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".
冷静、肃杀。敌我双方斗智斗勇，没有刻意扇情，更没有刻意黑谁。
大历史下小人物一样触动人心，章宇的表现很出彩，首尾的点名相互照应
北野武自传电影的第二部泪目之作，也是回忆师徒关系的第二部，前一部是讲他年轻时落语师傅的《红鳉鱼》。
😢No More Wars（特效像赤井秀一，更像杀人网球
最后的长镜与葬礼时说的笑话比较催泪，
过于流水平淡 过于温情脉脉 缺少了点电影感 像长篇晨间剧
本来开场就觉得肯定是俗气的煽情路线，看到后面还是忍不住感动了，有两点不如意，没有拍出北野武的下流劲儿，老年北野武要是让真人来演就完美了，化妆实在太差，弄的跟国产西游记一样，身材不远不如本人魁梧～
北野武的个人特色太过强烈，真不是很好演的，影帝太精致了总少了很多感觉。单纯从这片来说，师傅这个角色更有存在感和魅力一些吧。
最后的长镜与葬礼时说的笑话比较催泪，
虽然影片讲述的是抗美援朝中比较小的一场战役，但整部电影所有演员的张力和爆发力都很到位，张译，章宇实力在线，硬生生把我打动哭了
再现红色记忆，伟大的战争，曾被遗忘，终究要被镌刻进我们的基因。
没想到我看一个动作片能哭两回。还有就是，珍！惜！和！平！
影片的立意是以小见大，以一场小规模的战斗刻画志愿军战士的牺牲精神。我们倒不介意影片能拍得再长些，多些对片中角色的刻画，他们不仅仅是执行任务的战士，也是一个个活生生的人，有父母、有妻儿、有生活的鲜活个体。
不要吹水门桥了，来看老谋子了 ，以小博大的好片，想看大场面的就别来了，整片就一个场景雪地，但是给我整出兵临城下的紧张感
同《默片解说员》一样，拍出了绘声绘色的时代挽歌，也像北野武演唱的那首插曲，给我恰到好处的抚慰和忧伤。结尾的高跟鞋和葬礼，让我想起无意听到爱人与前男友诉前情的徐志胜，一句“说了这么多句，一个梗都没有啊”便化解了尴尬，喜剧演员都擅于用嬉笑打趣掩饰、传递情感的细腻与豁达，所以窥探他们的内心和过往也请小心翼翼。
还行，专注于讲好一场小狙击战 👍 由小见大。不搞大场面 不强制煽情（结尾还是有点强煽了）。（另外，章宇的痞相可以，好像啊达。。。）
张译开头露个面结尾露个面看见了还觉得挺定心
而且感觉深见师父才是主角
看哭了 俩人演得真不错 阿武真的是不忘初心的人
由于对长津湖第一部的观感一般，不打算看第二部，就看了这一部。大场面上，比不上长津湖第一部，但是观赏性很强，比起长津湖第一部好太多，尤其是剧情（故事），悬念，转折，煽情，先抑后扬，最后宣泄的一段个人感觉夸张了，但是当年那场战争，不正是让世界看到了奇迹吗？片尾加⭐！
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