马丁

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 slping 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 fl pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls aslp, 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 blds to death in her slp. In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Mzel) 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 Braock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda&#39s large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then auses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, &quotFirst I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you.&quot 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 granaughter&#39s 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, &quotThere&#39s no real magic... ever&quot. 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 Braock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granaughter 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&#39s 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&#39s boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur&#39s attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her. When Christine ss that Martin won&#39t 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&#39s like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as &quotthe Count&quot to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he&#39s just crazy. Martin gets a job at Cuda&#39s 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 Ay 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 Braock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He ss the woman&#39s husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more fding. 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 ndles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trs across the strt where he kills him by shoving a broken tr 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 strts 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&#39s 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 fls them. Martin then fls from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children&#39s 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&#39s 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 mts 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&#39t consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braock 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 flings 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&#39s life, she probably won&#39t. Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he&#39s getting &quotshaky&quot and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-rien area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum&#39s 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 strts and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout betwn the two cops and the thr 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&#39t nd friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini&#39s suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he&#39s done before. Cuda walks into Martin&#39s room while he is aslp and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin&#39s heart. Cuda buries Martin&#39s 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 &quotthe Count&quot.