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".
小反转和幽默的点都很对，可细节处理得实在是一言难尽，要是带点脑子的话有些情节漏洞太大。这个剧本或许只在结构上下了功夫，一些场景的逻辑实在难说。范伟和窦骁的演技很对让片子没有太烂。但也没有什么出彩的地方，中规中矩的反转喜剧。
完成度非常高了，而且成片的多视角的来回时间线叙事使用的这很到位，但是这个底确实不够味道，前面的剧情在制造层层上升的紧张气氛，最后的底收在外卖小哥上实在对不起前面，感觉让人一泄如注，成为全片的命门，否则就是更好的佳作了，看来编剧编到这里也是黔驴技穷了。另外就是范伟的演出实在很棒。
小偷范伟为了给儿子筹钱换肾，来到了一个做了标记的房子。正在翻找时，遇到了有人回房间，一男一女。一着急被撞晕了，醒来发现女的已经死了。还以为女的是被这男的杀的，其实是那个尤老板失手杀的。还有外卖小哥，还有贩卖儿童的两具坏蛋。还有那个被困在厕所里的小网管？剧情是很反转。一开始以为是坏人的拿着打火机枪的，是好人，以为是好人的外卖小哥，才是真正的坏蛋。
叙事比较炫技，但是故事内核相对薄弱，有些地方比较刻意，水平不太行，浪费了好演员。
爆米花指数较高。完成度很高，包袱翻的也很响亮，范伟老师一如既往的优秀～ 刘翔加油！
不能说反转，叫拼图更准确一点。直播男在厕所被锁了几个小时？这个太夸张了！
最近这种结构的电影很多，不过我觉得就整个剧情，每个演员，还有电影画面，都属于最近拍的比较好的作品，不过于用力的故事也会是好故事。
独幕剧形式的小成本喜剧，不断跳切反转的人物关系与剧情走向看得人眼花缭乱，给人一种人物跟着编剧笔尖走的感觉，立不住。
故事很完整，悬疑部分也可以。只是从我知道张颂文和受害的女生不认识之后，情绪突然就掉下来了，后来好一会儿才又被吸引住。
孩子们的合唱那一幕有点震撼。摄影视角太单一了，导致不同人的角度看故事的时候重复画面很多，层层反转的快感少了好多。感觉故事情节还是有点单薄撑不起来一整部电影，不过窦骁最后黑化的时候也是蛮带感的。
这个场景选得好，诡异的圆形楼梯房很有感觉，抽丝剥茧的反转，还是挺有意思
哈哈剧情紧凑，人物一环扣一环的登场还挺有意思。拍摄手法插叙也不会突兀能看明白
再次感慨：范偉戲可太好了！戲路之逛啊！片子的編劇攝影剪輯都很讚啊 笑點控制得很好 選覺挺棒！無奈片尾竇驍的黑化反轉感覺唐突了 推冰那段感覺很蠢啊⋯
37th with Tao. ——2021.10.16 @学清路嘉华
蹩脚的的表演，拙劣的模仿，混乱的逻辑，作呕的结局，还可以更差吗？
看得出来有用心和努力，但终归了欠了一点火候，最大的问题是让观众全程几乎没有代入感，太生硬和干瘪了
其实还不错，说不上哪里好，也没有特别差的地方，悬疑反转节奏都可以，但是缺乏沉浸感或者代入感，观众也没有任何线索，可以说是本格推理一样的风格，但同样也没法把情感带入任何一个人，观众始终都是游离在电影之外的局外人，就像是坐着看别人玩了一场剧本杀。
孩子们出来的时候，眉头皱了一下，总体上是抖机灵的黑色幽默，不太该扯进些严肃沉重的元素。。
挺不错的低成本悬疑片，故事情节一环套一环最终形成闭环，人物描写已经拍摄手法都还不错，唯独文戏方面太弱了导致有些地方有些突兀，有些地方出现bug，但值得一看
典型的不知名导演和主创在剧本上下了很大的功夫的作品，能想象开了多少个都不满足的剧本会。可惜都不会回到源头问问自己，这个故事到底值不值得，观众到底会看的理由是什么。表演好不好就显得一点也不重要了。
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