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".
青少年本色出演怎会不好看？当异性恋家庭伦理电影天花乱坠产能过剩审美疲劳之时，甚至故事框架都无需改变，依旧狗血淋头与程式化剧情，只要把异性恋家庭换成同性恋家庭，整个电影都会清新起来，吵架也变得可爱，离婚也可以成为最完美的结局。
意大利片总是碎碎念 题材规避沉重 让这个话题看似已经可以轻松谈起
你，剪了我最爱的西装，
男主的女朋友好漂亮哦！我一见钟情了！（有点点像裘德洛的女儿Iris（我也好爱（氧气美女我的最爱！呜呜呜
同性婚姻也走到“有了孩子还能离咋滴”的阶段了😂脑补一场男主和双胞胎兄妹的三人情感大戏
但是有一点大家意见出奇的一致
法国妈妈在浴室里撞见儿子和男主那段笑疯我了，上一个被法国姐弟/兄妹坑害的故事是不是还在戏梦巴黎里🤧
在以婚姻关系为纽带的背景下，爱情能存续多久呢？🥲🥲🥲
2022-3-15 这个角度很新颖，当两个爸爸的家庭沦为真正的“平常”。抓马的意式喜剧。
我宣布这部片子有我看《爱你，西蒙》时的感觉了！同志婚姻的破碎和代孕儿子的成长，这部很抓马的喜剧片解锁了同影的一个新的领域。表面上是很普通的家庭伦理剧情，中间穿插了青春校园生活，讨论的议题缺是耳目一新的：同性婚姻与抚养孩子一系列法律的实施与缺陷，孩子被家庭关系所误会的性取向，血缘与否的亲情……结合极具戏剧化的喜剧元素，呈现的是一场很欢乐温暖而又惹人深思的故事。
每一种感情不好好经营都可能消散。处在同志家庭又如何，还是可以喜欢漂亮姐姐呀！
我以为是在讲婚姻，其实是在找父亲。drama~
浪漫又温柔 平凡又质朴 爱的千丝万缕（这个中文译名也太好了）
抓马情感大乱炖，所有的爱与恨交织在几代人之间，最后如星尘一般理不清但看的楚
故事的最后，我终于能理解用喜剧的方式来讲述是多么正确的选择了。悲喜交加，笑中带泪，讲述顺畅自然，浑然天成。最后的彩蛋。
每一对情侣 都会有曲线起伏的感情 或许归于平淡 依然狗血 但人和人之间总会有千丝万缕的联系 这就是爱带给我们的
南通版的婚姻故事 一旦出现问题彼此都是算计 最后回归了个大团圆 大人的故事更有意思 相比较夹杂在其中的主角有关于他的困惑与挣扎 痛苦与爱 都显得没那么深刻了
没有永恒的爱情，爱情最后不是转为亲情就是转为怨恨。闲来无事随便看看
呃，又一个“养大于生”的家庭伦理喜剧，换了个同性的壳而已。
抓马是抓马，里面的人和感情都很温柔。年轻人的爱情友情真是美好，成年人的感情很复杂，也很美好。爱情会消失，但是千丝万缕的爱不会。
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