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".
赵婷真的不适合这个题材，想讲得宏大，结果一帮小孩子。不说这个华裔主角长得怎么样，至少完全没有主角样子，你说你左手少狼主右手囧雪，你让真瑟曦演瑟曦都比这个瑟曦有气质啊，还不如让龙妈来演！
无力吐槽，完全不像一部漫威电影，政治正确到挑不出毛病，剧情幼稚节奏缓慢，演员出戏无法让人沉浸，然后五指山、黑袍纠察队这些梗都不知道怎么说了
用一個言情導演來拍這樣的漫威電影，成效幾乎可以立刻判斷，就是所用非人。
三体第三部死神永生 程心按女主这么拍就是了
人种齐全，残疾，gay都可以是天神，政治是正确了，稍微感觉有点点怪异，但还算可以，没带来很大的抵触和剧情影响。让一个黑人哭广岛核爆就实在有点恶臭了。电影本身也就爆米花片的水平吧。并不期待第二部。
黑人给广岛下跪情节我不理解，大为震撼，黑奴三角贸易你不哭，你哭法西斯大日本帝国？最后为什么不能把雪诺变成长颈鹿～🙂
我滴妈呀，没想到正片还不如预告！剧情我特么的无语！有大病！这么看漫威这个阶段的电影真的是没一个好看的，还不如之前的爆米花🍿️电影
从各方面讲都有不少突破，在这个过程中也有很多瑕疵和不完美。但对漫威来说这是个好的兆头。这是我看的赵婷的第一部电影，也是她接的第一部大片。用这个片来评判赵婷显然是不恰当的。之后会多看几部她的电影吧。
黑超变灭霸派先锋，2001太空漫游里的神助族版美队3队伍分歧，西游记变奏
虽然没有范式规定漫威电影的风格，但起码叙事能力是要有的，赵婷还是想以自己那种苍茫大地的文艺影像来打破漫威爆米花的属性，的确拍出来没那么娱乐了，但和她理想高度相差甚远，甚至节奏都是乱的，困在硕大母题里的人物也含糊不清，女主全程苦大仇深，和我的观影心情保持一致。
安吉丽娜朱莉怎么拍怎么美！太奇怪了！怎么办到的！给她加一星！
这个题材确实东方女性导演最合适。感谢2012出手相救！🙏🙏🙏
但后来呢，超英题材就成了XX正确的天然载体，失去了对真正宇宙和哲学的终极思考，反倒构建起了一套类似元宇宙一般的虚拟信息茧房。
比评分(5.9)要好看，至少完整讲清楚了：地球是个蛋。而且这帮人虽然很塑料感，但好像都有强于复联的能力。
赵婷与漫威的结合是风格化导演与商业类型片的融合和角力，谁占主导和上风谁就赢了。当永恒族集结家人们且站成V字型时，漫威气质就开始占了上风……
这个电影，怎么说呢，有很强烈的导演个人风格，感觉其实不适合作为一部超级英雄爆米花电影，这部电影里我觉得战斗都挺违和的，他们这帮人根本不像是做好大家准备的。
当今漫威居然搞了一部反英雄式的超英片，很意外，也很惊喜，而且赵婷的商业尝试也太稳了，远超预期。至于多元化并没有什么不好，这本来就是一个多元化的世界，不要仅仅是一个身份就一股脑喊什么为了政治正确，不知道原著的设定但是电影的人设应该是为了更贴近人性，政治正确这几个字有点强加于人了。
【严重剧透警告】3.5吧。没必要看第二次。视听语言不新，超能力打斗太平庸，反派形象能力动机都大路货。但是意外地有一种成熟的感觉，这么一衬托就发现一般的热闹大片里，人物要么太传奇不是普通人，要么有普通人的情感但是比她更幼稚。应该是女主角给了我这种感觉，尤其她的情感选择。可惜男主对天神的愚忠缺乏说服力，长不大的小女孩背后捅朋友刀子的行为就更没说服力了。最最没说服力的还是它的主要冲突：选择活着的几十亿地球人还是未来会多诞生的几十亿宇宙人。电影是大众艺术，讲究在两小时内忽悠住人的情感。这个抽象冲突只能忽悠住爱哲思的中二少年。幽默感比较糟糕。但女主用了典型的中国式打情骂俏，这我在美国电影第一次见。选角难得偏向亚裔，但也充分尊重好莱坞性魅力座次：一等白男阿尔法配主角亚女，神经病白女配肥壮可爱送命舔狗亚男
还行，但我没有共情。感觉像是一群人在过家家，虽然讨论的命题很大，但是无法代入，无法take it seriously。
太蠢了……蠢得我上蹿下跳、左挣右扎也依旧逃不出这愚蠢铸造的五指山，只剩下四处碰壁的狼狈丑样。如果这是两个半小时的不要尬挑战/不要皱眉挑战，我承认自己从头到尾输得一败涂地。空头口号式的“人类值得，地球值得”即使喊得再大声也没用……
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