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".
节奏非常快，感觉像看了一部Neo-noir风格的罪案惊悚片。网飞选在这个时候发布，说没有政治考量我是不信的。眼看着波兰右翼越来越疯魔，80年代迫害性少数的风信子行动也改头换面卷土重来，用仇恨围剿LGBT。最近的宪法官司让我分外好奇欧盟接下来会不会开除大波波...
老派但应该是今年到现在为止看过的最好的同志片了吧，剧情紧凑且非常有现实意义，两位男主角也很来电，床戏滚得好， 狠狠扇着波兰当局耳光。“半个国家都藏着秘密”，历史和现实惊人相似。
最黑暗的还是警察内部，一切真相竟是同为同志的警察头目为了掩盖过火的情欲狂欢。实在太讽刺了，最惨痛的不是人无法自由选择爱，而是同类相残。“这个国家一半的人都有秘密”，人与人之间为何如此缺乏信任？！
時代感跟懸疑氛圍掌握到位, 全程覺得這男的也太帥了吧一直提心吊膽怕自己碎成千萬片還好沒有心狠手辣, 但是可以拜託不要再亂拍床戲了好嗎哪有人這樣做愛啦, 還有找東西發瘋亂翻抽屜怎麼可能找得到, 以及酒瓶不要亂丟! 況且還沒喝完!
如果没有把直男掰弯这出，我就给五星。我反对同性恋，但我赞美给同性恋自由空间的国家。因为我认为，真正的自由，就是在不危害他人的前提下想干嘛就干嘛。
为了一种意义而打满分
看完之后真的觉得很压抑和无力，那些压迫和监视真的让人透不过气，唉…而每个时代的少数者也都要扛起那个时代的重压吧…人世艰难，又有多少苦难是我们互相加与彼此的呢…共同在世为人，为何要这样咄咄相逼呢…换个角度，故事之外男主的演绎也还不错，而且颜也莫名的上头，希望以后能看到他更多的作品。
不了解这个国家的历史和现状的话，很难get到它所隐喻和批判的他们本国的内容，但世界上很多事是共通的，最后警笛响起时，满心悲哀。看介绍说，当下的波兰极右上台，排挤lgbt的情况越来越严重，但即便如此，他们还是拍出了这样的电影，矛盾而魔幻。整部片子拍的极美，光影的营造，中欧冬季冰冷的肃穆，略带点儿苏味儿的城市建筑风格，极美。故事整体完成度其实不算高，但拍的太美了！五星好评！
我不是很喜欢看这种追查片，因为意识力不专注的我会自动忽略片中有关案件的所有细节，但其中的戏剧冲突我却是会保留的。
关于感情
关于《老亨利》:时间短，节奏慢，没有黑人，没有女性，一部古典纯粹的西部电影。游侠变为农民，历史藏进衣柜;警长转行悍匪，罪孽烙下疤痕。可惜历史无法掩盖，罪孽难以洗白。低头本可相安无事，救人反惹血光之灾。短刀割腕，利斧破胸，拔枪射穿面颊，抬手击落飞刀。世界变了，但你大爷永远还是你大爷。
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整体三星吧，最后结局完全是吊人胃口嘛，警官怎么样了也不知道。爱情吧没拍的那么动人，事件吧也没拍出多少曲折看点，就题材而言实在有些浪费了。
恐同即深柜大概是颠扑不破的永恒真理。看电影学历史。感谢导演搞了个开放式结尾。还有希望。
感觉这个类型的爱情片已经模式化了，很难推陈出新，主演再怎么美型，看多了也乏了。
酒吧里男主的眼神有多胶着，审讯室里就有多躲闪。这两组镜头真好。
Tomasz好帅！小胡子都能驾驭得这么好看！两个人好配啊！妈妈说的好，你欺骗了所有人，但你没有欺骗自己。
男主有丢丢像精灵王子 男二真是充满活力帅气十足
但我还是抱有一丝期望
前面挺好的，后面感觉导演更着重往故事破案那方面去讲，没有过多描述男主爱上男二这个出柜意识觉醒的过程直接很快的就带过了，再后面破案也没讲清楚其实就打大boss去了，总之还行，男主挺帅的，可弯可直！特别是生气的时候！
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