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".
熟人真多狼叔瑞贝卡吴彦祖加西部世界的老鸨和接待员（其中有一段她梳头的镜头，那是一摸一样啊hh），格局确实小了，披着科幻皮的爱情片，还有听到彦祖在说英文台词中夹杂着中文的感觉确实有点违和hh，就和一些人喜欢在说中文时夹杂着几个英文单词一样
彦祖，你这个中英夹杂真的很土!you poor 龟孙子真的很出戏。这个故事在推理过程中反转不断，尽管线索感觉很乱但也处于好看的程度，反而是尼克和梅极度不真实却又花了大量篇幅突出的爱情显得尴尬，特别是梅的角色设定拉低了影片水平，到最后她还真是是爱情真是好人实在是太失望了吧……对不起狼叔真心实意的好表演。
场景设计的不错，但是这个故事到底讲了个什么？
2分电影，为瑞贝卡的美貌+1星，如果不是狼叔和她这片子很难让你看下去。能看出来导演的想法很好，但是就是太小气、太年轻，还有就是女导演的通病：太细腻，什么都想拍一点，容易沉浸在自我感动之中。当然不是没有优点，里面的台词非常值得回味，狼叔和瑞贝卡在阳台那一段对白我很难忘怀，这就是女导演的优势，能够细致的表达情感。
吴彦祖着中英掺杂有点狗，但女主美，男主帅可惜没有美好结局，或者这也是个美好结局。
帅哥吴彦祖演了个啥🙃
很令人失望的呈现，悬疑不够爱情来凑，那狼叔和弗格森也不来电啊！丽莎乔伊想撒狗血那为什么她的镜头语言不能再唯美一点？最后强行诺兰家族梦境哲学拷问，现实那么残破&&是不是愿意在美梦中不再醒来……（乔伊这个导演长片处女作证明了制片人和自编自导距离还是很大的）
世界观挺新颖，但反反复复情情爱爱，不但没有感人，反而让人觉得乏善可陈。缓慢而无聊。
整个时空背景设计，演员阵容起点都不低，可惜就是片子看得怎么都不给劲。就是那种你明知道故事线在玩噱头，就想着好吧，看你给我什么惊喜，然后就真没什么惊喜那种。
影片真心不太行，角色全员降智，动机成迷，一直在靠着演员支撑。故事有个非常大的背景，但完全真沦为了背景板，海洋侵入陆地，官商与民众的关系，这些内容基本上都在给男女主的爱情让路，最后的缉凶也毫无亮点。影片还给了个高概念，通过仪器达到五感的记忆回溯，原本以为影片会像《少数派报告》一样，通过记忆中的层层细节，不断的推导出事实真相，结果只是通过不断看别人记忆，以双线叙事方式交代女主过往，悬疑度和解谜快感全无，也特别不能理解，为何男主看了女主一眼就能爱得死去活来，对身边那么好的女助手视而不见。男主的行为也特别不能理解，明知危险，还经常去送人头，要靠女助手救，反派也要绕那么一大圈偷东西，好尴尬啊。最后那场被修改的俄尔普斯神话，点明了主题，这就是一场得不到的爱情。另，吴彦祖太客串了，去掉这条线也不影响故事。
怎么说呢？确实很迷，节奏奇怪。但算是讲了一个完整爱情故事。
故事偏情感文艺多点，很平静地在讲故事。
味同嚼蜡.演员CP不足,故事驱动性不足.背景空成摆设
男主遇见梅之后一见钟情也情有可原，毕竟女主弗格森太美太魅了。全片个人感觉没有评分那么低，倒是很喜欢这个味道，，那种节奏不快的黑色电影，主角内心独白经常回响在画外音里，还有个蛇蝎美人。让我想起了《罪恶之城》，还莫名想起《移魂都市》，可能都是跟记忆有关的都市科幻吧。也算是科幻外衣的侦探片吧，到后面还被深深感动到了。
马戏之王 II ， 米歇尔威廉姆斯不要面子的吗
3.5星，末世的背景，悬疑的爱情故事，剧本引人入胜，爱如火焰，可以温暖你我，也可灼烧殆尽
Rebecca Ferguson的嗓音和造型真是惊艳。狼叔真痴情。阿祖演的可以！！！
有趣的末世设定，却套着无脑恋爱剧情，真是亏了这主演阵容了
我觉得很好看，起码在2021年9月这个时间点，不论是大片还是小片，都没有能看的。
最不能容忍的是“金刚狼”h居然要女人一次次的拯救他。
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