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".
在洪常秀之后，拍餐桌戏却无人动筷是不讲究的。
沪语的亲切感，上海的风情，没有造反过是不完整的，女导演镜头中的女性好自由，就像弄堂里的风
吃火鍋的時候看的。精確地把我傳送到了我小時候最厭惡、最想擺脫、為此和前女友爭吵了八百次、如今終於徹底斬斷關聯的文藝小清新的世界。一下子火鍋都不香了。希望我有生之年都不會再重新回到這個時空中了。以前有朋友說，他吃飯很喜歡帶上我，這樣我就可以鎮壓住在場想起文藝范的小清新，懟到他們灰頭土臉、原形畢露。這個場面讓我想起了絕美之城和青春年少，在華麗、光鮮千萬倍的音樂和視覺場域中，導演無情地展示了對自己作品沒什麼想法、只會一遍遍強調這是藝術的藝術家，以及缺失了他人認可就活不下去的導演。可惜這種假文藝氾濫的都市浮華，竟然被用作了刻畫浮華的精緻手段。導致連浮華都是浮華的。我已經過於厭倦這種用文藝和服飾一起裝扮空虛的自己的氛圍。一顆星給吳越老師演得真好，另一顆給難得的上海話劇本，讓我學到了很多鮮活的吳語表達。
还是女人懂女人。喜欢徐峥美术馆那段“代表中国男导演给女性道歉”就是说非常一语双关了。中国电影终于又会好好讲普通人生活了
明白导演想举重若轻，却没感受到那份举重若轻，总感觉劲没到位。
一个精神上海人拍了一群说着上海话的精神欧洲人的电影
被豆瓣骗了！气！神话又一次被cliche，不灵。
永康路画画喝咖啡，五原路买果汁修皮鞋，东湖路蹦迪，外滩十八号办画展，饭桌上摆着桂花糖藕和春卷，汤碗里是甜滋滋的酒酿圆子，看电影要配上老大昌的苔条饼干和天玥桥路的蝴蝶酥……
优点很明显：时髦、舒服、立意好、三个女演员光彩熠熠；但缺点也很明显：故事和主题都太散，看到老乌死了以后就在想不会就这么结束了吧还什么都没讲呢，虽然最后一段落脚在爱情上，但总觉得太弱太淡了
上海、上海人就是电影里的样子吧？这是我走出电影院后，萦绕心脑的一个疑问。虽然这部电影名字叫《爱情神话》，我觉得不是说爱情，更像是在展现海派文化。既有江南的古典和雅致，又有国际大都市的现代与时尚。种族多元，认知多元。连修鞋的大叔都在喝咖啡说英语讲哲学。还有混血儿，不，外国人都在说沪语，简直是笑死。印象最深的是他们第一次偶遇聚会，对吃饭剩饭家猫野猫的讨论，太搞笑了。观影的过程大部分时间都在笑，那个小玛雅很出彩。直到最后才认出老乌，原来是林教头啊。
看得出导演努力地想把这关于上海人市井小资生活的电影上升到某种基调，但是很抱歉俗到家了，若是真诚地拍市井烟火也可以拍出好电影的，不知道为什么非得把自己往文艺上硬凑，压根不是这块料，结果生活不生活想搞深刻然而影片那种塑料平庸的质感又喷屏而出，尤其是把徐峥这个角色设定成一个画家也别扭至极，活脱脱一工厂老板味道，真的辱画家了，整部电影叨絮片面又刻意，还有背景音乐也是一通强行乱插。
打不出来星就挺好的很巧妙有点浪漫也很好笑但是底色一点喜欢不起来那种人到中年的俗气的必然性就。无法消化一点没意思甚至有点腻心〇
是我看过的今年最好看的华语电影，剧情节奏明快，沪语台词里带着上海特有的“嘲叽叽” ，编剧精准地捕捉到上海生活中的琐碎，是真正的当代与都市的感觉，有一种小而美在里面。优秀的演员班底，把三个女人一台戏表现的淋漓尽致
除了皮相，
看了1/3才认出老乌是野芒老师，看到他大晚上骑车到一家名为“夜奔”的小店我简直要被这个梗笑死，大家都挺惦记野芒老师的林冲夜奔经典皮肤哈哈哈。
灵啊灵啊，赚不到钞票没关系，明年拿奖拿到手软哦。
就俩字——无聊，一通流水账，这种肥皂剧情适合拍成电视剧，更何况早有《欢乐颂》的案例在前，一股中年男子还在意淫小资情调大谈特谈爱情观的油腻感扑面而来，我不相信上海土著的日常就是这般市井画像的拼贴，一切都来得太轻佻了。唯一噱头便是全片上海话对白，除了增加江浙沪观众的亲切感并没能传达出更深层的价值导向，满满的人到中年的阶层俯视感，矫揉造作地聊哲学加上无节制地堆砌网络段子烂俗到没谱。最后对着本尊的《爱情神话》揶揄一番，摆出一副膜拜大师却又亵渎经典的自大妄为之态，堂而皇之地搬出索菲亚罗兰装作要圆这个“神话”的真假，恰恰是向欧洲精英阶层彻底的低头。
有点烟火气，有点娇气，有话剧质感，有点惊喜和好看。
在上海生活过的人可能更能感受这部电影给人带来的氛围感、共鸣感吧！（21年院线电影除了感谢爱情神话之外，就是隔壁雄狮了
一群成熟的中年人在上海说着abc，保持体面又复杂的生活状态，有着精致冷清又不饶人的上海味道。也不知道现在评论为什么刷过去，大体都是好评，疑惑于为啥自己看得云里雾里，我只觉这部电影讲了一堆废话，没什么内涵。能感觉到导演想表达的态度，可这部电影拍得太浅显，令人看完以后只觉乏味无聊。有时候玩艺术，一旦玩得看起来很高级、故弄玄虚，往往就是最令人反感的样子。一群小资中年人端着过来人的姿态，叉着手吹牛皮。
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