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".
这是一部带有6章1个小时慢镜头的黑暗史诗油画巨作，尽管人物剧情更加立体了，但还是又巨又仓促，无法挽救步子迈大扯着蛋的事实，DC再等等肯定会更好……
用多拍了两个小时夸细节人物丰满，你咋不跟电视剧比埋线长
这是一份珍贵到无以复加的礼物，在尾灯那版廉价到可耻的版本衬托之下 扎导这部艺术品显得充满这无上的荣光
For truth, justice and Autumn. 难怪扎导说钢骨是这部电影的心。脱离数字荒原，于雨夜中的温柔转身是对这篇神话的最佳诠释。宏大战役之外，用心的人物塑造编织出真正的英雄气质。只有高尚的人才能拍出高尚的电影。JL不会有后续，但至少我们得以瞥见一个迎来英雄时代的恢弘宇宙。（本片全员MVP全员高光全员真人！没有塑料凑数角色！没有黄笑话和蠢台词！职场霸凌有！上司PUA有！各种邪教CP有！
四个小时的鸿篇巨制，不仅仅只是一部电影那么简单，所有曾推动它重现光明的每个人和每件事都值得被记录，在承认这是一部粉丝电影之前应该明白的是，这是回报给所有为这部电影付出过努力的人们，不论它有多少私人化的成分或是缺陷所在，它最终成为了一颗由万千微光所凝聚而成的太阳，又再一次地照耀着那些曾经走过的每一条路。从三年前所有的不曾妄想不敢相信到现在所拥有的，虽然还是会有遗憾但依旧值得欢呼与感动，正义联盟拯救了世界，而我们拯救了你。
发现一些人没搞清楚一个基础逻辑 就是这部电影并不是对标院线版的（即并非扎克·施奈德原本计划在院线上让观众看到的版本 因为还没制作完就退出了） 而是属于他个人的剪辑版 是导演个人的表达抒发而无需太在意如院线版的节奏与观众感受
如果所有人都像配角们一样的正常速度说话做事，可以缩短一半时长，不是所谓剧情拖沓，是语速和行动拖沓
吹爆了，扎导永远的神，各方面超过《守望者》，只能证明，我们四年以来的坚持，全是正确的，为了电影，为了DC，四年值了。
这场战斗导演最终在粉丝的带领下取得了胜利。近四小时的影片节奏很慢，能够娓娓道来的故事一定是个好故事，而且讲出了极强的史诗和挽歌的艺术形式，这是漫威所没有的。很多地方恢复了较黑色的设定，每个角色都更饱满，最喜欢新加的钢骨的前史。
4.片子可以说验证了我的猜想，如果继续让施奈德拍DC，他能第二部给你整达克赛德战争，第三部直接无限危机走起。
有一说一，尾灯虽然菜，但是他好歹能够把故事干净利落地讲明白。而咱们自视甚高的扎导，用一堆不知所谓的慢镜头和不痛不痒的废篇硬生生地堆砌了一段四小时的暗色调MV。
四星给影片本身，加一星给整个事件，导演历经波折最后打脸成功，真是出了口恶气，本身都值得拍成电影。
比尾灯版舒服好多。还记得那个时候看的院线版，一直都有种莫名其妙的匆忙感，好家伙原来少了那么多东西，这次扎导的版本补充了许多人物碎片，而且反派的形象比尾灯版帅多了……
这是一部四星质量的电影，但我愿意给五星。缺点大家都看得出来，些许的拼凑感，略长的铺垫，配乐过满，我相信如果扎导能够浓缩到三小时，观感会更好。但最棒的是两个方面，同一的史诗油画风格，以及每个角色饱满的人物弧光。海王不是莽夫，钢骨不是工具人，小闪情商智商双高，最后也贡献了全片最让人热血沸腾的一幕。院线版的问题不是超人暴打荒原狼，而是其他人物沦为陪衬。这点在导剪版中完全不存在。至于远古大战，达克赛德，噩梦线，火星猎人，不义联盟，这可以理解为扎导送给支持他的粉丝们的礼物，在大呼过瘾之余，也多了一丝遗憾，这些伏笔也许永远只是伏笔了。总而言之，惊喜也许没有很多，但我很满意。
打一分是因为一些粉丝无脑打五分，闪电侠救女友，进入慢动作后就换一种音乐，这不是赤裸裸抄快银吗？亚马逊那个地堡塌入海里，画面和钢铁侠别墅塌进海里也太像了
6.若说尾灯版45分，则本版勉强及格，但比烂又有什么意义呢？
有人踩尾灯，有人踩扎导；两部电影我都看了，如果把尾灯的正联比作💩，那扎导版的就是又臭又长的💩，只不过形状上好看了点。
也要感谢万千扎粉，因为正是你们数年如一日的呐喊，华纳才终于放出导剪。
1，诞生是奇迹。当初天天被扎剪新闻刷屏，使我不厌其烦。想着粉丝也够无聊的，竟有这种不切实际的请求。碰巧疫情让流媒体压倒影院，再加华纳领导换人等因素，从而诞生这个奇迹。
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