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".
Punch Drunk Love 2.0，PTA真是个永动机
（知道是翻拍）
魏翔真搞笑和这部片子并不搞笑并不矛盾，这个片子不搞笑和算是合格的爆米花喜剧片也不矛盾。
7/10。PTA的小鸡电影怪诞可爱，破坏富豪一段梦回小鬼当家的年代，日剧跑百试不爽啊。气质像《去他＊的世界》，也像前不久看的《世界上最糟糕的人》，但选角颜值低到只能感慨真实了。水床上两人的身体试探是我唯一感受到爱情之处。（特地买了🍕观影结果里面没吃啊啊）
7分，全程轻松的爱情轻喜剧点缀着一些美丽且浪漫的片段，失而复得得而复失的反复让这段情感过于浅薄与孩子气，最后同性恋的加入大可不必。
画面质感依然满点 有几场戏也能看出PTA老练的调度能力 只是看惯了PTA拍深邃宏大题材的片子 这个混合着伤感 怀旧 小清新 等等年少情绪的故事有些让人困惑
这个小男主干啥啥都成是为什么我没理解，女主挺闪光的，但是跟爱情线放在一起有点相互磕绊。上门安装水床捣鬼最后差点死里逃生那段很有意思，西恩潘那段我可能走神了直接没看明白。PTA真是喜欢period以及130分钟以上没啥节制的片长啊，这片洋洋洒洒跟性本恶有的一拼，以及这应该至少是第三次拍70年代了吧。
我感觉很难有一部电影能让我这么无感.. 既不是烂片能让我讨厌，但是从头到尾又没有一点能打动我。I gained nothing.
一个安德森喜欢流光溢彩的川渝火锅
玩票。味道不错，但故事故意弄得太散了。不喜欢。小霍夫曼加油吧。
太欢乐了哈哈哈哈，给意大利人当翻译那段简直一绝！！！
我怎么那么喜欢呢！人只有不完美 值得歌颂
即使是影迷，我也只愿意给三星。因为他试图带入更多的东西，却没有更多有机联系。因为他试图推销这个女主角给你，但是你却没有准备好接受犹太人。因为他想让你对水床和弹球游戏产生乡愁，而我们恰恰是中国人。他想向那个不知所措，来回游荡的岁月致敬，而我们那时还处于物质的初级阶段。
A-. 本来以为世界很小，后来发现世界好大，最后意识到世界的大小根本无关紧要，我们需要的只有彼此。像给《Life on Mars?》配了一部电影，看似脱线的喜剧和离谱的情节，都是透过“the girl with the mousy hair”的眼睛，尝试理解光怪陆离的成人世界，而我们也正是在无数次困惑中的某一次一下子长大了。PTA仍旧用他的镜头精确匹配着人物的能量，维系全片的势能在或别扭或疲倦的静止中积蓄，最终在结尾的奔跑戏变成动能的喷发。不像前作如手术刀解剖神经，却仍有足够的细腻与敏锐。赏心悦目之余，还能在寒冷冬日留有不散的暖意，这就够了。 2022.1.13 with E
他们年龄差了几乎一倍，相遇让彼此兴奋，却都又有些不知所措。世界有太多干扰、诱惑和提醒，尤其这世界又是如此多变、荒诞、压抑，而属于他们俩的才是如此美好。
很轻巧的一部作品，两个loafing的年轻人，在70年代的洛杉矶游荡。特别喜欢这个状态描写，很准确；PTA的视听在水准之上，特色的用色、用光，精致的配乐，几场奔跑戏调度都相当好看；见缝插针地融入社会议题探讨：石油危机、随意拘捕、水门事件以及政客（有原型）的性向隐藏；比较有争议的racist的几场戏，我觉得不是PTA在玩梗，可能还是个年代还原吧；一个私人触动是：Gary在报纸上看性相关新闻，紧接着电视界面播报石油危机，这种媒介相接瞬间勾起我对legacy media的怀念…
Haim的音乐实在欣赏不来，所以不太服气PTA竟沦为其御用MV导演，这次终于看出了艺术家和缪斯的关系。世界是火花四射的万花筒，他们一跑起来，我就下意识地微微仰起头，感受扑面而来的风。怀旧青春，连脸上的痘痘都自信得光芒万丈，有梦回Boogie Nights的错觉。top 2021
卡魯Schauburg 電影院，70 毫米弧幕。銀幕上有洛杉磯的 El Portal 電影院，橫幅上的《007你死我活》是1973年上映的，越戰末期，也符合第一次石油危機的年份。讓我震撼的是伊安弗萊明的名字，007原著系列作者——那是個電影能靠小說作者名字賣座的年代。
虽然不是最好的PTA，但也是很打动人的电影，可以看做是血色将至的爱情版，只不过两个人之间的博弈不是为了利益，而是出于感性（傲娇）。
开场初见，对话与照相同时，虽不是一个长镜头，但节奏紧凑，无比丝滑，两人的关系在数次的奔跑中得以升华，阿拉娜奔向被警察误抓的盖瑞，盖瑞奔向从杰克的摩托后座掉下的阿拉娜，也有两人并肩的奔跑，结尾的奔向对方，速度表达真情，几位配角太有趣。
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