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".
故事挺简单的，不过至少人家能够控诉一下NHS。人与人之间的关系有很多种，单纯的互相喜欢互相帮助是很舒服的关系。Stephen的演技高出Jodie至少2个档次，果然是一直喜欢的低调演员
聚焦疫情的一部佳作，以小见大但也同样感人至深。希望国内也能学一下，同样命题作文，就算要主旋律也别乱搞自己驾驭不了的宏伟叙事。
我的小杀手请多拍点这种类型的片子。（话说真是我今年看的第一步和疫情有关剧情片呢
没有家国大义，没有感动中国式的煽情，只有孤立无援下的绝望和直接单纯的善良，演员们演技都太好了。有时候都忘了疫情最开始的无助，不知不觉已经戴着口罩过了两个夏天了。
211102@ 蛋蛋赞 No one told us. Am I going to be OK?I am so sorry, but no one is coming. Good man, very rare, everywhere.相比某国的电影；万岁！杀手演看护，除了这一点，别的都很好
作为一个利物浦球迷看这个真是欣慰啊，阿尔茨海默病的男主哪怕忘记自己母亲的死亡，都不忘利物浦队辉煌时期的主力队员名字……朱迪科莫奉献了去年年度最佳表演，那26分钟的一镜到底，确实直戳人心。一部电视电影，预算肯定不会太高，朱迪作为一线的演员，还可以回到家乡接这么一部戏，还贡献这个级别的演技，真是让人动容啊。格拉汉姆这个角色，最后没有结合利物浦时隔30年的夺冠，有些可惜了。关于疫情中的人和事，以及国家政府的表现，本片已经给出了比较完美的答卷了。我不想拿某片拿来对比，因为那片根本不配！
有点空，对于新冠→制度的指控浮在表面，少很多应该说的东西，情绪也总是缺失积攒的过程直接爆发，走向也有点奇怪，摸不到头脑.jpg
《援助》拍的是小小护工的无助和控诉，而《中国医生》在拍大国医护的伟光正，也难怪会被cue。
人家3个人，15平方空间，1张床1部座机1部手机，体现出来的绝望感和个体意志，比咱们拍的所有疫情主题作品加起来都牛。
人美心善的女主和早发痴呆的宅男之间也挺温柔的。还是没看完。紧跟时事。
整体还是不错的，但后面这段太生硬了点，显得很无脑（并非无法理解女主的行为而是导演拍得不够细腻）
大量的近焦摄影，大面积的虚化，长时间的一镜到底，如此风格化的摄影特别切合电影的表达，一种社会视角的歧视性选择性对焦，一种看到了又无能为力的感觉。
早前听说养老院许多人去世，疫情爆发的前三个月care home去世占四成。得不到的help。jodie从mad fat diary和doctor foster不过六八年时间。可以的。
剧情，97分钟版本，75分中等水平作品，15岁以下青少年儿童不宜观看，15岁以下青少年儿童如需观看须满12岁最低观看年龄门槛，12岁以下儿童禁止观看，满12岁、15岁以下青少年儿童须在成年家长陪同下观看（分级警告）！
女主角不错，下面评论说得好，接受一下迂回的主旋律。
Couldn’t believe wear mask and keep social distance had become my daily routine.
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聚焦疫情的一部佳作，以小见大但也同样感人至深。希望国内也能学一下，同样命题作文，就算要主旋律也别乱搞自己驾驭不了的宏伟叙事。
整部电影大致意思就是讽刺政府的无能和体制的荒唐。室内调度令人惊叹加上空灵的配乐让一些片段不像一部现实主义片而像一部科幻片，但是令人十分难受的地方方言和狗尾续貂的结尾拉低了我的评价。
比起宏大叙事的英雄主义，这样一部聚焦护工和她的病人们的小人物挣扎更让我动容。中间那段接近20分钟救助肯尼的长镜头，看得让人焦心又难过，那一盏盏忽明忽灭的感应灯像极了当下的心情。这个世上从来都没有什么英雄主义，我们不过就是在这样困厄的环境下奋力生存罢了。疫情真的是改变了一切，那个2019年无忧的夏天再也回不去了，也可能永远不会再有了吧
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