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".
记住Cooper Raiff这个名字了，足够真诚细腻。
新人女主的表现不错，姐妹之间的亲情戏也比较好。对于一个并不算粉丝的路人影迷来说，这个片子很好看。有怀旧金曲，有巨星陨落，有那个时代香港艺人蓬勃的创作力，算是对香港娱乐圈黄金时代的一次重温。
这是一个最大公约数，说句不好听就是一集影像化的《志云饭局》，还没《今夜不设防》精彩和真诚。及格分完全因为情怀，它不仅在跟梅姐道别，更多地像跟一众黄金时代的港人和粤语区成长的我们宣布，就让一切随“疯”。正如呈现金马奖在当下都有种挑战感，但积极组织各种社运才是主角成为不可替代的关键。
她比烟花绚丽，她比烟花寂寞，她比烟花短暂。影片对于普通观众非常友好，线性叙事，运用歌曲串联，纪实影像和复刻片段互为补充，描摹梅艳芳从小歌女到大明星的一生，非常工整的纪录片处理方式。对于其爱情和家庭部分的心理境况展示，设计了三次向外张看，一次看热恋，一次看新婚，一次看迟暮，阶梯式推进刻画其内心的孤独和寂寞，为结尾婚纱演唱会积蓄情感和力量。这部传记片很奇妙地给予我一种代入感，不是作为旁观者看她的一生，而且成为她身边的人回顾她的过往。从小一直在听的《女人花》和《夕阳之歌》，这次在片中一出来，眼睛里就充满了泪。片子不完美，令人感动的是她本身，应该让更多人知道她。
这个真的很治愈 看完心里很温暖，也喜欢达妹，但不喜欢她咬嘴唇的动作
不出意料的，电影以近乎白描的形式小心翼翼地展示了梅艳芳40年人生的几个片段，是人生高光与重要的片段，亦是此时此刻尚可以和被允许展示的片段。作为一部传记电影，它的出现显然太早，不完美几乎是命定。但之于如今颓唐的香港，这些人和事着实需要在此时被提及、被怀念、被感动。他们曾经与大家挨过难关，现在的我们，也一定能。
电影本身是毫无突出事件重点与弧光的流水账，就拍出这么一部来致敬或许是真的对不住江志强用《十面埋伏》吊饼的当年。还有故意消费张国荣的嫌疑，那么多活着的人畏手畏脚不敢拍，别的不说，妹夫不能拍一拍吗？Alan不能拍吗？只是，电影到了最后十分钟，还是没忍住跟林家栋古天乐一起掉眼泪，《夕阳之歌》转身说再见的她，想到真实的她最后这一场演唱会，张学友握着她的手唱了《祝福》“你和我重逢在灿烂的季节”，还是多么的想念。很想你，很思念你，真的很难忘记你。永远爱你。
一代传奇，被拍得这么凄婉平庸琐碎，粉丝滤镜太重，非常可惜，女演员没有演出传奇女星的那份大姐大气场，以及豁达。为什么这么伤感，片尾的老照片回顾，可以看出梅艳芳的亲和魅力，而不是片中那个从头伤感到尾的人
你我相遇在这黑色的海上，你有你的，我有我的方向，你记得也好，最好你忘掉，在这交会时互放的光亮———最后两人回到各自的人生轨迹时脑子里只响起了这个🥺
如果我的人生里能遇到Andrew这样的小太阳，那我一定是个幸运的人。
理智上知道表演还太表面，知道导演太传统，知道故事太单纯美化，但感情上却在听到梅姑真实歌声时落泪，看见哥哥走时崩溃。才听懂她的歌声里有这么多故事，香港女儿。
当发现是97年帅弟弟自编自导自演，我直接变身悲伤蛙
真的没想到我会这么爱这个片，看开头还以为只是个讲男女主crush后谈朋友的故事，到结尾却看出了横道世之介的影子，好好对待每一个人。男女主各自的举手投足说话内容方式都好喜欢。甚至这个剧情，不在一起，但是怎么去好好讲结束，omg好爱。哦对，他们俩这么慢条斯理娓娓道来心中所想的说话方式真是好棒，一个是对话永不会断，另一个是非常有这几年接触的外国人的即视感。
酸涩温暖，好喜欢呜呜呜，男主太可爱了，达妹一如既往地很诱人。成长路上没有弯路，都是必经之路，都是很好很好的路。
I'm drunk, now.
初入歌坛到恋爱之前的部分都很好看，之后就完全是浏览百度百科般（注意，不是维基）的观影体验。进入03年开始泪流不止，但能理清情绪完全来自于真实事件而并非电影本身，特别是梅姑照片对比之下显得新人表演更弱了。
即便把我煽到眼眶湿也并不意味着是煽得好，只是手里拿的扇子叫梅艳芳。把那些没能拍没敢拍的部分给补上，才算撑得住“为香港唱一曲夕阳之歌”。想1:1复刻原型的做法挺没意义的，没必要也做不到，旧影像的不断插入更是像当场自我打脸。看的时候总觉得对王丹妮不公平，不成要背锅，成了是模仿秀。法鲨不需要多么的像乔布斯，传记片的成功从来不是因为长得像。
我知道如果这不是梅艳芳的传记，我肯定不会喜欢这部作品，但银幕上呈现的就是梅艳芳的故事，好几处地方都让我泪眼婆婆，所有的感动都是因为她，以及那个年代的香港光影。
看完全片绷不住了，我的关注点已经不仅仅是演员、故事和服化道了，而是被深埋了很久的记忆再一次被打开的感动。
很不幸两年前看到波西米亚狂想曲时已经有了对于该类型传记片的一点想法，《梅艳芳》这部电影取名为《梅艳芳》实在有些不大妙，它似乎并没打算真正探索梅姐的成长历程，而仅仅在通过各种片段来讲述梅姐的成名于陨落，预告片剪的实在很好，电影不如预告系列。或许我们需要的不是ppt般放映式的一生，而是着眼某几件事探索成长蜕变。很喜欢梅姐，演员眉目间缺了几分梅姐英气，多了点妩媚柔情。服装造型上的还原度只能说没有做到最精细，演唱会还原较波西米亚差了5个朱迪。
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