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".
三星半！
要上映了打个卡～个人挺喜欢，前半段以为是水墨版《1917》，那种无形之处的恐慌感，像雾气一般的危机四伏。后半段幻觉与现实反复堆叠和最后的血雨印象太深刻了，不过剧情还是有拖沓瑕疵的地方，多一星奖励他没有胳膊腿乱飞炮火连天。
电影的色调拍摄风景我还是很喜欢的，国美的作品审美什么的还是很在线的。
一致反映是政府看了会觉得不太满意，被骗钱了哈哈
2.无效的跟随式长镜头滥用，挺废烟饼的。对标伊万的童年 看不清人脸 更别提表情细节 比较好的几场戏 开头的是湖里男主想象的尸群 男主引领大家去炸国民党炸药库的山洞大斜坡大仰角 其他令人昏昏欲睡
2022 院线十佳。远超预期啊。美学风格独特而强悍，故事也是非常合格的水平（在国产院线片中已属不易）。这不比《长津湖》好看？
如果单个单个镜头来划一下的话，有部分拍得还是不错的，但是不错的地方都集中在画面美术上，哪剩下那些镜头基本毫无亮点，剪辑故事稀烂
吐一个小槽：战争片里，女性似乎难以存在，但往往都存在一个。《一个和八个》里有美女卫生员，《1917》里有单亲妈妈。这部电影里，长得像汤唯的美女渔民头一次露正脸，是黑夜潜入庙里送饭：所有男人的脸都在阴影里，这个美女的脸，居然给了一个经典好莱坞式的面光。
影片之中的死亡是既定的
看了一个小时才基本理清人物关系，感谢后排社区党员的好记性，不然我连谁死了都搞不清楚。。
不得不说，影片风格以及几个桥段的处理的确是把我唬住了，以至于尽管故事性欠佳，风格处理得还不够成熟，但是依然值得称赞。直到影片最后的“全体动员”桥段，当阳光下的他们熠熠生辉的场面出现时，才发觉：哦，原来所有的战争片都逃不过这种命运呢。
运用大量空镜头渲染气氛 尤其注意构图 很多镜头都有绘画的质感 对于战士的群像塑造可以说是成功的 作为一个“人” 他们在面对集体的利益和个人的生死时会有动摇 当然 最后任务的成功也是不令人意外的 结尾引人思考 P.S. 院线版一些镜头切换似乎有瑕玼
不知道几十年后，后人又会以怎样的一种眼光去评价这样一部诗电影。
3000多人的队伍，最终留下姓名的只有几时人。没有过份的煽情，没有宏大的场面，没有空洞的口号，这个片真的拍出了红军战士的朴素的理想。
一边标榜“此片聚焦的是时代洪流下被遗忘的最普通的人”，一边声称“我们的片子是按照电影院的最高放映标准来制作的”，不敢相信竟存在如此割裂的创作观。
完全不懂想说什么啊……好多场戏真的无头无尾，人物基本不认得，基本无共情可能。有几个画面蛮好看，但是摄影机一动起来，就晃得很不舒服，不是呼吸感而是步伐感。
风格很独特，让人眼晴一亮，主旋律影片中的一次大胆尝试。只是声音和调色的精细程度远达不到院线的标准，令人遗憾
不可否认影片画面构图讲究，灰暗的影调确实有一种悲凉感。但是，画面处理后过于暗沉，人物面孔表情无法看清，身边不少朋友坦诚看完电影认不清角色；镜头之间链接不连贯，叙事较乱；能看出导演有一些想法比如小人物的故事，上级命令与同伴生死的两难选择，超现实段落等，但是确实没有讲好。
战争的残酷已经不需要用血腥的厮杀、猩红的血迹来表述了，哪怕是在这种酷似老胶片质感的黑白画风中仍能感受到最深刻的惨烈。
有点致敬老塔的意思，摄影真牛逼。国美永远的神。已二刷，准备三刷。
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