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".
密室逃脱既视感，真佛头不还是送给日本人了么，没看过马亲王的原著，不敢过多评论。李现的台词差到他每说一句话我都在翻白眼，和全员演技格格不入，帅哥要是还想混下去，建议好好补补台词课，或者就一直用配音吧。葛大爷和雷佳音的戏真是的好，yyds！
我们虽已见惯了生活中的「恶」，但当所有你认为的正义，都变身为「恶」，并叠加在一起排山倒海般袭来时，我们会依然不寒而栗且毛骨悚然。四位参与霸凌的少年父母，分别代表着医疗、警署、律政与教育的强权，这是何等用心又何等讽刺。少年们诚然可恶，但与其「上流阶级」父母们的自私、残忍与贪婪相比，他们显然更值得被原谅。之于案件本身，发人深省，但电影对于细节处理却潦草甚至降智。最后的为反转而反转真没必要，更没价值。
最后的反转有点没想到，如果当庭辩护再精彩一点就好了，当然可能本来也不是为了重点表达辩护。
8.2，还是很值得鼓励的，还差点心思就可以更完美
被害者很容易就成为加害者，比起孩子，始终是大人更坏
在电影院看了一期《极限挑战宝藏行》。基本上是照着《国家宝藏》来的跑团游戏，不难看，也没啥意思，一部迟到了10年的娱乐片，中规中矩到不像郭子健的作品，喜剧桥段完全游离于剧情之外，葛大爷再出彩都是一个情节设置中的败笔，不过肯定比拖沓无聊难看的电视剧版好很多。看的第三个马伯庸小说改编的影视作品了，就觉得，他的故事包装很炫，内在屁也没有，没意思。
可以是很好的故事，但写烂了。色调很阳间，薛景求被拍得很好看
主角爷爷怎么知道日本人一定会还回来？？ 不想把佛头送给日本人，又不想落入老朝奉手里，所以想了这个办法。。绝了，那就是直接把真的包装一下送给日本人
没有反转就是真的烂。有了反转只是让这部片子显得不那么烂而已。想看薛景求在兹山鱼谱那种表演。以及我千姐竟然只是工具人，失望。
中午溜出去看了古董局中局，美式大片套路，好笑好看，泪点爽点一个不缺，其他就不要追求太多了。葛大爷宝刀未老，雷大头辛芷蕾正常发挥，李现太僵硬，咏梅的声音抓人，最惊艳的是阿如那。
前半段《雷佳音传奇》，后半段《神庙逃亡》。中间有个可以预知未来的爷爷，还有一个棋王老爸。结果电影叫《古董局中局》原来这嗯啊的就是惊喜。
我朋友说别看有李现我还不信结果他真不像是来演电影的，像隔壁芭莎来拍画报的走错了场子。从头顶发胶到脚底鞋跟都写满了格格不入四个大字。
一般的商业片，还行吧，比较喜欢鉴宝时的特效，不错
8.2，还是很值得鼓励的，还差点心思就可以更完美
援引自余秀华老师，留在这部影片的点评里正合适
我只是觉得很纯粹。世界上哪里还能寻得纯粹。这世界上没有人像你一样觉得我是唯一。如果喜欢你是幼稚 那我宁愿永远不长大。我只是把它当成情感看 没当成电影看
最后影片呈现为一种大义凛然的主旋律叙事，一家人接连用名誉和生命保护了国宝的安全。
啊这，短发演技我惊呆了
前半段薛景求造型（不是）雖然是剛上映但應該是之前就拍了的，所以現在看著整體都特別套路化，包括所有角色/劇情/情感/反轉，好像哪都還行但就無法引起任何共鳴，可能就是太按照意料之中的規劃走了，我就說薛景求終於能換個類型了？！看到他兒子就知道後續發展，怎麼可能！ 被害者媽媽找文素利演只有這些，怎麼可能！
最好看的戏眼全在葛大爷身上，最后好笑的是万一日本人不还佛头呢？
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