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".
尼古拉斯·凯奇扮演尼古拉斯·凯奇，对影迷来说一些梗和细节值得玩味，整个故事游离在虚构与现实之间，挺有趣的。关于电影中与内心另一个人格自我对话的部分摘掉或许更好，另外佩德罗·帕斯卡也很加分，甚至比凯奇还符合这部电影的基调。
依然只是一部小制作片子，凯奇什么时候能接一部正常的大片啊，这么好的演技可惜了
凯奇终于拍了一部能够表现他本身演技的好电影啦～影中影的创作模式还是挺有趣的～而且剧情也非常感人！！很喜欢这种温馨的感觉～
尽管凯奇在片中吐槽好莱坞式俗套，但本片的主线就相当俗套。
有点早年的尼古拉斯凯奇作品味道了，也算是一种演员与自己过往的和解方式，用一部电影致敬过去，有点浪漫。
对我来说凯奇的滤镜不如Barney啊哈哈哈哈哈
凯奇近年来最正式的电影，中年演员的危机，但也并没有那么惊艳，凯奇想要翻盘，必须去演欧洲文艺电影在戛纳获奖，否则跳不出商业片过期演员的魔咒，电影本身就是一部能够看得懂的凯奇好莱坞往事，比昆汀的好莱坞往事要好看，昆汀拍那玩意想走文艺路线，但拍不出老无所依的感觉，结果是画虎不成，观众不知道看什么，一切都像戏中戏的感觉，什么也连贯不起来，而这部好莱坞往事就比较连贯，尽管没拍好莱坞，但是每个点都在说好莱坞曾经的辉煌，这个剧情出了家庭和危机之外的套路，也是好莱坞经典套路，还可以吧。
过于粉丝向，让凯奇自己演自己，破次元地对当初拍出不少优秀作品的年轻凯奇致敬，所呈现出来的效果的确不差，至少《疯狂原始人2》那段成功把我逗笑了。同时毛病也非常大，前半段对“非凯奇不可，凯奇独一无二”的一切铺垫，我在后半段的犯罪戏里完全没有看到。凯奇化个妆，就像《魔幻时刻》的设定一样打算凭借演员的实力去欺骗反派，结果没几分钟凯奇的伪装就被识破了。这段冗长的犯罪戏极其难看，跟整部电影的主题完全对不上，是脱节的。在这里面我没有见识到凯奇炉火纯青的演技，有的仅仅是对今非昔比的自嘲罢了。
一部讲述了两个坚强敏感的男人和他们之间不可思议的友情的故事。尽管有点闷。凯奇已经很久没拍过高于六分的片了，演自己挺有意思，片中还亲自吐槽了自己烂片之王的称号。哈维科波拉，还带上了凯奇的本名，还好他是好人，两位演员我都挺喜欢。
剧本的锅，前提没给足，导致后面的翻都缺乏真正的力量只剩调笑了，若说是主打自我消费又远未尽兴；“她甚至以为亨弗莱鲍嘉是个色情片明星”
当尼古拉斯凯奇扮演自己的时候，他不再是那个刀枪不入的英雄，而是一个过期的老演员！
7.5分。电影7分+0.5的情怀。整部电影就是献给Nicolas Cage的情书，你觉得有多真实，那电影就有多真实~~各种有趣细节和自我吐槽，看得真是有点笑中带泪得感觉。Cage就是那种你觉得他已经没救了，只会拍烂片的时候，突然会有那么部还算过得去的片子出来，让你想起这位可是奥斯卡影帝啊~~这次的表演也是相当让人喜欢，不同状态间的转换非常漂亮，那声“ACTION”真的笑喷了~~~希望他这次真的能翻身，60岁不到还不算老啊~~~
中年危机电影，尼古拉斯凯奇：虽然过气了 但是我会重回巅峰的
戏中戏中戏..影迷的情怀迷影的情怀 电影之于大众是娱乐 对于真正的演员而言不过也是份职业 改名成名烂片堆里打滚 有没有第二春可能已经不那么重要了 希望以后可以出演自己中意的角色吧
凯奇致敬凯奇的片子，前半段很吸引人，后面回归平庸。凯奇这么多年一直在演烂片确实不假，但62年的阿汤哥，63年的德普，65年的小罗伯特唐尼最近出了小罗伯特因为钢铁侠进入漫威宇宙还算成功以外，其他几人也没法维持高产和高水平了。所以凯奇其实还是那个凯奇，演技并没有严重退化，但好莱坞已经不是80年代90年代的好莱坞了……
戏中戏中戏中戏，这是我过去两年里在电影院笑得最开心的2个小时。这片子是个值得多看几遍的喜剧，或者我也不知道该怎么分类了，因为揉杂了各种电影体裁，剧情、冒险、悬疑、情感、家庭、喜剧、戏剧却不会显得不伦不类。凯奇和佩德罗俩人疯狂飚戏，好喜欢
故事本身非常一般 但套在这个设定里就显得很有创意了
又扯淡又好玩。尼古拉斯凯奇好可爱哈哈哈哈哈哈
讲真有点失望，以为会是疯狂的洒狗血用烂梗来调侃自己，结果有趣的部分其实并没有想象中多，几乎预告片里全都剪进去了。其余的部分优点四不像，也不知道是要表达温情还是想做什么。剧情本身是极不合理的，属于仍需打磨，目前的成品质量放到喜剧片的架构里还是有很多问题。
剧本的锅，前提没给足，导致后面的翻都缺乏真正的力量只剩调笑了，若说是主打自我消费又远未尽兴；“她甚至以为亨弗莱鲍嘉是个色情片明星”
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