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".
也没有失望，也没有惊喜，就…还行，盖尔加朵真美。
不理解导演考虑过时代背景吗？同性恋可以公开？还是菠萝公开！当然他在演菠萝吗？不是！他在演他自己。所以他可以删掉上校，继续他自己的特写和动作戏，等等，他是自恋狂吗！是的！看完后，会很难受，让我难受的作品，甚至是愤慨，为什么要给2星！所以1星，够了！
忘记原著剧情了，也没有什么大的意见。船上的密室杀人案，拍得也太像剧本杀了。看完有点想去埃及。
还来莫名其妙黑白配爱情线，我指的是侦探和Salome，这电影烧钱来玩的吗
美妆和时装还有婚礼旅拍广告？
个人觉得比《东方快车谋杀案》差。如果说前作还能凭借《最后的晚餐》式构图与黑白闪回加些画面分的话，这一部甚至连摄影构图都显得偷懒了。除了依次掠过每个人的那个毫无新意的长镜头，很难找出还有什么让我印象深刻的点，对原作更大的改编幅度也造成了不少难以自圆其说的剧情Bug。更不用说艾米•汉莫那灾难式的演技，令我在观影过程中不住地翻白眼……
剧情过于松垮，推断在前文中又暗示不足，拍摄技术是先进了，但是电影本身却更下乘了。
23.03.2022 | @ Regal Majestic | 感觉看了三个小时。前面好闷啊！不过这个波洛还不错。
汉莫不值得加朵和艾玛争抢orz 魔改好严重，对波罗的胡子来历真的不感兴趣，加的感情戏也真的没有必要
满屏都充斥着肯尼思•布拉纳故作姿态的那股自恋味儿，开头战争戏还以为走错《1917》片场。前期光是铺设人物拍美景就花了整一小时（高举LGBT、种族正确大旗），后一小时才开始赶鸭子式的破案走过场，推理精华部分被处理得索然无味（万能嘴遁），大牌群像也未拍出令人记忆深刻的点。叙事主次不分，情节详略不当，又贼爱给自己加戏。既然作为导演资质有限就别老是嚯嚯这些经典ip了。
铺垫过长，情感线莫名其妙，开头的一战背景只是为了交代胡子？破案阶段的橡皮筋理论完全没有展现出来，毫无期待和爽点，揭秘的台词像是在报菜名…
为什么豆瓣不能打零分，真的求求导演不要再拍阿婆了，能把阿婆的作品拍的这么烂也是没谁了
节奏崩坏，叙事平庸，除了部分镜头语言还算精彩，全程昏昏欲睡。
Kenneth Branagh和Annette Bening原来都已经这么老了
请迪士尼速速放弃这个系列like how you gave up X-Men，莫要再当福斯的冤大头接盘侠。
改编成了一个“爱男人不得善终，搞拉拉才能活命”的故事。
混乱缩编故事角色，却坚持套用原作诡计，不得不将串联诡计最精妙的台词及动作尴尬展示时有多不自在，丢失波洛正义灵魂的假劳伦斯奥利弗就有多膨胀。魔改不是罪，但仅凭令波洛与阿婆笔下最下流的角色之一产生情感火花，编剧就罪无可恕。推理小说并非不可冒犯的严肃文学，可任何妄图用小聪明挑战大布局的尝试都和这部乏味电影一样可笑。
在伪纪录片中突然出现配乐是一件很出戏的事情，个人感觉为了烘托气氛可以用背景噪声来代替，如《老无所依》里的火车的经过声和气流声，所以很喜欢the empty wake在这里非常巧妙了运用了外面的警报声和逐步逼近的飓风噪音。个人认为最差的是第三个（貌似还是最多人喜欢的😂），廉价的3d游戏视效实在有些无法忍受了，那位特警大哥子弹都停了你为啥还继续抖呢😂
这一回，菠萝没有让观众跟着一起抽丝剥茧，而是最后当着所有人的面揭露真相
这种东西翻拍改编又干不过原版，演也演不过的电影。就犹如每个中国人民都要去糟蹋金庸，勤劳善良的美国人民自然要去糟蹋阿加莎啦。只看到一个制作者的自恋和阿婆原版故事的精彩。全剧最佳是Tiffany&Co，以及妈宝男不能要，烂泥扶不上墙的亲戚不能要，门不当户不对的男人不能要，《小时代》抢男人不能要，最为重要的是水货布拉纳更不能要～
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