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".
四星给小男孩，他爹有他真的是福气！都那样了还契而不舍的坚持给爸爸弟弟找吃的。话说小浣熊好像有点小，不够爸爸吃吧…爸爸也是好样的，坚持不吃孩子…
能很明显看出来导演想表达很多深层次的含义，包括自然的，殖民的，家庭的等等，但所有元素都只是点到为止，就显得没有重点了。小朋友的演技很不错。另外，这个结局太草率了……恐怖氛围也营造🉐比较普通，没有什么惊喜，中规中矩之作
很普通的怪物片，唯一精彩的就是血腥特效化妆和怪物的呈现了，其他死气沉沉没啥意思，5分。
太墨迹了，本来题材还不错，但是没用的剧情也太多了……
不模版化就已经超越今年99%的影视作品了。女老师风韵犹存，年轻的时候肯定是个靓妹。结尾表意女性的自立精神，又设定抱杀儿童，难道是暗指堕胎吗？反正挺奇怪的。但还是期待一首续集。
影片还是让我比较失望的，早前看预告片的时候，觉得还是不错的，没想到正片的剧情这么拉跨，想说啥都没表达清楚，关键恐怖氛围还很低，这就让我比较难以接受了。制毒的爸爸在矿坑里被怪物袭击，回家后知道自己不对劲，让大儿子把自己关起来，结果大儿子把爸爸和弟弟都关进去了，弟弟也被传染。女老师发现问题后，2个警察一死一伤，怪物却在矿坑里被女老师弄死了，还把被传染的弟弟也杀了，最后女老师的警察弟弟也被传染了。总之一句话，除了一个怪物犹抱琵琶半遮面的有点意思以外，再没有任何优点了，这就确实比较LOW了。我给3星5分，删掉了！
感觉就是为了恐怖而恐怖 但是那些镜头确实真的有够恐怖 恐怖片里我还比较喜欢鹿这个意象
19年看到预告片蛮期待的，成片比较拉垮……前半个小时可以用引人入胜来形容，后半段剪辑就不行了，人物行动逻辑、行动路线、场景切换，都乱成一锅粥了……
（恐怖氛围和悬疑氛围都不好）
怪物设计不错，但想讲的东西太多——环境、儿童贫困、忽视虐待…反而都没讲好，又想拍艺术电影又舍不得大众观众结果弄出个像片中Windigo一样的四不像。ps. 秋冬阴冷灰绿的俄勒冈好美，如果不是剧本过于松散我愿意加到四星
阴冷的色调和还算不错的摄影算是仅有的体面了，剧情薄弱，节奏缓慢，对鹿魔的形象一直藏着掖着，氛围没带起来，到了结尾也是草率收尾。
摄影打光剪辑都不错的。至于剧情上，如果女老师和小男孩家庭的可比性更强一些，可能会好看一些。20211227
挺好的啊，孩子很努力啊，最近看的片子里最省心懂事的孩子了，尽了他个人最大的努力。就是这色调要把亮度打满才能看清楚，然后看的我眼睛疼。
最后一场大战我感觉自己的智商被导演丢进茅坑里了
其实就像抖音这类短视频，一两分钟乐呵呵三五分钟就已经是极限了，弄个十几分钟就直接划走了好吧。
近期多是看一些没营养的商业大片，这种台词镜头有一定讲究的恐怖片还是能带来一点舒适感，虽然高潮戏比较崩。
怪物寻找的宿主只会是罪孽深重之人……最后寄生到弟弟身上只能证明他也犯下了过错。我相信他姐姐被侵犯的时候他是旁观者，他什么都没有做；受伤的人想着逃离，而他却一直生活在那栋房子。然后他姐姐质问他的时候他只是心虚的回问到“你又不知道他对我做了什么？”以此来减轻自己的负罪感。
这怪物明明神出鬼没 遇到女主就傻了 站着不动让女主戳 挖心脏那里看笑了 女主在捅棉花吗？
Lucas真不容易啊，看结局是要有第二部的意思吗？
俄勒冈洲小镇美丽的山区风光一星，优秀的摄像和小演员一星。
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