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".
从来没有遇过这种concierge 哈哈哈哈 长泽雅美笑起来的样子真好看！剧情一般！木村发挥一般也是
巴里基奥根好好看，心怀众生又舍得牺牲别人的这种实力碾压众人的善恶莫辨角色太适合了吧！彩蛋好好笑，哈卷能不能好好唱歌。金色丝带配黑白大理石的视效和外星文明居然有点搭调。女主不喜欢，但是喜欢这种环球驻扎的故事
小季评分：6.4
畅销小说作家都电影依然不能当成推理片看，只能说每一个系列的角色都讨人喜欢，阿部宽的恭贺、福山雅治的汤川，还有这部里的木村和雅美，真希望能继续拍下去，反正畅销书还会一直写下去。
文戏略拖沓所以快进了。每个人的动机处理的还是清楚的。但是闪回镜头和慢镜头都太多。战斗场面惊人的弱，让人感觉整个永恒族的防御力都超低。伊卡洛斯被爱情和目的感挤压的自杀，这个剧情处理倒是很好。原子弹的败笔是挺伤害民族情感的，在西方视野中反而是跟日本共情，可见全球化的结果
test就测一个人，另一个完全不考，是不是太随意了啊！
可能因为看得不专心 整个动机完全没明白 看个热闹
木村还是那个少年，麻酱已然冲着大妈奔去了。
拍一些大的 landscape + 空镜倒是赵婷的风格、但是这也拍的太无聊了。哪怕是二倍速都懒得看。Gemma Chan 和 Richard Madden 还挺配的、
超级英雄在永生面前的迷失，加上他们与生俱来的悲剧性，比如有人被塑造成孩子，挺有意思的，但确实不太“好看”
依然是卡司阵容大于一切的作品，麻生久美子好赞！！！
一样的套路再来一遍，就真不如上一部耐看。田中美奈实的狠劲比不上松隆子，作案动机稀里糊涂带过，也是服气。构图越来越韦斯安德森，都是发生在饭店里的故事，但调度和剪辑差到姥姥家。还有长泽脸怎么这么大，怎么回事。
可能真是把脑子丢在了7000年前的美索不达米亚平原上了吧。
剧情不拖沓，谜团推理也都合理。片尾画作好评。
建议麻酱去打一下下颌线，推理部分好弱，以及猜中了晋升的套路。
牛逼的调度 每个画面的信息量都巨大且纷繁 快跟不上的我逐渐困了…😂 手表的梗设计的很精致 但最终锁定凶手和他的动机 抱歉真的跟不上了
日本国民女神长泽雅美饰演的女主体现出了极高的职业素养和从业品质，对宾客百依百顺却又不卑不亢，真正体现了“宾至如归”这个宾馆酒店业经常采用的口号。这种服务档次的酒店，贵是肯定贵，但是值是肯定值。
今回も楽しませていただきました♪。希望腹肌東寶放棄欺詐師多拍假面系列🙂還是那個舞台般的佈景，封閉的酒店，大晦日，假面舞會，虛構的客人，猜犯人，一切都將觀眾從日常生活引領到一個非日常的奇妙空間，警察和酒店從業者鮮為顧客知的「後台」反而變成了取悅觀眾的「前台」。我大概是真的很喜歡這個大堂，這個空間相當自由，走位機位千變萬化，可以呈現的關係錯綜複雜。第二集的新田山岸比起對立更多了默契，拓麻這個搭配本身也讓人看不夠，結尾啟程的空想空間的兩人好帥/好美！久違地看到了高村佳偉人弟弟。
牛逼的调度 每个画面的信息量都巨大且纷繁 快跟不上的我逐渐困了…😂 手表的梗设计的很精致 但最终锁定凶手和他的动机 抱歉真的跟不上了
这部电影的风格很别扭，剧情和主题想一本正经的严肃，却又舍不得幽默搞笑。全片唯一在线的就是特效不拉胯。
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