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".
当剧情设定和人物逻辑充满槽点的时候，你就很难再对里面的煽情部分共情起来了。
整体剧情和《美丽的世界》有点像，最后一次反转让人窒息
调色小清新 就当清纯恋爱片看看
蓝问的那个问题就是电影想表达的主旨吧
两星半，三星其实也ok。尽管去掉了很多支线情节，但影片前半程节奏还是很赶，根源在于原著体量太大，迷你剧的形式或许更适合这个故事。最后选择以探寻佛头的过程为主线，算是做了合理的商业性取舍。郭子健是很勤劳那类导演，很多特效场面本不一定非要拍摄，但增加之后视觉上更丰富，也更符合类型片法则。后半程节奏略显松散，为葛优设计的煽情段落有些刻意，但算不上什么大毛病。雷佳音和辛芷蕾都挺不错，尤其辛芷蕾在男人戏里完全不小家子气，很有个性，两个人演商业片很有一套。葛优戏份不算多，工具性出场几次。咏梅角色好有趣。李现意外的有进步，虽然大场面对手戏提升空间还比较大。本片的票房前景很不错。
观影的门槛如果是以读原著这种作为前提，那么它就是一部失败的烂片罢了。
辛芷蕾推开会场的门说：“佛头在这。”您说的是自己的“佛像脸”吧～
“我和你，永远永远都会是最好的朋友。”以朋友之名，将爱意藏于心中，还可以一直保有爱情。可能这也是很多现实无奈下最好的办法吧。
郭子健的中二病沒藥醫了⋯另外有錢做三維沒錢打燈嗎？英皇對青一塊紫一塊的雜色作何感想？
呜呜和你朋友一起反抗啊，二对三是可以的呜呜呜——不要把爆发出来的情绪宣泄给一直对你好的朋友啊呜呜呜呜——
wuli大叔又是演一个苦情阿布吉，还很憋屈，不管多大多小的角色还是要给薛景求打call，最后那个眼神绝了。
终于开始从前面的市场冷淡期中感到一丝丝暖意…
但相信很多观众没法理解的是，那人为什么要把国宝交给一个日本人，日本人要是不还回来可怎么办，毕竟“余秋雨笔下的王道士”才是当下时代的正统论定。
最后的反转有点没想到，如果当庭辩护再精彩一点就好了，当然可能本来也不是为了重点表达辩护。
最后的反转有点没想到，如果当庭辩护再精彩一点就好了，当然可能本来也不是为了重点表达辩护。
设定还行 故事节奏有点拖沓 最后的反转真的绝了 薛景求演技加分
韩国现在校园暴力问题很火，本片精彩的在后面，一步一步交代绝不在前面露出一点线索，确实，比起那三个施暴的孩子，律师的孩子更坏，人性的劣根性最后表现无疑，孩子像爸爸。
也想过学电影，拍出我记忆里的那些点点滴滴 就像片中那样的青涩 甜蜜 纠结 混乱
屎忽剧本蠢得我眼睛要流血，一星给吴达洙以外的主演。薛你好美。
无论奉之帝王朝堂，还是藏于济公庙宇，佛皆用善念渡劫世人。无论身居五脉之首，还是统领朝奉之业，人都因贪念劫掠古物。佛不论抱身还是法身，人不论外寇还是内盗，无论鹿走苏台的王朝，还是鱼沉雁杳的父亲，无论张僧繇的画，还是宝志和尚的皮，都指向那尊玉佛头。那佛守住几代的功德，笑看世人的贪婪。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
