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".
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设定还算有点意思，质感也不错，奈何动作戏好几处太拉胯，这种软绵绵的招式是怎么通过拍摄的？
奈飞等于是又拍了一部《火药奶昔》，故事发生在日本，片名叫作《炸弹柠檬》，成色固然是好了不少，但也还是没能摆脱陈旧老套的毛病。
至少女主的打戏没火药奶昔女主那么尴尬。。。
【第一感觉打分】稀碎，拍的啥啊？剧情跟玩似的，动作戏也跟玩似的，搞得日本元素也是老一套，一点新东西没有。
3.5星。视觉和动作戏其实挺不错的，就是后期人物情绪的转变太随意了。Miyavi居然惊喜出演，而且还是一个【防剧透】，好好笑。浅野忠信和国村隼也是这种片子的常客了。 片头曲《I'm a Pop》和片尾曲《金字塔》都是我好喜欢的歌，为此多加0.5星。
2021/9/20/网大模块化女性杀手大杀四方，主线设定有点像寡姐的超体，节奏明快，赛博朋克风，血浆横飞，中规中矩。
本片灵感应该源自于杰森斯坦森的《怒火攻心》，主人公都是类似的遭遇，被人陷害，在极短的时间内，都会丧命，于是，要利用这极短时间，找出事后的真凶……
一些稀疏平常杀手彩色动作片，很多大牌，水准没有太差。新意不外乎：1 一上来就知道主角最后必死（而且真的死了）；2 真实的女性主角动作片，确实是会让人想起蕾普利的那种。
Dinner killing scene's cool. But horrendous after Band-Maid. Fucking kid cringe like hell. 不知道给梅津泰臣版权费没？估计没有。英文一字之差，都叫カイト也没辙。开场给玛丽·伊丽莎白·温斯蒂德的第一个镜头就车内强光不打粉，根本是犯罪。
小妞电影，全都落在套路之中，比直男爽片还要简单粗暴，东京夜景霓虹闪烁、充斥电子乐和未来感，很适合这种孤胆英雄的绝命题材。
铺垫的情节明显是有删减的,然而霓虹效果除了追车那段也没有做地特别好
文姐帅得老娘合不拢腿 小姑娘好看ˋ( ° ▽、° )
[视]R血。导演<白雪公主与猎人2>，女猎手单飞，屠杀当导师，雷神基友客串。大量日本元素，<东京喰种>，猫<黑客帝国4>。肉搏戏无力，不比<门徒>好一个<火药奶昔>。牙箍哪吒头萝莉颜值一般，日式配乐不错
动作戏份一般般
救命简直浪费卡司和设定…欧美视角中潮湿阴暗加上过多的霓虹灯的日本，主线也无聊至极，仿佛在模仿杀死比尔和攻壳机动队但是没有这两者的任何优点，配角小女孩完全是美国熊孩子，找个真正的日本童星不香么
上一部我看过的暴力有趣以名字命名的杀手电影是Anna? Anna?…,Plus a bit of Tokyo Cyberpunk(*≧ω≦)a little bit~ &These Japanese English accent ？touching Wee-weeuhhhhhh
又想学Nikita，又想学John Wick，但这烂大街的剧本跟动作设计，还是早点洗洗睡吧！
好糟糕的片。女主如果是日本人的话，只是普通烂片，故事发生在日本，女主一美国人，搞得全片到处英文，出现的日本元素完全没融入剧情，并没有尊重只是强行拼接（灰色和室？）。其他日本演员都挺好，唯独小女孩表演超烂（日文还有口音），她的镜头和剧情还特多，存在就很烦。动作戏让人不耐烦，女主杀一片全靠对手弱鸡，偶尔试图走心只流于表面，节奏稀烂（被下毒的那一夜最莫名），反转是最传统的套路。不如看Jolt。
但其中人物造型，场景设计，摄影，实战性的动作等设计，都是很有诚意而有前途的！尤其居酒屋杀戮那段，色彩冲突的对比感还是不错的！
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