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".
震后心灵创伤和社会保障，题材新颖，但是是推理犯罪片，不喜欢看
一部中规中矩的日影，剧情整体没什么问题，但有些情节确实显得冗长，如果这部电影能再精简一些，观感应该会提升不少，影片最后揭示出来的真凶其实也在意料之中，作品运用的手法也算是犯罪悬疑电影中的经典套路了：一开始很多镜头给到某个角色来误导观众，到最后揭示真凶。不过由于角色就那么几个，所以凶手并不难猜，透过犯罪事件反映社会体系的不完善，这种手法似乎已经成为社会电影的惯用伎俩，当然如果用的好，旧瓶也能装新酒
没传说那么差 听过歌没完整看过剧的观众表示有被感动（甚至又get到了politician里的糖刀）
阿部宽真的太像加贺了，但我也真的对加贺无感dbq）我其实一直搞不懂濑濑敬久的风格 《友罪》和《乐园》其实和这个都总让俺有种似曾相识的感觉，演员演技和本子质量都没啥问题，但就总觉得差点什么 （但是这个电影里的kaya演的好好
合适的阳光，合适的感动。不一定是最好，只是心情和时机对了。
可能就音乐剧粉能主动看完吧。改编太失败！想当初我可是在飞机上用笔记本电脑看的盗摄被感动的一塌糊涂。
这个世界其实都没错
如果不能有效填平舞台叙事和实景叙事之间的逻辑差异，则由舞台剧改编而来的电影必然会产生诸多令人不适的观影体验。这种逻辑差异存在于且不限于：（1）舞台上抽象而凝练的高概念呈现与电影遵从现实逻辑之间、（2）无中断的持续表演与分镜头叙事的剧情推进模式之间、（3）多人同空间的合声表演与反复切换的琐碎场景转换之间。
致那些应该是导演想说的有着因果联系两类人，影片题材真实，写实刻画的真切，中规中矩…
这个世界还没有到无可救药的地步。没有一个人是应该去死的。
全程泪目的一部片，看完眼都快哭肿了，从第一首歌开始就能对少年的心境感同身受。充满谎言和爱的青春，每个人都有不可说和不被理解的伤痛。两位母亲的表演真是太抓人，眼神抓住一切情绪你能从中看到心碎的样子。好想去看原版…表演:3 剧情:1.5 视效:2+1音乐 总体:7.5
立意不错，每个人物之间都有着联系，但叙事太平了
这个世界并不是无药可救，消除贫困并不是一句简简单单的口号，而是更多人付出的努力和坚定生活的信念。一点点畏惧和退缩都会带来不幸，我们更要彼此扶持，相互帮助。
音乐剧不会也是这样吧？这电影确实没啥意思，主角的错误很难被原谅，观众怎么可能因为你有心理问题就宽容你呢？
非常多熟悉的演员，没想到艾米和摩尔阿姨会以这样的角色出现在同一部电影里。个人感觉这个题材和电影本身的社会意义要大于剧情。原本看不进去歌舞剧的我在高中校园的剧情包装下也看完了，虎头蛇尾是最大的感觉，明显越到后面越崩了。
合适的阳光，合适的感动。不一定是最好，只是心情和时机对了。
清原在我印象里真的时好时坏，这部算是好的。另外，倒也是非常无解也非常忍辱负重的一个故事了，不过更魔幻的还在最近现实每日更新。
剧本还是很细腻的 因为原版是音乐剧 音乐盒舞台比电影版要精彩很多 本片虽然有很强大的配角卡斯 歌唱的部分却没有很强的代入感 电影版应有的镜头语言和调度也是本片比较欠缺的方面 当作半个宣传片来看也可能是更好的定位
合适的阳光，合适的感动。不一定是最好，只是心情和时机对了。
这是21 Jump Street串场过来冒充高中生的吗
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