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".
不過最後原來是在推廣合租房，轉的有點硬呢
人到中年，危机重重，但所有的困难都被有如神助巧妙地化解了，对于严峻的养老问题，都只是点到为止，隔靴搔痒，轻松+愉快的养老小品。共享住房可能也是大趋势，但把房子卖了去跟别人合租，真的不是脑子进水?
名字很吸引人…养老保险，退休八仟一万…我说：活在当下，不可预知的未来，可能是竹篮打水一场空哦！😂
表现手法很欢乐（搞笑艺人不少），强调金额的动画有特色，开始感觉女主周围靠谱的只有女主，给女主搞各种的困难，但是周围都是好人，最后意料之中的皆大欢喜。轻轻碰了一下养老、中年危机的话题，人物比较脸谱化，不够深刻，没有结果。本来还想SHARE HOUSE的出场是凑时长吗，结果居然是最终解决方案……SHARE HOUSE广告片么……//天海sama的可怜表演挺适合可爱的，但是不知为啥有种她会不婚的感觉。
为什么看到最后会觉得整个片子像share house的硬广？
挺有意思的～好喜欢老奶奶～～养老这么沉重的话题，能够用轻松诙谐的方法呈现，挺好的～
只给出了问题，但连多迈一步来尝试解决问题的努力都没有
很欢乐，进度条和时间融为一体很舒服的看完了。教育疫情没收入的我，思考省钱的重要性。平实真好。
很现实啊，没有足够的养老金，那就卖掉房屋去老年公寓合租吧！死后没人来参加葬礼，那就办个生前葬礼吧。日本已经开始探索老龄化社会的居住方式了，咱们也不远了。
有天海佑希这样的老婆怎么可能分床睡，绝不可能
小刀划尻开眼了。
看日本的这类电影总是让人陡然有了继续努力生活的勇气
挺现实的，关于金钱，关于亲子关系，合租养老也适合日本人，毕竟骨子里是不想给别人带来麻烦的人
开头开的挺好了，事件冲突挺集中的，越往后开始飞了，但没有崩，总体还行
前面挺有意思的，后面有点俗，人到中年的烦恼哪能那么容易解决呢
太一般了。日本社会经济情况不好 于是挑出了【家庭和谐（婆媳关系）】和【住房紧张】两个热点问题 给市民灌安慰剂。笃子本来就人畜无害 所以婆媳关系在钱还能让家人吃饱穿暖的情况下完全没有看点 不过诈骗养老金那一段拍得还挺有意思。住房紧张则拍得避重就轻了 公租房便宜人人皆知 和不认识不同背景的人相处才是劝退的去公租房的主要原因 但导演只用了一起烧烤一起制作花瓶两件美好的事搪塞过去。“人有时候要活得任性一点” 但根本在于如何有这个任性的资本呢？而且是你一个老婆婆坐在奔驰车里对人说这句话 难免让人有何不食肉糜的唏嘘。天海佑希老了 但气质好好 一点都不像会为钱烦恼的女人 这个老太太不认识但演得挺好的。
因为刚看完书就去看电影真的完全不一样的体验，书很emo，而电影很欢乐，而且是在欢乐之后更加欢乐。卡司确实有点强大的说
天海祐希1967年生人，人家还在奋斗，我有什么借口逃跑
莫名喜欢这个电影。被片名耽误了，其实是个五十岁女人在人生低谷的一年重新审视自己生活，重新起航的故事。虽然理想化了，但看完不失鼓舞，整体也很有趣，各种奇葩小配角很好笑。叔真的是莫名苏感，跟气场强大的天海女王演中年夫妇也不违和～敷面膜时看婆婆骗保险金那段，面膜笑裂了😂
前面已经够难看了，直到看到最后发现是个两小时超长合租房广告 我的表情be like:😅 导演和编剧你们在干嘛
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