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".
好一个黑色幽默，捡了芝麻丢了西瓜，还自我感觉良好呢，不过哈维尔的演技真好，演啥像啥。
去看了魏翔沈腾艾伦火之前的小品，魏翔演技这一块确实做得很好。但是这部剧除了魏翔的演技就没什么了
7 资本的循环，墙上的奖杯代表了资本利益，高高在上。在我们看来只是见不得阳光。加上子弹的天平，讽刺，直白。女员工看似反制了老板，最终也只是资本的一部分而已。
意料之外的好看，整部电影其实很像舞台剧，剧情和台词都很好笑，魏翔的表演更是锦上添花，满足
一部含腾量为零，笑点密集的电影，恭喜麻花，恭喜魏翔老师。片尾他拿着花的自白，也像剧里魏成功的杀青感言。
我不理解，巴登子怎么能这么丑又这么帅啊？？？！！！我无语了其他演员完全看不见！！！
想拍资本家的伪善是吧？几个故事看下来起反效果了。用刑事案件里的术语来打比方就是故意杀人和正当防卫的区别。你要揭露有钱人的虚伪你别给他们找理由啊，几个手下也不是啥善男信女，感觉就是他们或多或少逼老板下黑手的。看到最后你都搞不清谁对谁错了。当然，现实里大多是这样的，但电影有电影的文本，你电影的名字和里面天平厂的设定摆明了就是要讽刺，但拍出来的感觉就是2边都不是什么好人，这还怎么批判？批判的对象都没搞清楚。P.S.Javier Bardem老了之后神态和表演风格和Al Pacino好像是怎么回事！？
《你逃我也逃》的闹剧路子，但对主角而言基本变成了出悲剧。丞相非在梦中君乃在梦中耳的设定原本有机会比《你逃我也逃》深刻，可惜剧本太糙，逻辑没理顺，偏又还要强行煽情。
“有时候，为了达到平衡，你需要在天平上加一点点东西。”故事通过无尽的、黑到骨子里头的黑色幽默，生动讽刺了哈维尔·巴登饰演的千面人角色，当然他的表演无疑是教科书级别的。 / 2022.7.18 公司
影片里有很多经典影片的致敬桥段，看着很有代入感！
有些人以为把各种段子、桥段凑在一起就算电影了，不好意思硬凑在一起的东西像碎掉的破布，像用的时间长了的棉套，没有了整体性，这不是电影，更不是致敬
好一个黑色幽默，捡了芝麻丢了西瓜，还自我感觉良好呢，不过哈维尔的演技真好，演啥像啥。
换位思考如果自己是老板的话，会不会也这样，老板要善于发现别人的优点，更要利用别人的弱点去牵制，制衡，但不能过于自私败人品，为达目的不择手段，然而这个演员演得让觉得他这么做可以理解，演技太牛了。
（补mark）第五波疫情以来（也是今年）首次入电影院纪念~熟悉的西班牙语黑色喜剧配方，各种离谱荒诞出人意料，但没有想象中有趣，结尾的几个冷血举措大力砰砰砰击打才让人有了精神，结尾一幕好评~可以更好，有点可惜~
虽然全片充斥着对资本家伪善的讽刺，但放在我们的大环境下看着巴登饰演的黑心老板的所作所为顿然觉得这确实都不是事儿；巴登的表演相比拿下奥斯卡提名的《里卡多一家》可出彩多了 ★★★☆
陪我妈看电影，太后打仗的不看说不吉利，修电路板不看说哪里来的丑孩子，骑摩托不看说汽配城修车工平时都不想了解他们这时候还要花钱了解？于是只剩这部合家欢了…还行，我妈欢了几下，我剧情实在太熟加上麻花太行活属实欢不出来
前一半剧情三星到两星半，真的节奏太慢了。后三分之一，事情失控后的情节开始变得好玩起来，三星半！ 女配身材很顶啊
哎 骂不动了 记录了一下 22分钟的时候前排观众发出的鼾声就说明了一切；另外喜剧可不可以别煽情
这招其实不新奇。应该说，很难得开心麻花在用脑子而非段子搞笑。舞台式布景打光做得不错。而既然他们演的就是烂演员，夸张就不足挂齿了。
黑色幽默反讽到位，对于一位讲求着“公平”的“好”老板来说，没有什么比控制更重要了，所有人都要在他的掌控之下，却被冠以为对方着想的目的。哈维尔戴上眼镜，烫个头发，立刻就从《老无所依》里的杀人狂变成了一个精致的利己主义者，演技加分。四星！
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