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".
虽然我这不满那不满，但梅姐真的很值得爱值得记住。
就好像在一个陌生的城市漫无目的横冲直撞 当找到心中指示牌的那条街道 慢慢探索直到越来越接近终点的时候 冲过去那一刻发现对面是一堵墙 它不高但也翻不过去 那一瞬间是失落是惆怅 直到终于鼓起勇气转过头 突然发现陌生的城市 除了那条路原来还有好多好多被忽视的大喇叭 红绿灯 斑马线和另一块指示牌 好多选择但也好复杂 好多也并不属于自己
主创算用心尽力，但天后梅艳芳精彩的一生，值得更好的传记片。电影做了太多减法，对梅艳芳本人的再造流于表面，没能细究家庭对她的影响，成名前后、患病前后的转变和选择全无，又极大美化了日本男星和刘培基。梅姐对圈内对社会的付出也远不止慈善演出，比如组织艺人协会、对抗东周刊、北上促合作等等。梅姐的好友们，如今一个个均为人物，谁都知道她的好，谁都有关于她的故事讲，未来肯定还得有部纪录片。最后想说，也只有梅艳芳，于逝世十八年后仍然让粉丝们有所期待，谢谢你，Anita
剧版。不仅流水账，剪得还稀碎，给这个导演再多时间也讲不好梅艳芳的一生，什么都想要最后就只能拍成带着鸡汤味的百度百科，莫不如就从筹备最后一场演唱会开始讲起，每首歌带回一点回忆的形式会好很多，起码不会出现素材反复用的情况，而且中间各环节穿插太乱了，没有前因后果，粉丝路人都不买账。女主某些时刻也太像徐帆了吧
有点感同深受 this relationship
很温暖。Andrew很善良，Domino和Joseph同样。Domino说，我不想让你再当她的临时保姆了，因为我想让你享受20多岁的生活。Joseph说，谢谢你保护我的家人。Andrew跟妈妈说，我一直觉得你是一位非常好的妈妈，跟弟弟说，能做你的哥哥我真的非常骄傲。Stepfather Greg说，没有人能打你妈妈。很平缓的记叙，但温暖感人。
这部我真的好喜欢节奏巨舒服REAL SMOOTH
就好像在一个陌生的城市漫无目的横冲直撞 当找到心中指示牌的那条街道 慢慢探索直到越来越接近终点的时候 冲过去那一刻发现对面是一堵墙 它不高但也翻不过去 那一瞬间是失落是惆怅 直到终于鼓起勇气转过头 突然发现陌生的城市 除了那条路原来还有好多好多被忽视的大喇叭 红绿灯 斑马线和另一块指示牌 好多选择但也好复杂 好多也并不属于自己
丰富的细节，有些事情，还是得等相关人物不在才能放开了拍吧
片尾的时候还真有点感动 把自己嫁给舞台...
丰富的细节，有些事情，还是得等相关人物不在才能放开了拍吧
这是一个最大公约数，说句不好听就是一集影像化的《志云饭局》，还没《今夜不设防》精彩和真诚。及格分完全因为情怀，它不仅在跟梅姐道别，更多地像跟一众黄金时代的港人和粤语区成长的我们宣布，就让一切随“疯”。正如呈现金马奖在当下都有种挑战感，但积极组织各种社运才是主角成为不可替代的关键。
相信现在这个分数应该是感情分居多，这部电影本身完全就是流水账，对于梅艳芳的人生每一个节点都是蜻蜓点水、一点而过，她的粉丝相信应该不会买单吧？最后身着婚纱的告别真的是直击泪点。
很久没有一部电影能从选角剧情观感上让我如此享受了 谁说男主不好看我打死谁🤬🤬
通过电影🎦了解了著名演员的身后故事，也是过去自己一直不曾知道的故事。当然告别演唱会已经是家喻户晓的最精彩的人生告别演出了！(记得🈶DVD影碟)
继时空恋旅人之后，又一个因为善良治愈我的男主！！
电影四星 剩下一颗星给那个年代 那个香港乐坛 送给Leslie 送给Anita
这部电影让我感受了一波梅姑的魅力，打消了一些以前曾经有过的疑问，为何一个艺人可以有这么大的影响力和追随者？看完电影我终于懂了。
即便我边看边哭 但你们扪心自问这一部对得起梅姐吗
很不错的人物传记题材电影，尤其是描写梅姐与张国荣，与eddie的情谊部分很感人。
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