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".
虽然结尾部分有点泄气，但90分钟的电影一个主场景，氛围、节奏、表演、摄影都掌握的非常好，国师还是稳，另外章宇说起四川话匪气（褒义）十足
真真是螺丝壳里做道场，能在如此单一的场景里把故事讲到三翻四抖勾起观众紧张的心弦也实属不易，国师带女儿的意图特别明显，这道菜不是团年饭里的压轴大菜，是精致的可口点心，看完水门桥来换换口味也很不错。希望国师身体健康，多拍好片子
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
情节推进全程在线，后段稍显紊乱，但是不影响民族情感爆棚，我为祖国骄傲
搞笑艺人，不是被别人笑，是要逗人笑！一部电影，两种人生。北野武的师生情，让人老泪纵横。
有点煽情啦 为北野武和主演们加一星 门胁麦的后半部分穿越到火花了
虽然影片讲述的是抗美援朝中比较小的一场战役，但整部电影所有演员的张力和爆发力都很到位，张译，章宇实力在线，硬生生把我打动哭了
非一般形式传记片，只是截取了北野武师从深见迈入谐星坦途这感人的一段，千里马遇到伯乐，伯乐引导的方式以及豁出脸面背后助推的苦心，实在触动人心，有对传统技艺的感慨，有对法兰西座的感怀，柳乐优弥竭力去演的半张脸，在重返的长镜头里，满含深情。
同为抗美援朝题材，与《长津湖》的大场面不同，张导主要着力于小，掐头去尾大约70分钟时间全部展现这场与美军的狙击战，悬念重生高潮迭起，张导整体的节奏把握到位，把几位新演员的表演调教的真实可信，张译首尾现身，章宇演的尤其出彩，几场戏处理的感人肺腑，张艺谋导演以72岁高龄再次证明，他还是中国最优秀的导演之一。
以小见大，格外动人
演技做到章宇这样再夸炸裂吧。
好看好看，老谋子nb！（其实也在犹豫是四🌟还是五🌟，但这部确实是我这几年里看过的抗美援朝电影中最好的一部了
除了子弹时间特效不行以为，我觉得电影完成度很高，没有喊口号，但是有真情实感
说实话，成片质量看下来感觉还是蛮有说服力的，仿佛这个事情真的很有可能发生在飞机大炮冲刺的战场上。除去艺术加工后的细节，说真的。这个故事还是很有共情的几个瞬间。
北野武的个人特色太过强烈，真不是很好演的，影帝太精致了总少了很多感觉。单纯从这片来说，师傅这个角色更有存在感和魅力一些吧。
最后连长点名那段哭死我了……
日本导演北野武的传记片，主要截取他初出茅庐时的那段生活，聚焦于他与浅野法兰西座师傅之间的关系。本片依据北野武的自传，又由他自己编剧，因此在影片中形象相当正面。该片中最有光彩的人物还是其师傅，从如日中天的浅野谐星和戏剧老板，到跟不上时代后半生落泊的失败者，颇让人唏嘘不已。该片细节丰富，台词精彩。活人传记片能拍得如此，实属不易。
真实的历史中，有多少付出这么大牺牲后依然没换回情报的时候…
“吃鯨魚，长技艺” // 葬礼上哭着说笑话好emo啊
虽然战斗规模很小 但来龙去脉清晰 剪辑流畅不混乱 有指挥有协作 牺牲的干脆直接不刻意 整片表现的足够真实可信 足以以小见大
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