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".
有钱人的任性、不顾一切、潇洒放纵，令人羡慕。直至结尾，夜间城市街道游走、阳光下的海浪、椅子上的衬衫、地上的鞋子，给全片做了一个很好的总结——虚无。
1、太平铺直叙了，开头把圣经还给Luis的时候直接告诉你主题，记忆和现实穿插，结构平庸，没有推理案子的快感
用KIRINJI的Aliens当闹钟 这个床可以不用起了
这打了草稿没打磨就开拍了。我其实觉得故事能写的更精彩一些，基于以下几个原因：
所谓黎明时分就是毕业即将步入社会工作的时候
无聊
没有什么前因后果，没有人物形象的深入描写，好似留白，但又有点让人琢磨不透
啊。好无聊。从中年危机到异国艳遇到惊险枪战到癌症抑郁，真的好无聊。为啥一定要在墨西哥？这片子又跟墨西哥有卵关系？Eurocentric rich people bullshit，啥东西...还带着Charlotte Gainsbourg，差点忘了她也已经人到中年成了我印象中Jane Birkin的样子了...
人物只要变成自知的将死之人就会莫名的合理化？一开始看的时候就觉得这片子看不来特别散不知道要表达什么？再然后觉得逃避也蛮好的我也想，可我不是男主一样的富豪，最后整个癌症，瞬间觉得看了个寂寞
很精彩的电影…建议看原片！不过观看这种类型片子可能会引起一些老铁的反感吧……总之呢，我个人还是绝对这片子很不错，值得一看！！！！
完全看不出和《新秩序》是同一导演。没有看到那些所谓“勾引观众”的“反转”都在何处，从两种声音开始进入(自然的白噪音对立的是机械
最后的结尾确实非常出乎我的意料，虽然演员演技都很棒，但是奈何整个故事实在没有说服力，导致在看到结尾之前，一切的剧情都让人很摸不着头脑。
可是我好爱，甚至充满了近似于怪异的趣味，人物状态暴晒在日光下，但动机和目的却失焦，游走在异国他乡的ghost。
与其说是天怒，不如说是人怨，男作者xsr，女主告他怎么了？老婆孩子死了，是女主的错吗？是明知道老婆抑郁还出轨的烂男的错！他有个屁脸去报复女主，结局女主为了保全妹妹死了，结果作家葬礼上泡妹妹，sjb啊。
他还是占了上层阶级的便宜啊，普通人如果绝症，毫无生存计谋，那…每天温饱都能焦虑死，哪来心情躺平
TIFF2021 #8: 没有《新秩序》那么what the f***，但也挺what the f***的
剧情的走向充满着一种怪异的趣味，在弯绕中引领看客在最后梳理出各自想要的答案。但最终，它证明并不属于这两者，却拥有这之外的特质。
真有个同学是这样。学校周日晚上进去周五放出来。她说双休日已经有同居男友了，再在学校找个周间男友。好自私好可怕。
一直觉得Frank Grillo是个很不错的演员，有好几部电影锋芒都快要盖过男主角了，可惜少了一点运气，始终徘徊在一線边缘。这一部我也是衝着他去看的，也不知道他的戲份如此重（可是海報裡卻只站在角落小小一個）可惜這剧本太弱，几个人在荒芜的警察局里面就这样毫无意义的厮杀！？人物刻画也不够深刻…… 除了女主角饰演的警察之外，其他个个警察都像没有脑袋瓜的傻子任由坏人宰杀……实在是无语。
（感觉有些短评不太对吧。片中有暗示Neil在来度假之前已经知道自己得病，而且之前也不是这么佛的人。所以更像是一个知道自己将死之人在生命的日落之时，去完成一些自己从未实现的想法。
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