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".
--找到班长了吗
中规中矩很套路很普通，只有接电话得知师傅自杀和最后的长镜头稍微高于影片平均水平。
抛头颅，洒热血，前辈们的生命换来的地位与和平。
超出预期 没有明星阵容 没有大量宣发 没有足够排片 差点被错过的一部好片
日本导演北野武的传记片，主要截取他初出茅庐时的那段生活，聚焦于他与浅野法兰西座师傅之间的关系。本片依据北野武的自传，又由他自己编剧，因此在影片中形象相当正面。该片中最有光彩的人物还是其师傅，从如日中天的浅野谐星和戏剧老板，到跟不上时代后半生落泊的失败者，颇让人唏嘘不已。该片细节丰富，台词精彩。活人传记片能拍得如此，实属不易。
催泪，硬催，不哭不是人的那种。还是有很多镜头是老谋子独有的镜头美学。
非一般形式传记片，只是截取了北野武师从深见迈入谐星坦途这感人的一段，千里马遇到伯乐，伯乐引导的方式以及豁出脸面背后助推的苦心，实在触动人心，有对传统技艺的感慨，有对法兰西座的感怀，柳乐优弥竭力去演的半张脸，在重返的长镜头里，满含深情。
张艺谋的作品才是有质量保证的，场面不大，剧情也不复杂，但观众能在90分钟内感受到当年志愿军战士们舍生忘死的精神，也看到了我们自己的王牌。
好看好看，老谋子nb！（其实也在犹豫是四🌟还是五🌟，但这部确实是我这几年里看过的抗美援朝电影中最好的一部了
整片节奏有些奇怪，感觉就只是一场战役…另外如果背景放在抗日战争我还能共情一些，放在抗美援朝……
我妈妈走出影院后她和我说的第一句话就是“太棒了，真是挺长时间没有看到这么优秀的作品了！编剧编得太好了，你的导师真的太厉害了！”
张艺谋的作品才是有质量保证的，场面不大，剧情也不复杂，但观众能在90分钟内感受到当年志愿军战士们舍生忘死的精神，也看到了我们自己的王牌。
巧劲儿太重要了。比长津湖高到不知道哪里去了
（豆瓣真空期补标9月末-12月）本来还以为是北野武的纪录片，下载的时候高兴了好一阵子。没想到是角色扮演的传记电影，无比陈旧的讲述方式激不起一点观影的涟漪。
3.5吧。严格来讲，这是一部一般的电影，每个桥段都似曾相识，构思上，设计上也无独到，新颖之处。如果没有北野武加持，这就是部很一般的电影，可这偏偏就是北野武的半部传。可是依然没办法，可能这片能感动北野武，但无法感动我，就算从上世纪九十年代就迷恋北野武，我也无法因为他而感动——这片实在是太套路了，太不北野武了。唯一有情绪触动的两处是北野武原声唱《浅草小子》的两处，第二处还被老年北野武的妆给破坏了——直接让本人出镜岂不是直接拉升了影片的冲击力？！怎么想的。
终于没把观众当傻子了，故事虽小但讲的好，每个人物刻画的都不错。而且终于有一部主旋律不靠美帝来刻画我们志愿军战士多伟大了。志愿军们牛！
美国人是人，中国人也是人，这就值得表扬了，低到尘埃里的标准
子弹时间确实多了点，96分钟跟紧凑，高能一个接一个，观众喝彩全然是为先烈们的英雄气概，章宇的演技越来越好，五班精神感动鼓舞人心。
相比同期的长津湖 导演的刻画则更加细腻 不去选择堆砌一个宏大的场面来展现悲壮 而是以点渲面 以小博大 相比之下 则显得更加的刚中带柔 动人心弦
质量还是很不错的，如果子弹那个画面少一点或许更好，不简单的狙击战
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