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".
导演真是有才啊！冷嘲热讽幽默荒诞。法国人的文艺作品真是…连讲法语的机器人都那么哲。真是好看真是好看呀！带着观众在轻松氛围下探讨一些敏感一些深刻的话题，这是这部科幻喜剧的意义(◐‿◑)
赛博朋克+疫情封城+三一律+热内式天马行空，网飞出品质量上乘的科幻小品，未来世界的底色仍是吃喝做爱吹空调，推荐与同期《不要抬头》交互观看，体验一下美国文化和法国文化表里的迥乎不同与殊途同归。
很喜欢炮火轰鸣的战争片中这样在后方做着一些看似与前线战斗无关，但其实四两拨千斤的工作。感情戏是真的很多余，还整了个三角恋，这间谍当得非常不专业……
还是少年斯派维奇异旅行的基调。弱智剧情，完美服化道。封门前有趣，有尼克斯登门后开始胡闹。自救这段最弱。
毫无必要的感情戏，原本可以90分钟紧凑搞定。
尽管取材自战争题材，但本片纯以文戏胜。整个欺敌计划瞒天过海交代得很清楚，大量的伪造细节展示，并努力展现敌我双方心理变化，烘托出紧张不安、焦灼等待的状态。除此之外，还有内斗和办公室恋情作为支线纠缠其中，使整个故事更加纠葛、更具复杂性和不确定性，但也使电影在叙述使推进略显缓慢。
看的是国语配音版。故事很不错，有真实的历史故事，但拍的一般。
好喜欢这种色调类型的电影啊！虽然故事老套，看那个大白牙哈哈哈哈
再现二战中那个紧张而又关键的时刻。在斗智斗勇中加入了情感戏，不违和，是另一场“绞肉行动”
2.5。机器人恐惧症患者坚持看完就是胜利。
就准备活动阶段还有点波澜，用尸体假装传送情报欺骗希特勒，其他部分没有任何矛盾，就莫名其妙地冒出一个马丁。毫无意义的感情戏。只值三星。
2.5。机器人恐惧症患者坚持看完就是胜利。
一颗星给脸叔，哪哪都挺好但最后整体就说不上来的差点意思
本有成为反乌托邦巨作的潜质，但导演的浅尝辄止让这部电影最终驻足于一个小型室内荒诞小品，人物的特质也无法承载更为深远的命题。当然作为流媒体播放的家庭娱乐倒是绰绰有余。
確實比較一般，Jean和Iris的感情線有點牽強。駐紮西班牙的上校也算‘為國捐軀’了～
非常平庸的英国主旋律……
20220705——175；剧情改编自真实事件，二战时期一个迷惑德军掩盖盟军西西里岛登陆的欺敌行动。科林·费尔斯依旧帅。
看的又害怕又欢乐。欢乐因为不思考，害怕因为想得多。精神分裂观众看神经病导演，对路子。
士兵望向黎明的海滩，硝烟混杂着水汽，在一片血腥中他是否看到了光明？
让-皮埃尔·热内的最后一部！8/8✓不过这一部还是让人有点失望的，反正不及之前的作品那么让人舒适，实验科幻确实是实验……不对我胃口。但必须得承认，想象力依然爆棚且令人惊叹！
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