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".
剧情再奇怪我也哭湿一堆抽纸 田中圭演这种好爸爸角色好适合
石原里美的经典咧嘴笑，上了年纪也只让我看到了嘴角的皱纹和法令纹。本片也可以别称——《被拖累的老公的一生》
十元的演技太吓人了……比小姑娘还差……其他人都很适合
剧情很老套啊，而且我觉得这价值观有问题？？？？三星分别给美元可咩和甜圭，冈田健史的灵气在中学圣日记后肉眼可见的变弱了，连颜值也变弱了，感觉他就很随便的演了一部电影一样，咩酱哭戏绝了真的好灵好可爱，甜圭演技也很中规中矩，十元我滴爱~就是觉得有点过于用力，好几处表达幸福开心情绪的地方就很有演的感觉不太真实，甚至让我觉得有一丢丢刺耳，不过瑕不掩瑜还是很美的
主演全是我的爱 可我怎么就入不了戏 无法共情
3.5分。这种属于我明知道你是个不合逻辑的烂片但我还是看哭了的范畴。其实叙事方法还是挺巧妙的，很多镜头拍的也不错，但全员烂好人真滴很离谱。
书更精彩一点 知道剧情也不催泪了但yyyy哭的好好看 在高中阶段原著用了大篇幅描写了和第三个爸爸的故事感觉还没有传达出森宫这个温柔爸爸的形象 可能为了电影时长问题 原著里有些挺好的剧情修改没必要
正儿八经一部治愈系的生活片，每个人物身上都闪现着良善人性的光辉；大家都围绕着一个小女生释放爱心，为她的生活营造温馨的氛围，不论小女生辗转几个环境，遇到何种人物——岂不是小女生几辈修来的福分都转到了这一世，看得好生让我羡慕。话说，石原还是那么惹人爱…🥃
就觉得田中圭演得还是真好，Mei真的是仙女落泪，虽然发型有点奇怪。
儿童木屋情感攻击，活下来的继续还贷，死的究竟是谁？去年那部《天鹅挽歌》的正确打开方式
Get不到这种虚幻的“温暖与爱”，但是演员、服化、配乐、调色都好舒服。
对比 天鹅挽歌，但更显悲剧。照片里的尸体，和近在眼前的尸体绝对不一样。哪个我是我，我怎么证明我是我。
而在包括亲人在内的众人的善意中心怀感激，是日剧日影不尽的得意主题。
好理想化，就像是梦一样虚幻。但是双女主的演技挺好的
学了一年的格斗术最后没用上，这就跟听到楼上一支高跟鞋落地的声音，等不到另一支落地声一样难受。
不要哭，越是难过的时候，就要笑出来，真好呀！ 剧情虽然不现实，但是里面的人都好善良，满治愈的……十元笑起来这的很好看呢？
还是老味道，这种别扭且迷惑的行为，都是为了那份隐藏的爱，日本人还挺喜欢拍这种所谓的温情的。但小朋友在那个年纪，是很难理解背后的爱的，且反而可能留下更多的不安和局促。最终能好好的长大成人，太不容易了。
七零八落的时间线以为观众都是原著党❓
颜狗一本满足。但是故事太怪了，莫名其妙！还有结婚咱不同意！
拍得真的好水… 流水帐一般的 乱七八糟剪辑
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