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".
看完才发现，最精彩的全在剧透的预告里了。说好的唱一宿呢……
假、俗、有笑点！比最近麻花出的几部片子强多了，至少看出用心了，配上二手月季的摇滚致敬披头士真不错，三星鼓励一下！
叙事挺有趣的，有诚意，演技过关。但电影说教意味太明显，如英语支线和台词反复在说给刑满人员机会，有些冗长了。
跟烧烤比还是强一点的 求各位二人转演员别煽情了行吗我可真是烦死了 一emo一煽情就尬到头皮发麻 没深度就别硬拗了
靠升格➕BGM➕段子硬凑
原本以为就是一部单纯的喜剧片，崔志佳还是有点东西的。
只能说是别具一格的战争片，故事呈现的战争地点不是城市楼宇、小镇街巷，而是在山间田野。开头、结尾的镜头带着一点诗意，没有过分的主角光环和个人英雄主义等等，这些都是本片特色的地方。整体没有特别精彩，但有佳句，值得鼓励。
2.6 学院迎合主流主旋律叙事，能看出有美学和类型技术上的追求，但还是很糟糕，尽管仍好于《长津湖》系列。
佳佳认真演戏的样子还不错，可以找一部严肃题材演一下。本片有两场傍晚的戏份，摄影不错，有些像韩影的样子。佳佳如果想拍好喜剧，还是离辽宁民间艺术团那些演员远一些比较好。
剧本意外的工整，几处伏笔也挺精妙，导演功底较差，故事节奏忽快忽慢，人物情感铺垫短平直，总体来说算是及格的作品
这么多给两分又说好的到底怎么想的。。。比好多大院线的喜剧都好好么，不过还是赶不上一线喜剧。故事和段子都是一流的，包袱都不错，缺点在于故事结构上，缺乏让人心满意足的高潮结局，葬礼部分渲染得不错，本来可以作为结局，但因为好多事儿都没交待，就又多了散伙环节，当年情部分本来也可以了，又多了彩蛋彩票环节，就造成好不容易培养的感情又散掉了。褒奖为主，有待提高。
虽然电影有逻辑bug，但整体故事还是比较流畅的，个人觉得进院线也是没问题的程度，毕竟即使不是疫情影响，现在电影院的片子也还不如这个。 喜剧内核是悲剧，这个电影起码立意上还是不错的，鼓励分加1⭐！
2021北影节。比故事和人物更印象深刻的是影像。一开始是1个人，落水后是2个，山洞里是3个，中间的时候是8+1，突围死掉2个，水下死掉2个，然后重新集结决战，最终成为0。
故事内容：一直干白活的范大明白，在东北开一家殡葬礼品行，一天突然接了个大活，300万的葬礼，佣金30万。但是一个道上有同行争抢正常，他面临一个难题，300万怎么花。找明星，想法设法花钱，最后不断反转的结局有点意思。
在国产电影中很别具一格的一种风格，美术和摄影加分。是一种符合中国式战争电影的感觉，深山limbo让人感觉随时都会被突来的冷枪和荆棘困住、摄影采用大量环绕式长镜头且在交战中摒弃了远全景转而跟随角色的近景、整体的美术风格就是既惨烈像水墨画一般优雅美丽、人物心境梦魇外化做的也很好。在剧作上也没有出现个人英雄主义，这是中国式抗战的特色，没有哪个人物的形象过于立体且有主角光环，但就是轻微的细节设计就能让士兵由自己的形象和特质（沈队临死前说的接到了军令）这不是什么长津湖的人物塑造能比的…最牛的地方是整个这种人间炼狱的氛围感，那种低视角下的跟随镜头和声音惊悚感拉满，开头在水中扒尸体和结尾的血雨（有点今村昌平的黑雨的感觉、另外动物意向也很今村）应该是战争和cult惊悚结合的最完美的一次，里程碑中式战争片
出乎意料的，还挺好看，3.5星。很多包袱，很多熟悉的喜剧人。说好的二手月季的“死亡摇滚”呢？我就是奔着这个来的！还有说好的孙越跟于谦老师的祝语呢？这都是花了钱的！
东北整活天团
虽然槽点多多，但是还是挺喜欢的。感觉笑点也还挺多。崔志佳现在也是能导能演。全程都挺欢乐的。刀爷这角色挺到位的。宋晓峰追车那段感觉挺有意思的。
平平淡淡，平平庸庸，平平常常。结局不够有意思。
竟然没有很难看，但是一直觉得拍东北背景的画面，调色还是有问题，在东北长大，东北的阳光的色调就不是这样的。
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