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".
两星 歌词如同说明书 生怕别人理解不了自己
我认为这是一部非常优秀的音乐剧改编电影，它完全体现了那些具有讽刺意义的东西，就像Conner的所有故事都是虚假的，而当Evan尝试自杀的时候，也没有人会出现在他的身边一样。虽然剧情推进的时候突然开始唱歌不论怎样还是会有违和感，但是在这部电影中，演员非常到位的演技和歌声完全可以让你沉浸在其中。
不过还是比本来就不适合电影的猫好一点😂
这是今年最最最最喜欢的音乐剧，电影表达出了音乐剧本来的意思，结局不圆满反而更真实了，本来，人生本来就没有guarantee你会被found
和音乐剧差距悬殊💔 删什么都不该删对于情节发展至关重要的good for u，可能是因为咩咩唱不了（但是咩咩演得超棒！anonymous one太拉垮了，Alana也变成了让人生厌的角色。
为什么这么多人骂啊，剧粉表示有Ben Platt还要什么自行车啊！
当“善意谎言”的意图从利人变为利己的时候，势必会受到真相的猛烈反噬。讲述问题少年的美式校园青春片一直都很模式化，这部当然也不例外，音乐剧改编其实也没有加分太多，可能是丢了原戏剧的神韵。希望这种“在一个人逝去后才真正开始了解TA”的追溯手法被善用，再创作出更多的花样。毕竟，集体回顾某人，是让我们有机会去深度认识此人的一种重要方式。
蛮好哭的，也谢谢没让我在电影院哭得太惨。对美高恐惧+1
为了音乐剧给四星吧，实际应该三星，因为水准比剧差了不少，不过原剧的确很难改编也是了。
除了evan老了一些些，又一次哭哭笑笑上头。
也就那样，光看电影绝对想象不到这是拿托尼奖的音乐剧。。。
看了一半看不下去了……音乐衔接很突兀 有点尴尬 决定还是再看一遍原版吧
you will be found的时候还是破防了😭😭😭
还是来看了（…）本普拉特的超龄演绎没有外网骂得那么糟糕，给阿拉娜新加的那首主题歌很不错，但除此以外就（。）墨菲全家尤其是辛西娅的演员的演技都非常让人无语，电影为了篇幅删掉了我个人非常喜欢并且对配角人物丰富度也非常重要的几首歌，改编的结尾seems to give Connor a closure但实际上让人感觉更像是Evan的自我感动，真的不如不改
当很多人说自己被Connor的故事找到后，Connor作为一个个体却在这个discourse里消失，这是电影里让我觉得最讽刺的一幕。
前半段看得我哭得稀里哗啦，后半段就很难共情了。看大家都说原版音乐剧好看，决定列入愿望清单。
这种题材改编成电影，两个多小时有点长了，可以精简一下
有力过猛了，有些表演形式和风格留在舞台就好。
亲爱的埃文·汉森 今天天气很好 我过的也很快乐 看完电影 最后看到你想从树上掉下来想自杀的想法让我大吃一惊 或许你真的应该和C做朋友 一起做那些你讲述的故事 可惜了… 最后放C唱的歌 心都碎了
一场盛大的SNS鸡汤performance。。。
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