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".
丧事喜办不是这么个办法吧，问过捷克斯洛伐克的感受了吗。
去掉两位虚构的主角，这可以算得上是一部张伯伦传了，有人说有洗白嫌疑，但恰好也给了历史课本里没有的角度，即便在那样的一个年代，许多人都在为和平不懈努力，不管是虚假的亦或是短暂的，再看当下一群人还喊着乌拉
彼时彼刻恰似此时此刻。两个年轻男主的人物设置比较吸睛，多给一星。
丧事喜办不是这么个办法吧，问过捷克斯洛伐克的感受了吗。
关于历史事件的一种演绎，放到今天来看，其实大家都明白战争是毫无意义的，不过是政治的延续，所有的谈判，协议，不过是暂时的借口，最终还是实力说话。捷克的苏台德地区，也真是够悲催。
这么多明星拍的这么波澜不惊，还努力洗白了张伯伦
三星半。历史题材，在叙事上聚焦于小人物，编剧十分注重兼顾两者，导致整个剧本非常平淡，但完成度不错，也设置了一些紧张的转折和给予观众思考空间的抒情部分以保证影片的节奏感。选角很优秀，甚至对于影片的立体化和丰富感起到关键作用，有老戏骨如铁叔，也有具有一定基础和名气的青年演员如荞麦、Liv，还有一些新面孔，搭配起来毫不突兀。两位男主的化学反应很强烈，也令本片更生动了几分。
3.5/George和Jannis演牛津同学、和Jessica在这片二次合作演夫妻 都很有CP感 满足了 然后就没有可点的地方了
心脏不好 数次在党卫兵搜查环节暂停 演技精湛 CP我站
关于小人物在大时代下的命运想起了兰心大剧院，片子的真主角其实还是内维尔张伯伦这个争议人物。
很一般，食之无味，本应很紧张的一个历史桥段像闹着玩一样，双男主也拯救不了。
片头开始 忍不住想 两次大战怎么会如此密集地发生在这样的地方。这些年轻人如何进入战争 带着信念 不再回来。
小酒店的重逢；
张伯伦不是一个热爱和平的天真汉，也不是被反战人民逼投降的悲情英雄，而是一个如罗斯福涮日本人一般妙算千里的带政治家！这地洗得镜面都带反光！
二战影片浩如烟海，如此片关注二战将临前的那段时期的不多，尤其是关于英德之间签订慕尼黑协义的，更是少见。此片胜在题材新鲜。它采用了历史与虚构相结合的手法，影片似在为张伯伦的绥靖政策翻案。似乎关注点太多，未能聚焦于一点，如《奥斯陆协议》那样，更有一种焦灼感与历史现场感。在演员选择上，两个主角都似乎有些游离。最差的是影片开头，如此重大历史事件，却像是青春校园片一样，很不吸引人。
已现世视角来看有一种无法阻挡的悲剧感，但仍旧抱有愿景奋不顾身的年轻人可能是永远会感动的点。乔麦演得蛮好，小哥俩还是挺有化学反应的
我记得以前有本书，书名《希特勒的私人图书馆》，每天批阅如此多的公文函件，他至少具备高强的逻辑思考能力和阅读能力，至于张伯伦为什么热衷如此的和平，也许大概是民意使然。站在历史的片尾看历史容易自大，站在历史的片头看历史，总归是始料未及，因为事情不是一下败坏的，而终是一天天败坏下去的。
恰在俄乌战争焦灼之际看了这部电影，谁能说现下的样子与1938年没有那么几分相似，虽然彼时之德国远盛于如今之俄罗斯，历史也不会照样再来一次。
想由整部电影推导出电影最后结尾的字幕显然“证据”“逻辑”不足，只能说历史人物有多面性，相应地历史事件也能从不同方面解读与“挽尊”。
有关张伯伦是不是洗白之类的，害，都找铁叔来演了还不说明问题吗？就像希特勒的形象被刻画为矮小的疯子，说明影片制作方想要表现出希特勒形象就是如此昂。
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