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".
你们不要再打啦，要打去练舞室打啊。故事也太老套了，不考虑好好改编一下吗。部分歌舞还不错，女主唱的不错，整体还是挺无趣的
最值得着墨的种族冲突和移民问题完全被淡化了，以至于看起来就是一个多管闲事的哥哥干涉妹妹恋爱最后被她对象给干死了的故事… STUPID！（吴宗宪语气
20220208-cinemark theatre-音乐剧版罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事，一模一样的剧情。可怕的是夸张的戏剧和音乐剧独有的舞台形式带到这个电影中就是一场灾难。女主可谓不是一般的三观不正，自己亲哥死的同一天尸骨未寒，就和只见过一两次的杀人犯情比金坚。还逼迫嫂子成全……请问死的是您亲哥吗，一眼都不看？（当然罗密欧与朱丽叶中同样的剧情，甚至是放在musical舞台上都没有这么违和，但这是一部电影喂……观众可不管你的舞台戏剧感），再就是男主演技浮夸，尤其听到女主死的那场戏，眼珠子都快瞪出来了。。。。。最后夸一夸这电影的光影，镜头，服装都很美。
get不到点，偶尔有些熟悉的歌，剧情挺老套的，感觉小鲜肉hold不住
就好像…因为一首歌买了一盘CD，然后发现那是整张专辑唯一一首好听的曲子…
太陈旧过时，完全看不出任何翻拍的必要，就连歌舞也是直观上的boring，果然只有Ariana的女配是最出彩。
技术性真棒，镜头把控老练，色彩绚丽合宜，故事趣味性差了点。
最佳女配，个人觉得还是可以认可的。毕竟，从人物的心路历程来看，确实是女配比女主情感更丰富更有层次。
看完想重温《真爱至上》/美国人的圣诞十一月就开始了
前半部分Jimmy O. Yang being Jimmy O. Yang的时候还是很有意思的，后半部分就是非常cheesy的圣诞电影了。片中故事发生在Lake Placid，美加边境的滑雪小镇，离我家就3小时车程，是我一直想去但是最后一刻总是放弃的小镇，希望边境重开后能去一次。
电影的部分再做的怎么好，看不到载歌载舞背后的情感支持，也对我无效
想起大卫伯德维尔吐槽，相比港片，好莱坞的黑帮火并戏就像三明治，三板斧，机位很少，看起来就是扭打在一起，毫无美感和张力，眼前就是个反面典型，而且丝毫不肯脱离舞台剧的外壳，把舞台剧的走位分毫不差地嵌入到电影实在违和，五六十年代的故事放到现在看更加奇特，和刚杀了自己兄长的男友啪啪，又把嫂子置于更危险的境地，这不是绿茶吗…
遇到主角就跳过
精彩的齐舞难掩平庸的剧情，尴尬的对白和毫无亮点的角色
很多不了解欧美人的人可能会认为假。但剧本的编排还是合格的，而且两个演员也都完全合格了。这世上有千千万万的跨族群couple，这种故事绝对，完全可能发生（个人经验之谈）。滥俗是至极了，但普世意义很大，激励亚裔男生👍🏻💪🏻，多给一个🌟。
歌舞片目前的发展水平，就是需要话剧式演技，生活流的演员请靠边。
肯定没原版好的，最大的优点是经费充足，歌大致相同，排舞不一样。老爷子为了让故事圆滑，打乱了顺序，可惜的是没有添加新的东西
恕我直言 这电影的三观真的有点歪。Josh是用照片骗了她 到她接受不了的不是被骗 而是Josh太丑吧 如果一开始喜欢的就是Josh这样的脸的人 见面了反而是帅哥 她还会那么生气？最后又喜欢上了我更觉得是心里愧疚而非真的发现自己和他情投意合。另外 Jimmy和妮娜真的毫无CP感 接吻完全没火花恋情也感觉让人看不到头 就算我喜欢Jimmy我也不能昧着良心说他帅吧 妮娜眼大胸大腰细腿长（攀岩时还看到手臂有肌肉线条）真是全世界男人都喜欢的类型 ，不是说Josh这种类型不配得到爱情 而是现实中这样的搭配 如果男方不是非常自信内在条件优越的人儿他和妮娜这样一起以后绝对会给他非常非常大的压力。PS男二长得有点像森林狼的拉塞尔 帅但真的太蠢了。
或许，《西区故事》本就不该获得电影上的成功，本就应该在舞台剧的框架内发光，精神内核的缺失换使它哪个导演都很难焕发第二春。
不帶期待以及友鄰打了預防針還是震撼，這是我在非電影節院線中第一次看到有人中途離場哈哈哈哈哈哈哈爛成醬，音樂劇的音樂要命式難聽、選角糟糕(which means Ansel Elgort)、劇本處處糟點、運鏡爛得像Spielberg用腳拍的，back dancer & 燈光 & 布景美術值得誇贊，其餘全是💩💩
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