剧情太空。个人对抗体制完全无解，甚至连呻吟都叫不出来。大英这群体免疫真的是坑死这些弱势群体了，甚至可以怀疑是政府故意的，清理这些所谓低端无价值的人口，哎，苦了这些护工真的关心弱势群体的人了。
A solid 8. 除了飞越疯人院情节稍微突然，关于新冠的以小见大和绝望拍的真好
关于新冠题材，其他任何宏大叙事和英雄主义都去他的吧。
后三十分钟的剧本太过潦草突兀，直接削弱了整部电影的感染力，很可惜
国内应该引进这部啊，多好的宣传:NHS就是屎，CCP天下无敌！
二十多分钟的一镜到底演一个慌乱的救护夜晚 jodie拿捏得死死的 jodie适合演这种有点疯有点极端的角色 虽然最后结尾某句台词实在是太夹带政治私货了 影片立意蛮好的 有些话咱也不敢说咱也不敢问
7.9三星半，感觉很复杂，一方面觉得片子说的这事真的很有深度，另一方面又觉得这个故事太简单剧情太空。个人对抗体制完全无解，甚至连呻吟都叫不出来。大英这群体免疫真的是坑死这些弱势群体了，甚至可以怀疑是政府故意的，清理这些所谓低端无价值的人口，哎，苦了这些护工真的关心弱势群体的人了。
感觉结尾是个败笔、、配乐很会渲染气氛。朱迪科默的演技好不错
但是好美，好喜欢她侧对着他不敢放声哭的那一段
艰难又勉强的看了个大概，因为朱迪科默永远定格在KE里了，斯蒂芬格拉汉姆又似乎还在浴血黑帮里…害。
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91/100。我最初是冲着利物浦和啾迪来的，啾迪果然没有让我失望，片中也有很多与利物浦（足球俱乐部）相关的台词和服饰。（啾迪饰演的角色是埃弗顿球迷，难道她是埃弗顿球迷吗！）不过抛开这些不谈，这部电影也绝对是一部值得五星的片子。这是我看过的第一部有关新冠疫情的电影，我也大受震撼。影片真实地反映了新冠疫情下的英国，真实得让观众很容易代入进去，尤其是中间的长镜头让人窒息。灯光的运用、镜头的聚焦也独具匠心。另外感情线的安排我也觉得没有问题，男主很明显是一见钟情，通过女主的家境和经历也能看出她多么珍惜一个好人。结尾的安排巧妙而不落俗套。很开心我能有幸看到这么一部电影。
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