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".
黑暗的場景太多，黑戚戚的都不知道在幹啥。知道是有鬼，但一點都不覺得恐怖，看完只有感覺：就這樣 ?
为什么评分这么低呀？气氛有昆池岩的感觉，同时有恐怖游轮的悬疑感，是这两年值得推荐的一部恐怖片。
布景打光乌漆嘛黑，故事剪辑乱七八糟，啥都没讲明白就结尾。前因后果全部都靠观众自己补，玩儿呢？
纯文学影视化的尝试其实还不错，看的生肉版有时不能太理解，不过剪辑和配乐都是上乘之作
其实故事挺好的，卡司也不错，但是节奏也太慢了完全不抓人……
人一死就会变成恶灵，巫师自己都成鬼了，还拿着金刚杵要收服这群妖魔鬼怪。
评分偏低了，三条故事线还是很清晰的。就是一惊一乍完全不恐怖？
给4星。因为它有鬼！！！而且隐含的太多了，搞得我懒得去仔细挖掘，还是看看其他大神的解析比较好。韩国还是敢拍敢想的，就是驱鬼能力不行~~
多重叙事，真实与创作交织难分界限且时空交叉。抖擞精神紧跟剧情，终于在片尾字幕中悠悠睡去。
全片仿佛没有高潮，一半时间看到的都是倒映在屏幕里的我的大脸盘子
没评论的那么差，及格分肯定有的，豆瓣现在评论一点也不客观，因为没昆岩池拍的好就都打一星两星，这是什么逻辑？这片及格分肯定有的，恐怖气份也够，逻辑虽然乱，但也理的清，评论说乱的看不懂的，智商那么低的么？打四星拉点分，真实水平三星。
只能2星半。。穿越➕多人格。。创意还可以，就是，好无聊啊，男主蛮废物，作死的依然作死。最后大boss也还是大boss，那要这个电影干嘛呢 没有爽点
豆瓣分數過低，多加1星，沒想到當年遊巴黎最無聊的景點，背後有這一段感人故事。結合理性科技工藝+感性主角自己的愛情與堅持，不懂大家批評愛情戲多餘是什麼意思？A的是他的謬思，他的生命動力來源
3.5星，剧本不错，可惜拍烂了，想必原著应该很精彩！
每一位死去的灵，都被困在一段死前的时间，并不断重复着死亡的整个过程。
轮回，时空交叠这些设定并不新鲜，颇有点大杂烩的味道，但让鬼也有了一体两面，人格分裂，这倒有点意思，究竟男主是死在了哪一幕里了呢？~~
小场景小成本恐怖片看得出剧本花了心思在一众鬼楼探险里拍出了不一样的东西，不足是故事看起来比较乱 结局也比较急很多内容到最后都没有说清楚 希望有续作
模仿一波昆池岩 但是恐怖效果没昆一半好 剧情给了时空交错 逻辑线又没理清楚 失望
在工程奇迹面前，人类个体的那点情爱实在不值一提，何况纠葛接近狗血。与其浪费时间讲爱情故事，不如尊重一下其它设计，别轻浮地取笑一笔带过，讲讲其它投标方案的设计思想，它们不论贤愚也都反映了当时的思想风气，观念理想的碰撞、智力技巧的比拼，远比爱情宏大，离开爱情不会讲人生故事，导演们实在娘娘腔的矫情，我们等一部技术宅角度的伟大电影等得太久了，哪怕这电影制作扎实，也实在让人想手动差评。爱情是我们普通人没法创造伟大作品的寄托，对伟大作品创造者，爱情就是点缀，插曲。
驱魔人不行啊，体能不行，连鬼魂都干不过，好可惜母子皆惨死
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