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".
中国电影未死，还有一群人真的是在为电影
和超哥一块看的
可以说是年度最大惊喜了，放在近几年，也称得上是国产最佳悬疑片。关键是他悬疑吧，还巨踏马搞笑，演技也全员在线，台词水平很高，让人欲罢不能，意犹未尽，很想二刷。
有点做作
意外惊喜，还反转了几回。原本以为就是搞笑的喜剧，没想到还有点意思。顺带入剧本杀、密室逃脱。
高开低走，到后期比较乏力去圆这个故事，杂糅的元素有点多（剧情是剧本杀的市场流量密码、糅合《报告老板》经典桥段的情怀、戏仿《闪灵》《少年派的奇幻漂流》等名片触动影迷的会心一笑、讽刺电影商业化过程的潜规则、社会各方权力的滥用、用流行的反转结局兜底作开放式结局），但不失为近期国产好片，看喜剧基本poker face的我笑了全片三分之二，主要是年轻时被培养的、看到万合天宜这帮人搞怪就会笑成猪头🐷
有搞笑、有隐喻、有反转，也可以有观众自己的解读，不枉一张电影票。
很惊喜。导演对剧情节奏的把控挺稳，只是有些反转略显刻意。利刃出鞘既视感，多处有妙笔，密室回溯凶案的设计、两个希区柯克变焦、一段姜文节奏的审问和结尾致敬非常嫌疑犯的小反转很精彩。当然，全片的致敬不止这些，一些影史经典的桥段和台词也不是为了凑个大杂烩。我最喜欢的是结尾对善良和希望的交代，夜莺的安宁没有被破坏；理想主义的情怀和正义的信念没有逝去（白客那个角色）。邓家佳好美…
虽然我不知道剧本杀，但整个故事的架构让我想到了9号房，话剧感十足的演绎方式可以带给观众足够的视觉冲击。巧妙的反转，干净的转场，清晰的人物背景，一气呵成！预定2021年度华语十佳
惊喜之作。精致的装置艺术，结构玩得很好，即便看完也要细想才能得到答案的谜语电影。喜欢这部电影构建的建筑空间感，好玩儿程度堪比解谜游戏，但前半部分都用在了玩梗上，松垮得让我困倦不堪，明明以多人视角展开可以给出更多奇妙的线索，但可能编剧怕自己把自己的活儿刨出来了，就基本上在那里插科打诨，很多看起来必要的要素后期都没调动起来，而且尹正总是神乎其神的得到“答案”和推理。后半部分才是精雕细琢的部分，建筑空间中的一切要素都是必要的，故事外还有故事，这种创意在国产电影中几百年不见了。
什么就“华语第一部剧本杀电影”……《十二公民》、《你好疯子》，都是密室类型的剧本杀电影啊。只是剧本杀这个概念这两年才提出而已，就是推凶电影。
烂片名导，过气明星，资本运作，开始还以为是对电影行业的借古讽今的故事。结果看了一场对犯罪悬疑推理的话剧。影片用了比较“装”的手法，但是又“装”不过《让子弹飞》。看到韩寒的名字就知道免不了会出现一些小聪明抖机灵的包袱和段子，像“我叫你爸，你打我马，这样对吗？”的台词，说不清是尴尬还是冷还是哭笑不得。有些台词改的对不上嘴型，看的也很膈应。虽然有喜剧元素，表演也过于浮夸，尹正作为一本正经的男一，也没有起到应有的作用。剧本会上的摄影机铺垫了那么久也没什么实质作用。故事还行，剧本和表达也就那样吧。倒是有些影评，脑洞是真的大，不去做编剧来写影评可惜了。
万合天宜，再加上同福客栈，爱情公寓和德云社的加持，真的是太棒了！
《扬名立万》真的让这个之前不温不火的公司这一把算是扬名立万了。
剧本我有些一言难尽的槽点，不带判断看完成度是可以的，但深究起来，编剧对审查环境的影射悲观几乎都消解在不停想逗观众的插科打诨中让我烦躁疲劳，对文娱行业、对文学投射的自恋又太网感了，最后整成了一出“这事儿太惨了，拍个电影准没错”叙事。秦法之威，造梦的人连在梦中都不敢做更有野心的梦，不可谓不感到创作之虚弱、虚无。
“十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常。”最近连着出了好几个剧本杀式的电影，这个有好多闪灵的桥段，还有夹带私货
有点做作
三星半。剧作角度看很不错，有一种很笨拙的诚恳，几个角色的点都找的太对了，历经千辛万苦最后还是拍出一部烂片（。但只要胶片留存，电影能被播出，“真相”就会被传递，还有比这更浪漫的故事吗？遗憾的部分在于故事自身的节奏调度，有些部分会在电影和搞笑网剧之间来回跳转，当然，《报告老板》所代表的的万合天宜传统艺能是必然要有一席之地的，稍微欠缺的只是各个部分的平衡（作为新导演的完成度已经很高了
很多网络梗的组合， 组合成这样，堪称百度党和网文党的楷模。
又是这种一拍脑门的剧本，剪辑稀烂，表演看得我如坐针毡。
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