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".
其实比想象的要好很多，作为改编来的作品，起码没有让我觉得水土不服。但是我只有一个问题，现在的高中生真的有这么多社团时间吗？
没有技巧，全是感情。居然有主办方会愚蠢到要砍掉唯一的男子花游项目？？普通自卑的高中生日常，热血的点其实也很简单，哪里需要头破血流狗血淋头。也有可能是满屏美好的肉体使我色令智昏。
8.7
真不错，比预期好很多。当然只是在青春片里做比较哈。真是自然清新不做作，最棒的是选角，五个少年都很自然，这但凡要是用一个流量的话就绝对不是这个样子。
满满青春，真挚的情感，通篇又笑又哭又燃，每个情节各种细腻小转折充满信息量，基本没有掉下去的片段或尬桥段，观影体验十分流畅。
抄就好好抄。多挖掘人物内心，离谱的剧情是国产电影的通病。。游个泳而已，一会解散，一会让游，一会让参加表演赛，一会儿又不让，还得自己偷偷跑到后台插电线。110分钟的时间全在走剧情了 腻不腻啊
不是拿一个国外的IP翻拍就好，差得太远了。。。
2、10月2日看完了，我觉得本地化很不错，因为日本原版根本搬不过来，哈哈哈！泳池欧派那必须没法copy。高飞是潜力股可以持续关注。张伟同学表情还是需要再练练，寸头更帅。王子同学剃了光头反差很大。1、预告不错，希望正片不要拉垮。日版真的很精彩，希望翻牌能本土又搞笑。（竟然已经过去20年了……）
节奏太差 ，起承转合尴尬无比，五个小伙没有让人感到一点点热血，再次说明大陆青春片无论爱情题材还是体育题材别说日本，和台湾都差太远太远，这不仅是导演能力问题，更或许是意识形态问题。
班底用了流量时代罕见肯实打实干吃苦有潜力的素人新人演员，梦回从前那个正常的、演员做好本职工作的好年代，这点值得额外加一星。本土化得很不错，校服、家长群和短视频这些都是身边常见的，衔接不突兀。整体剧情比较干净，没有其他青春片多余的无病呻吟。镜头清新，海豚超可爱（不代表支持动物表演）限制在配乐，部分剧情套路和角色设定太刻板化，好在点到为止，并且肯下苦功的演员出得来灵气，瑕不掩瑜。主任和老袁都好脸熟hh蛐蛐妈好像曹玲姨哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
最重要的是，音乐制作吴涛，就是达达的吴涛。更加喜欢这部电影了～
好看，热血，最喜欢主题曲《普通》
他们在学花游，少年们真的就是一种很欢乐的状态，每个人，都是独一无二的自己，目标努力过想放弃过又重新拾起目标继续奋斗过，勇敢的去做，那些结果都不重要，重要的是我们努力的过程。只要我们努力了，会收获更多的喜悦，改变对男子花样游，所有的人会为了一个信念往前冲，那些拼搏的日子会永远刻在记忆里。每每想起那些拼搏的岁月，生活又充满了希望，展示了热血少年的热血青春，希望自己要加油呀，可以散发属于自己的光芒，五个扑水的少年都找到了自己的认同感，我们只被自己定义，送给自己，也送给你们，生活还是充满了希望与阳光…
但是中国导演的通病就是不愿舍弃和故意冲突，例如结尾的表演赛取消。还有影片中的挫折教育“你努力了吗？”“你是全队最差的”。不管怎样的教育都要因人而异，挫折教育对于蛐蛐也许有效用，但是对张伟这样的孩子其实打击是致命的。最后这么多男生都参与这次“阳刚”的表演，虽然画面感十足，但是他们5个人表演不燃吗。虽然列举了这么多的缺点，但是，这仍是我至今看到最好的青春片。
半部好片，前半部非常接地气，真实，热血，后半部嘛，就变味了
光线的团建电影，本来想看看哪个糊生有潜质，意外发现翻拍还不错。一直是“水男孩”系列忠实观众，年轻热血就是要搏一次呀。
很不错的改编，充分把题材制胜的特色展现了出来；鉴于今年内看过了奔跑、燃野少年等烂片，相较而言我真是宁愿给这部片子更高的评分
日影改编，本土化的很好。看完我去狠狠吃了一顿烧烤。
(看的时候一直在讲要是台湾片估计要被夸上天了，最后看完才知道是翻拍，但是也不影响，有些镜头抓的真的很好)
内心很复杂。其实很多时候我觉得人应该按着既定的路线一直走下去才算成功。但是看到这样不在学习的青春，还是很羡慕。高中写过一篇作文，主题是无用之用方为大用。有时候不必太功利，也不必把一些事看的太重要。
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