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".
历史当然应该被铭记，烈士当然应该被歌颂。然而如果只忙着传唱历史，忽视了当下，那么牺牲只会白费。叙事越宏大，越显得今时今日的冷漠。解放军战士们是抱着希望后代活在没有硝烟的时代才愿意付出生命，却绝不会想看到如今的人命不被重视。看主旋律电影的每个人都应该搞清楚纪念那段历史的真正目的。小村庄夜战拍的不错，后面的总攻就有些凌乱和刻意煽情。放着这么一个不听命令的熊弟弟在自己部队里不教训，未免有些牵强了。
又一次独自去看影院看电影，虽然时长三个小时，但我一次手机没掏出来玩，一次厕所没去上过，一个瞌睡也没打，立国之战，打出国威，致敬先辈们，盛世如你们所愿。瑕疵方面：有时剪辑得有些凌乱，结束得似乎也有些仓促，是有续集的节奏吗？
遗憾是我有点脸盲，还有对历史知识了解不够。看到美军将领的名字，只觉得好像听过，但他具体实力如何并不了解。
林超贤 徐克 陈凯歌三剑客搭配不错
对，这真正是一部身临其境的大片
林超贤、徐克、陈凯歌三位导演尽显各自特色，把战争动作、雪地场景、入朝前场景拍得惊天动地、感天动地，三位导演的场景衔接紧密，赞。请配合《1950他们正年轻》一起看哪。找好的特效厅看呀
历史当然应该被铭记，烈士当然应该被歌颂。然而如果只忙着传唱历史，忽视了当下，那么牺牲只会白费。叙事越宏大，越显得今时今日的冷漠。解放军战士们是抱着希望后代活在没有硝烟的时代才愿意付出生命，却绝不会想看到如今的人命不被重视。看主旋律电影的每个人都应该搞清楚纪念那段历史的真正目的。小村庄夜战拍的不错，后面的总攻就有些凌乱和刻意煽情。放着这么一个不听命令的熊弟弟在自己部队里不教训，未免有些牵强了。
是我看过最好的战争片 2d看出3d的效果
首先，向志愿军致以最崇高的敬意，他们是英雄，是史上最强轻步兵，也是最可爱的人。这部电影啊，虽然是难得的好片，但是作为军迷和曾经的军人，总觉得差点意思。真没想到，影片中居然没有水门桥，相较之下，乱石滩空袭和炸毁通信塔这两个重点部分，显得可有可无，完全可以精简或删除。而结尾部分，特级英雄杨根思和冰雕连，处理的太草率了。
感谢《长津湖》将这段历史这样好的呈现在我们面前。
很荣幸看的点映 🎉 整体感受
最令人遗憾的不是这部作品单一的问题，而是这只是接下来几年整体趋势的开端，看着国庆档一片大红，心里有些怪怪的
伍万里的眼神和雷公的笑，伍千里的人情味让我相信他的号召力。为了人民牺牲的战士都是真正的英雄啊。不过这故事应该还没结束吧？虽然命名如此，期待一下下文。
有幸看了点映，电影配得上史诗级别，镜头呈现、人物刻画、演员表演和战争场面都让人印象深刻。影片节奏很快，后2/3战争场面多，喜欢这类题材的观众会看得非常过瘾。易烊千玺再一次完成突破，伍万里让人印象深刻！
整部电影有几处有点割裂，连队里几个老兵带着新兵基本没中过弹，都是擦伤，最后感觉故事也没讲完整，期待后面的《水门桥》补全当中的剧情，人物塑造。
（1950，他们正年轻）
●2021.10.28
林超贤 徐克 陈凯歌三剑客搭配不错
🎬 喜欢的场景
事迹本身所带给我的感动或者激动远大于影片所传达出来的
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