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".
在诺兰版蝙蝠侠和扎克施耐德黑暗风的基础上，马特里夫斯再结合黑色电影和教父的叙事风格，叠加侠盗一号和沙丘的沉浸式影像奇观，融合出了这个新版蝙蝠侠。有一条清晰可见的类型升级迭代路径。其实是可以给到 4 星半的，欠缺的半颗星是对这个经典银幕形象的创新——但对于蝙蝠侠来说，创新之路真的已经很难了，之前那么多版蝙蝠侠已经基本没留什么创新空间了。影像和气质的升级，已经无法在根本上完成对蝙蝠侠这个经典银幕形象的升级了。（蝙蝠侠面对的哥谭困局，已经是体制问题了，但这不是超英电影能探讨和解决的问题了。）
魏如萱的戲份有點尬，感覺她是來開演唱會的，王淨太成熟了，整體氛圍還是不錯。
整体境界比《阳光普照》低了一级，人物角色不像《阳光普照》那么多，所以没有太多剧情矛盾点，并且拍精神类片子或多或少会让观众感觉有些刻意，这个是精神类片子的弊端，如果掌握不好，确实会很难拍出4星的骗子来，但好歹拍得还算有些情调，3星及格。
摄影是强项，但摄影风格和故事本身有割裂感，剧作处理也不太成熟， 有很多的道具人来了又走，没留下任何意义，意象的处理也比较刻意，状态在八点档和艺术片之间来回徘徊。但也比同题材《一念无明》要好得多。
台湾这两年生产女性电影啊！这是像北欧靠拢的感觉啊！简单的故事片，家庭的一小段故事，谈不上9分，但是8分还是可以有的！
发了两遍影评，都被平台移除😡一个探讨母女关系的影评，不涉任何敏感信息，就不明白有啥不让说的？！
意外比前作好，至少解決了節奏拖沓的問題，但仍在耍屌。有可能是魏如萱出來太好笑了讓我覺得這部比較幽默 (儘管那或許並非本意)。然後家景根本就是鍾孟宏品味展示中心吧這也很好笑...總結是...我覺得鍾孟宏應該感謝壁虎先生，他幫大家打了劑預防針，而且讓更多觀眾願意進戲院一探究竟 (至少我就是啦)
生活就是如此无奈而无助，但有时，或许阴郁中也会挤出一缕阳光，绝望中也会生出一丝希望。
3.5 比起阳光我更加喜欢这一部 逐渐撇掉过去的一点一滴 最终突破重围 有新的开始 情节的确有拼接感 可是瑕不掩瑜 两个女性角色也演得特别好
1.谁说吻戏多的，才两场。2.哥谭永远在下雨，至少片方看过蝙蝠侠漫画的人不少，明白蝙蝠侠的风格。3.画面真的美。4.其实谈不上一部真正的侦探电影，但确实是一部十足的侦探蝙蝠侠的电影，实在够文艺的，“场面”戏不多，但每一场都能让人沸腾，很好做到了文艺和商业的平衡。5.有相当明显的人物成长弧线，蝙蝠侠从复仇者到哥谭的希望，从冷酷的心到在乎身边的人，漫画中蝙蝠侠的理念也都展现得淋漓尽致。
以及我终于想起来陈以文像谁了，远藤宪一。最近这几个片看下来感觉他演得真好。贾静雯和王净的表演也都很吸引我。
钟孟宏一贯的创作风格，拍的是社会的角落，却从来都不愿意把那些最黑色的横剖面切出来。是一碗好鸡汤，也只是一碗好鸡汤。
疫情的设置是有必要，否则还有什么事能让她们必须长期共处一室，彼此担心。
想多了，中介经理只有在分不到一杯羹的前提下才会大义灭亲。
8.6/10 作为一部英雄电影, 三个小时是极为大胆的尝试; 同时以庄重严肃的基调叙事, 更是极为勇敢的挑战。 本作与'小丑'一般, 倾尽全力试图塑造一名立体的人物; 同时以一个跌宕起伏的故事, 成功使人物形象更显丰富饱满。 当然作为代价, 相较于主人公而言, 其他人物刻画便显得多少缺力。 而这也致使部分情感刻画略显突兀, 甚是遗憾。 但无论本作炫目的光彩, 亦或震撼的声效, 亦或优异的剧本, 数多优点皆使本作成为一部瑕不掩瑜的高质量作品。 并且作为新一任蝙蝠侠的帕丁森, 也以成熟的演技呈上一份合格的答卷。
＜幸好瀑布走了…＞ 电影好坏的标准要怎么评判？我认为只要有一刻我停下来共鸣那就是一刻的好，这电影不止一刻…那就是挺好的。
没什么剧情，而且和疫情也没什么关系。女主王净颜值不错。
放大了。也许我们都很久没有认真的去关注身边人。电影把疫情下的台湾在中产家庭日常生活拍出了一种精致感，是日常生活，却有一种精致安排的距离感和舞台感。这种干净的清晰的画面很像多年前韩国电影呈现的质感。风波过后，以为生活会像溪流归于平静，但是突然来的洪水一下子让人跟着揪心起来，终于在最后看到了小静没事，才安心。
「“每个人都有难堪的过去，只是大小不同而已！”」
生活的突然泄洪，将自己远远冲离开，或静静沉底，或扑腾着自救…成长就在一瞬间，坍塌也是一瞬间…从瀑布坠下，许多人和许多过去就让其随水消逝，有人“生还”…还是电影浪漫，再糟糕也变美好，再平凡也热气腾腾！
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