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".
其实就是第一季里面的分级剪辑到一块了……太缺诚意了吧，除了最后来了一点新鲜的剧集
中规中矩传记片，靠加菲的演技和唱段撑起来，回头把rent找出来看一看
AG还是更适合舞台，特写下的脸除了苦情再也没有别的情绪，但是肢体确实很好，传记片➕音乐剧片的设置也没有加分太多
歌舞片段的出现都极为自然，但感觉还是差一两首波西米亚生活那样的爆炸单曲。Sunday虽好，但无论离City of Star还是La Vie Boheme都有挺大一段距离。
没看进去，全程如坐针毡，如鲠在喉，如芒刺背。情节简单俗套，表演肤浅浮夸。不知道是为了复古还是怎么着，曲风很老，不抓我，而且感觉唱得时机非常怪，为唱而唱，强硬程度堪比拿着大声公指挥情绪。编剧有野心，努力想学着用剧中剧提一提档次，奈何才华没撑起来，最终沦为自吹自擂，不过“没有人能只通过描写自己而变得伟大”，更何况是一言可蔽之的人生。讽刺的是在众多追梦综艺，电影的当下，本片作为一个完全不接地气的竞品呈现了它看不上的时代，“每天上演着千篇一律的作品”，甚至做的更糟糕。
不喜欢，别营销最佳歌舞片了，故事很无聊很烂，到后半段才渐入佳境了一丢丢…爱乐之城可以甩这个电影九条街。
我就mark 给其他人看，不要花时间看了。这是tv抽的合集
LMM的音乐和灵感真的是赶上这个时代了，幸事啊，算是writer里面混的头一份了
舞台剧、传记片、歌舞片的无缝结合，加菲的表演也非常动人。同时也是高潮不断的音乐盛宴。爱乐之城后最好的歌舞片。
？？？搞不懂为什么要再来一遍一样的东西，好想打1星啊。
有些人来这世上就是为留下一些东西的。RENT影响了我十多年，今天看完Jonathan Larson的这部传记音乐片，把RENT又翻出来听了几首歌，Seasons of love一出来眼泪哗哗的流，音乐穿透时空带给人的力量和信念感，直击心脏。感谢这世界上还有艺术家，感谢艺术家留下的这些作品。
当成背景音乐听听歌吧，这相比电影更像是音乐剧舞台剧那样一段接一段应接不暇，到结尾的时候反而是有点沉，就很不太聪明。挺喜欢Garfield的，N上了一直拖着没看倒是，主要这个题材传记本来就boring，再加上musical，meh（实际看下来传记没咋感觉倒是音乐听的不错）不过good for him tho，他的表演真的很卖力了，值得。VH还是老老实实唱歌吧真的，她声音好听，演戏嘛，就emmmmm差点意思，
Fear or love, baby, don’t say the answer, action speaks louder than words…近几年来最对胃口的片子。才华，执着和活着，苦难总可以构成结局的一部分。
开头平平无奇，越到后面越引人入胜（大概是因为悲剧倾向）喜欢双女主和声那段，但是讲真音乐性并没有觉得比歌舞青春之类的高多少，但是加菲和瓦内莎很可以，看到好久不出现在大银幕的俩人老了，内心感慨的同时又残念他俩不是银幕cp非要zzzq的安插一个黑人女，但是又转念一想，始终红不起来的两人有戏演就很好了🥲
还是鸡皮疙瘩直起的~~虽然知道还是真人加持的魅力~~~音乐本身的魅力~~~不管怎样电影要拍要记录下这些~~~很重要~~
20220218le。年轻剧作家短暂一生的失意时刻。唱歌跳舞不是我的菜，没什么感觉。
很像火影！但依然好看！
作为歌舞片，本片是绝对“好听”的，好听到爆的那种！
补签，打死我也想不到蝴蝶忍和地狱吹雪是同一个人配的。
爱到执迷，幸好成了，不幸成了。倒数时刻切肤之痛，想做，做不出，论文，工作，感情，在犹豫在踯躅在原地兜圈。
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