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".
7/10，题外话是，北野武做完了所有我想做的事，写书，发唱片，拍电影，演电影，当喜剧演员
就非常有意思的主题和成片风格，各种相反的元素碰撞，表达的真情是真真情，温情也是恰到好处。
真真是螺丝壳里做道场，能在如此单一的场景里把故事讲到三翻四抖勾起观众紧张的心弦也实属不易，国师带女儿的意图特别明显，这道菜不是团年饭里的压轴大菜，是精致的可口点心，看完水门桥来换换口味也很不错。希望国师身体健康，多拍好片子
在这个如此无聊的春节档以及只求激起爱国情绪不在意真实性和作品质量的影视环境下显得如此难能可贵
只能说是很常规很套路化的传记片，我都好奇北野武本人看了什么想法。
看哭了，Netflix干大事，影帝这次演得一点也不虚。
从小看到大的那些抗日电影即便是脸谱化奇观化脱离实际地讴歌化，至少「反法西斯战争」的本质是 legit 的。而关于这场战争，即便是「命题作文」，我也期待有创作者能「真话不全说，假话全不说」。可惜张艺谋也没能做到。
剧本中规中矩，演技着实动人。自身向往之人也在期待着你的光芒，这是怎样一种幸运。
人要穿好衣服，哪怕三天没吃饭，别人也看不出来。但是身上穿什么大家都看得很清楚。最后对着师傅的灵位开玩笑，真的把“喜剧”讲出来了。门胁麦的演技真的很好，以前只觉得这个演员不太好看，现在看来真是只有好演技，好看真的没那么重要。
唯一超出我的主观意识的是，一个小队没有打赢的敌人，一个人把他们全都消灭了……
每个人物都让人记不住，每个转折点都很生硬，每颗子弹的特效都很尴尬，能把真人真事拍这样这是老谋子水平吗？比悬崖之上还差一点
总觉得剧情节奏有点问题，一般。一些片段为了煽情而煽情，超过了战争的真实性。美军角色过于脸谱化了，跟个木头一样。不是很入戏……
通过多年张艺谋电影观察可知老谋子还是适合拍剧情简单的戏
“你陪我躺一会儿，我的眼睛就能闭上了。”温柔、坚强、智慧，亮亮符合志愿军战士最典型的形象。
看完后一整天还是有点生气。既然那么欣赏千春的歌，为什么没有专门去看她一次呢，都已经小有名气了，也不记得让这个曾经鼓励自己的人也走出来吗T T相比之下，师徒情算是极致温柔了
没想到我看一个动作片能哭两回。还有就是，珍！惜！和！平！
3.从昭和落语到浅草短剧/漫才，都不可避免地涉及“电视冲击，剧场没落”。近年日本推出一系列质量不错的影视剧来输出本国传统喜剧文化，即便某些技艺风光不再，但他们曾抚慰一个时代。我国的喜剧人多活跃于综艺，聚焦他们的影视剧倒是少见。期待早日看到《德云小子》《老马有喜》等作品。
从小看到大的那些抗日电影即便是脸谱化奇观化脱离实际地讴歌化，至少「反法西斯战争」的本质是 legit 的。而关于这场战争，即便是「命题作文」，我也期待有创作者能「真话不全说，假话全不说」。可惜张艺谋也没能做到。
虽然影片讲述的是抗美援朝中比较小的一场战役，但整部电影所有演员的张力和爆发力都很到位，张译，章宇实力在线，硬生生把我打动哭了
北野武师徒情，笑中带泪啊，柳乐优弥虽然长得不像北野武但是形似，大泉洋的表演很棒。
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