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".
2021年学到的教训就是，我们没有从2020年学到任何教训。
理查德·布兰森第一个上太空的无用之人，哈哈哈，适合吃饭的时候看，时长讲究不多不少正好一个小时。
已经成为另一种类型的常驻贺岁片了。还是一如既往的套路：伪纪录片的模式，浅显直白的讽刺，荒诞卖丑的受访者，一年各类泛美流行事件的回顾。但比起前作，2021后疫情时代下的美国似乎已经更加疯狂，此情此景和《不要抬头》恰巧形成了互文：娱乐至死的个体、撕裂的社会。
这是要做成系列了吗，如果能有中国版的death to 2021就更好了。
还是挺左的，按照这个论调基本上没有弥合分裂的可能性。
以纪录片的形式做的喜剧片，也就是说，是一部伪纪录片。人物采访、解说、主持人都是演员，穿插了大量的真实镜头，主题是对2021年的抱怨
解禁，在《解禁男女》这里是一个伪命题。同是扮演「下属」角色的男女主人公不仅是平等的「同性恋」关系，还是可替换的「无性恋」关系。其实，不用等到他们「互踩」起来，从他们「一字之差」的名字和一个模子刻出来的「staff」身份也能「细品」出来。另外，开篇那场「人事调动」戏也提醒了影迷，享有支配权的「S」角色并不由被困在「M」角色当中的白领阶层扮演。这一群体在这部为「次」文化摇旗呐喊的宣传片里从始至终是被「主流化的次文化」调教的狗，感谢女主温柔又体贴的科普，最终她被《定制男友》调教成了狗的主人。主人在这套基于权力结构搭建的底层逻辑里「喜上加喜」开发了一个情趣小游戏，看似解构「指令」逻辑，实则「变本加厉」巩固、细分和优化了「字母圈」这套叙事话语。以便让都市白领毫无顾忌地投入到这段可疑的「虐恋」关系里去。
事实再次证明，2021也是个倒霉的年头。而且更加悲哀的是，在可以预见的未来，2022也只是2020too而已。
同样的段子同样的手法，再来一次就不新鲜了。
挺有趣的。真实资料+戏谑戏剧，虚实结合！不过更有趣的是，真实情况下的2021，并没有比镜头前的夸张景象减少一丝疯狂！反智的人还真是不少。。
great，用俗套的英式幽默讲点美国年度总结，好像那就是世界总结一样。
非常荒诞又是现实真正存在的事件，世界变得越来越没有理性，无脑疯狂。回看，2019年是那么的遥远
We see how ridiculous we are
death to 2020的续集，但不如前者好笑
极尽讽刺之能，很适合在这个可笑的年代，可笑的民主社会里结束2021。
从2021学到了啥？学到了很多人并没有从2020学到什么。
没有了突如其来的冲击 仍然是日复一日的人类干人类 就连吐槽都显得没有新意
5. 因为充斥色情内容 metaverse should be called me too verse
相比上一部少了些尖锐多了些人文，可能是想继续这个系列而避讳，却又本末倒置
对奥斯卡颁奖礼之类的文化现象的吐槽特别疲软无力。
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