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".
哈 我花了三个小时在电影院里复习了一下日本近代史 挺赶的 考虑改名 跟隔壁一样 无暇赴死
争分夺秒的殊死之战，奉献生命的热血壮举，都呈现的静默而隐忍，越克制反而越有张力。
一堆明星凑起三星，村本大辅这个坑爹货加半颗星～
战争片这么拍给足了观众新鲜感，沉浸式体验感很强，应该不止我一个人在看电影的过程中有种误入战场的感觉。
没有过重地刻画战争场面，却能让人从张力十足的镜头语言中读懂战争的残酷，很棒的表现手法，赞住了。
意外好片！借鉴了《这里的黎明静悄悄》，但别有新意。
剪辑上是不是没有把握好节奏啊，特别是德川庆喜和京都公卿的戏份插入点都很有违和感！雪这个角色直接删掉也不会有太大的影响吧，剧情上说不定还更紧凑。表演上山田凉介相对比较出彩，戏份分布也比较平均，而且都有记忆点，算是意外之喜。
普通人面对生死抉择时的那种矛盾感在影片中被很好的展现出来，其实这也是这部电影的一个重要议题吧。
这可能是我近三年看到的最好的“战争片”，说是“战争片”可能不太准确，他更像是一部小众的有关战争的实验影像作品。山石中的蛇，大树上的悬尸，水下的“梦境”这些都极富暗喻。非常独特。
乱世中乱剑飞舞～一群武士看似在卫道守义忠君，实则是于历史前进的浪潮中做了破碎的粉沫……土方阿岁战到最后独骑赴死，挥着铁器以肉身迎接枪弹，在怅然的音乐中丧命剧终，岁月翻开明治维新的篇章。
看了推荐去看的，描述为：好的学生作品。开头确实很有创意，以为主角出现的时候，一枪被打死了。然后蛇的镜头，好多。有意让你想蛇在表达什么，什么悄无声息，什么又隐退了，什么从哪出来想咬你一口。结果只是在那一个段落里的作用。全程看得我精神没有放松，雾蒙蒙湿漉漉、与蚊虫和难以痊愈的伤口相伴，想想就难呼吸。
一部在生存与毁灭间行走的战争电影，在探讨个体的求生意志与忠诚使命的矛盾之间，呈现了一部体现人与战争关系的诗性电影
导演故事讲的一点都不好！说实话，实在欣赏不来！
整片都是黑白色调，在爆炸的时候突然有了色彩
这是一场非常具有使命感的向死而生，很难想象当时年轻的他们心里怀揣着怎样的情绪去完成这样一个任务，如今的我们只有面对着银幕深深致敬。
Bgm跟心跳同频，把激动的心一直吊着，从头至尾都很沉浸。
有一些改编不太喜欢，司马辽太郎应该不会这么写，大概是导演编剧跟庆喜有仇把他写的那么夸张？平助不是土方砍死的，池田屋杀阵好敷衍，是我看过所有新选组有池田屋场景最敷衍的一个版本，山崎烝的话痨，乡下版土方小碎步的走路方式总觉得很不土方，总之导演刻意要加一些喜感的元素反而很画蛇添足，局长和副长的身高差大概是全剧最欣慰的部分
黑白色像极了从前的老胶片，那种独有的质感反而为整个故事增添了一丝艺术性，很喜欢的一部作品。
看封面以为是一部热血格斗片，其实是一部冗长枯草的历史传记，如果浪客剑心能以这个基调拍的话还原度应该更高，更像追忆篇的感觉😁
讲真，每一位普通的战士都像影片中的他们一样，没有个人光环，没有不死的传说，但他们忠于信仰的样子，真的在闪闪发光
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