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".
我明白为什么斯皮尔伯格一定要拍它了，对于儿时的他来说真的太过私密了，如果在不趁着现在拍出来，以后他既没精力更没机会了。大师的手笔拍出来的极具光影的质感和精彩绝伦的编排让这部电影更加勃勃生机，包括政治正确的外表也让它更贴近当下，但是它的内核就是老白男的雄性故事。斯如果改了就不是西区故事里，但是其中的表达太过于落后这个时代了，你如果硬找里面的先进性也是属于50年代的，放到现在也算不上多前卫，斯导老了，有一个真正属于他自己的童年追忆给我们看也许并不是坏事，失望算不上，但至少不够多惊喜吧
爆米花电影 很圣诞~结尾很突然男女主就在一起了 现实中肯定never ever happy ending
女主不好看。歌舞片啊，爱人死了也要高歌一曲。。。不喜欢看。
如坐针毡的 150 分钟，救命啊那么多值得拍的为什么要选这个，故事烂到离谱，让人想笑，男主像个傻子，用顶级 cinematic 去拍这玩意真想不通。
最近就很想看些可可爱爱的圣诞电影。谁不想要个会做手工蜡烛的亚裔男朋友呢～
是看完会微笑的圣诞电影！Jimmy Ouyang在此片中的人格魅力令本颜狗服气（但吻戏我看着还是违和哈哈哈
因为，就，真的不太好嘛。
对完美主义者说“爱不是完美是真诚”相当于bullshit 只有电影里才有可能发生的剧情 订婚那段镜头用得很出彩啊 / 比起奈飞其他同类型的电影已经好很多了 / 假结婚+致所有我曾爱过的男孩
舞蹈真的很棒，但剧情有点矫情。
斯皮其实也尽力了，这种经典翻拍受限的地方太多。新版削弱了舞台感，甚至印象中连歌舞戏的比例还更低了，剧作上没有什么施展空间，那就只能走技术流，镜头、调度、场面都更具大片感。不过，珠玉在前，加上两个主角选得确实不太好，无法超越前作，6.5。
豆瓣分这么低啊，不至于吧🙈欧阳万成演圣诞浪漫喜剧没啥不合适的——难道大家更愿意看演他哥哥的那位帅哥演绎josh的那些细腻情绪么 lol 我是没胃口。结尾致敬love, actually自然不尬，好评~
若不是听出杜达梅尔的指挥也许坚持不到💃DeBose💃tonight很洗脑啊Lenny
对男女主角的讨厌让我忘记了这个电影的其他一切。
还有就是，导演拍得有些场景还是挺有新意的。
快下映了終於找了個週末看。音樂好多熟悉的，這故事實在是想吐槽。怎麼忽然就愛上了不說，哥哥被殺之後，女主對着anita那段看得太替anita生氣了。比起男女主角更喜歡anita有的片段還是挺好玩的啊
优缺点和老版几乎一样，群舞段落华彩，但是剧情老套抓马。新版很明显有努力，想写出更好的故事、舞蹈和时代反思，但是这个故事大纲在这儿，“要么爱要么死”的观点难以服众，只能止于及格分了。男123和女12还是很养眼的~
歌舞艺术表现力不错，男女主角的选择值得商榷。
值得肯定的是好莱坞制片时代依然能够汇聚财力、人力完成一部这么难的歌舞片，提及歌舞片不得不提2017年的《爱乐之城》虽然形式上，《西区故事》做的更加类型一些，更加复杂的舞蹈，更加恢宏的场面、更加庞杂的数量的舞蹈，但的确在风格和叙事上略输一筹，老爷子和明努斯基的合作配合的敲到好处，场面调度，灯光调度都十分传神，但在叙事结构上，针对主角安东和女主玛丽亚的人物弧光还是不够，矛盾冲突也略显单薄，大量的歌舞剧充斥整部电影，甚至有些可以整段砍掉的歌舞也原封不动的保留着，造成了结局对男女主注定无法在一起的诀别时，因为情感铺垫不够引发的乏力。值得期待的是本片服装服化道、和场景还原，真实的还原了上世纪五十年代的美国西区，不出意外，今年奥斯卡 《西区故事》应该能斩获最佳摄影、最佳服装设计、最佳配乐奖。
改编得很不错，在音乐剧原作的基础上，加入作为一部电影可以加的全部：宏大的舞台背景，沉浸式运镜，复杂走位的群舞，每个人的近景及心理描述 —— 尽力地在细节上让故事线充盈。电影节奏控制到位，让音乐与舞蹈自然融入台词中，很少有音乐剧电影常见的“一言不合就开唱”的违和感。电影还大量融入西班牙语对白，并且不配字幕，把语言间的隔阂与交融坦白呈现。遗憾就是男女主角之间不管是对唱还是对舞都毫无火花，让原本放在当代视角已不甚合理的一见钟情式故事线显得更不可信。主线没有撑起来，全靠支线找补。
三星。斯皮尔伯格的调度实在太好，好到我不忍心打低分，尤其是舞会那一场调度，可以说是精妙绝伦。然而再精妙的调度和再优美的音乐和舞蹈也拯救不了这支离破碎的文本。前两幕只是陈旧和老套，尚且没有崩塌，但从第三幕决战开始，此前支撑人物行为逻辑和剧情推动力的线索烟消云散，伴随着一系列WTF的操作整个第三幕全线崩溃，进而带着全片全线的崩溃。从第三幕那个奇葩情节开始之时，本片就已经被两位主角宣判了死刑，哪怕是斯皮尔伯格也救不了，他只能靠着自己强悍的调度手法来强撑着这部电影，让它看起来还没有崩溃。
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