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".
很喜欢三个人在凌晨的街上跑的场景和alien的场景。很讨厌分别前那次床戏，尬得我脚趾发麻，毫无美感也毫无必要，像个低成本porn. 看到是女导演我都惊呆了，女导演的床戏品味也这么差啊。黑岛结菜太可爱了，但是恋爱过程没有细节全是MV，最终还搞一出无意义的反转，不知道这角色是要干嘛。凌晨的街上也有我的magic hour，它们也确实消散了。（幻月字幕组开始做日影了，太感谢了）
反转确实没想到，但包袱卸得太早了，显得后面各种拖拉。。。
Yo te amo, decid que me amas más… Es un momento lindo, y lo estás ruinando…
1颗星给当年的佳佳。拍成段子还行，非要整电影，尬得要死。
吧？
前后怎么会这么割裂啊…喜欢的两个点，不准太阳升起却向着黎明奔跑，因为有人受伤才察觉寡淡。
6.0 / 看这种电影就是忍不住疯狂截图的冲动。从二十年前的《烈焰焚币》爱到这部《心猿意马》，莱昂叔是真 · 人民艺术家。
各种禁忌恋，却有真正的爱情。
看完不知道说什么。故事本身挺无趣的。演员演技都在线。甩着迪克跳舞是意外惊喜。好在最后是个HE。又是一部关于和解的电影。
谈恋爱蒙太奇部分bgm是蘑菇帝国诶🥺（Tokyo— — — — —!!!
没有想到Leo唱Careless Whisper这么好听【电影其实像男主一样一直原地踏步 没有解释他的精神问题 结尾也没有任何解决 就像个半成品令人致郁 但又讽刺的贴近生活
连性事都懒洋洋的，emmm…这届年轻人不行啊
Leonardo Sbaraglia第几次演同性恋，还跳裸舞。“你为什么恨我？”“你在我最爱你的时候离开了。”
（但不得不说 帅哥好多
挺轻松的，不煽情，不滥情，安安心心，诚诚恳恳的讲个故事，烟火气足够
拿花束踩理解不能，花束更加矫揉造作，反而这部我看完之后焦虑极了，真实的焦虑
看完很焦虑，每个人时常都会把生活弄得一团糟，每个人都需要自我救赎
生活里的bipolar够多了，电影还拍个没完.......
同性题材黏糊糊，主人公精神乱糟糟，亲情讲述无论如何无法共情，40分钟就想弃掉
有些话说出来比做到容易，孤独是无可治愈的顽疾。每个人都有问题，“大脑中一直有什么静不下来”，每当认真检视自己的内心，发现从来不能在任何亲密关系里得到真正想要的。男主角圣地亚哥只擅长维持一夜情关系，父女关系、爱人关系，全都一塌糊涂，甚至3P之后，一夜情关系也差点翻车。向海滩情侣交代心事，尽情感受肉体之乐，对比别墅派对擅自狂欢，扰了爱人的清静，该果决时没那么果决，该细腻时没那么细腻。流浪的心啊，想装下整个世界，却只是流于表面的走马观花。男主角没什么成长点，或许导演想呈现的就是庸常生活里人渴求改变又故步自封的状态，看完只想对空气怒挥几拳。镜头色彩颇有质感，莱拉和她的妈妈两位女性角色很美，莱拉跳舞，以及后面妈妈弹奏钢琴的段落，点睛之笔，钟罩蝴蝶一般的美丽疏离。
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