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".
【D-】低级惊吓桥段合辑，故弄玄虚的叙事更是惨不忍睹。
金素慧终于实现了她在101的疯子演技。错乱时空的想法真不错。虽然有点用力过猛，但是韩国的鬼片真的是越来越值得期待了。
恐怖片还要啥理性？恐怖片还要他妈的什么理性！
看到那些鬼手其实是带的黑手套，我就笑了...
今年韩国的鬼片都够顶啊！
一个怪没杀掉，反而自己也是怪。
镜头乱，剧情乱，几个年轻的演技实在是差，有点吓人，仅此而已。
恐怖片还要啥理性？恐怖片还要他妈的什么理性！
很平淡的一部爱情电影，只是借着建埃菲尔铁塔的名义而已
我还是非常疑惑，埃菲尔铁塔我听说的版本是埃菲尔为了悼念亡妻建的，为什么变成禁忌婚外情了，开头还写了根据真实故事改编，差点就信了，毕竟法国人拍的，还以为万一他们知道的才是真实版本，看来是我想多了。对剧情狠狠无语，但却被刚建成的红色铁塔感动到，这个冰冷的钢铁架子充满了建筑师的热情和信念，才是真正的浪漫吧。
不错，以我的智商能看懂，看到中间就猜到男主死了
三条线讲述一个故事，又穿越，又驱鬼，又伪纪实，但拍的有点乱套，想法非常不错
影片着重的爱情线，在拍摄手法上的确非常抢眼，插叙的手法将爱情和事业的起伏融合得恰到好处。演员的演技让本来普通的故事线依然动人。尤其是男女主最后庆功会上含泪遥望的表情转折，非常有感染力。
我看不是金康宇疯了 是我疯了……打开的时候以为是金康宇另一部电影 结果看快三分之二才慢慢反应过来 啊 这就是个纯鬼片 梗都不新鲜 有种两个月亮升级版的感觉 但是因为给时间空间技能升级了所以整得乱七八糟 真是乱七八糟 而且奇妙的是 本片明明几乎集结了所有我害怕的鬼片元素 但还是不吓人……盯着大鬼脸恍惚间以为我克服了黑眼鬼恐惧症。金康宇 咱整点好的 我心心念念的M还会出吗
画面配乐服化道都精美，但对于建造铁塔的描述太薄弱了，重点还是这个莫名其妙的爱情故事。男主看着有点眼熟，原来是auberge espagnole里的呆萌小哥已变成沧桑大叔。最后就是片头出现我司大名还是有点fière的嗯
太闷了，看不下去。。但是得到个知识点，设计埃菲尔铁塔这人也是建造自由女神像那人。。
女主很美，另外全片都在谈恋爱，和巴黎铁塔关系不大。不喜欢男主，显得很猥琐。
建塔和爱情选择之间的两难拉扯没有拍出来，整体中规中矩。开个玩笑：为了抚平爱人的伤痕，将铁塔设计为平顶是不是更合理？
墨迹，垃圾，故弄玄虚，竟然一直黑黑黑，我都无语了
一般般，想玩的要素太多了就显得很凌乱，还是昆池岩恐怖
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