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".
补评。Phil是里面最美的角色，他能注意到桌子上的纸花，爱弹曲子，会躲开男人群体去自己的秘密花园洗澡，也会永久地痴迷于一段未果的爱情。他的敏感、脆弱、丰富的情感，所有美好的一面都被掩盖在自我否定的toxic masculinity下，只有在那片无人打扰的草坪里才能窥见一眼。这是我第一次在“阳刚男人”身上看到美，这是来自女性导演的审美共鸣。
文导，这真的不太对劲。剧本也太差了，咋也没想到只讲了完成一个订单的事，抒情段落堆砌！好像是讲这个人怎么穷不是讲这个人怎么创业。从婚宴戏觉得太长然后半天也没有工作的戏又追车了这大段太不好，后面找完王传君接回忆妈妈死了的抒情段落，然后转折就是大家帮忙？文导来讲讲这个转折和讲主角的一堆惨的关系是啥？不过所有演员都还可以，喜欢天津老爷爷
敢拼才会赢，确实一点都没错。不赌会死，赌一把至少还有生的希望。事在人为，扛过去就好了。
这个控制力太可怕了，看似永恒静止的山丘下面隐藏的是张开血盆大口的狗。
电影的魅力就在于即使戏剧化掉，也能把观众带入其中，这不就是一般观众想要的电影么~
每次看完四字的电影，易烊千玺都变成千玺了，这孩子演技太好，很难不让人喜欢。
今年威尼斯节最佳导演奖获得者，女导演简.坎皮恩就是28年前与陈凯歌的《霸王别姬》共同分享戛纳电影节金棕榈奖的人，那时她的作品是《钢琴课》。本片根据美国的小说改编，写早期美国西部牛仔生活，也可谓写了个“男同”的奇情故事。导演厉害处在于其极度含蓄地控制力，以及在细腻的人物刻画中显示的功力。只是平淡地敘说很难引起观众的共鸣。男主演卷福的表演出色。
有一点在意，易烊千玺的台词，是为了表现他因穷困的瘦弱无力吗，有些地方听着太小声没有力量感。不过他声音真的好苏啊，哄妹妹的时候我都在想他可能过两年就能演单亲爸爸了哈哈哈。
我发觉这几年进电影院次数屈指可数 但几乎弟弟的每一部我都去电影院看了 今天孩子们在隔壁看Sonic 我自己一个人看了这部电影 虽然大家都说它很像命题作文 打怪升级结尾积极向上升华了主题 但是还是要为弟弟点上一个赞 一个认真当演员的顶流！一定会越来越好的
小时候电影看故事，现在看镜头语言。故事虽然是老套路，但是人物塑造，镜头语言都特别好，真的很舒服。电影的很多细节都值得回味。故事内核不如醒狮少年深，但镜头和演绎的都很舒坦。真棒👍
还是那种都市童话吧。但令人明白了为啥易洋千玺那么多人喜欢，演的真的挺不错的，是这一代人很好的。
现实题材，写实群像；
最合格的2022年贺岁档电影，几度让人热泪盈眶，但电影终究是电影，过程才是现实，结尾只是理想
拍不出来不用硬拍，每一个部分都好割裂，看得让人烦躁
很励志 。现实不得不把人逼的很努力很努力才行。绝境中的努力和勇气，能带来希望！再坚持一下，万一呢
故事很简单，但是很真实，演的就是奋斗中的你我他。
文牧野的电影有一个很好的地方就是把草根阶层的男女老少全照顾到了。整体没有那么惊艳但也可以打个“良好”。四字弟弟挑大梁把这个人物立住了，妹妹好灵，兄妹互动好有爱。结尾如果停在电梯里会更好。“药神”其他人的客串有趣。总体而言是一部暖心的作品。
台风之后没有出现机械降神剧情，大家各自把剩余的工作带回家做，为了交付订单，被这一段有暖到。相比较整片里层出不穷的好人，童话般的故事，这一段有一些掌心里的灼热，握出了生活的夯实。结局标准的狗尾续貂，落笔在手术成功后的合影多好。努力吧，平凡而又不平凡的每个人
工整的先苦后甜大团圆励志剧。
每只蚂蚁，都有眼睛鼻子。每一个人，伤心了就哭泣，饿了就要吃。我们在等待，什么奇迹。最后剩下自己，舍不得挑剔。最后对着自己，也不大看得起。一个一个一个人，谁比谁容易。——《开到荼靡》
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