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".
execuse me？导演拍这部电影完美诠释啥叫普信没有国界
戏说慕尼黑协议 但是片子节奏和摄影是真好……
非常好看！历史上有多少改变人类命运的决定，其实涌动在那些拥有大爱的“小人物”身上。人物虚拟，却更似真实。“大人物”除了做决定，能做的很有限，所以历史课本才会那么无聊。
比起希魔不可一世的样子，男主不太聪明的样子似乎更预示着：战争无可避免。。。
电影拍的好的一点在于，即使已经知道了历史的结局，但男主在纠结是否行刺希特勒的时候还是看的紧张的要死。
典型的为表现主题，瞎凑各种大俗烂、想当然、不合理、不严谨桥段。
通过外交秘书来讲张伯伦的故事，于是又重看了一遍《至暗时刻》，发现之前第一次给的评价太高了，里面音乐太煽情受不了，减了一颗星～～这片子还不错，男主角长了一副特别容易紧张的脸，情绪控制很到位，故事也讲得不错。
三星半 拍历史的部分其实普普通通 大概这段历史大家都学过又有原著所以导演无法更进一步描写 但选角真的很合适 架不住两个主演之间的化学反应 那时年少 你梦见夏天 和我在深蓝色的夜里起舞 后来明白再热烈的爱恨也不过时代里的一粒沙 两个人年轻人的选择和家国情怀比历史部分鲜活多了
挺有意思的题材，节奏和人物都非常温吞。Netflix拍这种题材还是差一口气
说不上来哪里不对。一切似乎太过于轻而易举，而结论下得又过于草率。学院风格稳扎稳打确实没错，但好像就缺了那一点让人留恋的催化剂。这个结尾毁在了最后一句字幕上。
想由整部电影推导出电影最后结尾的字幕显然“证据”“逻辑”不足，只能说历史人物有多面性，相应地历史事件也能从不同方面解读与“挽尊”。
当所有人都能闻到战争时，它是不可避免的。能把平淡的故事拍成怀疑和恐惧的困局，历史是已揭秘的悬疑吧。Paul容易理想化狂热，Hugh is just Like A Puppy. 间谍活动约等于余情未了前任见面，打字员姐姐逐渐理解了一切。
这是一部典型的剧情推动电影，背景较为特殊，是根据历史小说改编，对其真实性的认可，是观众观看电影的思想基础。整个影片制作水准较高，故事的节奏把握得很好，紧张而流畅。尽管大家对这段二战历史史实都已经知道，但对影片所描述的故事：剧中主人公为阻止二战爆发而做出的努力，大家并不是很清楚，这也是大家的兴趣点所在。
“We don‘t choose the times we live in. The only choice we have is how we respond. Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it.” 劇中這個德國年輕人，👍
在当下的时局看这部电影尤为感触。是否洗白我无法判断，有一点我理解，越级报告一般领导总是要摆姿态的，但一定会放到心里去。
作为历史上的事情，又多了一点的了解，慕尼黑协定的签订，为后来二战中能够击败德国做出了一点贡献，这是值得大家去了解的，至于张伯伦签订的协议也是无奈之举，当时的德国确实太强大了，我们能够看到以前的故事也是非常的不错了。
其实学界最近几年就是要给张伯伦翻案，张伯伦因为与希特勒签订了条约牺牲捷克利益，成为绥靖政策的代名词，从而仿佛遗臭万年，但是只要稍微看看他之前做过什么事，就知道他确实是背黑锅了，值得翻案。一个不是从牛剑毕业的人，在短暂的首相任期，通过了限定工作时长、带薪休假、延长义务教育年限等规定，确实不值得成为右翼反共保守主义的丘吉尔的对立面。历史就是这样，找了张伯伦做替罪羊。乔治麦凯有些面瘫，建议加重面部表情的训练。演保罗的演员戴眼镜的时候太像詹姆斯迪恩了，可以安排一下呢！八月君这次第N次演了一个纳粹，但他却能演出不一样的层次，可见德国男演员没什么可演的了，以及一千个纳粹里他们互相都不一样呢。电影还是差点意思呢。人类从来没有从历史中吸取过教训，灾难战争一次次重演！
拍的不错。但最后给绥靖政策脸上贴金是不是太无耻了点
7.5/10.
通过两个小人物的角度展现慕尼黑协议签订前后英德双方的立场态度，可以作为一定的历史背景补充，有一定的剧作张力，但是不太满意最后电影对张伯伦谋略的反转刻画，就算不太了解历史的我都会觉得突兀和前后矛盾，就会对主创是否能正视历史产生疑问。
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