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".
出国旅行却卷入政治阴谋，语言不通如何逃脱追杀并救下人质？这就是美国游客的fantasy
棒棒滴，杠杠滴，唯一让我不太满意之处在于希腊派出了一亿多人在地铁火车公路田野山区甚至混入美国大使馆去追杀一个深夜在荒野发生车祸后倒挂车内神志不清几乎丧生透过破碎玻璃和微弱光线目击了一个被绑架男孩的倒影的语言不通的美国游客并在任意场合随意拔枪射击，除了这一点瑕疵扣掉四星之外，其他都还行。
信条男主希腊全国大逃亡，又是经典的错误的人在错误的时间出现在错误的地点的老套路，引起了一场全国大追杀。可惜了坎妹，真的是开头打了个酱油就直接下线了。
男主兜兜转转还是回到了原定酒店前结束这一切的罪孽，本来避之唯恐不及的示威游行却被动成为了参与者，倒不是捍卫政见的自由，而是为了和不可逆转的命运抗争，强权不是轻而易举一天就能推翻的，虽然民权斗士难逃枪打出头鸟的命运，但悲剧不会在一天内上演两次，祸不及家人是政治斗争的最后底线。
人在异乡的不安和巨大变故后的悲哀都有了，但和同类型的《亡命天涯》《无处可逃》比起来散漫得像一部旅游观光片。
车祸情侣各死伤，无意撞破绑票案。
原本还有点期待坎妹的反转，没想到居然就真是打了个酱油。男主也算金刚护体了，挨了那么多枪还能上天入地保持活力。
在柰飞投拍的电影里算是不错的，有点《亡命天涯》的意思，普通人逃避黑警追捕寻找真相，比较偏写实风格，男主全程跌跌撞撞矬的要死，逃跑连抢个路人摩托车都抢不到。前面悬疑感营造的不错，可这结局有点不懂了，所以这到底算政治惊悚还是黑帮犯罪片？ps:去希腊旅游都这么吓人的吗？
john 不知道是不是刻意模仿他老豆 表情、语调语速如出一辙 感觉比较浅 +1星给编剧和配乐
坂本龙一给配的乐，坎妹给打的酱油，信条男主给力演绎一个生而被杀绝命逃亡终成伸冤人的救赎故事。
冲着坂本龙一和厄运看的。男主就是悲催啊～动乱的国家也很悲催～暗无天日
节奏其实还是比较紧凑的，结局的政治反转比较一般，男主后半部分突然变得极其能打，比较突兀。配乐不错
把这个“超人”化的结尾联系到影片开头的某种神谕或许会比较能接受，当然我觉得这不是重点。本片的重点在于主角所面临的一个又一个的危机(打通关)，以及在面临危机时所不断穿过的“景观”——从约阿尼纳到雅典——对自然风光到城市街景极为精彩的呈现，尤其是雅典宪法广场的游行，正好和谍影5对着看(本片是白天景、谍影5是夜景)。剧情方面，政悚片的调调是出来了，“悚”＞“政”，有人提到《西北偏北》，硬扯的话有一点点吧…捂脸笑。
政治味道稍浓了，且难看懂，抛开政治因素跟随节奏的话还是挺紧的。
这电影真的太一般了，而且华盛顿一个黑人在一群希腊人里能躲到哪里去呢
极其优秀的片子！看似写风云变幻，其实是写基本人性、写爱情。风云变幻常常只是精英游戏，绝大多数普通人根本看不懂，但绝不意味着普通人就只能是盲从者、牺牲品。普通人怎么做？保护好自己的良知，尤其是在一份好的爱情中擦亮和坚固自己的良知，这份良知能引领我们超越风云变幻、超越身不由己和力不能及，捍卫最基本的原则和底线，比如像片中所例：不能杀戮，尤其不能杀戮一个无辜的孩子！世界固然是由精英驱动的，但更是由多数普通人的良知，由普通男男女女之间的爱情的质量，来约束和掌舵的！爱情才是世界的定海神针！
就刚开始我以为是爱情片，后面突然就变成悬疑片，突然又变成政治片。这。。。。一时不知道说啥。就乱。
咋就看了这部电影呢？为啥要开车睡觉啊？为啥要被追杀啊？花那么大力气玩杀的人，还让他自由活动干嘛呢？没啥意思
配乐棒，然后发现是坂本龙一做的。服了哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。
熬过前面的10分钟，电影开始步入悬疑正轨，以希腊政治运动为背景，取景遍布希腊山区农村城市，异域风情与悬疑紧迫感吊足胃口，然而导演并没有讲好故事更缺乏吸引观众注意力的经验，最后拍得令人昏昏欲睡。
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