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".
这个国家一半的人都有秘密，在铁幕背后凝望铁幕
竟然是悬疑类型片 还挺好看的 就是主角实在是有些蠢 对华沙多了些冷冰冰的印象（看的时候会觉得在街头用枪杀人这些桥段是不是有些太随意了 一度以为是在看碟中谍 了解下认为可能说是在影射波兰当下的同性恋危机四伏的境遇）
太難了，me against the world, 太難了
浅薄如我，看完之后觉得这是一个你骗我我骗你，最后一起双向付出一同赴死的故事。小卷毛的纯情只对警察展现，警察在小卷毛的吸引下渐渐沦陷，这一场爱情骗子的游戏里，谁都没有赢，谁也没有输。
“波兰人就是看不惯同胞幸福，他们憎恨幸福的同胞。”
卷毛的演员竟然是99年出生的，这样的青春美少年掰谁掰不弯呢？审讯那场戏最精彩，卷毛的眼神里写满了震惊，小胡子低着头不敢看他，还让他说最近一次使用了什么技巧和体位？警局的问卷里有这问题？！但是当小胡子在录像带里看到卷毛的时候，只想去提醒他保护他，如果这都不是爱？！最后一个问题：男主是双还是深柜？我觉得是深柜。第一次被卷毛亲了大概是三观震裂世界崩塌，赶紧去找女友验证自己还是不是直男，发现自己依然还对女友有性奋那一脸的释然和开心哦~
画面和枪战还算可以，剧情却俗套，也就是传说中的那个传奇盗匪没死隐姓埋名做好人系列，好人岂是人人做的？
觉得这部电影没有野心
有点无聊 想起了王小波的《似水柔情》 但影片远没有小说有意思
起始于动人心魄的背景，终止于高开低走的故事。宏观层面的少数族群问题，微观方向的悬疑推案剧情，都算浮泛之谈。虽基于一段政治氛围冷冽且严酷的历史，但影片的视角还是有些狭隘了，批判精神可见一二，奈何这次电影人声讨极端主义的檄文落笔却不够有力。
客观3.3，感情分3.8星。80年代的波兰，秘密警察大规模抓捕并记录在案众多同志，在此背景下一名有未婚妻且职业上升期的直男警察调查一宗同性恋谋杀案，同自己的弯男大学生线人展开的爱情故事。结局注定是灰暗的，而灰暗中曾有过爱，有过勇敢，有过光，那就还至于让人感到绝望。
中规中矩，结局也emmm。
案子查到最后结果发现自己的老爹也是主手之一，不管是否被胁迫。爸妈吵架那段对话倒是一语成缄，究竟是谁软弱？我想在男主拿着枪去追那个要杀男二的时候就已经有了答案，或者说更早，在他不想草草结案的时候……
阴冷暗色调的氛围为故事增色不少。即使有不少套路化的设置，也依然靠悬念吊起人看下去的兴致。对Homo的绞杀如今卷土重来，这样的题材在当下超越地域值得一拍再拍。
你说，人不能什么都怕，尤其是自由，所以我大胆的和黑暗对抗，摆脱束缚，做了一回真正的自己。流弹四射，我送你逃走，无论我能不能追上你，我的心，早已和你一起，获得了自由！
都2021年的电影能不能不要再来一开始和女人在一起，然后又突然觉醒，爱上男人的戏码了？当然你要说那个年代就这样……我也是只能无语。至于局长大人，您玩的花，为啥还要搞什么风信子行动，有病不是？不过在压抑年代，一群gay依然能苦中作乐，倒是很符合gay的本意
然后跟男生发生关系后，楼顶就飞过两只鸟，同时起飞，方向却不一样了
电影的影像质感和色调太美了，音乐超级棒！前三十分钟的精彩，后面情节量不够了，都在话痨，拖沓和陈词滥调有点儿多。30分钟的好电影。
两个互相欺骗的人，却付出真心，有点可怜，审讯那段虐了。其实爸爸也无能为力，对上司对制度无力抗争，对儿子所谓的保护也成了伤害。
两个互相欺骗的人，却付出真心，有点可怜，审讯那段虐了。其实爸爸也无能为力，对上司对制度无力抗争，对儿子所谓的保护也成了伤害。
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