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".
历史，悬疑，爱情。每个部分都说了又没有全说。节奏很奇怪，本来应该有趣的故事也完全让人提不起兴趣
聚会-"这样你就有回来的理由了";
很不错的类型剧本，除了男主像个瘟神一样，走到哪都有人被杀。
其实怎么说呢，剧情其实挺俗套，好多情节都有似曾相识的感觉，但是仍然是欲罢不能，而且看完后意犹未尽！那段男男床戏拍的，可能我看的版本画质不是太好的原因，画面有点糊，有点影响观感，再多一点点就好了，漏的差一丢丢！整体是部好的电影，尤其是结尾，感谢导演编剧做个好人，至少没让观众看到两位男主挂掉，在我看来算是he了，值得加星！
少数人的爱恋 不管有没有经历非正常的招募 就算真情所至 也不被人接受 不管是二十世纪八十年代还是现在
那是时期的波兰固然黑暗，可当下的波兰也并不好啊！剧情的确是老套了点，但男一男二的故事线不错，二人床戏性张力十足。
愿乌云压过来时我也仍能勇敢地捍卫自由 看完开始循环David Bowie的Warszawa
不要对任何事都感到畏惧，尤其是自由。
虽然线索凌乱拍的稀碎，但光影还是不错的。
枭雄迟暮隐身形
“我们不能对一切都感到恐惧，尤其是为了自由。”
“做人不能什么都害怕，尤其在为了自由时~” 片长不是112分钟嚒？
{★★★☆} 把一个老派的罪案故事讲出了一个迂回迂回迂迂回的角色弧光，以后网飞大数据电影都该这么拍的废话我就不说了，但这是流水线向High Art进军的起码水准。冷峻压抑的前共产主义波兰社会起到了作用，但氛围以外，它很好地证明了比起在叙事迷宫里兜圈的棋子，我们更愿意尾随有血有肉、会笑会哭的人。
女朋友人很好！妈妈那句“但你没有欺骗自己”很坚定！男主在档案上签字的时候能感受到力量！
不知道为什么，或许带着真实历史事件的滤镜的缘故，观看的过程多了份肃穆和压迫感。主要是悬疑风的剧情安排，披着时代的背景，讲述LGBT群体被压迫的故事。男二这个角色无论是人物的设定还是演员的选择真的特别出彩，水汪汪无辜的大眼睛真的很打动人心，我摊牌了，这片一大半的爱都是因为他。
3.5 题材还是挺得我心的 配乐很优秀 每一首都想下来找了听 但为什么我看过的波兰同影好多都有straight to gay的情节啊 看得我好不自在（女主长得好像kontrola女主啊 不知道是不是一个人）被男主撩到了 被砸了头然后自己用酒敷这个细节戳到我xp了 男二也好会啊 救命 床戏我可以撸一百遍
摄影质感不错 除此之外 并没有很优秀 评分虚高
比预想的好看一点，不过太容易猜到下一秒剧情了，床戏还可以。
两个互相欺骗的人，却付出真心，有点可怜，审讯那段虐了。其实爸爸也无能为力，对上司对制度无力抗争，对儿子所谓的保护也成了伤害。
狠狠代入了豆腐丝😢 罗伯特 黑头发和金色头发 波兰 德语 属性值拉满了😢可是lewy才没有这么勇敢😢
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