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".
凯奇大叔不烂的片子，这年头多珍贵，还不打五星！！！！
烂片王自嘲，我演我自己，海报大抵用的《妈的多重宇宙》同一家
如果不去考虑那些关于凯奇作品的迷影梗以及凯奇本人这些年的经历，这还是一部水准平平的片子。拍演员本人经历是个好主意，但这片明显是有想法没能力，最后还是拍了一部偏大众口味的。其实按照《昨天》那个方向去拍应该挺有意思。还是希望他借着此片翻身吧，不要浪费天赋了。
翻身了，但没完全翻过来。对比近几年的那些量产烂片来说，确实要好上不少。和以前的那些优秀电影比起来，还是要差很多的。不过这个想法确实是挺不错的。应该近10年来他最好的电影了把。
把CIA线砍掉，就演狂热粉丝和过气偶像叙旧喝酒，再把凯奇为了还债接过的烂片吐槽一顿就很好看了。
戏中戏中戏中戏，这是我过去两年里在电影院笑得最开心的2个小时。这片子是个值得多看几遍的喜剧，或者我也不知道该怎么分类了，因为揉杂了各种电影体裁，剧情、冒险、悬疑、情感、家庭、喜剧、戏剧却不会显得不伦不类。凯奇和佩德罗俩人疯狂飚戏，好喜欢
小妞那板牙一看就像凯特贝金赛尔，一查果然是她的女儿
2022-06-08
西班牙，福尔托尔角悬崖，一起入戏一起跳崖
【YVR-Scotia】三星半。能够如此直白地打趣自己，估计也就Nicolas Cage了。
他不止是一位有债必换的celebrity，还是一名不忘初心的actor，更是一个担当尽责的husband&father，诚如亲王亲口所说，一部由角色推动的电影，建立在凯奇生涯的基础之上，人生第二春听起来就是个很美妙的词，希望学院年底能有所表示，哪怕为了鼓励也好。
献给摆脱债务的尼古拉斯凯奇自己，献给所有他的影迷，以及所有爱电影的人。这是一部关于自我救赎，以及关于电影的电影，正如从《卡里加利博士的小屋》到《帕丁顿熊2》。
尼古拉斯凯奇自己演自己注定了这是一部喜剧，他和佩德罗帕斯卡的双雄风格比较出彩，前半段很搞笑，可惜第三幕拉胯了。剧情也有BUG不能细抠。
看到凯奇说重回巅峰 还是很激动 挺有意思的电影 涉及凯奇的梗好多
I think there were two Nicolas Cages. One is dead, and the other is about to.
2022.06.10
十年前，坐出租车，路过一幅尼古拉斯凯奇的海报，司机突然问我，你觉得他怎么样？ 我说他以前的确演了很多好片，但是近几年演的影片质量下滑很大，基本上成了烂片王子……司机说，还想你要是说是他的粉丝，我就给你免单了……我说我以前的确是，但是现在不能因为以前的喜欢而违背自己现在的品味……😂
2022-06-08
能到自讽出一部电影的程度也不知道是演员的幸运还是悲哀呢?
凯奇式的致敬自己，对过去自己的模仿是个陷阱，因它无法超越
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