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".
She was too young to know what she wanted
前面还可以，有点阿金图，从万圣节之后就不行了，一路垮成二流惊悚片。塞满了音乐、刻意反转故事，和McKenzie尴尬的演技，两个角色的同构关系在互杀一场戏里完全被破坏了，最后再强行拥抱不觉得矛盾吗，情感逻辑也过不去啊，真靠硬来啊。以及一堆幽灵跑出来喊help me，可能是今年看过最莫名其妙的情节，翻白眼翻到视网膜脱落。（还有，最后结局居然是女主事业爱情双丰收，我妈为我骄傲，啥玩儿？
类型融合、劲歌金曲与惊天反转，埃德加·赖特的三板斧，尽管复古质感做的挺好，但是这次大框架还是挺俗的，而且也只是他的常规输出，还是更加怀念那个鬼马赖特。
看开头和中段，我还真猜不到结局会是什么样，并不是猜不到凶手而是猜不到这片子到底是什么类型：有病还是有鬼。看完后仔细想想，很多细节，类型化不是很好，所以让人迟迟抓不住。而且编剧方面应该也是有不少问题，有些比较大的地方并没有想太清楚，造成没什么太多可回味的。但是我还是打了4星，因为中间那些电影形式感，那些很细节的剪辑、表现形式、节奏感、音乐等等都是我特别喜欢的。我也觉得这些地方都达到了世界上最好的一档水平。这些地方都是使用语言几乎无法去描述的地方，看着很爽！
后半段崩盘起来真的一路崩到底完全刹不住....女主这边适应伦敦实现梦想的故事线，跟六十年代的sandy这个悬疑故事，完全是两条平行线啊，根本连不起来。
版权大户就是不一般
视听营造没得说，沉浸感很强，前2/3看的心潮澎湃，结尾揭开谜底开始一落千丈，怪不得分会不高
（今天才发现斯坦普和克拉弗林长得真是像……）
有老版《阴风阵阵》的感觉。安雅·泰勒-乔伊简直太美了。
前后端撕裂严重，出色的表现主义影像和OST也改变不了剧情的单薄
The city that let you down
虽然之前没看过奇奇与蒂蒂系列，但看完以后把以前的三季电视剧都下载下来了。剧情有趣，情怀梗足，版权炸裂，确实有点像疯狂动物城+头号玩家。
前后端撕裂严重，出色的表现主义影像和OST也改变不了剧情的单薄
拍成电视会比电影好上一些，导演有太多的东西想表达，但仅限于两个小时，导致前半段叙事慢，后半段节奏快的飞起。
强行MeToo然后又让姘头做victim...不伦不类。母亲有精神分裂自杀然后呢？莫名其妙。一开始以为是午夜巴黎这样的小情小调，但是忽然画风一转...女主疯子般跑的时候真的很烦，就想给她个大嘴巴子，给老子爬！！！三星都是给安雅，真的太美了...
后半小时倒胃，希区柯克估计要疯，前半小时一些光影和剪辑隐约能见埃德加赖特水准
前半段基本就是文艺剧情片，大量冗长无用的对白只有豆瓣的文青能够看得乐不可支，作为一部英国电影这算是老传统了，紧凑是什么对于他们来说完全不重要，秀肌肉才是他们想要做的事情，但是对于一个爱看纯粹惊悚恐怖的观众来说真是受了大罪了，要忍受过前面大量穿插的废话以及桥段然后才会呈上大餐。看很多豆瓣文青对前半段大夸特夸，并大言不惭地表示“后半段垮掉了”真是好笑，你爱看文艺片就去挑几部文艺片看呗，这部电影走向还是惊悚为主，你说后半段垮掉了，那要不要给你们再跳一小时的舞唱两小时的歌才算不垮呢？豆瓣这种群体实在可笑，跑惊悚片来装文艺，去服装店买皮鞋，说多有病就有多有病。
刚开始魂穿的画面和音乐真棒，后面可能逐渐有点掉下来了，所以看得有点落差。
故事虽然一般，但最后奇奇向蒂蒂表白还是挺感人的，彩蛋多到本小神龙俱乐部铁杆粉丝高潮迭起
60年代的伦敦营造的很美，也挺复古时尚的。喜欢老歌，喜欢三位女演员，包括楼下的奶奶。（她演过冰与火之歌的“老玫瑰”）本来可以拔高立意，前面还挺吸引人，后面就越来越崩，尤其结尾真的太烂了。就算还是保持现在的结局，你也可以不告诉女主真相，可以处理成后知后觉幡然醒悟，都要比现在的好。
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