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".
看着别人的一生，虽然与自己大不同，但是整体的代入感还是次次打动我...
结构安排不太好，剧情设计也欠妥，总感觉重心有点偏。
58 编剧的台词功力真的很不错 很多都写得很好
本以为是部搞笑片，追女仔追去教会，后来的各种转折是我没想到的。然后最近特别emotional，看到他轮椅的时候想到了我爸生病的时候，然后又想起了我妈最近生病，也开始担心自己老了失去自理能力，哭得不行。
船长确实有失误的地方，比如为啥就那么急不能留个字条呢，艰苦的旅行和生活身边有个好心靠谱的伙伴是多么重要，弑君者的演员确实很帅，但故事不够有冲突性和绝望感。
平淡才能更感受到那份漫长的孤独和绝望！他们都算是幸运的
Religion may be a fantasy, but it can instill strength, courage, and hope into human beings.
为了捍卫国家的主权，为了自己擅长的工作，坚持，坚毅，直到永远… 弑君者的老船长极地演绎，震撼到菜鸟; 期待后的失望，失望后的绝望，绝望后回归平淡，或许这才是生命的意义!
在与世隔绝的冰天雪地无人区跟同事生活八百多天，要是我也得疯😂😂
中规中矩的传记电影，这个世界上总有一些人能够把目标坚持到底
真实的故事改编的电影，总有独特的魅力，用电影化的手段是了解那段历史。
我们需要这样的经历才能蜕变，才能做出有益自己的决定。变成上帝派遣我们来到这世界时，期待我们成为的样子。
17岁的时候总以为20年后会有一个光鲜亮丽的未来等着你，但当37岁真正来临的时候才发现，象牙塔里的憧憬不过是一道被荷尔蒙涂抹的滤镜。美式校园青春歌舞片总是如此欢乐快活，一成不变的“不论肤色、不论种族、不论年龄，你仍然可以成为你”的美式鸡汤，虽然曾经的dance leader变成了dance master，但Prom Queen的梦想依旧。（我堕落了，连着两个晚上看了两部我曾经很鄙视的美国校园青春片，感觉好chill）（中美价值观的不同在于，中国父母会说：你瞧瞧别人家的孩子，但美国父母说：I‘m so proud of you.）【NF.WEBRip.DDP5.1.Atmos.x264-TBD/4.02GB】
跟家人一起看的……普普通通的电影罢了 （才知道里面的乔·科尔是浴血黑帮里面的John是说怎么这么帅又这么熟悉。
本来只想给3星的，但是看到女主在20年后完美的弥补了了自己毕业季的遗憾之处，还是再加一星吧
一开始的情景以为是倒叙，其实是故事前段没交代完全。
影片前后调性不一致，但还是感谢电影展示这个故事。初始目的勿论，探险家以历史角度评判是全人类的英雄，人类之所以能够拥抱整个地球，他们每一个人都居功至伟。
根据真实事件改编，从潦倒拳击手到神父的故事。他并不长的一生，却是转折不断，磨难多多。车祸后的神启，让其开始笃信上帝，并献身此事业。导演过于想强调其前后的反差了，重点放到他此前的生活中，节奏又未把握好，拍得并不有趣。
Britney Spears 回春了，最近各種被翻唱翻牌
年轻时期的女主是真的好看，不过说真的2000年初左右一个标准的美国大金毛有个黑人闺蜜可真是稀罕事，就像女主苏醒后她的闺蜜第一时间在纠正她关于用词的标准性一样，真是赤裸裸的政治正确的讽刺。当然女主也足够努力，毕竟36岁要演出17岁并不容易。20年时间足够让政治正确毁掉大部分的正确生态环境，剩下的都是空洞的口号和主义，当然你也可以看到一个学校在20年之间的人口肤色种族的变迁史。用啦啦队做开头然后用啦啦队做结尾挺好的。这部电影说真的，情节还是其次，政治嘲讽的价值更大。
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