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".
什么烂片，越看越恶心，瞎编乱造，美国西部时代啥时变成以黑人为主导了
联系:越亲近的人越要防着点。
有江湖味道；剑客太文艺了，与身份不符，要么江湖气十足，阴险狡诈，义薄云天，要么你就干脆利落快意恩仇好了，干嘛搞的像文人一样文绉绉的，内心戏太多！
是我喜欢的武侠。
配乐好，剧情好，演的也不错，可惜现在是小鲜肉和无脑特效的年代，要不然为什么如此空洞无物的沙丘会比复仇分高这么多。就像冯导说的，垃圾电影就是因为垃圾观众太多。这是垃圾的时代！
这样的江湖 这样的武侠 这样的电影 又有何不可呢
故事前半段还可以，后半段很拉胯，剧情转折生硬不合理看得人好尴尬，男主老婆本来还挺好的，可后面就越来越圣母（还有其他bug就不一一说了），即便全片硬凹了悲剧感，可剧本不到位的情况下，也只能说导演装笔了，至于武打，虽然不是慢动作，演员本身参与也比较多，但实在没什么能记住和能夸的设计，武侠真是式微了，以至于有部正常一点（仅仅是正常一点）的武侠片大家就迫不及待地夸赞，但我能夸出口的只有摄影和外景了
导演是认真的导演，动作设计是认真的设计，演员认真的演员， 主创团队是认真的团队。片子诚意满满，还有什么理由不看呢。
命运都是幻想，一切早已发生。这是一部有格调的武侠。兵者不祥之器，君子持之，却不善算计人心。侠客早已失真，统统死得干净利落，却也返璞归真。
场景加分，人物动作都加分，编剧太弱了。交待的太细，情感拉的太长，看着看着就想快进，江湖儿女不都是为活而卖命，导演没拍出来。这个女主演的大内密探很好看，比一般的垃圾电影好很多，看的到导演用心了。但是实力差点，花点子太少
金满堂两次被捅后背第二次捅有点搞笑 武打设计最好的是在坟头
这个剧情如果是20年前，算是佳作。现在看的话就一般了。最后的决战勉强及格，其他打戏都还不错。尤其是坟头决斗，算得上大师级了。
故事很空洞。布景有东邪西毒、双旗镇刀客的赶脚。
故事性太弱了，逻辑硬伤，主角可以为了一个交情不是很深的人（至少片中没体现）承担罪名，可以轻易把女儿托付给一个让自己流放十年的情敌。这还是一部男性视角下的武侠片，女性在其中的设定是弱者，是需要依附男性存在的人。片子场面调度方面还不错，布光氛围都挺好。总的来说，是部中规中矩的片子。
打斗不浮夸，不错的，最后让小孩死是为了补偿么?
没有花里胡哨的技巧，这才是刀客真正的样子，侠义和柔情并存，这种形式的 电影应该鼓励
阿里云盘\千里不留行.mp4 2022-02-15 11:13
第一场动作戏最给力，越往后越平庸。故事是那种最通俗的，对白也就三流国产剧的水准。
男主挺帅，摄影不错。就这样。武侠动作部分很少
在磨皮和小白脸横行的影视剧浪潮中，许多年没有看到这么写实，武打，富有西部荒漠气息的电影了。大卫是一个普通人的思想者，一切都是幻象，前辈是谁，妻子女儿的误会，还有永远回不去的江南，江南多美啊。
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