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".
俄乌战争打的火热，全球新冠，世界动荡，这个大环境下来看这部片子让人感触更深！正如片子开始长达十分钟的转场镜头一样，晃动、多变，让人感叹生命无常！
故事真实 人物心理以及与家庭的关系拿捏的准确 但有些情节突兀 让人猝不及防
看的让人好心塞，看完后已经成了一个泪人，太真实了
调度思路特别舞台，包括那个华丽的长镜头。男主角确实长得像头犀牛。
父亲生活不能自理，没有尊严，活着对他来说是一种折磨。父亲的病，让家人处在崩溃的边缘，但也是羁绊。
平平淡淡的，反正也还好，类似于《真爱至上》
年初的新年前夕
年末的新年快乐
韩国版的一路惊喜，古早韩剧男女主角大集合，韩国这几年也是老龄化严重，好几个姐姐哥哥40左右脸都僵了，看着心酸啊～
被林允儿和姜河那的高甜片段骗进来的，还以为是什么惊心动魄的爱情故事，好家伙整一出韩国版《真爱至上》。养眼是真的，老土也是真的，好在韩国人还是有点认知在，没把总统从修罗场里拖出来谈恋爱。
我可以看跨年晚会的 为什么要浪费时间看这么无趣不好笑不温情不感人的无聊电影？
韩国有两种电影，以有没有套路来区分，但不管有没有套路，都是商业电影。本片属于套路特别明显的类型，总结起来就是：鼓足勇气、奋不顾身跑到大庭广众之下搞一搞氛围绑架，把灰姑娘一记头变成白娘子，完全不顾观众尴不尴尬，演员自己先感动得稀里哗啦
《来处是归途》更像是启示录，片段式诗意化的镜头、手持移动的长镜头，雨夜红灯区拍打的雨刷器，当衰老降临生命中束手无力的窘迫、无声源的戏曲以及瘫倒时寂静的落幕、家庭责任关系参杂两性婚恋状况、所谓黑板板书的长大与成长、水泡沫浴室泳池积水水龙头、苍凉又茂盛的老宅与荒废又积满生灵的废墟。影像的好而美，不贵在堆砌，愉悦的认同而非被取悦后的迎合。不深究意义，但拎画面反倒像是市场调研当今文青最爱看的一百种电影意象之后的拼贴总和，微博文字博主点赞最多的竟然还是原著留下的那句“我当然想过分手，只是当他的爱插入我，这种念头就会减淡，插的越深，这种念头就越淡。”
很好的剧情片。不能大规模放映挺可惜的。难得有引发思考而且剧本细节充足的片子。给10为鼓励坚持在这艰难的国内环境生存。
2022，新年快乐呀。看完想恋爱了。PS：李东旭也太帅了吧。再PS：这雪也太假了吧。
人多热闹，看的下去。
虽然小区封锁期时间最不值钱，但也不应该浪费在看这个电影上。唯一喜欢的点是少年表白时的雪花像樱花。
好像每年都有这样一部电影，只是为了完成限定日的仪式感，基本上能看就行。几个选角应该调换一下，最无法认同的就是土狗配小仙女。韩智敏的收尾好随意，过于草率也很可惜。无功无过多一星给狠狠拿捏我的老年人爱情：“如果有天我们又变成了一个人，到时候就跟我结婚吧。我们总有一天会再见的，在那之前你要好好生活。”
好家伙，林允儿就出来几分钟，哪条线都不太好看！
很好的剧情片。不能大规模放映挺可惜的。难得有引发思考而且剧本细节充足的片子。给10为鼓励坚持在这艰难的国内环境生存。
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