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".
这是什么大怨种！ anyway永野芽郁里面的衣服好好看！
而学做料理 只是赚钱 这个本质的区别 在看看当下的粪坑中 那些 粉蛆 胡蛆 洗脑从小开始
剧情乱七八糟，叙事方法也很奇怪。写作接力棒，读作接盘侠。田中圭不负众望继续饰演纯纯大冤种（咩和十块钱没有对手戏啊原来
玩个演员梗：这电影证明了如果像石原里美在《校阅女孩》里那样疯狂置装，是真的有可能破产的哦🙄
可以理解导演想要表达的无血缘的亲情，可是无法理解故事本身，看似温情实则毫无逻辑，前半段两条线发展还不错，中间开始崩坏，居然还拍了两个多小时！值得称赞的恐怕只有演员的颜值了，小年轻的恋爱故事还不错
推理和剧情的严密性没了，满篇都只能感受到酒店理念，续作好像都会翻车
现实童话，一度五星，后来上大学后重逢男主后跌到四星，最后揭秘ママ离开的真相和婚礼彻底沦为三星，逐渐说教，也是现实童话的通病啊。但！！！十元依然很美！！！谁能拒绝十元的笑和永野芽郁的泪呢！
太温柔了，音乐也非常舒服。平淡的前一小时就像在扔出一块块的拼图，一个小时的时候突然看出了全貌。怎么会有这么有爱的人们呢。理想的父母和理想的孩子，这才是正确的鼓励生育的方式。
刻意煽情，效果不佳。甚至让我觉得有点讽刺的是打着爱的旗号做出了欺骗和丢弃等等举动的母亲仍然是优子最爱的妈妈。与其这样用不孕不育和绝症来洗白，还不如就塑造一个真正的渣女，以此来烘托后两个父亲的真心。永野芽郁的哭戏比笑容更自然。十元的形象简直就是失恋巧克力职人的性格加上了校阅女孩的打扮，十元女士你再这样下去演技和形象已经要完全固化毫无新意了。
无内大语，如果不是十元女士和咩过于美丽动人我真的很想摔键盘，好离谱的剧情【冈田健史现在怎么长这样了，不敢辨认，简直山本五十六化】
很可惜，十元这个关键人物的演技撑不起来。她在《天国餐厅》+《人生最棒的礼物》两种表演路数间横跳，还夹杂着一点话剧表演的肢体，让我这个忠粉有一种很丢脸的尴尬。具体到故事，时间线还是带来了那么一点趣味，但也就是如此了。中国人很难理解，对这日式故事的评价到底应该是“感动”还是“奇葩”。
本片的剧情和推理悬疑有关系吗？感觉就是混乱的瞎折腾，当然最后因为一个巧合有了一个完美的解决，就是看不出警察干了什么？或者说能干什么？还有一个剧透，整天装扮男人的女人居然留了长发，怕别人发现不了吗？这是什么骚操作？！
《哀愁灰姑娘》是尬黑化，这部就是尬神化。日版四大宽容，完美对应人都死了孩子还小大过年的都不容易，全员圣人伟光正站在世界中心呼唤爱。
不行还是看到小萝莉就走不动路。十元也依旧美。故事的叙事时间线交错打乱挺有意思20220502 SQ830 | 后半部分哭了半个多小时。What if是此生最后的拥抱与相见？不要放弃啊，保持笑容的话，好运就会来临。20220510 SH
真无法理解这样的女人。渣女总会遇到好男人，不然就没戏了。
冲着大家的演技给了三星，永野和十元很好看。
这个系列的贺岁能换个推理作家吗…东野圭吾骗稿费的故事真不至于使用到酱紫阵容卡司 两星电影 多一星给不要钱的大明星们
3.0 事实证明被催泪到和感觉电影不错是有所区别的 优子初中生的时候离家出走到专业学校毕业以后去世至少有8年 逻辑很不通顺
有泪点的，妹妹可真能哭。
开头就基本猜到了大概，两条时间线显得有些杂乱，核心价值观也有待商榷，两大女神最终也未能同框。三星完全是给颜值！
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