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".
哎呦喂，没想到脸蛋和声音都这么完美的小戳还这么会演😍 真的很吃这种夏日少年向耽美～享受哇！
感觉像是专门拍给女生粉们观看的偶像片。戳爷的颜值的确很高，但演技还有待打磨。加油加油
看得很享受很投入，可始终因为是莎剧的优秀底子，我看法鲨那实景版也是同样感受。但舞台戏剧电影，基里科的场景再黑白简约化，通过背台词和念台词，就能实现主题升华吗？德国表现主义就需要当下去重复致敬吗？实在不可能也没必要。更因为出自依赖剧本的科恩之手，再减一分。还是希望多些拉尔夫费恩斯版《科里奥兰纳斯》这类、把场景彻底至于当代新闻实景的莎改作品。
好明媚的夏天，好明媚的感情啊！
2022.3.13
很简单的糖水小片，没什么太深刻的东西但是很适合当前的我，只能说原来我现在经历的东西别人可能很早就经历过了，所以才能更早坚强起来、更早懂得如何面对生活。我想我也要努力变得更勇敢。ps戳爷和女主的脸真的真的太好看了！！！
“请把悲伤通过语言发泄出来吧，无言的悲痛会在你心中低语，直到破碎成一片一片。”
OH MY Troye.谁不怀念放荡不羁爱自由 敢爱敢恨的少年时代呢？！
拍得好美，戳也好美，就是剧情like a shit
麦克白的故事，本质上是人的欲望被所谓“预言”无限放大或者说由预言来表现，尔后在宿命论的驱使下去实现自己的欲望，既将自己的生命寄托于命运，却又终日恐惧命运成真，最终走向疯癫。
“生活仍然值得你挥起拳头等待”
啥时候咱们也能把《牡丹亭》《窦娥冤》《长坂坡》《葬花吟》翻来覆去地拍，啥时候咱才是真的站起来了吧
没有任何意义的电影。虽然题材大胆刻画hiv性少数人群但是并没有表达出如何面对negtive的态度与方式，以pos结尾反而更加害怕。
好家伙这也太太太太太太太甜了吧！！！他俩真的比正片更甜蜜了
戳爷太美了🥺🥺🥺多接这种讨喜的剧本吧呜呜呜呜。有歌听有颜看，还要什么？
无惧，混乱，带着期待，搞砸一切，然后重新开始，青春最大的好处在于它的未知，成长的过程要是平淡无奇也挺没趣的，去找到最好的版本吧。
丹泽尔华盛顿与弗朗西斯麦克多蒙德演技大秀。文绉绉的台词，不做太大改编的故事，毫不遮掩的舞台剧模式，简洁有力的黑白舞台设计，都很好，但都让本片呈现出“有价值但多少有点无趣”的感受。
乔科恩的极简主义构图和类舞台剧的表现手法最大化的聚焦了演员，丹泽尔华盛顿和麦克多蒙德的表演也是好的，但稍显刻板的改编剧本真的太寡淡了。
还有中间的在打工小店疯狂跳舞的一段有点出戏，感觉就是为了表演表演没有特别开心放纵
看得很享受很投入，可始终因为是莎剧的优秀底子，我看法鲨那实景版也是同样感受。但舞台戏剧电影，基里科的场景再黑白简约化，通过背台词和念台词，就能实现主题升华吗？德国表现主义就需要当下去重复致敬吗？实在不可能也没必要。更因为出自依赖剧本的科恩之手，再减一分。还是希望多些拉尔夫费恩斯版《科里奥兰纳斯》这类、把场景彻底至于当代新闻实景的莎改作品。
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