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".
调色仿佛直接套了个PR的Day 4 Night Lut，对比度不足的同时还能出现大量的死黑，美院审美就这水平吗？莫把偏色当高级了。
这是一部极具导演个人风格电影，也是一部非典型的战争片，个人很喜欢。有几个特色让人耳目一新，比如电影画面的形式感特别强，有多处给人极强的舞台剧的感觉，这些画面对于推动故事十分有效，也有助于演绎人物心理动态的变化过程，另外，还有好几处出现人物幻觉，让观众进入超现实场景，突出了残酷战争状态给人物带来的严重的心理压力，结尾我觉得一个开放式结局，因为并没有呈现弹药库被炸毁的场面，但战争对人产生的巨大伤害从洒落在洪队长脸上的血雨中得到了充分的展现。电影如诗一般的画面与战争的血腥暴力形成了奇特的吸引力，一点也不沉闷，代入感极强，值得一看。
不受主旋律控制，不向商业妥协，不靠演员出彩，认真老实用视听语言做电影！用心！赞！
想给3.5 风格化做到了，尤其是最后的红雨，很震撼。但是个别镜头很出戏（尤其是中间有一个明显的镜头拉进，我甚至有种看伪纪录片的恍惚）。关注战争小人物的微观叙事，视角很好，但是还不够微观。比如丁松柏这个人物的转变，聚焦了但完全没有进入人物内心:战友死了，自责、悔恨、想做些什么作为救赎、认识到超越生死的责任……于是不想娘了，不怕死了，决定舍生取义——这些都是观众从阅读过的无数革命故事中条件反射般脑补的，而不是影片呈现给观众的。不能说一点效果没有，但是影片本身可以更细腻更精彩。不过，比起民族主义和宏观叙事，还是宁可这样的影片多一点。
国产战争片居然拍出了美强惨的味道，从镜头美学角度去开发这个小众的浙西南革命精神和挺进师的故事，孤勇的壮烈搭配讲究的美学镜头，让艺术价值和精神价值两者兼具，很难得
那群被惊飞的密密麻麻的蝙蝠带给我的视觉震撼蛮大的，覆巢之下安有完卵，惊恐感与无措感一下子被拉满。
整体美学风格是成立的，结尾呈现了近几年华语电影最震撼的意象表达
😤累了…这个剧情 这个节奏 我全程看英文配音给我整笑了 好想离开这个国家
咱就是说还行吧，这部我觉得不适合我这种小女生看，不过剧情挺好
战争片这么拍给足了观众新鲜感，沉浸式体验感很强，应该不止我一个人在看电影的过程中有种误入战场的感觉。
暑期来临，希望更多年轻人能走进影院观看这部电影，浙西南革命精神振奋人心，应该被更多人看到并传承。
打戏好看，加一星。豆瓣页面简介里把新选组副局长写成“新仙谷副司令员”，乐死爹了
聚焦个体，展示了一些虚无的信念吗？坠入河中拨开战友们尸体，在树林里打死自己的分身，爆炸声后下起血雨，几个幻想还是比较有想法的。很黑，真的很黑，再加上男演员都蓬头垢面，分不清，真的分不清。小男孩死得有点早。
在无数次内心的挣扎后毅然赴死，这种本能求生到坦然赴死的转变刻画得很真实。
山、小溪、芦苇荡都很美，这个赞。
没有过重地刻画战争场面，却能让人从张力十足的镜头语言中读懂战争的残酷，很棒的表现手法，赞住了。
无名英雄也是英雄，当永远铭记，他们舍生取义虽逝犹生。
9分。这个阵容就注定了表现力和角色塑造的高水平，土方打戏超强慢放抠细节也是行云流水的舒适，镜头配乐也很有质感，放在大银幕上视觉效果应该很爽（暗示）。再说缺点，两个半小时真的容不下原著那么长的篇幅，整体节奏太赶太碎，目测有很多地方拍了但限于时长放不进去，对新选组历史不提前做好功课的话想要完全看懂难度不小。如果分成上下部来做，多点镜头放慢节奏把故事讲好应该会好很多吧（
一面是使命一面是信仰，如果是你你会怎样选择？这群普通的士兵们做出了最不普通的决定，才成就了今日和平盛世的我们。
轻重失衡的典型，辛苦各位演员了。女性角色在这种男人戏里总是可有可无的点缀，唉。
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