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".
枪是一枪一枪开的，人是一个一个没的，仗是一场一场打的…伟大的胜利是一步一步胜利累积的。见微知著，一勺见高下。张力饱满，就是结尾坦克犯规了，对面不讲武德。
热泪男儿，英雄也可以情感丰富
没有宏大的战争叙事，一小段的战斗也挺扣人心弦的，志愿军实在太牛了。
喜欢双方对狙的拉扯博弈。
战士们披在身上的白布，就是人类的哀歌和战争的挽歌。
国师的实力有目共睹！除了能讲画面，也能讲故事，更能讲感情！知道啥时候该煽情，而且煽得恰到好处。
老谋子的水准从来没有让人失望过，就是美军的动机在明确一下就好了，还是更喜欢原来的名字，最冷的枪
国师的实力有目共睹！除了能讲画面，也能讲故事，更能讲感情！知道啥时候该煽情，而且煽得恰到好处。
编剧、导演缺乏军事常识。我引用别人的一段评论“按照影片的交代，刘文武是一位非常有经验的老战士，但是，他在执行这一任务时却显得十分外行，一开始就犯了致命的错误。
这两年抗美援朝的题材层出不穷，主题大体上都差不多，通过战争来展现中华儿女的不屈精神！这部电影切入点挺新颖的，以狙击手之间的较量来展开中美之间的战争。从一开始就透露着悲凉的气息，鲜活可爱的五班队员在对抗中相继牺牲，最终只有一人走出了战场。电影夹杂着悬疑的色彩，最后一刻才解开这场战役的真正原因。故事讲述的不错，96分钟能看到剧情的发展与人物的变化，从细微处入手，展现宏大主题。韩红的回家是一记催泪弹。
张末是不是拍的镜头太多了点，我军哭戏也太多了，在生死战场上，永远热泪盈眶，擦干眼泪开始神狙击。一点也不克制。哎
他们说这是春节几部中最好看的一部了，嗯，不愧是春节档
一件以小博大的好事，偏偏最后要来个煽情。影片前半段不错，节奏气氛都可以，后半段有点不行。另外中国男人太容易哭不是一件好事，现在网络文章也是，没事就爱说泪目，一遇到感人事迹只有哭。
天涯滚烫 落日金黄
小战役 大故事！美国大兵因个人恩怨 丧失国家利益！
很惊喜，也很意外，惊喜的是终于有一部国产战争片聚焦狙击手这个张力十足的题材。意外的是，在长津湖聚焦大格局大叙事之外，老谋子把视角缩小到抗美援朝中的一处战场，一个班，甚至是一个人。五班是抗美援朝战场上很小的一个切面，但正是无数个这些微小切面组成了抗美援朝这场伟大的卫国战争。因为视角极度聚焦，因此情节紧凑而张力始终紧绷。尤其值得一提到的是新人演绎出彩，观影过程中，甚至让人恍惚置身战场其中。个人认为影片精彩程度超过《悬崖之上》
讲真拍得真挺好，看完后特感动，被战友情治愈了。历史上无数个“五班”，每个战士都值得被铭记。
张艺谋牛逼！！！一个半小时的电影，节奏掌握的太好了！！！狠狠给我冲！！！
与某某用惨烈大场面，人数多烘托相比，简直是太高明
一定要看！
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