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".
电影在致敬楚门的世界，设定不如头号玩家新鲜，很多梗玩起来真是笑死人，有点像乐高大电影，舞男、美队、光剑的出现真是让人惊呼，有版权yyds...还有程序员那种卑微而坚定的浪漫也还好!
用电子游戏的噱头来掩盖孱弱剧情。大体还比较爽。
今天还发生了一件蛮哲学的事，以后再写
是好看的！全程笑点，偶有泪点，表情有戏，动作刺激~不要问看完“懂得了什么道理”，那做人呢，最重要的是开心嘛！վ'ᴗ' ի
电影极其弱智化的对白和桥段使它成为了一部儿童电影。
好多不合理，可是还是很爽，特别是最后打死反派，话说韩国片也要审查吧，这些结局好像很和谐的样子
楚门的世界＋头号玩家结合版，游戏做成VR的会更有代入感。迪士尼财大气粗版权多用起来毫不心疼。
倪匡的卫斯理系列有一部小说提到人类可能是上帝休闲棋盘上的棋子，你以为你自由意志走出得每一步其实都是上帝的安排，因为人的思想和选择是可以被操控的。而这种NPC拥有自由意志自我进化的桥段如出一辙，大家都是困在某个空间的囚徒，命运已经被写好了，想改变命运？那种能力也是提前设定的代码和触发机制造成的（对于人来说就是基因和原生环境），而且还有可能随时让你重启。所以，再得意也别忘形，谁知道啥时候就推倒重来，或直接服务器被毁呢？
个人更敬佩“Truman楚门”这个名字的创造，把举世皆真我独假的真人秀世界反讽得很到位。而Guy和Body，这两个名字仿佛是为了突出在他们的世界里他们是同质化严重的人群的一员，而实际上是完全没有结合故事语境和人物处境的偷懒起名法！你还能随便叫游戏世界的任何一个人珀森Person/万One…与其起名为Guy，还不如特勒Teller（柜员）更像一个原力觉醒的游戏npc，符合人物设定、前后反差也更能体现出来（🤷🏻♀️不知道片名和人物名哪个先定下来的
剧情和主题思想却有深挖的潜力，尽管它的逻辑和机制不那么像一个游戏，只是大游戏独角兽公司与独立游戏作者的矛盾寓言。
似是疑非地肯定了虛構的價值，最後還是過橋抽板地回歸所謂現實。如果沒有種粉碎人工智能的心，那就不要嘗試去給他們一顆心。
续集电影大多扑街 但这部真的很不错 动作戏份不说了 依旧拳拳到肉 悍匪也是真的彪悍 反派塑造都很成功 喜剧部分也是出彩 节奏把握也很好 真的是优秀低成本商业片典范 顺便说一下 同样是年代戏 比烈探强太多太多了 道具美术什么的通通加鸡腿
前面还不错，但是最后为什么突然guy变成someone‘s情书？？这跟前面探讨的AI变人太背道而驰了，无法自圆其说，明明喜欢上的是和自己喜好相似的AI，却在最后突然跟（背叛自己去给骗子打工并且直到最后才幡然醒悟的）方脸男街头激吻，大无语，烂尾！
而且你对流行文化越了解，观影体验就越好。
#IMAX 跟《头号玩家》一样的母题，对资本的控诉，写给独立制作者的挽歌。虽然这部还加入了《楚门》式的自我意识探讨和对部分玩家群体的一种讽刺，但直击的要点还是大厂对独立小厂的一种迫害（腾讯和鬼谷八荒）。还有资本对艺术表达的危害，现好莱坞就是个例子，续集续集加衍生和周边，我们的创造力去哪里了。可以理解很多人想玩《GTA》在里面杀NPC发泄，但资本不能为了迎合社会审美而去否定想象力，沦为平庸量产的创作模式，其他类型如养成、放置也要百花齐放。我们能不能给更多作品出生的权利?是时候该让作品来选择受众，而不是大众来选择作品了。
真的程式化到无聊，最后落脚点也莫名其妙，就是几个大IP的道具联用也太爽了，模拟人生的设计者会不会很希望他们的代码成真…
PS：21世纪福斯被迪士尼收购的痕迹，居然在影片里也给玩了出来。
3.5星...
从编导攒底抖包袱的角度，能理解为什么会有“我只是他写给你的一封情书”这种词出现，但从人物的角度，Guy讲这话等于彻底推翻（觉醒后的）自我，如果任何真实感念都向既定程式归谬，那他将始终是线下之偶。（好啦，甘大只爆米花，值得入戏院睇）
连好莱坞都亲自盖章，浪漫爱情类型已经是过去时，宁愿和游戏里的NPC耍朋友，感慨现实中很久没跟好男人接吻了。
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