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".
总能在日常细节中展示实际生活的鸡毛蒜皮和一地鸡毛，再靠自己乐观向上积极面对的精神拯救即将颓败的生活。
哈哈哈哈哈哈又好笑又可怕哈哈哈哈哈，我要去存钱了，果然最后还是积蓄增加的那一瞬间感到安心放松啊
看完直接焦虑了…バイト真就是干活一辈子到最后还死不起了，甚至女主角的日常生活相对来说已经很体面了……
为了两位主演升了半颗星，简直就是政治任务宣传片，以及大型广告片了。前半部分各种制造矛盾，最后设定的合家欢结局，因为演职人员的在线演技让人差点就相信了，不过最后住到合租房这个假象，暴露了缓解现实焦虑的目的。
别去想那么多，再艰难的日子，终将会过去，与其未雨绸缪，思虑伤感，不如化成力量勇往直前，其它交给命运，你只要努力就好！
最后强行升华成人不要物欲太高，养老金不够就节衣缩食啊不要挑工作啊！再不行卖掉房产啊！合租也很幸福快乐噢。
渐渐地婆媳关系缓和，生活并不会让你喘息，婆婆又犯了心脏病。
本来以为会做点什么...想不到居然...摆烂到底。(经济建设为中心的打工人沦为被压榨对象)最后老了租房笑着过完一生。这样长久下去，怎么可能会有活力欲望?
生活，重新出发。
看完觉得我们这代人老去的时候，很可能也会遇到同样的问题，虽然是喜剧，但看完觉得很忧伤啊
无限夸大了一个个花钱大事件的喜剧效果，呵呵一笑之余也就没有了其他。现实中随便一个落入脆弱的中产阶级身上恐怕都是一座难以逾越的大山，那时还能笑着选择中年夫妻合租生活的恐怕不是乐观通达而是脑子不好。
老太80一生优雅，从没为钱发过愁，我们几个人能做到，为自己而活，养老没有资金，靠的主要还是家庭亲情投入和集体的友善互助，当然大环境的医疗保险和整体养老服务的政策性保底还是社会民生的基础。不管是便利店也好，商场购物也好名牌包包橱窗展示也好都是社会交流互动的一部分，我们现在就只剩下在线和网购。美其名曰“足不出户”实则未来人与人之间的关系则充满隐忧。
最后强行升华成人不要物欲太高，养老金不够就节衣缩食啊不要挑工作啊！再不行卖掉房产啊！合租也很幸福快乐噢。
天海女王+五郎叔的配置就很喜感，能把一个沉重话题以喜剧方式拍出来又没有煽情过的，看的又很开心已经是很棒的电影了。也提出了几个新的的可能：50+失业人群的后半生选择；无论有无家庭的人子女最后都会离去，最后的去处可能不是养老院而是合租生活？
感觉前面铺垫了那么多，都是为了最后那几分钟的合租生活公益广告。
sharehouse真的是可行的办法之一了 直接一栋房 在一个离城市不远的郊区
天海佑希和松重丰演的喜剧片。中年夫妻双双失业，丈夫父亲离世需要花钱办葬礼，丈夫母亲养老需要花钱，自己女儿要结婚需要花钱办婚礼。花钱的地方非常多，存款越来越少，无论如何节流都无法阻止入不敷出。焦虑，甚至惶恐，掌握财政大权的女主人几近崩溃。在这个过程中发生了很多有趣的事情，婆媳的关系越来越好。最后当然是柳暗花明了，困难的日子总会熬过去，夫妻俩又再找到了工作。有多少存款不是最重要的，最重要的是一家人能够团圆、和睦。
老太太从出租车上下来那会，刚开始高跟鞋那个特写，也保养得太好了吧！我以为是严肃的探讨养老的问题，结果是喜剧来着，个人觉得还行。女王被吐槽当不了宝冢男角时的那个表情，根本就是真情流露吧，哈哈哈。
可惜最后更像个生前葬和合租屋的大型cm，女王本人怕不是心里对这种操作嗤之以鼻
所以日本政府鼓励用share house的方式养老了，现实恐怕很难是这样的happy together.
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