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".
三星。
当然体现美国英雄主义，主角不死，反恐，邪恶伊斯兰。
继续无关捉鬼敢死队拼命蹭怪奇物语，看来是该捉鬼了。
#TIFFSecretMovieClub2021# 盲盒抽到了下周要上映的院线片，还是大IP的sequel,真是有点哭笑不得的意味。电影是标准的family friendly爆米花片，然而在故事的development上的确是合格的，特别是有些段落还挺cult,平衡了超自然主题和喜剧元素，在对原片pay tribute的同时也算是成功重新开启了这个IP。选Mckenna Grace绝对这次reboot最正确的决定，个人的charisma让我可以从三星改到四星。p.s.:两个post-credit scenes（第二个要等字幕结束）感觉更像是对原作粉丝的福利
是你能改变事物发展的过程，
没看过前两部的就没必要来看。粉丝电影，最后很感动
时代在变，但西方人的思维好像没有变。2020年以后的欧美电影越来越凸显政治正确、越来越不耐看了。
官中字幕极其糟糕，但电影还行，虽然成了儿童片，但抄冷饭抄的比16年那部好，又有可爱的“小甜熊”演出，勉强三颗星吧。
Discover the Past. Save the Future.
#TIFFSecretMovieClub2021# 盲盒抽到了下周要上映的院线片，还是大IP的sequel,真是有点哭笑不得的意味。电影是标准的family friendly爆米花片，然而在故事的development上的确是合格的，特别是有些段落还挺cult,平衡了超自然主题和喜剧元素，在对原片pay tribute的同时也算是成功重新开启了这个IP。选Mckenna Grace绝对这次reboot最正确的决定，个人的charisma让我可以从三星改到四星。p.s.:两个post-credit scenes（第二个要等字幕结束）感觉更像是对原作粉丝的福利
几年前看过老版，由于技术过时看着一般，新版技术不错，剧情节奏差，但是挺多纪念老版的地方。
这片子严重被低估了，豆瓣比IMDb低整整1分。其实在意料之中，毕竟这个系列是很多美国人的“爷青回”，在中国注定水土不服。抛开这些要素，个人感觉这部的完成度非常好，启用的年轻角色观众们耳熟能详。怪奇物语+小谢尔顿+漫威的多名主要角色，让观众专注于演员的表演。致敬部分设计的尤其好，Bill Murray的出现承上启下。不知道还有没有后续，但是衔接的非常好。
原版ghostbusters之一Egon Spengler的孙辈开始出来捉鬼了，不仅主角低龄化，从原来四人团均是男性三白一黑，到如今二男二女两白人一黑一亚裔，这很美国2021。
1) 大鬼是按James Charles建模的吗 2)两位小朋友厉害值得涨工资 3) 芬芬合法了吗 4) why am i crying seeing a jewish grandpa's ghost i miss my grandpa ok
剧情很糟糕，四星给一镜到底和动作戏，这类一个人干掉一个营还能最后和大BOSS肉搏不能琢磨，不然一星也不想给
最后阶段才开始三人组救场致敬，两个小时的电影，拍出了正片只有70分钟的感觉，全靠情怀撑着，致敬逝世的演员哈罗德·雷米斯，再加上这是目前伊万·雷特曼作为制片人的遗作，儿子作为导演拍摄的作品。
30多年后的正统续作，这次是原作导演的儿子集合原班人马，续写情怀。但其实既不吓人，也不够搞笑。末尾曲是Haunted House是Mckenna妹子唱的！
连看太多闷片就能理解无脑爽片存在的重要性，但爽片不爽就非常致命…比喝假酒还难受…基本就是原内容翻拍新瓶装旧酒，但这新瓶…比旧瓶子质量差太多……最后硬生生让老爷子们重聚卖了拨情怀。
好家伙，又拍成儿童片了，跟恐龙战队，王者少年完全一个套路
由搞笑片变成儿童片了 那三老头一出来还是原来那德行 不错 不错
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