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".
小而固定的空间，两个陌生男女由性爱进入到情感，这两个都是极度私密的领域，主要依靠对白和表演，结构上以男女的关系变化为主线，完整的四次会面，从第一次的紧绷到逐渐展开，表象的性爱被隐藏，展开的是内心。两个陌生的男女开始的性爱任务，其中一个很年轻，一个至暮年，明明可以发展出很多戏剧故事，但偏偏任何强情节都没有，只在房间里不断对话，说很多看似无关紧要的事情，观察身体，而这竟让我看下去了，这样的叙事让我感到好奇，也让我思考其中核心是什么？
89th with Tao. ——2022.07.08 @新林楼
女性解放≠性解放，但是女性能摆脱这个敏感词的束缚，便是真的解放了。任何年龄都是如此。
我太喜欢了 我真的好羡慕导演能写出这样的对话内容 可能就是情色和色情的区别 我想到了火口的两人 这没有什么可耻的。最后那一幕很妙 或许只有女主自己才能取悦自己。“我很高兴你来了”
汤普森女士演技太强，可惜现实中不会有这么又帅又温柔的🦆
似乎是都柏林内片儿的发音，but发成[bɒʃ]，太性感了啊~
生活比戏剧更精彩系列。国内赞美人性的内容真的太少了。
汤普森女士演技太强，可惜现实中不会有这么又帅又温柔的🦆
本以为就是个探讨两性话题的话痨片，结尾突如其来的大尺度属实惊到了
这个小男生治愈了这个女人，但是他的治愈还没有完成，也许永远都没法完成。这个小男生在浴血黑帮里就挺好看的，美貌出众。
非常棒！快两个小时一点都不闷！最喜欢女机长和她那段suddenly。爱上女机长！
五星怒赞！一剂极度舒适的精神春药。内核还是与自己和解！话痨片真的可以拍得很好看！请洪常秀、伍迪艾伦学着点吧。
对话写得蛮好，但是男主的角色设定不太合理，被忽视的原生家庭下真的能塑造出这样耐心且愿意聆听的性格吗……P. S这不就是提供性服务的心理咨询师吗……
12个人，两个小时演出7000人五天的温暖故事。故事包含很多，人物复杂，而现实要比这复杂更多倍。是第一次接触官摄音乐剧，一开始不习惯是必然，慢慢走近故事，发现是看完之后觉得幸好没有错过的故事。911事件20周年，把温暖带给大家。Gander，911事件中同纽约一样的城市。今夜我们向失去的一切致敬，但同时，我们也纪念我们所找回的一切。共同面对困难的人类，好美丽。就如疫情
在糖衣包裹的梦幻之后又拔高到另一个层面了。普通人能够共情的角度太多，说教的态度又非常温和，看到的现实都变得有些浪漫了起来。
电影本质上跟男主是一样的，提供一种幻想服务，重点是 find your pleasure and honor it
20年疫情没来成上海 官摄解馋了 舞台简单 表现力却极强 群戏有序转换清晰 单人发挥稳定 音乐不是那么优秀 但也有一两首相对出彩的 比起me and sky 我更喜欢prayer 和stop the world 总之宗教取向女性种族元素齐了 当你孤立无援 你可能只是需要一个一起散步一起喝酒一起讲蠢笑话的人 而甘德给了你更多 wherever you are something’gone somethings‘s missing no man is an island 十年之后再聚首 更加治愈 最后乐队的纽芬兰音乐演奏和真实故事改编加星
好似一出优雅的性小品，在男主与老师的交流中一步一步小心翼翼冲破年龄与家庭的束缚，最终达到高潮。
Emma Thompson 演的也太好了，男主有点接不住。结局最后的镜头完美！
我们不需要性产业合法，而是需要没有性病的世界。资本主义世界已发展到女人要为愉快的性爱付钱埋单了吗。 如果我五十岁/三十岁後仍无性爱会如何？
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