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".
最牛逼的还是那句对不上台词的“十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常”。在大陆语境，有时候这台词啊，不要看他说了什么，要看他不能说什么。也许他什么也没说，但本身就有够讽刺的。
3.5 主要charlotte选角真的太好了 身上的灵气和脆弱感和她17岁时一模一样 一两拨千金的演活每一个角色 你很难不去好奇发生在她身上的一切 摄影和对档案影像素材的运用锦上添花 只是看完突然觉得索然无味 过于小资而不落地的故事终究只是他者的故事罢了
20220726——196；今年的新片。巴黎的夜色很美很温柔。
就是有种电影，你觉得也没揭示什么人生大道理，但就是看完觉得满足和温暖，意犹未尽
太真诚太真挚，变化的画幅透露出一些私人的情感。关注到电台女主播这个角色，她就像另一个轨迹的女主，只不过因为性格不同二人有各自的结局，她的悲剧也暗示了全片结尾的基调。整部看下来都觉得非常舒适也不会觉得无聊，从剧情到表演都很自然，好久没碰到这么喜欢的电影了。（一直觉得女主好眼熟原来是女性瘾者的主演hhhh
会有别人眼中的我们，那些碎片，我们曾经以为瞥见的，我们的碎片，会由我们的梦来滋养，我们从来都不是相同的，每一次，我们都只是外来者，是夜旅人，是他们的想象，就像被留在旧房间镜子上的，那些脆弱的阴影。
3.5，让人很舒服的一部“怀旧”之作，也有部分不同画幅的素材加入，让一个中年女性重新开始，和儿女之间也没有drama的青春叛逆的冲突，一切都是淡淡的，PS 导演是个侯麦粉丝
愿意给个好分数是因为看见太多人觉得没拍好，但在我眼里，这样的题材和这样的深意，能过审也许就已经是很努力了。
电子乐，夜间电台和香烟。80年代私人影像史。Boyhood的double feature.
中年女性成长史 很平静的讲述 坠入情绪里感到舒适
弱女遭辱无天理，报纸杂志慌封笔。拍成电影揭真相，别急我又没说你。
十个项目九个凉……却有一部放光芒。这个电影太适合改编成话剧了，肯定特别好看。
- 那大家能看明白吗？ - 不一定能看明白。但咱们这部电影一定能留下来，咱们做了应该做的事，问心无愧。
好真诚的电影 很久没有如此平静的看完一部电影但最后却被温柔裹住 巴黎的夜空是清澈的 照着路过的每一份炙热的爱 每一个遗憾的别离 每一个跨过的苦难 却仍然过境无痕 Talulah是我们每一个人 每一个渴望被爱却知道世界的无常不忍面对现实 旅客只是短暂的出现一下而已 私心很喜欢 这才是电影
不是我想象的夜 也不是我想象的旅人 不过巴黎人这种随地做爱的生活态度真喜欢呀
6.5/10
密室够不上本格派，表现张力难称社会派，
前半部分的人物出场和铺垫舞台话剧感较重，中间反转之后可看性强了很多，另一条故事线浮现之后则主题大大的加分，甚至有点动人。最难能可贵的还是针砭时弊的小细节，能看出主创团队的野心，多加一星。
中国版“利刃出鞘”。十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常，好一个洗地法...
开篇十几分钟以为是民国版的报告老板，有点无聊有点弱，后面渐入佳境还有点小惊喜，七分打四星吧！
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