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".
故事其实非常好，罗生门的角度改编了一个历史真实事件，但是节奏真的慢
最后男主胜利围观妇女为男女主夫妇鼓掌那里真是莫大的讽刺
在现代可能立案的机会都不会给，从正义伸张总有渠道的目标来看，还有个国王给大家一场公平的决斗，并且有让原告被告说谎的代价的制度，反而是挺含智慧的。比滴血认亲，比举证困难因此不立案的科学思维好的多。
决斗场景当中对旁观者的刻画，有很多反讽：所谓“骑士”也是贵族的工具；王公贵族从骑士死斗中，获得的是感官刺激。
三个视角的罗生门，自大自恋的人能把强奸想象成被勾引。
最终，她发现真相对她毫无意义。好在，丈夫在拼杀关头还算争气。
只看最后三十分钟足矣，叙事效率在老雷面前是个伪命题。罗生门的厉害之处不是不同视角下含混的真相，而是真相毫不重要：乱世里活着最重要。少了这层意味，只剩下对旧社会封建礼法对女性残害的无声控诉（参见达蒙凯旋后bgm突然的静音）。高光要属决斗场面，惊险刺激但并不激烈，和十字军东征一样，表面上骑士精神，实际流氓械斗。
居然有想打五星的衝動，可能沒對老男人電影抱太多希望吧⋯⋯經典細節錯位和POV，台詞寫得易懂又不太突兀，偶爾還挺好笑。最後一場戲太抓人了，以及電影裡所有女性的目光都值得讓人落淚啊。
那个“夏夜热风”的短评也是醉了，尚明摆着为了自己的尊严完全不顾妻子的想法，全程玛格丽特只是个符号，归根结底就是两个男人的私愤，只不过要带人陪葬，这不雄性主义？等于说你老婆被强奸了，干脆让她死了算了？这叫爱？玛格丽特不告诉尚的话，改天尚知道了，她说的清？还有输了被火烧的事不告诉玛格丽特，这算啥？玛格丽特一直反对决斗你也装瞎，这种男的大家注意了，身为男人都觉得你真下头
电影最后又播到十年前拍的斋藤一和剑心那一幕，感觉第一部上映仿佛还是昨天看的。
荒谬被拍得荡气回肠，核心的好看点还是在于荒谬本身。相比司机的暴行，达蒙和女主的关系更让人窒息，而且达蒙最后那次，也是强暴（女主应该连两个人一起告！）所以三个人的视角确实缺一不可。繁复感很奢侈。
从剧作到技法都比较陈旧，但观赏性还是足够。
史诗。法国版罗生门。但是选角有问题啊，男二不能找个帅点的吗，ross一样，让女人说英俊，不违心吗。很短的几个战斗场面，服饰、武器、动作、效果，无比精良。叙述本身，三个视角，对比强烈，感触良多。每个人都生活在自己的世界里，同一件事，看到听到记忆的都如此不同。都感觉自己付出很多、成就很多、品格高尚弱化缺点。直男癌整天征战、利益、后嗣，性生活两分钟粗暴结束还问女的愉悦吗，那年代的共识，女的愉悦才能受孕，强奸不会怀孕。也难怪妻子受冷落不被理解细腻的心思无所寄托。那整天跟着上司群p的，一贯来硬的，认为说no是淑女的行为方式，并不是拒绝。女性视角明显细腻很多，偏感受。那个年代，不说决斗裁判这种sb行为了，女的是男的财产，没有法律权利。老夫人都说自己曾被强奸，so what，活着才重要，什么年代啊。
讲述视角很不错，最赞的是女主视角，完全是不断被艹的生育工具。老公只爱荣誉面子，最后大腿被刺伤，咱先抢救下再游街好嘛！亚当司机承包了所有直男癌的通病：啊，我真的太帅了！那个少妇又喜欢上我了！怎么办，我要不要临幸她？！
决斗那场戏看得人非常紧张，因为关系到女人的生死。这不是悬疑片，不是宫斗剧，而是抨击男权的利器。
漂亮的结构，导演的企图心又是如此的谦逊。细节里处处见斯科特对历史的把握与人性的谙熟。这一次他谦逊而有一些老谋深算地选择了变化的视角来处置沉闷的历史题材，揭示了视角属于谁谁就是受害者谁才是得道者的精美比喻。真正读史的人不能错过的一部好戏，爱电影的人应该注目的一部好戏。字幕升起，掌声，泪水应该献给这部提供了持久的共鸣感的电影。
全方位展示中世纪风土人情，路是真泥泞，头发编的是真漂亮
雷老爷子的“罗生门”，影像传递出来的是导演一以贯之的历史厚重感，延续着一向以来的风格，用心之作。
扎扎实实的剧本和摄影，章节层层推进，在最后一刻大爆发，可怕的是施暴者在最后一刻仍没有任何悔意，其实我本以为达蒙会输，那样结局会更加荒诞悲凉，可是在人们簇拥着达蒙向前时，又是另一种说不清感觉的荒诞
年度剧情迷惑大赏，老爷子投机取巧的拍摄方式让观众很难从不同的角度上得出有价值的线索去判断剧中人孰是孰非，也许是因为女权这个主题太敏感，也许是因为我还是太浅薄了，啥也没看出来……
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