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".
也算不上什么精巧的故事，杂糅借鉴了很多的经典悬疑电影。没有成功营造起悬疑悬念如阿加莎无人生还那种的严肃惊悚感，本来定位就是偏喜剧，但也没多好笑，更多的还是万合天宜那种拿腔捏调的网络情景喜剧，如李编剧在剧本分析会上所说，我们要偏重于还原真实的案情，但这部电影恰恰拿捏在戏谑与严肃之间，两头不靠，哪头都不够彻底，不够痛快。
一个大关节不错的剧本安排进了老旧的笑料和一看就知道要呼应的伏笔，把整部电影的质感变得塑料。“像我爸爸”“假发对假发夜莺被摧毁”这些我都提前猜到了。
这部电影挺有趣的，本煜大魔王已经进化为万合天宜演技最好的人了吧，我觉得他已经突破了万合天宜的圈 ，就算出演其他的都依旧能演的很好。到现在我都还记得我刘循子墨的孙悟空哈哈哈哈，时代的眼泪啊
有些地方冗长，但瑕不掩瑜，很喜欢黑色幽默以及想表达的主题，大家都在为了正义努力着
一部借古喻今的电影，告诉你家里没有两把刷子，别混娱乐圈。在独立的他为她背负人命并牺牲自己的那个故事里，如果你问她，她是怎么活过来的，她会告诉你她不委屈，因为曾有个人为了给她出头不惜牺牲自己，她会好好活下去。
唉，最后隐晦的表达，照片上的人都死了吧，揪心。这是个好好讲故事的电影，前面编剧追问凶手时走悬疑风，我也觉得这里面有事儿，到后来人性改变，还是比较自然的。那个年代有权有势的人肆意妄为，普通人无力反抗，照片上的人已经是有稍微能力的人在用自己的方式抗争，其他人呢。
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自己人当导演就是不一样，最好的角色给了张本煜，恰好又是我最喜欢的那种人设太帅太性感了，以致于对张本煜重燃爱火，剧本略微有点点生涩，但还是比很多国产大片好太多了！万合天宜有心了，看完让我想起《午夜北平》，真没想到是这么个故事。
四星半，确实是2021年最给我惊喜的电影了，现在觉的21年国产电影最佳是这一部，也是很后悔没去影院了。影片开场强烈的话剧感让我觉得新鲜好玩，前面的梗我就已经笑出声好几次了，没想到的是后面给我看哭了...刚开始的反转好猜，但没想到后面还没结束。几个人物出场可有意思了，各有各的算计和“猥琐”，越到后面竟都越顺眼了起来。里面有好多比较明显的讽刺，准备看看别人的解析自己有没有漏掉什么
四星半，确实是2021年最给我惊喜的电影了，现在觉的21年国产电影最佳是这一部，也是很后悔没去影院了。影片开场强烈的话剧感让我觉得新鲜好玩，前面的梗我就已经笑出声好几次了，没想到的是后面给我看哭了...刚开始的反转好猜，但没想到后面还没结束。几个人物出场可有意思了，各有各的算计和“猥琐”，越到后面竟都越顺眼了起来。里面有好多比较明显的讽刺，准备看看别人的解析自己有没有漏掉什么
整部片子的观赏性很足，导演、过气女明星、罪犯、制片的选角太好了，记者（编剧）中规中矩，过气男明星、武术指导、警察这三个角色有点不伦不类
特别有画面感的剧本杀，在一幢恐怖豪华的别墅中的密室杀人案，聚集了一众电影从业者以及凶手和警察。烂片之王的导演、过气女明星、孤注一掷的制片人、有正义感但却屡屡得罪权贵的编剧、武功并不高强的武替，除了尹正演的编剧一身正气以外，其他人都有各自一些小缺点，但是就是这帮平凡人，却总能在最紧急的时候保护善良的人，闪耀着普通人的光芒。看似悬疑推理的剧本杀，其实是讲述关于守护和正义的故事，没想到年轻的导演一出手就剧本硬核、内涵深刻，人物饱满，场景华美，中国电影未来可期！
虽然我不知道剧本杀，但整个故事的架构让我想到了9号房，话剧感十足的演绎方式可以带给观众足够的视觉冲击。巧妙的反转，干净的转场，清晰的人物背景，一气呵成！预定2021年度华语十佳
什么就“华语第一部剧本杀电影”……《十二公民》、《你好疯子》，都是密室类型的剧本杀电影啊。只是剧本杀这个概念这两年才提出而已，就是推凶电影。
4.5🌟从电影预告刚出来我就好期待，看电影上映之后评分真的很不错就更想看了，最近疫情越来越严重了想着赶紧趁电影院关掉之前去看完不然一定遗憾。
这种小儿科式的表演，你们不尴尬，就只有我们尴尬了。中国电影的羞耻，韩寒羞耻，尹正羞耻，没有一个演员导演不羞耻，居然这样的电影能过审，导演演员剧本没有一个好的，整个行业烂到家了。
“十个项目九个凉，商业投资很正常。”怎么说呢？前面如果不是万合天宜般的笑话真的很难撑下去啊，密室逃脱+剧本杀的痕迹也太严重了，感觉他们每个人是来参加真人秀的而不是来演戏的。不知道是不是电影已经下沉这么严重了。后面可以看出导演的一些个人想法，稍微挽救了一下电影。而演技最好的居然是余皑磊，觉得应该多给他一点出场机会，无论是这部电影还是别的。 / 2021.12.5 SFC上影百联又一城店
一个大关节不错的剧本安排进了老旧的笑料和一看就知道要呼应的伏笔，把整部电影的质感变得塑料。“像我爸爸”“假发对假发夜莺被摧毁”这些我都提前猜到了。
影片的节奏感非常好，张驰有度，关键情节的交代和连接非常自然，是难得的把故事讲好的国产片。剧本很扎实，充满了对于电影行业的观察和自我反思。由于剧情的需要在各种不同的类型片中不断切换，却能做到游刃有余，实在是酣畅淋漓的观影体验。
期待过高，看完之后就容易失望。想看的几个演员表演痕迹过于重，没想到杨皓宇、张本煜带来了惊喜。故事的核心不错，不过，还可以拍的更好一点。
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