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".
吹哨人悲惨终局，老博士先捧杀再棒杀，政治玩家操弄民意，公众传媒愚弄大众，普罗大众娱乐至死。悲乎，我大亚美利坚国民。实际上他们也就笑笑，凡是还得看灯塔，套路+反套路，最终一起玩完，喜闻乐见，好像一次社会实验，为的是观众嘴角弧度的收敛。
不知道看过动画的话会不会给五星（probably not?
内容上讽刺属性点满 表演上诸神飙戏 大呼过瘾 A妹的嗓音也还是那么绝 其实把彗星撞地球换成病毒肆虐 大抵就从科幻片变成纪录片了~_~
一群大演员出来演小品，平庸、平淡。。。这种讽刺剧还是萨沙老师弄的那些好一些。
除了“哈哈哈哈哈”后的沉默以外我仍记得的那些破碎的美感有：和提莫西啪啪时第一次看到彗星，Riley和DJ Chello在台上无与伦比的cp感。
满星外传，扣分在伦太郎贤人线那边的仓促感上面，其他都是优秀，最值得吹的是氛围塑造啊，是旧平成的感觉啊，像看日剧，台词也不出戏，打戏短小精悍，特效也不错
有点仓促
~katy，are you ok？（配上汽车已经开走）。。。
元旦新年的惊喜发现，与外甥一起观影：《希尔达与山丘之王》，可又名《希尔达：进击的巨人》。跌宕起伏又充满想象力的故事剧情让我又感受了去年一月初观看两季《希尔达》的爽！—— “我的孩子，妈妈好欣慰，你们也许不记得我，但是我绝不可能忘记你们。好好照顾彼此，要坚强、要善良、要记得我一直都在身边。”
这部剧看的比较糊涂。自己猜的很多。在网上看了解说不得不说这部剧意识流很重。好久没有看到这么优秀的有内涵的作品了。对TV本篇不感冒。但这部真的推荐一看。甚至我觉得骑士粉必看。可惜的是篇幅少，导致细节描写不够撑不动剧情，导致影片逻辑性较弱。不过明显比TV好太多
前半部分电影刻意烘托一种悲凉的氛围，因此貌似没有BGM（或是很小声没听到）反派刻画虽然不够完美，但是一个半小时6个主要角色的同时进行难免顾此失彼，之后事件解决后回归平静的生活有点Eva终的味道。总结：正如它的TV剧一样，有不完美，但若是对圣刃特别喜爱的话则是不容错过的外传
第二部分：
新风格很棒，换个标题还以为是在看什么正经日剧，日常风太棒了，算是弥补了tv中很少出现的日常画面，剧情很有深度，得让人细细回味才行，拖马超人刻画很棒，又上了一个层次，就是感觉打斗少了很多，大部分是在讲剧情，有点像旧平成tv那样，前面很长一段都是剧情，后面几分钟拍打斗，总的来说还可以。
还挺好看的，欧亨利式结尾。剧情有点赶，伦太郎爹的动机有点立不住脚，其他都还可以吧。贤人新形态好看飞了，魅力无边，漂亮月神。八年后托马老师可真帅啊，当爹好加分，狠狠梦了。
也许生活就是这样吧。
低幼向的奇幻故事，结尾很暖心，回归母爱与和平。
这就是后真相时代
2022.02.01
内容上讽刺属性点满 表演上诸神飙戏 大呼过瘾 A妹的嗓音也还是那么绝 其实把彗星撞地球换成病毒肆虐 大抵就从科幻片变成纪录片了~_~
一群有钱人花了大价钱请了一众大卡司来拍了一部反思“金钱至上”等怪象的电影，怎么看都觉得哪里怪怪的呢...
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