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".
比起《爱牵手》有过之不及。结尾换成崭新白鞋挺有意思，同时cliché着…开头的动画真的已经太太太过时太太太cliché了.完美的race balance
在我朝仍然风声鹤唳的时候，大洋对岸的糖水同性青春片已经能够将类型元素结合得细致而又自然，既拍出了青春惯有的迷茫和美好，也拍出了同性群体的情感与负担。
如若青春电影里，对于女性主角要探视较为严肃挣扎的一面，生育议题提供的时间设想是十个月左右；那这里的数字，就是另种语境与性别的释义；开拓了还算新鲜的可能。像《爱你，西蒙》一样清新明快的画风，也糅合《去他*的世界》那般愤世嫉俗，更无妨关于Taylor Swift、MTV自己的《真实世界》流行文化调侃；本以为这仅仅会是对Troye Sivan歌迷“下手”的小打小闹，却拥有更广阔的聚焦和收获了更为可爱的落点。这个故事还适合被Hulu或是哪个流媒体的YA部拾起做成一部短剧，因为它还透过有效的配角提供了更多可能。
戳爷真的很美！！像个雕塑一样。他说所有人都离我而去那里我也哭了。那么似曾相识的感觉。我果然很爱他！
足够让人产生生活美好的错觉，但是音乐过多看着更像MV合集。
其实挺无聊的。除了Troye，其他演员就不能找好看点的吗？片尾那些图，放电影的花絮图不好吗？把陈年旧图都拿出来了。最后也没说得没得嘛，我还以为我一直被剧透得了。风景好像85年盛夏
打工 涂鸦 同性恋 无所事事和糟糕的卫生习惯 很美式青春
#6/2022#不得不说的确有我看cmbyn初见甜茶的惊艳感 尤其含泪那刻真的和他一起心碎了 故事性上在我这里类你好西蒙 远不及85年盛夏 更妄提cmbyn
放下那个戛然而止的夏天，和真正爱你的人永远过夏天。
故事蛮简单的 很多细节也蛮好的 就是如果印度男孩能够realise不要再这样子下去懦弱下去就更完美了 （如果回头了我会给5星
表现过于平淡和范式化，像MV，一度拉进度条，后半段优于前半段，troye好帅，表演也不错。
感觉少年情绪表现得挺好的，我也常常会有被抛弃的感觉，也常常烦躁，偶尔哭泣。
剧情真的很普通，但是画面很清新、配乐很好听
and fuck you for making me like Taylor Swift
爱情与艾滋，情欲与心动，选择与成长，释怀与离别，畏怯与直面，恐惧与接受。
第一次体会到明显的需要有剧情冲突而出现的点
我应该会记很长一段时间影片里这句话:盘尼西林的研发就像bibi（自动屏蔽）的人生，总会有惊喜。
三个月弹指一瞬，有人得到新生，有人跌入尘埃，世界不会因你改变，只有你能掌控自己的命运。别花痴了，快让自己变强，早日见戳！或者去佛罗里达晒晒太阳
亮点几乎全在过分可爱的戳爷身上，男二就真的从颜值到设定都不大行。其实喜欢伯斯汀饰演的外婆和戳爷的几场戏，除此之外就真的常规且套路
3.5/配乐可可剧情编排有点散 很多蛮好的地方点到就收 要总结的话还是夏天青春成长故事
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