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".
火力全开了，这个世界需要更多的讽刺喜剧！尤其是在这个年代。
很多时候这甚至不是一部电影，而是一个人借助电影的媒介逼逼叨叨2个小时自己对整个社会的一坨不满；而你接受的意愿在很大程度上取决于你是否能接受这两个小时无比高强度的信息流的冲击以及“世界末日不是什么值得好笑的”。确实作为一部drama完全不好笑是有失偏颇的，但这却完完全全正是我的type
该着急的时候不着急，来不及了才开始想后路。感觉疫情期间美国好莱坞还真是发扬了娱乐至死的精神。剧情是又扯又讽刺。这样一部扯电影竟然大咖云集。那个手机大咖是影射乔布斯吗？
自黑的真不错！！！！剧情老套，但自黑细节在过去12个月里都有真实事件能对上，非常好玩，而且很多都用的完全相反的人来表演。梅姨演trump可太够了，第一黑粉上场格外出众，每一句台词都有梅姨吐槽过的事对应。这个电影就算不赚钱，演员们起码爽了，就可以了，I think it's personal hahaha
剧情有点虎头蛇尾了。美国人不要抬头，千万不要，皇冠会掉。
所以 critical thinking 還是很重要的
？这啥啊？也太无聊了吧？不足够好笑也不够愤怒，建议导演早日脱离对政治片的执念…
年年 did it earlier and better :)
真厉害，目瞪口呆，害怕，好笑。哈哈哈哈哈。我们当然互相同情，彼此提醒。在这个把我们注意力干稀巴烂，集体思考水平低下的年代。但下这样的断言只能是个电影，没有人有资格去给这个正在发生的时空做评判。否则就是另外一个喜剧电影的主题了。也有可能是这个灾难太tm大，除了珍惜身边美好的一切，确实也没好办法。但是喜剧是喜剧，痛快点呈现某个片段就行了。有可能呢，聪明的人早就做好准备，就好像躺平的人说我们曾经真的努力过。这个喜剧也太悲伤了吧，就好像话都让他说完了，剩下一个傻仔在独自喊妈妈。就真的和真的一样，没法辩驳。但也蛮开心，末日来临都一样，还不如真诚点。每个小群体行为都有道理，但无法达成更大范围的共识，除非某类人毁灭，这才是最可怕的事情
按照欧美现在的做法，内容有点过于真实了。至于中印俄的问题，一边是流浪地球饱和式救援，一边是财团的孤注一掷，当然了还得对比上目前上海这种低级红高级黑的做法，我都不知道到底在第几层，到底在讽刺什么了。最后，对于地球对于宇宙，人类似乎确实有些过于傲慢了……
它的特别之处在与脑洞，讲的是两个天文学家发现了一颗彗星将要撞上地球，他们要把这个消息告诉全世界，却遭到了政府、媒体、资本家的连番阻挠，当然这之中最大的阻力或许还在于民众本身，他们沉迷于撕逼、站队、阴谋论，低头盯着手机，就是不肯抬头看看天空，直到世界末日的那天……
？这啥啊？也太无聊了吧？不足够好笑也不够愤怒，建议导演早日脱离对政治片的执念…
4.5视频巨头网飞联合身价上亿的明星卡司奉献了一部讽刺当下流量为王、理性让位时代的电影，这本身就挺讽刺的，观众得以又一次见证地球的毁灭，这次是如此地诗意和感人，富豪和政客们的诺亚方舟遨游在后人类时代的太空，而代表着人类文明的流行文化、金融帝国、时尚奢品、智能科技，统统成为了分飞湮灭的灰烬，在互联网社交媒体时代，每个人似乎都是上帝，“原谅人类的自大”，我们群情激昂地制造着分裂，对不符合预料的现实视而不见，光鲜亮丽地在镜头和网络后面粉饰太平，疫情时代的世界也让我们更加感同身受电影中的那些夸张和幽默，它们从来没有如此让人深有体会过，当资本、权力与贪婪的欲望结合，人性的真实总是不会改变的，只不过它们披上了正确、正义的壳，地球终于毁灭了，最后活下来的还是富翁与小丑，人类的未来就是他们了，多么光明的结局
麦凯的重组式讥讽过于直白却富有层次感，对现实世界的哈哈镜式乖张映照中始终透露着失望乃至些许无力的绝望，但在最后也留下了对人类能够进行深度自省的期许；话说这群星闪耀的卡司里，里朗斯表现力有点超神啊。
这哪是拍电影，这是给当下把脉，这是在美国头顶架了个摄像头。
8.3/讽刺泛娱乐化、泛政治化，荒诞不经，结局太棒了！
即使是一包免费的零食，经过手都能留下利益，这就是政治和资本。一旦被政治和资本渗透绑架，即便是科学极致的现实，也能被花样包装，进而层层剥削。年度最佳黑色喜剧，以末日倒数为主线，呈现众生反智，以及一小拨人螳臂当车，然而，即便末世确切到来，人们也不过如此——新冠早已预演。所谓荒诞，其实距离我们并不遥远。
其实让人印象最深刻的是剪辑，真的胆子挺大的
好看！一开始以为会走向轻松一点的小讽刺、小喜剧，后来发现还是挺有料的！想的事情也多，各种人都很有意思。结局也很好。我觉得挺有科幻思维的，我愿意加一个“科幻”标签。不过人类啊，很可能就这个样子吧，挺写实的。
很疯，但是还挺有趣的，毕竟觉得在美剧《Veep》后不太常看到政治讽刺类的。以及，我真的以为大表姐好久没看到了以后，她又扮演了如此重要的角色然后演得挺好
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