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".
老了的东木太温柔了。观感就是淡淡的公路片，一片祥和美好，也许老了就可以更柔软的看这个世界。
稳稳当当的好 熟悉的淡淡的忧伤 不知道会不会是伊斯特伍德最后一部作品了 希望他一直拍下去……
HboMax首发。总体来说是很平稳的公路片。一条线路讲怎样接受变老，另一边讲怎样长大。风格很平淡，想讲的东西也很平淡。会继续支持Eastwood的下一部电影。
哭泣的男人，东木老爷子宝刀未老，西部，荒野，亲情与爱情，温情脉脉。
东木高估了自己对于女人男人以及马和动物的魅力，令影片悬于梦想脱离现实的理想主义
东木老爷子还真是不闲着，拍完骡子又搞这么一出没什么剧情的片子，一老一小一鸡走一路，还找了个墨西哥娘们在无名小镇安了家
现在看老爷子的自导自演就像再看一场平克的演唱会一样，无关作品本身，更多的是敬仰吧。片尾曲真迷人
演技只有老爷子能看…感觉就是部面向拉美或德州这边的中老年的家庭剧。但看到边上七八十的老夫妻携手观看、听着西班牙语哈哈大笑的场景时，突然觉得也是需要有这种影片的存在的。一时之间竟有些感动…
I was a lot of things, I’m not now.如果可以 请继续拍下去。
本该是他最擅长的西部公路片，但节奏很缓慢，并不出彩。东木老爷子的确是老了，老到驯服野马只能使用远景替身+本人上身近景的方式呈现，就连说台词和走路都有一种无力感。
6.6实在有点低！很温馨，很治愈的影片，令人回味！
东木老爷子这情节开挂也太离谱了，小男孩的人设不合理，墨西哥风骚寡妇献身，警察点错相，连鸡都识得救场，改成晚年幸福生活比较贴切搞什么Cry Mecho
东木真的太老了，但真的希望他能这样一直拍下去😭。真想坐他旁边听他讲那些没用的大道理。「人生就是这样，当你想明白那些问题的时候，才会发现已经太晚了」
三星给老爷子的身体，希望他活过百岁，但别再辛辛苦苦拍片了。
6.6实在有点低！很温馨，很治愈的影片，令人回味！
劇情有點平淡，也沒什麼出彩吸引人的部分，中間部分氣氛挺好，結局有點蹩腳，整體來說沒有預想中來得好。
熟悉的东木风格，苍茫的西部和老爷子英雄迟暮却依然保有的那份坚毅和骄傲的个性太搭，一段被欺骗的旅程却成就了一对忘年交，并且寻找到自己久已不曾再体会的爱恋，整个调子平缓却那么感性，非常动人。希望东木大大健健康康，永葆艺术青春啊！
电影确实平淡了点，但质量已经不重要了，只要看到他还健康，活跃在荧幕前就足够了。看到他踏入墨西哥服装店的那一瞬，我以为他会换上那套经典的装扮，只是，那个牛仔终究没有回来。
克里特伊斯特伍德 当年不二的西部片翘楚 数十年如一日 自拍自导自演。。。近年年逾九旬依旧以一年一部以上电影的速度兢兢业业着(*ˉ︶ˉ*) 这对于日益凋零的西部电影来说也是一份鼓励和动力☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ 这次老头子来到了德州，他扮演的牛仔早已风光不再。。。一日旧日好友出资请他远赴墨西哥带回早年遗留在那里的儿子，小盆友已到叛逆之年，顽劣、还养了一只名为Macho 的大公鸡在街头与人斗鸡为乐＿φ(￣ー￣ ) 经过一番讨论说法，两人便踏上去往德州的路程。。。。不久两人遇到了来自少年母亲方面的阻挠，原来少年的父亲这次也是想借着寻子 以其威胁其母以收回在墨财产。。。。。。。
情节偏简单，小男主演技也青涩，老爷子精神矍铄
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