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".
“You only have you. How scary and how amazing.” 虽然本自闭症题材爱好者感觉被骗了，但也算挺特别的成长电影吧。喜欢姐系充满生命力的毕业生和无时无刻不在放电的达妹，情迷意乱太合理了。
‘I'm so thankful, but for the rest of my life, everything is going to be defined by them. But you, you only have you. And how scary but how amazing. You can just figure things out, and you don't have to worry about bringing another person into it.'自编自导自演的25岁，矫情一点有什么关系呢，还有大把时间自己去感受生活啊，how amazing!
Sweet sweet Andrew I feel you, I really do, I love this unhinged milf as well.
对话流电影，自导自演的宝藏导演，直白的讲了一个要爱自己的故事，把时间、金钱、精力、感情都花在自己身上，年轻迷茫的时候，适当的have some fun也无伤大雅，谁能一下子就认清自己呢，其中讲感情的地方又占据绝大多篇幅，如果像这样约好了再也不见面，那一定曾经是相当在乎的人吧。
啥破玩意，这男主太烦人了，那一笑比假笑还假
男主身上看到了自己，以及，这样的原生家庭，是我要努力做的
做过最暧昧的事 就是我用手掌托着你倚在石板桌上的手肘 承受着你的颤抖你的温度 耳边传来的只是彼此渐渐加快的心跳声 眼里却全是你。然而最后的最后 你在车里并没有回头 你望不到我在另一边的黯然失落 我曾鲁莽地跑去你家里让你别结婚并告诉你我爱你 我也曾自以为是对你说我是你的Soul mate 你只是一笑置之 我想很多年后重新想起我会理解你说那一套“害怕”“承诺”的说辞 我只想告诉你 我从不后悔那么冲动那么深情爱过你 因为回忆不会消失 我的是 你的也是。
属于卡司选角很精准的那一类“学生毕业作品”；以及很羡慕国外人在跨越了物质忧虑后，对人的精神和情绪的细致关照、勇敢表达
比扎导还滥用慢镜头。
没有过分繁杂的因素干扰，全程投入在这段短暂交集的感情萌动的故事中。心理年龄还未成熟的大学毕业生对成熟已育受过情伤的女性的悸动，亦是对于真正长大独立的向往，故而在这段经历中，他收获的是比爱情更可贵的东西，是回忆，是成长。
也许他们真的爱过彼此，但是现实面前不堪一击，这就是青春的代价，也是成长的经历
电影拍的很有质感，没想到一个25岁的小哥，能自导自演完成度还不错的电影，电影穿梭在一场又一场的派对中，看着他如鱼得水在人群中交际，其实到最后我们也跟女主一样发生我们对他了解也没有多少，不了解他的过去，不敢预知他的未来。
人生会遇到很多灵魂伴侣，但是最终走下去的只有一个，我们在价值和自我定位里取舍，步入快乐。但回忆也一直潜藏在心底。
每个人都好温柔哦 恰恰丝滑 是那种微妙的感觉 虽然不是he但也是暖暖的 男主真是善良可爱极了 弟弟也很乖！
就在描述一个平凡平淡却又略有遗憾的故事
非常暖，简直是一个心理辅导的典范，虽然还是22岁的困扰，却拍的多了一层人类精神层面共情的意味，有一种极致真诚的善良。（所以男主一本正经说有一个快乐的童年的时候很有说服力哈哈哈哈）
看的时候想，啥时冒出来的小俊美帅哥儿，年纪轻轻还要留小胡子儿，看完来看演职表，不得了噢，原来还是编剧和导演，简直是逆天了，前途无量。全片透着一 股轻盈、青春的气息，就像夏天喝上一杯沁凉清爽的类似柠檬汽泡水之类的解暑饮料，连小小的忧伤里都带着丝滑的甜蜜，是，也是只可能是年轻人拍出来的电影，甜到哀伤，用在这里倒一点都不觉得腻味做作，反而很贴切。达妹三十出头，但明显有人妻妈妈的感觉了，西方美女老的确实有点快，要好好保养了噢！喜欢她的自闭症女儿的那个演员，好舒服，哎，这样的小电影小情绪真的蛮适合我的，而且，看似没有剧情的那些有一搭没一搭的台词都写得极好，妙不可言！
爱真的很简单，但生活太难。
女主太美，但看完最大的感慨是找到内心peace前不要生小孩啊！
其实我觉得导演大可不必亲自上阵自导自演，不适合，真的不适合。
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