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".
只是一个情节短小精悍的复仇故事。但服化道的精良配上古风武侠，再加上舞台剧般的光影构图有着让我着迷的美感。特别是谢苗那一下火焰刀甩刀，简直酷爆
武打爽片，动作行云流水，一点都不拖沓，剧情上稍显简单。最新换这种主角是一直都很强的模式，而不像其他电影的一些俗套，主角又强变弱再变强。
对了，还记得新少林五祖嘛？洪熙官的儿子长大啦。
一个西部片里赏金猎人的故事，套上了武侠的外壳，演员用谢苗找对了，几场武打戏拍得还是有点粗糙，把技能点都点在了布景和近身错骨动作上了，细节部分都是一带而过。想要复原港片武侠的硬桥硬马，还是颇有难度的。摄影技术上够硬了，剪辑风格凌厉快速，导演很聪明，利用好技术+简单讲清楚一个单线索的故事，成就了至少75分的作品。
有点像是中国版座头市，一个瞎子剑客复仇的故事。不过做了一些本土化的剧情设置，显得不那么日式，武打场面还行，没有以前港片的行云流水，但是动作还是好看的。整个故事就是很短的一个套路，前因后果都讲明白了，人物出身也介绍了，或许是打算出续作？
预告片动作挺酷的，没办法，多少要照顾观众口味和演员能力。加油年轻人们，加油投资人们。
短小精悍，丝毫不拖泥带水，动作戏份也是可圈可点，可就是这样的作品只能上网大，因为不会有什么票房，疫情时代，还要忍受其他垃圾作品荼毒影院。
中国人很难不爱的孤胆英雄侠客 John Wick式复仇故事 剧情很简单但是画面和音乐很好 一些镜头还蛮舞台剧 有些台词意外地很结合时事这是可以说的吗
小女故意回来给宇公子射死，再一激瞎子内心潜藏已久的杀心。最后，宇公子死在白雪纷飞的黑白画面中，白学飘在黑夜中，异常唯美。只是老马出现时，暴露了聚光灯，实在太亮了。亮得有点晃眼。不过看着很爽，点赞！
中规中矩武侠片，几个网红脸女角色演技尴尬死。可看可不看
SRDS，已经比大部分国产片强多了，就好比ICU里躺了一片，突然有一个颤颤巍巍站起来了，还走了两步，这不是惊喜，简直是他妈奇迹！
谢苗在网大的动作片里，还是有份量的，这一部，之前的《辛弃疾》都不错。
B站看的剪辑，感觉女主像小枫
怎么说呢，说他不新，他倒是给你拍了个原创新故事。你说他新吧，怎么有人在2022年文艺复兴拍张彻啊（不）
考虑能投入的金钱和精力有限，基本是网大天花板了，短时间内讲了个一张一弛的故事，打斗方面也都及格，达到了今年很多院线都难匹敌的水准。不过，男主这战力基本上是编剧说啥是啥，以一敌百不是事，请再试问，这样一个武林高人，为了一个谋面一次的女人，倾家荡产给她复仇，这样的剧情真的合理吗？也只能认为，编剧所说的这一人，便代指苍生了。
再简单而普通的剧本和制作，也难掩那久违了的侠义。其实，江湖本就纯粹，一念起百剑生，恩仇快意，舍生取义，讨个公道罢了。
略有点装比。还有，红颜早提醒你惹不起，如果一开始就告诉你，惹对方会让她惨死送命，你还会坚持选择吗
是此前看释行宇《死亡救赎》后最令人激动的一部小成本武侠片了，很是难得
比较干脆的武侠。一双错骨手、一把听风刀、一招楼兰斩。
情节简单直接，动作戏还比较干脆利落，除了泡沫大雪花让人出戏之外整体有种八九十年代港片武侠的风味，当然也有不少座头市的影子。片尾音乐大赞！
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