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".
过于冗长，以至于前后失衡，使得后半部分人物的小丑式表演匆匆上演，但精准的镜头依然彰显了制作水准之高
从悉尼大赛之后开始朝我不理解的世界线偏离，大家都在说什么，我不懂…最后小学树下的“for the team”，难道不是告诉观众整个作品都在朝着与原本完全不同的地方狂奔了？
重点在于BradlyCooper没有吸引力大魔王又太有吸引力，看得让人分分钟想让男主从画面里消失
就很傻 很漫长 laughable 看起来辗转反侧这个那个的 然鹅我只是觉得突兀又做作 看得好尴尬，然后payback看起来是好像挺厉害让人深思的，然而我的耐心已经被折腾完了，一落幕就迫不及待的离场了，坚持到了最后结束只是替自己不值得，一秒也不想多浪费了，还没有crimson peak好笑
就，很一般🙈
真遥党头顶青花鱼，结尾haru的黑化莫名其妙。
陀螺老师拍这个片的目的会不会是科普下黑色电影不一定是黑白片的道理。
没看过老版，陀螺这个服化道不错，但故事、人物还是差点意思，层次感不足，整体拖沓了一些，还没有《猩红山峰》好看呢，这么一对比，搞得想去重温《猩红山峰》里抖森和劳模姐的虐恋故事了。
「You don't fool people. They fool themselves.」
虽说前半程有点肉（其实总的节奏都有点），故事很空，但太黑色电影了，太是我的菜了。新黑色电影的制作标杆。库珀演的好。
陀螺标志性的影像风格，前半段马戏团的表现力极强，服化道也精致的无可挑剔。但是这个故事。。。冗长乏味，Kate大魔王根本没啥发挥空间啊，感觉就是在努力向femme fatale上靠。
剧作还是很优秀，可惜主卡司之间毫无火花，以致于人物生死并不抓观众的心，无法引起任何共鸣。
可能海报 片名 和 电影讲述都有点放错重点…
还是挺喜欢这个故事的。贪念不满，终其一生都在寻找心中缺失的那一部分。只不过第一幕稍微冗长了一点，应该改一下结构，把第一幕的内容交叉剪辑到主线叙事之中可能会体验更好一点。
这么点事情真的需要两个半小时呈现吗 服化道布景啥的确实没话说 但是库珀这膀大腰圆的一脸壮熊样 哪有半点狡黠的骗子大师的样子 魔王和麻辣扮相很美 但是角色也没啥发挥 真是浪费演员
精致服化道和宅男趣味让观感比原版好，陀螺过了这么多年还是完全不会写女性角色和男女情感，这三角恋拍的真是让人看得扶额…..
陀螺标志性的影像风格，前半段马戏团的表现力极强，服化道也精致的无可挑剔。但是这个故事。。。冗长乏味，Kate大魔王根本没啥发挥空间啊，感觉就是在努力向femme fatale上靠。
两个半小时过长了，2月2日 13:00 看过
略显割裂，但仍然掩盖不了厚重和迷人，联想到《大地惊雷》。
我实在是不懂Stanton是怎么敢让molly出现在一个不遵从自己疗程的客户面前
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