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".
毫无逻辑，黑帮竟然会拾金不昧20亿，放港片，警察都会藏车里跑路。
给本本加一星。看预告时候就觉得可能两条线哪条都讲不好，正片果然也是没讲好，写回忆录能意识流，想到哪儿写哪儿，电影剧本不能这么写啊，太散了整个故事。
电影里有句话很认同：警察要始终立身于警戒线上方，黑与白，站哪一边也不行，只要市民们支持我们的工作，我们始终都能站在灰色地带上方，当然，稍有不慎，人们会把我们纳入黑的那一方，这就是警察。游走在河边的人，把握不好这个度，那就是“唯独不要当警察”！
看到赵震雄就想起了《信号》，就像看见崔宇植就想起了魔女里面的坏小子。
冲着仨主演看的，比预期好一点，但也就那样吧。
ost加一星，大概是《天才少女》+《少年时代》+《和summer500天》。
这还真是一部一般的电影，除了一般，没有更合适的词来形容这部电影。
故事给三分。演技一分。立意太大。程序正义还是结果正义。
破碎是容易的，弥合是困难的。我有时候觉得人生的重点模糊，以至于不知道自己在做什么。
故事开头就猜到了结尾，不过小反转倒是没想到。朴熙顺就是个工具人，有一说一小崔确实嫩了一点，赵正雄真帅……这故事讲得不行，这演员表就值三星，愣是没能加到分
赵震雄又胖回来了，这部完成度比较高，剧情也比较商业化，看的途中都忍不住站队赵和崔，动作戏也还可以，最后的剧情落入俗套，可能还是演员演的比较出色吧！挺吸引人的，可以说无尿点，但是不值得二刷
因为看信号很喜欢赵震雄演的李刑警，再加上还有崔宇植，就一直在等这个电影。剧情说实话没太仔细看，快进着看人物好像都没分清，但是看了开头也能猜到人设走向，没啥意思。
对，确实温柔似水，但是不痛不痒的，不知道它在讲个啥。看来人太帅了，不适合当导演，但毕竟人太帅了，所以随便拍吧。so，又多一种类型，也挺好的，好吧，我也不知道自己在讲个啥~
故事平平到让人很难记得两小时堆砌起的电影，究竟有什么值得回味的部分，全然没能让如此亮眼的演员阵容发挥出原本该有的魅力价值，实属可惜。既然还是全程看完的，给颗三星聊表心意。
这不由想起恶人传，相比下，没有马东锡的拳拳到肉，但是选角比恶人传的男警好很多。
在电影院看的。以毒攻毒，以恶制恶，以暴除暴。不过，还是没什么鸟意思。
平铺直叙中规中矩的中年男子回望人生略有感悟的电影 不算差 和优秀也毫不沾边
就还行吧 比反贪风暴5 好看10倍那肯定妥妥的
人物架构可以做一部出色的电视剧，双雄父子 模糊边界 黑白侵染 剪辑处铺密集鼓点加盲音转场
个人觉得还行，可能是赵震雄和崔宇植的滤镜加持。对于目前必须把看片时间用在刀刃的我来说，不失望
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