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".
女主像个物品一样被传递。后妈的爱不能认同！
很老套的故事套进三四个模板里面一气呵成拍出来2h出头。瑞思拜
情节一波三折，反应着人性的劣根性和弱点，冷漠的爱情和亲情让人绝望，人性本善，在科技高速发展的将来，生存堪忧啊！
看了原作觉得平平无奇，电影倒是拍得让情感流动变得突出，除了冈田都演的很好，虽然我不理解这个故事发生走向，但不影响被催泪弹搞得泪流三升。十元的造型一个比一个美，就是笑容有点模式化。咩酱要是遇到好剧本应该有机会拿奖，演技越来越好了。
一开始就猜到结局了……完全无法理解的剧情！！细节有爱但整体的故事框架过于圣母和矫情。咩和十元女士太好看了，每一套穿搭和发型都很亮眼，这也是这部电影最大的看点吧。
网络，原声，137分钟。
一个催人泪下的好故事不应该被变化的时代价值观评判
如果不是咩酱和十元太美我真不知道怎么看下来的…
这阵容没啥好差评的，我咩酱咋老是这种可怜崽崽的角色哦🥺太可怜了。咱就是说为啥没有俩美女同框的片段！！！！交叉演不同时空的事干啥！！！真是幸好遇到的父亲都是好人，要不然优子怎么可能长大是这么温柔的人哎。另外觉得最后的字幕有点儿难过，小孩的名字姓氏一直在变，说是接力棒，但好像女孩子就是附属，一直在变“主人”。还好她还有自己“优子”的这个属性。好久没看电影了，看看日影哭一哭蛮好的。我咩酱赛高🤤
最后现身的是莎拉。莎拉后面没钱支付克隆人的生活费，决斗对莎拉不利，这是莎拉劝说克隆人一起逃跑的动机；莎拉在上格斗课，克隆人在上情感交流课，克隆人比莎拉更具人性；克隆人假设要毒杀莎拉，成功概率很低，莎拉可能自己带水或者不喝克隆人的水。教练展示毒杀图片是口吐白沫而不是流血，莎拉嘴角流血是她本身就有的病；莎拉说要检查背包，克隆人说那我也要检查你的包，以及核实清单，都是莎拉主导局面，不带武器对莎拉有利，教练说身体也是一种武器；克隆人也不一定被杀，可能莎拉劝说她独自逃亡去做自己了。
这是哪门子接力棒啊，就算最后给了个非常突兀也很俗套的解释我也感觉不到啥爱意，就是美女和她的接盘侠们，而且还是各位都家底雄厚才能这么瞎折腾，要不是永野芽郁谁看这片子啊。
看到一半剧情稍微猜到了一点点 但还是骗够了我的眼泪 很久没在电影院哭这么猛了
这电影怎么奇奇怪怪的 剧情到底表达什么？比小偷家族差远了吧……看完只想学习十元女士和咩酱的穿搭…咩酱和十元真的好漂亮🥺
十分钟意咩和冈田的搭配 没想到冈田是个纯纯的工具人 俩人的爱情线非常不合理 不过刚在一起时候斑马线那段真的妙 几个爸爸加上十元也蛮工具的 大家都深深爱着这个毫无血缘关系的小女孩 这是不是有鼓吹生育的嫌疑 明明都似乎有点不合理 但哭了好多次 可能是台词很容易代入生活 “妈妈可不可以永远不要老” 这大概是所有人的期盼吧 咩这次的演技给我感觉有了新的提升！以前会觉得不管演什么角色都带着自身的一种气息在 这次好了很多 真的成为了这个角色 以及冈田黑色衣服假弹钢琴也太帅了🥲 弟弟似乎皮肤变得沧桑了一点啊 帅哥要注意保养
十元的演技太吓人了……比小姑娘还差……其他人都很适合
好哭又好笑啊🆘 看着大家疯狂煽情真的是太好笑了 田中圭怎么看都不像是咩的爸爸啊哈哈哈哈哈哈 而且大家十几年都一点没变老 真的是神了
难以用常规思维理解的尬片～
真的不懂。一边是貌似想表达的开放的家庭观，一边是保守得仿佛上上个世纪的性别观。
片子立意独特，但表现的却单调乏味，对人物内心逻辑，周边关系逻辑交待的不够。
这个名字取得真好啊。不断把爱传递下去，但是在其中的每一个人都期盼着美好的结局，就是优子的幸福。 P.S.剧情有许多想吐槽的地方，但是优子毕业仪式上弹钢琴那段真的看哭我了。
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