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".
剧情方面真的很一般，结局有点屎，可以这么说这是反派赢了的结局！
有些失望，故事以“爱”戛然而止，有些讨巧的意味，女性主义在男权世界中的恐惧感营造得也不够，世界观几乎没有设定。
在网飞这几年砸钱的作品中，这部《灰影人》还比不上前两年迈克尔贝的《鬼影特工》。一样的豪华阵容，一样公费旅游，这部给我折磨多多了。高司令还是完美人设，冷酷杀手兼温情保姆，而美队就单纯是个有小胡子的暴躁老哥，安娜则单纯是个辅助角色还不如花瓶呢，起码有个展示时间。三人没有擦出任何火花，甚至连两大男主都没什么对手戏。打斗枪战追逐戏，没有爆炸贝剪辑得那么碎，但也没好多少，开头酒店的一段灯光烟雾快闪，让我还对罗素兄弟有所期待，但后面就失望了。最关键的是，都有2亿美金的预算了，为什么还安排这么多幕夜戏，混战中一片黑暗，就只听到枪声和东西破碎的声音，差点没忍住快进。
布拉格那场戏看得挺爽，高司令怎么演都没有特工感。
身处漩涡之中，只有自己才能拯救自己，女性朋友会赶来安慰你或者给你收尸。
画面够好的，可惜也只有一层华丽的纸衣。不过开头的烟花场景做的真是赞啊～
要不是因为有这几个演员，谁看啊，不对，这拍的我都快不认识他们了，罗素兄弟近两年拍的真让人感到迷惑
前半部分用诗样的镜头逐步放大不安感，节奏慢但毫无尿点，后半部偏重口味，有点破坏前半部分营造的特有气质。吃饭勿看，心理承受能力弱的勿看
这个导演的片总是有一种忍不住将好开局作死，越来越搞笑的倾向。沦为恐怖 cult 片 + 符号合集之前，真的是太喜欢了，差点忍不住要打四星了。野心太大，玩嗨了，没收住吧。
Harper最后的表演是那种“你真给我整无语了”式的
5｜真的很无聊….滥用无人机到令人发指的程度…..ChrisEvans演得太油腻了…鉴于最近kenergy爆棚的高司令以及开场安娜的碎花西装导致观影过程中我始终觉得这会是个喜剧片….但这似乎是个严肃动作片….于是我真的代入不了….好不容易要代入了Lloyd一句ken-doll又把我拉出来了….（哪怕是kenergy高司令和克里斯桃，高司令秒了（安娜美死我了
强烈推荐布拉格大战一幕！罗素兄弟自然祭出看家本事，毁天灭地，轮番轰炸，短短十几分钟的镜头居然烧掉了4000万美刀！
今年很喜欢的一部cult片了！氛围感十足，演员出色，名场面很多，心理惊悚的模板。加兰不愧是写出《惊变28天》拍出《机械姬》的男人！曾经诞生了绅士教育的大英帝国，这些年对男性主义问题的探讨和反思很多啊，相比之下，曾诞生了君子教育的华夏大国，可以对照思考一下，这是一位男导演拍的，男观众真的可以理性探讨了。你说这是“恐男”片吗？我觉得不是，里面也展示了男人的痛苦，一切恩怨情仇都从那一颗苹果开始，只能说导演真是为男女问题操碎了心hhh
大陆的动作明星断代了啊，有那时间都用来上综艺去了
太老套，除了场面能看，其他都分外偷懒！感觉罗素兄弟对每位演员说，有个冤大头给我们投很多钱，我们简单演一演，剩下的都分了。每个人都显得心不在焉……
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又是这种满世界各大城市跑的特工片，尽管主创团队让疫情原因没能在这两年去外面的世界玩够的观众大饱了眼福，但也没能抵消本片在同类型电影中高度同质化所带来的平庸感，况且本片还是一部根据畅销小说改编的电影，最终的剧本故事竟然还是这样无趣，到底是原著底子太薄还是罗素兄弟对于这个剧本就没啥眼见力？反正这个2亿成本的Dollar我只看到了不断堆砌的大场面，钱是花在刀刃上了，但却没有一个有趣的灵魂在其中，这无疑是失败的。
莫名其妙的结束……怎么就笃定和小女孩有这么深的情谊orz（小高还是帅的（以及这片子还要拍前传和后续？？？
后面那段男性连环生娃 真的是变态到不行 但主题真的很很扭曲 应该就是讲的男人离开后对女主的心里一系列影响吧 。 借用李安的一句话：我看不懂 但我大受震撼
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