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".
章宇好帅啊，再度被迷晕！！
哭崩了。韩红的片尾曲唱完眼泪还挂着。
太久太久没有看到这么好看的国产战争片了，前期没有太多的宣传加上春节档排片不多真的可惜了
战争片多数视角宏大，这种以小见大的其实也很好
半个月前随意看的 结尾真的想哭 笑中带泪的告别啊
国师的电影一定要去影院才能感受到，节奏紧凑，泪点也有。不特意煽情。刚开始很不能理解，搭了一班人的姓名去抬一具尸体。直到最后才明白。如果一开始把这点交代清楚，观众代入感会更好一些。
张艺谋又突破了自己一次，厉害的，韩红的片尾曲也唱的很好
伪造的第一人称叙述在采访稿里太常见，剧情明显是先把冲突确立后再填充细节，搞得和传记片一样合适吗？（2022-02-09）
画面干净，讲了一个小故事，张力很足，方言台词写的很传神，时长90分钟其实可以再拍的充实些，后半段男二号刻画的有点单薄，急于收尾的感觉
战争片聚焦于小人物的细腻感情，敌我拉锯战以单个人数为单位紧追比分，手撕一只鬼子的代价可能是被鬼子手撕两个我方战友，扣人心弦的效果就出来了。
只能说是很常规很套路化的传记片，我都好奇北野武本人看了什么想法。
编剧和导演是剧团一人，果然还是要内行人来做。太稀罕柳乐乐了，想不出俳优中坚层还有谁比他更适合演好这一角色的。从14岁拿影帝少年得志，到迅速迷失自我深陷抑郁自杀退圈，再到20代后半段回归，低调结婚生子，如今专注做好演员职——没有这段经历，可能这对眉眼也就磨练不出这样的演技吧。这人生哟，五味杂陈！-喂，你是打翻油盐酱醋瓶了还是怎么着？
张艺谋的作品还是值得一看的，战争是矛盾的，也是残酷的，都想赢都不想死，表达敌我双方的内心情感能让战争更矛盾，也能警示后人，珍爱和平远离战争
可能因为俩导演，敌方不再是纸片工具人，两支队伍的对比挺有意思的
由于对长津湖第一部的观感一般，不打算看第二部，就看了这一部。大场面上，比不上长津湖第一部，但是观赏性很强，比起长津湖第一部好太多，尤其是剧情（故事），悬念，转折，煽情，先抑后扬，最后宣泄的一段个人感觉夸张了，但是当年那场战争，不正是让世界看到了奇迹吗？片尾加⭐！
首先能够把这个故事讲的短小精悍，没有刻意拉长影片时长造成节奏拖沓就已经很了不起了，相比国内现在动不动将近三小时的影片，浓缩提炼才是考验导演功力的部分。其次不把敌方当傻子，也是一大亮点。节奏把控很好，狙击对战部分也很精彩。章宇演戏用力过猛的毛病还在，看的很不舒服，而且长得实在太普通，完全不适合做主角。陈永胜就比他长得更引人注目。
除了最后一段有点尬，国师还是国师，爱哭包的性格设定太讨喜了
細節滿分，人物形象立體！國師的老問題故事情節夠不飽滿！整體還是優質的！
2、被这部北野武的传记片深深打动，尤其是师父和阿武的师徒情，当然，还有师父和师娘的亲情。
4- “不要被人笑，而是逗他们笑。不要讨好观众，要由你告诉他们什么才是有趣。”这份师徒情，太珍贵。
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