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".
拿“攀岩”来演逃命的题材，非常有趣。但是受制于成本的原因，观感跟《徒手攀岩》比起实在是差太远太远，太多的局部拍摄，减少大量的俯拍来掩饰资金不足的问题。带来的问题就是视觉不够刺激，还有真实。感觉就是单纯在墙壁上做动作的感觉...有些桥段有种为了演而演的感觉，还有一些行为逻辑有些硬伤...为什么非得要攀岩来逃命...为什么非得要为了真相摄像机非得不肯跟对方...有点无语...凑合吧，只能说还行。
有待提高，镜头拍出来颜值不够，而且为什么晚上拍得像鬼片似的，墙壁还有画像，吓死个人……
可别碰瓷《请以你的名字呼唤我》了，差远了。
进入正题后的确营造出世界与我为敌的悬疑氛围，不过将近90分钟一直跑，还很巧合顺利的跑，对于一个患有自闭症的软件工程师来说，太能打了，逐渐也变得无新意和乏味了。
这种陷入阴谋的倒霉普通人冒险故事好像也没啥新鲜的，但是这些主角居然都挺能打。
还好最后的结局是发光发热
印度都能拍这样题材的影片了，而。。。
never make plans with lover！
90年代是印度共产主义（毛）思潮崛起的一个时代，也映衬了不同于当今印度人的想法。而CoO·Al2O3和群青蓝相似，底色偏绿，具有极好的遮盖力。这一切的一切都暗示着作家自己与大众格格不入，是池塘里不存在的龟。整个作品，镜头都拍的很好看，唯一让我真的欣赏不来的，这是印度人的故事。
3+，复杂背景下（政局、绑架），一个普通人的逃亡与救赎。背景提供了主角普通身份和特殊经历的冲突，也完成了从女友死亡事件（死亡之外也是一段不圆满的情感）中解脱。
比较有创意 就是有点墨迹 可能是要凑满90分钟
有剧透。1命都快没了，还在意那个相机？2喝完水瓶放悬崖边，真够专业。3处境如此凶险，还有心思勾绳子传递纸条送上真挚问候，抖机灵也请看场合懂分寸吧。
一般，三星基本都给了贯穿全片的文艺范以及一些细节镜头，剧情很一般，很难引起我的共鸣，特别是男主对男二的疯狂跪舔的态度，男儿却自以为是地装酷emmmm。相比较，我觉得他和文学老师或许会有更好的未来，而且我觉得文学老师更性感更迷人啊，无微不至的关心以及帮助真的太赚好感了。其实最打动我的是姐姐在修女的鼓励下突破传统束缚，奔向自由的那一段，背景音乐太棒了！
据说是印度版的call me by your name。但整体基调上因为90年代印度的设定沉重很多。一个在成长中探寻自我的男孩遇到了一个充满艺术气息的男人，陷入爱恋似乎是理所当然。那一段一起的短暂时光应该是真的有爱吧，即使最后他说得到了就会厌倦。突然的离开，把一切都留在身后，唯有那一条塔耐脖子上的钴蓝。老师也许是一个预示，让塔耐的离开显得充满了勇气与抗争意味。影片的色彩很舒服，充斥着那种恋爱的气息。最后，诗人终于把自己写进了故事里，似乎应该期待下一部😂。其实结局的他出现得多余吧。
后半段：开，往城市中心开，把车窗都砸开来~用速度换一点⋯⋯痛、痛、痛，快！
话说为什么逃不是走便于逃脱的路呢？
你尿尿就尿尿，非得去悬崖边上，你不知道你朋友什么货色啊
剧情被慢动作拉胯，两个男主每次走出来都是刻意编排，故意做作的表情和动作过火了。
小成本影棚绿幕拍出的惊悚片，攀岩过程中的对决还是蛮有看头，虽然题材老套了点。
致敬或模仿《请以你的名字呼唤我》，问题是这一家子都是智障吗？姐弟同时被渣男上，互相没察觉也就算了，同一屋檐下，父母也一点都没看出来，太不合情理了。《请》片中，父亲早就看出端倪，而且还有过一次感人至深开诚布公的交谈。总之，这片子剧本有点弱，摄影剪辑倒还不错。
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