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".
怪奇物语的风格，孤独版的小丑回魂，前面有点意思，男主进入密室之后剧情就有点让人捉急了。小女孩飙脏话挺厉害，以为会去救哥哥呢。
小男主眼神有点像第一季哥谭市的小老爷，以至于伊桑霍克被干了的时候我心疼了他一秒😩
设定和概念都很棒，最后的反杀也很爽，但还是不够精巧，有些部分甚至有点中二
… … 無聊 有一種原著小說應該比這要精彩的感覺 「腦袋裡能想像出情節文字化的閱讀體驗 然後放在影片視覺裡，頓時就寡淡了呢」
《拐骗儿童自救手册》：用少年的记忆替代心路历程挺好的。但其他人物的存在和诡异行径似乎只是因为这是部恐怖类型片；同时，罪犯随便找个路人来演区别也不大
节奏很好。看finney大仇得报，帮几个孩子出一口恶气，真的很爽。finn要上楼开密码锁真的吓得我捂住眼睛。很不错finn you go boy!
扯蛋的地方过多，胜在节奏紧凑、调度还行和氛围稍微到位。
很有趣的电影，不露脸的伊桑霍克可是巨大的牺牲了 20220724
小孩演技给力
如果让我回忆，成长过程中一定有噩梦，有援助者的缺席。然后这些噩梦在我身上留下伤痕，让我成长。然后让我反思，那些缺席者缺席的原因。如果对应到影片中，噩梦是所有伤害芬尼和孩子的人，缺席者就是父辈们。有些遗憾的是，想探索的心里惊悚立意比较一般，气氛的把握也不太足，最重要的，角色的塑造缺乏张力，这就造成故事推进缺少紧张感和切身感受的威胁感。总让我游离去思考其他的事情…比如西格蒙德·弗洛伊德…我总想如果他老人家看到这部电影会怎么去剖析创作者呢（摊手狗头）
儿子致敬老爸的电影小丑回魂 哈哈哈 男主妹妹智商在线
要去影院看，视觉听觉气氛拉满。这几个孩子前途无量，看得我全程姨母笑加捂脸的恐怖。剪辑毫不拖沓，刚柔并进，加上这绝望小镇的设定，在今年目前的恐怖片里我是要5星推荐的。
前一晚买票的时候还就只有两个人 今天去看的时候 意外的还挺多人。小演员的演技确实还不错 妹妹好可爱（呜呜呜呜呜呜呜我也想要哥哥）
不错子，一点也不恐怖～
两个小孩外加伊桑霍克的演技在线，男孩总是比女孩成熟得晚
演技很怪，人物很怪，剧情也很怪，那些人的想法我也看不懂。。。。
值得肯定的作品，氛围渲染到位，小男主非常帅气。
黑色电话教你逃生，那是四个男孩的亡灵通话。
就说这个故事咋那么斯蒂芬金老师，一翻评论发现原著是他儿子写的！
内核竟然还是《小丑回魂》那一套，迪士尼无话可说。这种做法是很保险，但十分无趣，而且本来是惊悚片结果既不惊悚，也不刺激，白白浪费了伊桑·霍克和斯科特·德瑞克森这对搭档。
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