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".
感觉情节还可以啊，没那么不堪。只是最后女主的一些反应有点假
6.5-7分，像是进展平滑的剧本杀，没有高低起伏；最大破绽在于Rob和男警身高差太多不应该看不出来…不过观影体验还可以
男主角范少勋看上去就像是许君聪的英俊版。
这是在克罗地亚的斯普利特拍摄的，历史悠久的古城，可以追溯到两千年前的古罗马时代，片中经常出现的白色高塔，就是著名的戴克里先宫，古罗马戴克里先大帝的宫苑。
范揚仲。2021 金馬 TITAN 巨幕廳放映。暴走的霓虹光線。當臺灣電影人文關懷（眷村拆遷、官商勾結）第 N 次失控變成軟性色情片，全片最大的調度挑戰應該是如何在多場床戲中，保持尺度不超過一定範圍（各種創意嘗試都用在這邊）。故事放在 MV 裡面應該會 work，男女主角苦戀一支、女配角單戀一支，剛好剪成兩支，莫允雯的特寫鏡頭簡直是為了副歌後的間奏而生。温貞菱很不錯；范少勳演一個帥哥皮條客很有說服力（可能是因為他真的很帥）。
内容对不起海报。（画廊女有点像上户彩）尺度不大，因为都没见到任何肉体。最后一个镜头挺有韵味，痞里痞气的皮条客经受了社会的捶打，也没有得到自己爱情，导演有点强行植入爱情，但红尘一场都是过客不要那么认真。想出吃药睡觉这么个桥段，也是够了。（姆巴配巨星代言的资源，搏一搏单车变摩托）
美国人整天拍这种本国老百姓去全世界各地旅游找乐子，然后遇到各种变态的故事，是想告诉观众，全世界只有美国是安全的？
可能是看的版本太多，已经麻木了，没有感觉了。
都不想一个人不管是什么社会阶层，孤独和恐惧，剧情简单皮条客和小三的执念没有区别，甚至更多都是如此。摄影很有台湾味道 值得赞
一直覺得有一類女人 自以為見過世面風浪 就對生活當中的絲絲溫暖視而不見 最後無奈眼界越來越高 要不就是找個有硬實力的答應對方所有奇怪要求 要不就看不上身邊很多人覺得他們配不上自己 但又無時無刻都在接受別人對她的好
神叨叨的狗血剧，配乐还挺有意思，女的也都很小时代
都不想一个人不管是什么社会阶层，孤独和恐惧，剧情简单皮条客和小三的执念没有区别，甚至更多都是如此。摄影很有台湾味道 值得赞
又确认了一遍片头发现原来是A 42 Production 这才对嘛 对不起错怪A24了。
我们Queen B真的是倒了血霉啊 老公 闺蜜都对她不忠💔
就那样吧 冲着queen B 剧情简单 完全不用担心吃饭错过剧情 因为完全不烧脑
各种反转，素材老套，不过演员演技还是不错的。
这不是台湾电影的风格啊
司機大哥真善良，Queen B能多产点吗？ 但扯项链那为啥能掉进袋子，。。
翻拍自2014年的<走到尽头>，平庸且无惊喜。不过原作其实也就一般，但在当年已经是韩国最佳犯罪片。比起国内的<破局>来说半斤八两，但要稍微好一点。
意外的观影心情舒畅 而且竟然会想起黄国骏先生 挺台北的 摄影可以 陈以文老师和白只一如既往的狗官与鲁蛇嫖客 还记得我完全是为了小犬才来的吗
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