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".
高楼大厦下从来不缺人间苦痛，人大概是这世上最越挫越勇的存在了
11.5晚，难得和父母们一同走近影院，上一次同看的电影还是《红海行动》。观影体验极大优于《第一炉香》，画面质感，灯光均比《第一炉香》高级。可能是几位导演合拍的原因，各自几段戏都酣畅淋漓，最终组合出高潮迭起的观感，但也让衔接不够自然，并未浑然一体，结尾收的也较弱，可以更好。烽烟滚滚唱英雄，期待那部更好的抗美援朝电影。
也就是还行吧，关注现实但太过毒鸡汤，感觉像是一部春节献礼的命题作文，看了导演的这部电影，也就是一部电影，离开表达，导演也不是导神。哈哈哈
被朋友拉去看的第一场，出乎意料的好看！文牧野的节奏把握的太精准了，没一点浪费，影片真的是易烊千玺撑起来，演技太棒了，其他主演也很棒，强强联合，春节第一部电影，很好！
看了点映，从总体来说不同于以往战争片普遍存在的空喊口号，这部片子仿佛自己就置身于战争中。
今天看了这部电影后，我妈说易烊千玺会成为刘德华一样的人物[强]
观感很一般。战争场面太多，有点儿累赘，惨烈和英勇都够了，但悲壮和智慧似乎还差点儿意思。吴京可别透支了招牌。
不愧是首部作品我不是药神就能30亿的文保保，奇迹的群像戏拍的太好了，从主演到配角，每一个都很棒！千玺又贡献了稳定又细腻的表演，特别好的电影
以后再去看这种类型片子给博纳送钱我就是猪。特效假，为了大场面而大场面，不知道拍了有啥意思
谁都有难处，虽然结局是he，但是整片看起来就是小人物的人生，景浩不过是万分之一的成功者，更多的人熬不过那些苦难
看完第一感觉就是这是一部深圳宣传片…… 对比药神弱化了社会问题，算是深圳发展的缩影。故事比较简单，千玺又进步了，妹妹的演技应该是同龄人天花板了吧。哈哈哈。
——“有。”
在长津湖之前我是绝对不信会有电影的技术跟不上剧本的质量
第一次在大年初一一早来看首映，特别值得。虽然生活总有意想不到的坎坷，但因为有亲人，有朋友，有团队，只要精神不倒，办法总比困难多的多。大男孩，一如既往的超乎想象，特别棒。
永远不能忘记的!
中国人真的不容易！“这场仗我们不打，就是我们下一辈人打”有被触动到。一直不懂为什么非要抗美援朝，死那么多人，这部电影多少给你解释了点
尽管电影里面经常出现“好景常在”，我的脑子里却经常出现“好景不常在，好花不常开”。邓丽君的歌曲太美了。
虽然内容有点密集，枪、炮、肉搏、飞机都想展现，切换有点快了。但是依然超感动啊！尤其是胡军演的雷爹去世那里，从周围人的各种表现，全方位立体式地催泪。还有一点儿杨根思和冰雕连，对泪腺是个打击。
中段音效聒噪，
我们要永远铭记他们的荣誉；国产电影还需进步，不能因为思想红旋律正就大唱赞歌。
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