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".
节奏还行，闪回叙事。情绪到位，无声胜有声。
太理解她的苦闷了，以前有一度觉的是会这样，但是爱是世间万物的良药，可以让人获得救赎。
不算多好，但也不差。故事走向其实不难猜，包括当养父母亲女儿去见女主，很容易猜到接下来就会被错当妹妹给绑走，真相的揭示手法也比较普通。导演这次的视听不如前作<系统破坏者>，只有闪回部分还能看到一些。桑影后演技和表演当然没什么问题，就是快60逐渐MJ化的脸实在僵。
生而为人真可怜 可怜又真实 每一个人都是对的 每一个立场都无法反驳
Sandra Bullock演技没得说 故事合理性还是有点缺陷 整体还算不错
不可饶恕主要是说社会对于有前科的人的态度吧，活在当下，为未来更好而活才是有意义的。
刚开始是英剧的慢节奏，最后半小时才拉上正轨，显得矛盾和冲突间夹杂了细腻。反转之处其实可以处理更好一些。
我还以为不可饶恕的是女主，或者是女主的仇家，结果原来是弟弟
不可饶恕主要是说社会对于有前科的人的态度吧，活在当下，为未来更好而活才是有意义的。
而那两个兄弟呢，哥哥把弟妹给上了，有句老话，亲兄弟明算账，可是从来没有老话说亲姐妹明算账的吧，由此看来，男人，即使是兄弟之间，也是不靠谱的。
桑婶被高票评选的片子其实每次我都不太喜欢，这次高分纯粹是因为她真的演得好。我以为是大团圆的he，结果每一分钟都比上一分钟让我悲伤，也不知道为什么新年第一天就要看这么个致郁的………单她真的可以再拿一次奖
原谅我，让我觉得5岁小孩拿枪过失杀人这件事情，指纹也有。其实没有什么好隐藏的。也不会进入档案。或许还能因此让他去接受一些心理咨询。马上干预，效果最好。也不至于到这个小孩子长到十几岁还被噩梦缠绕。这个最初始缘由很牵强。
长姐如母，刚毅落魄。桑德拉把这个姐姐演绎得棒极了！她拒绝渔场同事的求爱那一幕和最后一幕与妹妹的拥抱，竟让我湿了眼眶。唉，老了，心软了。
布洛克演技在。
桑德拉布洛克都快六十岁了哇，最近两年几出大女主的戏个个精彩，就一个字，稳。凭本片应该能入围奥斯卡了。
不过导演对于情绪的控制力还是可以的。
Sandra 无懈可击的表现，把人与人的情感发挥到极致，感人至深却不催人泪下，不过度煽情，理性的结局让你沉默不语。09年剧集改编的：https://movie.douban.com/subject/3286084/。
一切为了不给5岁小孩抹黑值不值得，因“血浓于水”而含冤受苦的自我感动伟不伟大？大女主的冲奖片，竟然提名也没有
真相大白前觉得不可理喻，觉得律师老婆和女主的对峙句句在理，真相大白后又是另一种不可理喻。
看了剧情简介，以为是警匪/惊悚/剧情片，结果看完之后发现该片其实是一部家庭/亲情为核心元素的剧情片，该片编剧和导演功力深厚，剧情情节曲折，也挺感人，很多人看完后会“泪奔”;本想给五星评价，因为部分情节不合逻辑，结尾还有些伤感，扣掉一星，四星评价;只是本人有情感障碍，它不是我的“菜”，只好放弃，遗憾。
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