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".
确实没明白谈了个啥，人物也不立体，床戏莫名其妙，反转更奇妙
重构了整个人类文明史，又和人类没啥关系，这也导致本片没法和观众达成共情。
另一条赛道的赵婷闯入漫威的宇宙制作体系中，拍出了一部很不漫威的漫威电影。这显然不完全只是一部工业流水线作品，但也很难说是一部成功的作品。影片依托于一个相当粗糙拉胯的剧本，在爆米花和个人表达之间别扭地摇摆着，结果是两头都没太讨好。至于沸反盈天的政治正确说，其实可以看作是好莱坞当下的趋势必然，需要减滤镜去看待。哀恸广岛核爆一幕，缺的是历史往前其他人类灾难的补充。只有这一幕，难免会陷入立场的怀疑与争论之中。
也没想到能拍得这么无聊，服啊
看了一个多钟头ppt才开始看电影…像极了一次提案…
还是那个预告骗，家人、爱人、朋友、敌人，反复横跳。
确实跟之前的漫威电影不同，但赵婷的风格并没有很好的融入这部电影，使得两头都靠不上，在观看的过程中感觉很别扭
第一观感是画面大气，灿烂的外景风光加上古迹朝代，拍出了些许史诗感，演员造型好时髦，尤其是安吉丽娜又爽又飒。
勉强及格。原子弹风波的争论并非一点意义没有，这无关立场与三观，但的确很能说明，赵婷这类走纯艺路线的电影创作者，对商业大片“共情”的理解存在偏差，甚至还带有些精英视角的不屑与挑衅。之所以会让人膈应，正是在于片中的几大反类型都很没有必要。但万幸赵婷还是带来了不少独特体验，说是政治隐喻倒还有待商榷，不过东方式思辨至少是成体系的。小孩那个角色写得尤其好，按理说她受天神组迫害最深，结果关键时刻反倒成了跪得最快的。而按照好莱坞“迫害越深，反抗越强”的张力写法，这种人物很难塑造出来。
不过，作为人类，试图推测拥有永恒生命的先进种族如何生活、思考，本身就是……怎么说呢，看的时候我一直在想，神也会像人类一样沉迷于明星荣光、不停地搞笑、或是成为谨慎的男妈妈吗？拥有一切，无所不能，目睹了成千上万人生的生命体，不应该对这些更冷漠吗。后来想到了奥林匹斯神话……行吧。
最后想吐槽的是——纯亚洲人是不配活在漫威宇宙咯？
风格不合适啊，虽然漫威电影是流水线产品，好歹之前人物还不错，但是这次讲那么多神仙，却让人无法跟任何一个产生一点代入感，完全不关心他们之前发生过什么，这一大家子乱成一锅粥，倒是把灭霸救了。彩蛋不少，观感比《扎导的正联》要差不少
很不一样的漫威电影，彷佛周游世界，感觉还不错。但出于影片以外考虑，它不值得高分。
啥b导演拍出来的啥b片子，纯纯的白左政治片。想搞政治正确滚出去啊
发了98次誓不再看英雄片的我为了同志情节看了第362部Marvel，万万没想到同志情节发生这个角色身上，and，再次发誓......
还行，但我没有共情。感觉像是一群人在过家家，虽然讨论的命题很大，但是无法代入，无法take it seriously。
两星
宏大的故事背景和复杂的人物形象，缓缓道来，编剧很棒！用永恒族的设定去展现人性的光辉，探索与希望，使命与背叛，像是一个文学故事引人入胜。美术、摄影、音乐的完成度都非常高，中间一些插科打诨的情节可以少一些。
文艺型的导演拍漫威大片就是说不出的不搭噶，故事背景整得挺宏大，就是不好看
政治正确buff叠满了，黑人，华裔，印度裔，同性，残疾。好莱坞真有你的，都给你能完了。
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