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".
把近藤美化了 可能在梅艳芳眼中近藤就是有那么美好吧 最严重的是把leslie矮化了 leslie的人格魅力完全没有体现出来 失望
作为传记片，只想说如果走情怀的话，没有什么华彩段落，毕竟和真人纪录片结合起来，剧情部分不是很重要，只是起烘托作用而已。
电影从剧本到演员，都不满意
王丹妮的表演其实有点显不出来，毕竟你一个传记片用那么多真实录像算是怎么回事？
最冷一天，想他。看到有这部电影的时候，我在想什么时候能拍张国荣。看完以后我想还是别拍了，会哭死会受不了…… 怎么说呢，很感动，哭了很多次，尤其是哥哥的葬礼和阿梅的《夕阳之歌》。但确实有一种消费哥哥的那种感觉了。但是能把梅艳芳拍成电影已经是超乎意料了，很香港，很爱香港，梅艳芳就是香港的女儿。花开花谢终是空，阿梅永远在心中。
说电影不像电影，说纪录片不像纪录片，会走进去看的必然都是带着情怀的，所以不管拍得是否符合自己的期待都想看，也是第一次在影院看到所有人直到屏幕完全结束播放才离场，大家好像在等什么，但这一次的“再见”只有在心中回荡。——2021.11.13（个人觉得王丹妮的重现还可，蛮有范儿，但张国荣的选角实在欣赏不来）
张国荣的演员真的太出戏了，甚至觉得有点像黄宗泽……但是他的故事线出来的时候竟然开始流泪，不知道为啥。梅艳芳的一生，很多我不知道的事，那个年代做明星也不是容易的事。
4 除了对近藤真彦化名化处理及美化之外，其他并没有什么不适之处，毕竟影片是对梅姑的一个回忆，一篇传记，而不是其他什么。但是我觉得应该适当加大对梅姑姐妹的刻画，以及梅姑和张国荣之间友情的刻画，另外张国荣的演员选的也太不像本人了。电影采取了一种最原始的平铺直叙，直白的把整个经过给表现出来，但后半部分尤其是接近高潮的时候还是很容易让人落泪的，不喧宾夺主，不过度煽情，不跳戏串戏，以及适当的还原当年的名场面以及用真实的纪录原样代替真人出场的形式，其实影片做的已经挺好的了。最后的夕阳之歌很应景，为影片做了一个还算行的，直白普遍的谢幕。
我哭了两次，一次是切换成真人梅姐的第一个镜头出来时。流了眼泪。第二次就是4月1日。简直控制不了的哭。但感觉那都是真人影像带给我的。电影的本身平淡且琐碎。可能很多所谓传记片为求真实都这么拍。但那是天后啊。这么传奇的一生，拍成一个港女励志片真的好么？我也预料十足女主不能演出梅艳芳十分之一。但让我更想不到是哥哥的演员更让我出戏。这俩在一起我完全想不到是梅姑和荣少。三星实在是情怀。
976｜27/100，导演剪辑版
虽然是新人，也勉强可接受，但哥哥的选角是什么鬼！🤬
五味杂陈，不知道如何评价。作为一个梅迷，我很荣幸自己真心喜欢过你。
两小时的沉浸式粤语训练。
作为传记片，只想说如果走情怀的话，没有什么华彩段落，毕竟和真人纪录片结合起来，剧情部分不是很重要，只是起烘托作用而已。
17'选秀经理林家栋登场
1）张国荣好出戏。找了个神似张新成的演员，气质也迥异。
从歌女到风华绝代，梅艳芳惊艳的又何止是一个时代。忘不了，终相见，这场电影也算是我们和梅姐之间一种特殊的见面吧
昔时人已逝，今日歌犹存。
7分很合理。梅姑生平的大致表层已经足矣打动人心，电影只要不严重拉胯都不会有太大的翻车，主演选角看得出用心，王丹妮五官相似度很高，哥哥的演员很出戏。但电影对于梅姑内心的探讨几乎没有动作，选择了用最平庸稳妥的途径去记录她，技巧拉满，灵性不足。作为电影它最打动我的居然是原始视频资料，所以，三星献给那颗天上的星星，梅艳芳。
那个穿着婚纱的江湖儿女，一首《夕阳之歌》终成绝唱，旧日香港的荣光岁月也许不复了，但是传奇永存。
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