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".
认真的在演自己，太可爱了。很多欢乐的自我调侃桥段
莫名挺喜欢的~人到中年，竟然还能遇到一个趣味相投的好友，简直就是个奇迹。好想像年轻时一样，去遇到各种各样的陌生人。
@ 山田孝之，这就是你的戛纳电影节！！！最好笑的还是影迷尬聊，梦回无数个北影节散场、努力在对象面前装逼的男人
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。
我的天好看到爆炸，不管你认不认识凯奇这部电影都可以让你爱上他，他演出了很多维度！这不是谁都能达到的，戏里演自己，戏里演自己演戏，戏里演年轻时候的自己和中年的自己对话接吻！戏里演戏演自己第一次执行任务。听着就复杂吧！人都给你演出来了。但是整体的话我比较喜欢前半部分，就像我不喜欢喜剧之王的结尾一样，周星驰当年可能是为了商业非要弄个枪战什么的，但是在这个大环境，如今还是变成了间谍片就完全是欧美那边粗暴无脑的商业行为了。
卧槽，自己亲自己绝了，老子震撼宇宙了，这水仙好，磕了。这电影就一凯奇名片review哈哈哈🤣都怪你，被这个破电影安利了一堆cage以前的作品，我要挨个看他的电影了。整的跟全程好莱坞式adaptation一样，应该是粉丝向电影吧。剧情本身比较简单无脑，还行。
7.5分。电影7分+0.5的情怀。整部电影就是献给Nicolas Cage的情书，你觉得有多真实，那电影就有多真实~~各种有趣细节和自我吐槽，看得真是有点笑中带泪得感觉。Cage就是那种你觉得他已经没救了，只会拍烂片的时候，突然会有那么部还算过得去的片子出来，让你想起这位可是奥斯卡影帝啊~~这次的表演也是相当让人喜欢，不同状态间的转换非常漂亮，那声“ACTION”真的笑喷了~~~希望他这次真的能翻身，60岁不到还不算老啊~~~
多年后终于鼓起勇气看了一个凯奇演的电影……他可以为了这个角色又瘦下来并且肌肉也居然能练回来了一些，看来是当回事儿了终于，前一段回三番，住酒店的时候cable在放空中监狱，看完字幕之后熟悉的旋律马上响起，紧接着就放了变脸，当时我就感觉跟过年了似的！看见他终于又上了talk show居然觉得很心酸
nick motherfxxkinnnng cage，创意算新意，但剧情不新，娱乐就好了，祝还清债的cage今后找回自己
剧本的设计点是有趣的，但剧情走向还是老套，虽是尼古拉斯凯奇的角色与现实互文，但更多是沉浸在电影里戏中戏的表演和各种对以往自己电影的彩蛋和吐槽，凯奇的演技其实一直在线，不过我更喜欢佩德罗帕斯卡的表演，有些对话和镜头其实也蛮有意思，以及故事中心突出“过气”演员的一丝心酸和自嘲，也带点韵味，凯奇哥，后面你要支愣起来啊！
尼古拉斯————————凯奇！
凯奇的商业片要是都能有这水平的话显然是不用担心未来的。
当尼古拉斯凯奇扮演自己的时候，他不再是那个刀枪不入的英雄，而是一个过期的老演员！
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
仅有双重背叛那刻触及扮演
不是特别有诚意，但是看得出来凯奇想翻身了哈
人和模型渐渐重合那镜头很绝
7.5分。电影7分+0.5的情怀。整部电影就是献给Nicolas Cage的情书，你觉得有多真实，那电影就有多真实~~各种有趣细节和自我吐槽，看得真是有点笑中带泪得感觉。Cage就是那种你觉得他已经没救了，只会拍烂片的时候，突然会有那么部还算过得去的片子出来，让你想起这位可是奥斯卡影帝啊~~这次的表演也是相当让人喜欢，不同状态间的转换非常漂亮，那声“ACTION”真的笑喷了~~~希望他这次真的能翻身，60岁不到还不算老啊~~~
一部三流的间谍片，套上了“凯奇演凯奇”的包装，加些不遗余力的自嘲，再附以对经典的影片的回顾，竟然就制成了一道不错的佳品。希望凯奇大叔以此片为分界线，告别烂片B级片的日子
评论很多朋友说看过类似的创意电影！但是我刚好没有看过，觉得很好很有意思！
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