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".
极其优秀的片子！看似写风云变幻，其实是写基本人性、写爱情。风云变幻常常只是精英游戏，绝大多数普通人根本看不懂，但绝不意味着普通人就只能是盲从者、牺牲品。普通人怎么做？保护好自己的良知，尤其是在一份好的爱情中擦亮和坚固自己的良知，这份良知能引领我们超越风云变幻、超越身不由己和力不能及，捍卫最基本的原则和底线，比如像片中所例：不能杀戮，尤其不能杀戮一个无辜的孩子！世界固然是由精英驱动的，但更是由多数普通人的良知，由普通男男女女之间的爱情的质量，来约束和掌舵的！爱情才是世界的定海神针！
（救男主的那个女人，不是男主男朋友。
电影风格很写实，以至于我以为是真实故事改编。悬疑气氛很棒，希腊美景配合幕后黑手，反差。John演技有提升。
后三分之一剧情崩了要不凭着朴素真实的动作戏是能给四星的。另外坎妹是来客串尸体的？
故事还可以，讲到中间部分就有点拖拉了，最后一部分解释有些牵强附会，好在男主救孩子的戏还不错。
很有八九十年代老式悬念惊悚片的味道，配乐简单有氛围感，大卫华盛顿一激动就爱淌哈喇子这点跟他爹倒是一脉相承，片尾曲不错
一场莫名其妙的车祸目击一场绑架而被追杀，情节不错，只可惜搞不懂男主的一定要找出真相的莫名其妙的想法。
冗长的瘸跑，单调的摄影，过家家的打斗，莫名的剧情
冲配乐是教授所配多给一星，好的配乐真的给影片加分太多
这丹泽尔华盛顿的儿子就是成龙呀，本来还以为是翻拍之前那部假期惊魂的电影，结果是另一个故事，没有之前的古典神秘主义变成了部惊悚片，前面还挺欧洲的后面越来越美国。时代变了，再也没法拍出《西北偏北》那种味道的片子，还有就是坂本龙一教授做的配乐真棒，氛围营造的超好！
哈哈哈哈哈agent murphy一张sunshine boy的小脸蛋儿被官方调侃了
剧情、配音都够差的，不紧张也不刺激，看了开头知道结尾那种。
刚开始男主小黑没啥眼缘，不太喜欢。越大后面越觉得挺厉害，也挺可悲，可怜。一个普通人遭遇不幸事故，还要面对要把自己除掉的集体和组织，真的是够倒霉，够可怜。但是一个普通人面对这样的境遇，潜力也是挺大的，但绝不是主动去做，纯粹被逼出来的。不知道小黑以后要如何面对这样的政府，这样的祖国。
没有亮点的剧情，从开始无聊到结尾，丝毫没有抓人的感觉。两星。
前半段蛮好的，后半段是什么鬼，肮脏的街道加莫名其妙的政治。。
总以后下个情节会有精彩，但实际就是平淡如水的倒霉蛋被莫名追杀，奋力反杀。
0 缺点太多了，这真的不是部嘲讽希腊全方位烂得不可救药的电影吗？
氛围制造的蛮可以,我以为砍妹主演来着【结果戏份太少了】杂糅的元素比较多.偏ZZ惊悚.
中规中矩缺乏深度。问题是坎妹怎么长这样了？？？？
竟然是彻头彻尾的大制作，最后成品这样就也不知道该说啥。
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