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".
真好。喜歡。像今時《繁花》切下一隻角。大上海小日子。隨便講一講。講得鮮活酸辣、鬆弛自由、深一腳淺一腳、哭一哭笑一笑、一生就在眼裡了。無甚大故事。可是有戲。摩登國際的東方戲。穩也穩得。浪也浪得。半世狂半世收。彷如選美大賽的三小姐。時代的秘密。傳奇的主人。
所谓市场所谓产业，就是要有这样的电影存在，这个片子应该一直延长所谓密钥期，尽管我最膈应这个词，该延长的不延长，非要什么都管什么都管不好，整天延长的都是鸡血臭片臭不可闻。
好灵的啦，又讲腔调又有生活感，挺有欧洲电影和伍迪艾伦的气质。
作为处女作这样的水准真的不错了，很松弛（应该再多拍一两个空镜头），甚至有那么一点点像伍迪艾伦，但配乐不太行，不够滑稽，前半段那几首英文歌尤其出戏。徐峥去找鞋匠理论那段从一个弹钢琴的女人室内镜头推出窗外，以及老乌讲故事镜头先从特写拉远又推近到特写，这两个地方很不错，最后看完感觉只有上海男人（女人）才能搞定上海女人（男人），外地人搞不定的
好看啊，文青最喜欢的那一卦，灵，有腔调。几个细节：
私封为今年的年度电影。几场餐桌戏里的场面调度十分精美，加上美术馆一场中戏仿的戏剧感，在日常鸡零狗碎的主题里制造出了一种神秘的升格。对性别议题大方地讨论，甚至让人产生一种这是一部在正常国家拍出的正常电影的错觉。
往往能更加客观的看待如今的上海
又相信爱情了（bushi）
第一个看的展览场地是乌中路的寄存处，感觉比外滩十八号好。
放映厅和电影里的欢笑声交织在一起，竟让我无法分辨
非常好看，上海的那个小资味儿拍得惟妙惟肖。修鞋的大爷坐在摊位后的小凳上一边磨咖啡豆一边教白老师：every woman needs a pair of Jimmy choo in her lifetime，太洋气了。另外，里面有一句台词是：不像有的电影，明明是翻拍的，宣传的时候又不提。哈哈哈哈，你就指名道姓得骂吧！
我觉得就糖水片啊，里边所有元素就广告片的水平。什么美术啊音乐啊还有那都什么玩意儿啊……就把上海所有符号噱头往里那么一放…诶一宣传…诶…
全片笑点密集，在众多爆笑修罗局里藏着偶尔一闪的刀锋。展厅里剧场式的光和站位去讨论了核心问题。性别的倒置更是用讽刺引出思考。总的来说质量中上，虽然老乌最后太工具人，但是瑕不掩瑜，看在国产电影的份上还是满分吧～
走了太多下坡路？那就爬山去吧！所谓人生，忽然爱情，大抵如此。
没想到在年末看到了这样的电影。抓住了上海市井的灵，修鞋匠也要有coffee time。小超市叫红拂，咖啡馆叫夜奔，我们坐在洋房谈论罗马，却看不懂费里尼的爱情神话。
看这种电影的第一感观是对作者的感慨和喜爱，在国产电影里我们有多久没有直接和电影真正的创作者对话了。整个电影轻松、诙谐，说是属于上海的地标电影一点也不为过，没有外滩，没有东方明珠，只有方言和上海的人情就够了，我们太稀缺这样的有趣的电影了，对导演以及这部电影的所有赞誉都是值得的。自然有新手导演的那种都要塞一点而无法取舍的问题，但基本上都可以忽视。我觉得对于国产电影的意义来说即好的本子和好的投资人是相辅相成的，同样感谢本片的这些演员，没有他们这部电影也会失去很多光彩，《爱情神话》的成功不是偶然，是我们太需要这样有趣的而又没偏离生活太多的电影了。个人唯一有点点遗憾，餐桌戏为啥要忽视或者减轻酒水和食物的存在，那种饮食男女的感觉就在筷子边，却没有下筷子确实很急人，这是我唯一的不满。
是最温柔最善良最美好的那一面的上海。它甚至大大缓解了即将到来的生日给我带来的年龄焦虑。此刻很想读一些书。此刻很想回上海。是我爱的上海。
个人一直偏爱方言电影，很舒服的文艺中年片，不油腻不抓马不喜剧。虽然很多台词跟核心的爱情神话故事本身都有很重的缝合痕迹，在这些中年演员自然表演下不会违和。精沪一本满足。#上海影城cinity
国内拍出这样的爱情片很新奇，但说了归齐不过是"腔调"二字，因此这样的故事大概只能接上海的地气，只有在上海，修皮鞋的老头边磨豆子边飚英文才不显得奇怪//老乌让我想起了甜蜜蜜里的姑妈
另外，国摇雄起！我竟然在国产影线片听到了白日密语、还潮和八仙饭店，出息！
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