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".
年轻小两口演的太拉
没想到这个“神话”背后还蛮“真实”的，很有生活质感，私房菜变成大锅饭那段非常精彩
很给力的吐槽哈哈哈。最后第五颗星加给最后一幕，照向生活的投影✨
p.s.好几处拍到我熟悉的上海街角，真真是感动了。
下学期的《艺术电影赏析》就从这部电影谈起，原本想谈《南方车站的聚会》来着
这是我第一次在院线国产电影里看见女权相关的反思，对性别歧视的批判。但是电影本身怎么说呢，结构很散，抓不住魂，低于期待。吴越才是我心中最灵的那个，但是她的戏份一点不出彩。上海是一个足够文青和多元的地方，可艺术片不是那么好拍的。
小皮匠在皮匠摊上喝咖啡吃蛋糕聊女人，居然不显得突兀。有意思。
迎面来的剪影 路灯微微 爱情神话 依旧温暖留存 不管几岁 爱情万岁
有趣！想记住其中的一句两句经典台词，结果看完后什么都记不得了，挽着老婆的手，过好自己的日子得了！
又现实，又浪漫，又幽默，又感动。
就是小品的格局，但在格局下完成到了极致。周野芒老师结尾独白是真功夫。
正常情况下来说，我是极其憎恶在电影放映时交谈的，但在一个几乎满座的场次里，绝大部分都是上了年纪的本地阿姨爷叔，并且用上海话低声讨论剧情和笑评，倒反而有了点趣味。三个女演员太灵了，各有各的风华。虽然每个角色都各有各的拧巴，但是演员们表演得自然流畅收放自如。小真实和小浮夸水乳交融。这群人的每场聚餐戏都可爱极了，倪虹洁和马伊琍在画廊的剪影scene也是好看。前一个小时的节奏、结构和台本都很满意，但是后一个小时（尤其是最后40分钟）没兜住，节奏和剧情都松散，尤其是最后的强行升华反而扫了兴。总的来说，瑕不掩瑜咯~
果然是年末惊喜多，关于爱情的那些事被导演和编剧融进了台词和情节中，充分融合上海的市井气和知识分子的小情调，观感上很舒服，方言很加分。三位女性角色的塑造非常出彩，坏掉的高跟鞋用的巧妙，饭桌和画廊两段对话戏写的太猜彩，结尾老乌的故事既大方致敬了原版电影，还巧妙点了题，最后以看不懂原版电影而收场不落俗，没陷入自我感动的怪圈，作为处女作完成度非常好，推荐一看。（8.5/10）
4. 李小姐和格罗瑞亚的微信使用习惯：李小姐从来都是文字输入，而且一两个字的回复也必用句号结尾。格罗瑞亚从来都是语音输入。
5.缺点：插曲有点多，虽然好听，用的不是特别自然，尤其后半部分有点密集，为了用歌而用歌
贺岁档最佳是这部才对啊！除去用得有点过的配乐问题，故事起承转合都很工整，有些地方的高光甚至让人忘了这是导演的处女作，每一场饭桌戏都非常有意思，好多台词越品越妙，三位女性角色各有千秋真的每个都好喜欢，可惜我费被这么个吐槽法哈哈哈
2021影院最好看的电影！在结尾收获了属于我的爱情神话🤒
看到这样类型的电影就已经很惊喜了，我们多少年没有轻喜剧都市现实主义片了……上海中年男女的摩登生活，那些小腔调和小忧伤。虽然，某人讲那都是外地人想象中的上海，就像上海在想象巴黎。话说，邵艺辉就是这两年图书编辑一直在找的中国的Sally Rooney吧？P.S. 爷叔那故事真像真的啊……我都信了。211229
私心的年度华语最佳。我从看到大家一起聊索菲亚罗兰开始就泪流不止，没道理的那种，在单身又无儿无女的中年男人面前，爱情的神话一半在现实、一半在想象，一半在天上、一半在地下，一半在回头望，一半在朋友圈。
国产电影里难得的都会小品，轻盈灵动，人物鲜活，台词处处机锋，余味悠长。角色和城市气质相得益彰，中男中女们的情感与生活碎片，构成一幅当代都市生活图景。几位主演都很好，女的灵，男的纯熟，腔调对上了，看着真舒服。生命中来来去去，真理在于折腾。爱情有没有神话，亦真亦幻，也罢也罢。
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