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".
三星半，不像前傳的「前傳」。視覺是懷舊的，語境是現代的，但時代元素、借古鑑今的連結度實在弱。關於Tony是怎樣煉成的，亦只是蜻蜓點水。本片最大的作用，可能就是叫觀眾再看一次昔日神劇。
故事不幸没讲好，另外正传里面全是黑炭ditzoon,黑茄子melanzane这种词汇，怎么前传就合作了呢？另外黑帮之间很少倾轧，令人难以置信。
故事还挺有意思的，有种当年看无头骑士的感觉。小说家比起推理剧情，更像是把所有零碎信息串起来的一根线。缺点就是留白部分太多了，导致人物行为莫名其妙的，不知道他的动机是啥
纯粹因为情怀看的，电影本身仿佛一集零散的电视剧
很写实的一部救援片，加入两个人的相互救赎，在巍峨壮丽的雪山背景之下，异常温情。
没看过剧，做一对这个电影，看的有点丈三的和尚——摸不着头脑、、、毕竟已经不是冷兵器时代了，黑道出门怎么都这么随性？大佬们一言不合就搞事情啊？这道上的规矩，可越来越不像话了呀。
这电影1个半小时，救人一天的时间。
2.5⭐，因为風ポン很帅加半⭐，演技和人设确实整容了，喜欢一些斯文变态❤️
Dick和叔叔的对话是真实存在的还是幻想出来的 充满了禅意 算是亮点 电影里最恐怖的就是小男孩长大以后那张脸 那老大 还毫无演技 简直是没眼看 最喜欢的是dick的后妈兼小三 太美了
没那么差，不过的确作为电影缺乏重心其实更应该拍成迷你剧。电影有点两线发展的感觉，但tony那条线很散而且刻画的不是很好比如罚叔演的他爸感觉就没多少描写或者说就是一个普通黑帮，他妈的确演的不错挺让人联想到剧集里那个疯癫母亲不过T和男主也就是克里斯托弗父亲的联系多少有点少表现的没有那种重要时刻，不过怎么说他俩的确有点像一种人包括男主去监狱看望叔叔多少有点T看心理医生的感觉，不过这个男主怎么说比T讨厌不少可能也是刻画的还是不够不过演的还不错他和T比较像的还有那种情绪失控比如他打死父亲甚至也有点抑郁，还有T叔叔是真的坏啊真的是坏的无语了，最大败笔是有点像强行插入的黑人帮派有点机械降神，还有男主的情人多少有点自寻死路。亮点或者说彩蛋克里斯托弗刚出生不久看见T就大哭不止还有旁人的话真是宿命。
有些地方没有解释清楚，比如关于鸠的假钞。感觉这些年日本电影不太行了，尤其和韩国比起来。//2022.07.07
To be dirty, rich and dead.
剪辑超级无敌巨tm乱，镜头碎得一批。
即便这片是默认所有人都看过《黑道家族》来拍的，也是非常差。想表达什么呢？
如果我早点看评论就不会浪费时间来看这个了 太拖沓了
假钞与神隐，随着剧情推进，两条线索逐渐交汇在一起，一切都得到了解释。故事建立在巧合之上，却不会让人感到牵强。后来的发展是结局A，还是B，抑或是C？
像是老牌的黑帮派，只不过是短暂的，快速的重现了一下没那么多细节
7分吧，好像普普通通的，又好像有那么点东西？
虛實之間，敘事交錯，不像一般傳統懸疑推理電影，用真人真事的許多小事，來吸引你的好奇，這一連串所串起的巧合，讓人覺得男主津田現實中人生如戲的遭遇實在也太奇妙了
阵势不小，其实内容很平淡，故事很简单，一切都容易预料。还好给了Nivola很大的空间。
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