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".
这才是真正在演戏的汉子吧，哪怕演得是个瞎子也能看出其英勇狭义的一面，真的帅死！！侠之大者，为国为民，除暴安良，演员谢苗打斗场景全部都是亲身上阵，功夫也是毫不掺假。虽然武侠片终究还是不可能回到它们的巅峰时代，但是至少可以看出导演与演员在这部影片中的诚意，故事脉络并不复杂，但还是令人看得热血又感动，震撼又矛盾。毕竟，打斗不是为了装酷的花拳绣腿，剧情也不掺杂傻白甜的爱情故事，可以看出整个故事充满了狭义与道义，责任与无畏的深思。故事里，有这样一双错骨手，亦有那样一把听风刀，有如此一招楼兰斩，亦有这般一颗侠义心！
“多子多福”的结构的冲撞和再结构化——如果最后是分手就好了
打斗场面不错 但是剧情有点假 全部身家给一个非亲非故的人还给人报仇，盲人再厉害也打不过会武功的健全人，2颗星给武打效果
前半段节奏很好，让人特想去潮汕旅游，后半段垮了点，整体还不错，结尾伪自录多余
完成度挺高，也挺利落的一部小片。
第一部拿龙标的网络电影，制作水准确实高一些，但还不知道这个龙标对行业有没有什么意义，还是说单纯是有关部门在标榜自己审核水准和对影片质量的把控。影片故事是行侠仗义对抗强权的老套故事模式，武打设计偏游戏化，有两处“必杀技”场面设计，呈现效果上来讲还算不错，虽有夸张但在情理之中。祭祀场面和雪景调度似乎明显借鉴自日本剑戟片，武打设计、人物造型上有徐老怪的影子（宇文公子的部分镜头跟《龙门飞甲》的陈坤如出一辙，小boss也是徐克电影里常见的“黑脸怪”）。当个武侠小品看还不错
“一双错骨手，一把听风刀，一招楼兰斩，是你叫醒了这个瘟神。”
好在故事还算流畅紧凑，摄影也不错。
好在故事还算流畅紧凑，摄影也不错。
角色塑造可能参考了古龙小说里的傅红雪，但角色有型无神，电影有表无里。角色行为动机没有说服力，但网大能有几分古龙武侠的孤傲快感实属不易，有几个瞬间蛮有质感。
拍得真好啊！别说网大，内地院线电影近年哪有武侠片可看！内核是《长安十二时辰》的悲愤。男女主是瞎子和琴娘吧，倪燕人设是一个单薄的标准武侠药引子。谢苗真好。魏君子单恋港片这么多年，终于完成一部自学成才的电影了。
还原我们潮汕家庭的婚姻观念，他妈简直跟我妈一模一样
制作精良上佳，打戏流畅犀利，远超预期。谢苗最近两年网大也差不多了，可以从男二男三开始走走大银幕了啊~~~
真好一片子，完全勾起了我对于潮汕文化的期待和向往。
不错，配乐增色太多太多。
三星半，故事有点弱，但多给半星鼓励分。这74分钟里的“武”和侠气，比那几部轮番吹嘘“国产武侠支棱起来”的剧加起来都多。几场打戏都拍得颇有水准，喷酒定位、雪中燃酒，都打得有纹有路，有清晰连贯的递招拆招，有贴合性格的巧妙设计。成瞎子因为曾接受过一点善意一顿酒，就愿为素昧平生、连长啥样都不知道的人拼上性命，只为讨个公道，这，才，叫，侠。谢苗有些角度像宋洋，不算俊美，但有故事感，适合银幕【主角是个退伍瞎眼老兵，一直想起《屏住呼吸》…
不错啊主角很帅，虽然也有些bug但剧情很流畅打戏也给力，场景很美很艺术
影片最后的长特写，妈妈眼中泛出那道浅浅的泪纹，问道：“你妈是不是很没用？”整个心都快融化了。
前半段节奏很好，让人特想去潮汕旅游，后半段垮了点，整体还不错，结尾伪自录多余
作为本土电影当然力荐 有笑点有泪点 把潮汕习俗介绍的很到位 就是结局差点意思
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