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".
词汇匮乏 词汇匮乏 本质上是我对战争片无感吧
我叫你爸，你打我马，这样对吗？莫名戳中笑点。剧本写得不错，因为我猜了好几种可能，竟然都miss了，挺难得。
我！就是！没那么！喜欢！一个情杀，南京来人灭火苗？犯得上吗？60%荒诞演法+40%写实，这是什么路子？1星给喻恩泰。
动作戏太差，陈凯歌加徐克加林超贤三大导演化身迈克尔•贝，轰轰轰不停的炸。
万物皆甜，而你胜过万物✨
大年放假看了两部上海风味的片子，都还不错。剧本杀+电影融梗的迷影作品，看到斧子大门就猜到有闪灵梗。后面反转再反转，结局逃跑部分稍有些仓促，秦霄贤的演技还需要提高，余凯磊非常惊艳。
看过点映之后心潮澎湃，写了篇长评，结果告诉我不符合社区指导原则，到现在也没审核出来，行叭。电影把志愿军战士为了祖国和人民的利益与尊严而奋不顾身的爱国主义精神，英勇顽强、舍生忘死的革命英雄主义精神，不畏艰难困苦、始终保持高昂士气的革命乐观主义精神展现得淋漓尽致，没有强上价值观，没有喊口号，没有硬煽情，只是把我们国家为什么做出“抗美援朝”的决策、我们的志愿军战士进行了怎样艰苦卓绝的浴血奋战如实地展现了出来。文戏是真的好，尤其是伍万里拉开火车门，看到巍峨长城，山川壮丽，真的是直击人心，一下子就明白了我们为什么要抗美援朝保家卫国。陈凯歌不愧是去竞选奥运开幕式导演能朗诵《闻官军收河南河北》的人，搞情怀还是有一套。
吴京有两场戏让我很惊讶，完成得很好。第一眼没认出易烊千玺，放得更开了。最喜欢胡军老师的戏，笑点是他泪点也是他，最后边开车边被火烧的戏演得太好了。
听听群众的声音！这个电影的精神非常动人，不是那种喊口号的爱国，是真正的体现出了志愿军精神，是抗美援朝战役一次非常好的注解！
还行,有点拖沓,电影想表达的故事算说清楚了,可以看
再都说一下，扬名立万。
真相也许没那么重要，你只需要一个合理的故事。 舞台剧式的剧本杀悬疑片，几重反转的设定不错。
前面有些拖沓，但到中局之后慢慢将剧情展开，越看越精彩，结尾处理的非常好，不像很多片子虎头蛇尾。最后的那张照片真是画龙点睛。
反转部分做得不错，前期伏笔也有回收，看完以后回想一下感觉还是比较流畅的。不过节奏可以再快一些，有几段确实有些让人犯困。还有整体感觉演员的演技有些舞台剧的感觉，略夸张，不过与电影本身的气质融合挺好的。每个角色都还蛮有意思，包括一些出场少的人物，都挺立体的。【7.7】
可以给到7分。留心了下身边其他观众的反应，不少迷影梗没有唤起有效的回馈，这点值得编剧团队注意~~
吴京就成了主旋律担当了呗，战士们是值得纪念的，但第一场也拍的太浮夸了吧，易烊千玺原地入伍靠扔手雷就成英雄了？？
外公参加过长津湖战役，看到了外公的影子，那场战役能够活下来已经很难了。战争镜头真好看
有点像十二公民，在比较狭小的一个空间里演完整个故事，其实还挺考验演员演技的。看完电影，我深信不疑，不论是以前，还是现在，依旧有三老那样的一群人，利用权势为非作歹迫害女性。但是，也相信，会一直有正义的人，去揭露这一切。
69'我在上海混了二十几年，我就弄明白了一个道理：别跟自己较劲，别太把自己当回事。
大年放假看了两部上海风味的片子，都还不错。剧本杀+电影融梗的迷影作品，看到斧子大门就猜到有闪灵梗。后面反转再反转，结局逃跑部分稍有些仓促，秦霄贤的演技还需要提高，余凯磊非常惊艳。
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