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".
本身算一部差强人意的赌博片吧。但作为原著慢漫的忠粉，真的很难忍这种明珠暗投的扼腕之叹啊。
番外把我的期望值拉到极低，结果正片还不错啊——到ババ抜き之前都挺酷的hhhhh流星好帅好矮啊hhhhh
【齿虫】寄生虫丧尸🧟♂️宿主寄生在牙里
你恶魔苏醒就干点恶魔该干的事啊，这是干嘛呢。。。社恐恶魔吗
影片不错，十个小故事，串连成一部怪谈，虽然不是那么吓人，但是至少比国产的要好
节奏不错，流星的演技也很好。就是有些可能只有看了漫画的人才能get到的点，而且感觉会有后篇。
明明知道不好看但是为了看脸还是看完了的电影。
推荐指数：🌟🌟🌟
想得很大，疏漏太多。其實根本問題是需要按著“溫情奇幻”的路子走，還是按著“驚悚片”的路子來，兩邊都不靠之後變得非常乏味，以至於最後“戳開主題”的部分相當不三不四不黑不白，要反抗父權也不是這樣按心情隨機式反抗的吧……能看出監製陀螺的影子，其實也並沒有“特別糟糕”，但是“相當失望”的一作。
比起《怪奇宅》差的不是一点半点，但也算近期比较可以看的了。但就说衣柜那故事吧，你把人插了不赶紧往外跑，往厕所跑个屁啊？听到外面没动静赶紧离开就得了，非要坐到床上回味一下，不杀你杀谁？还有阴婚，这主人公都看到自己的八字被人放进了鬼符，竟然当什么事儿都没发生，最后毫无意外地被逼娶了鬼。 看完一整个大无语
看了半天结果就一个抽鬼牌，还只是前传...还不如同类型的狂赌呢。
好难看啊……横滨流星，佐野勇斗演技太烂了！！！
坐等下一部 希望能真的烧脑起来
一班班啦，无啥出众处，不过不知道是韩国人皮肤好还是咋的，个个脸那么水？包括男人？
比起《怪奇宅》差的不是一点半点，但也算近期比较可以看的了。但就说衣柜那故事吧，你把人插了不赶紧往外跑，往厕所跑个屁啊？听到外面没动静赶紧离开就得了，非要坐到床上回味一下，不杀你杀谁？还有阴婚，这主人公都看到自己的八字被人放进了鬼符，竟然当什么事儿都没发生，最后毫无意外地被逼娶了鬼。 看完一整个大无语
没啥深度和内容，当恐怖片看看也是可以的哈哈
十个纯吓人怪谈，其实质量还行。怪谈就是要追求一种无来由的恐惧感，有时候太有逻辑反而不好玩了。所以敲墙敲到异次元去那个着实有意思，这种脑洞大开的展开实在没想到，当然之前另一部短篇怪谈连作里出现过电梯去异次元的，但这篇一点伏笔没有，突然神展开也挺有趣的。密室逃脱那集的背景也蛮有趣的，很少看到发生在密室的纯吓人故事，画和死法对应也还不错。衣柜那集变态智商有问题啊，女主送上门不动手，非要去别人家里客场作战，这种逻辑硬伤不太行。红衣女那个高楼密室的制作方法放在推理小说里还蛮反套路的。韩国拍这种不亚不欧的短篇怪谈好像拍成流水线了每年都有几部，这次这个甚至还有点教育意义，让大家不要贪便宜，不要嗑药，不要嫉妒，不要霸凌，不然都等着被鬼报复。
事实证明精炼的恐怖短剧比装神弄鬼的剧情更看得进去
你恶魔苏醒就干点恶魔该干的事啊，这是干嘛呢。。。社恐恶魔吗
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