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".
姑且不说电影怎么拉胯，片尾曲是我听过史上最恶心的改编。
整体略平淡，但范伟老师永远的神！他和煤小子的支线很动人“我们没有血缘关系，甚至彼此不熟悉，但我们都是同一片土地上的父子兄弟”。
表面的一些工业化的东西让人看下去，内核里的东西让人看了跟没看一样。
这个主要放在雪天，感觉是在向《智取威虎山》的氛围靠拢。《悬崖之上》也是雪景，张艺谋受到黑泽明影响那么深，当然也要尝试拍雪景。
本来以为拍老人的生理健康和年轻人的性解放的互冲。谁能想到情色没出挑，后半虐杀还降智。
主要来看范大爷的，没有失望。。只是这景确定不是林海雪原的？。。
合着我39块钱是他妈的全给了范伟是吧？那范伟老师片酬要是低了我建议把剧组集体拉出去枪毙，他妈的。
1.5星。故事疲软。摄影蛮好。范伟演的好。
有道具或美术转导演的嫌疑而且特别爱从鞋跟脚拍起… 无效空镜真有点多，节奏其实可以更利落的。
老王和藤原两个角色都有特别的设计，老洪反倒没什么发挥空间。剧情和动作戏比较普通。结尾感觉有点乱来了，比如沉着冷静甚至还挺酷的反派突然外套一脱端起枪开始疯狂扫射……
氛围感营造的还可以，配乐也不错，就是这个剧情太平了太浅还太拖沓了，观众情绪完全不能被调动起来。编剧导演太拉了，格局太小，看起来就像一部电视剧的前两集，那一段入党宣誓看得我直呼好家伙。前一个半小时看得我昏昏欲睡，这个谍战未免也太过家家了吧，看得人不感英雄、心不澎湃。周也在这里的表演甚至比不上悬崖之上里的刘浩存……美女们能不能不只当花瓶啊？！我还有个疑惑这个山东枣庄和江苏连云港也像东北这么一直大雪皑皑冰天雪地的吗？总体还不如悬崖之上和长津湖…我果然不该对这种献礼片有什么期待。范伟老师的表演勉强算是一个亮点吧，但是那个父子情的刻画也是情绪完全烘不上去…哎。
演员和美术道具可以，导演剧本摄影剪辑都差点意思，彪哥手雷那段高光，不愧是后世辽北第一猛人。游击队的故事本来是最富戏剧性和场景丰富性的，南斯拉夫的《瓦尔特保卫萨拉热窝》，《桥》。
上映前评论：周也目前的待播戏里我最看好和期待的一个。搭张涵予老师和范伟老师这样的大咖，也子还是一番女主，肯定能学到不少东西，也能在这种主旋律电影里混个脸熟。真好，也子继续加油吧！希望和颂以后能继续像20年这样让也子无缝进组，多拍点正剧，多拍点主旋律电影，和前辈多学点东西，咱们不是奔着当95花去的，咱们要拿奖！
还好有范伟老师，太像样了，方言甚至日本话都学得有模有样，雪景拍的很有气势，也许导演单纯拍一个谍战片能成绩不错，但是题材所限，弄了了个张涵予冒生命危险掏入党申请书。。。。。只能说革命真的不需要走表面形式，无意义地消耗很愚蠢，当然，这是我觉悟不够
有降低心理预期，但看完全片还是太失望了，光有几个演技的演员撑不起故事内容，全片格局也太小，完全没有体现也感受不到作为铁道游击队这一特殊时期别样队伍的样貌，既没战术更没战略，只剩表面的壮烈牺牲而失了内在的魂魄。
看预告片怎么有种悬崖之上的感觉，看完之后感觉还是导演差距太大了，过年的狙击手应该不错
光影艺术在线，但除了老王，其他人物全都扁平，缺乏情感与经历。老洪的塑造似乎只是一种意象，一种肃杀英勇的意象，即便是有张涵予的硬汉加持，可那在他千篇一律的硬汉群谱里，又能让人记住多少呢。
两星半，传统战争故事的现代传奇演绎版，差没那么差，除了演员好也是一点没看出太好，大概想参照之前徐克版《智取威虎山》的成功，可几年过去中国电影市场已经有很多变化了。
剧作之平庸拖沓，摄影之棚拍特效，无意义的慢镜头与满天飞雪，看得我如坐针毡啊。整部电影还不如《一代宗师》火车站一场戏。有些电影为了反思而存在，有些电影则不。
很有诚意. 像 智取威虎山，但是 比 智取威虎山 差远了！！！
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