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".
看了一些影评，韩国人拍自己的历史真的太专业了，优秀的演员配上优秀的编剧加上导演，真的太让人感慨了，具体的看长影评吧，分析的太好了
伏笔都合上了，这个看得好爽♥️♥️♥️♥️
韩国拿手的政治片，太多珠玉在前，显得乏味了。
我总是在电影里找鸡汤自我疗伤。
人物深度是没有但有这么多神曲能听要什么自行车？Shazaam界面就没退出过！最后竟然还掉了几滴泪（冲破阻碍完美地完成一个大项目实在太不容易了）。
歌还不错，有不少流行歌。
传统的合家欢电影，没有第一部那么感人，歌也不怎么好听
选择做王背后的男人，选择承受的是肮脏，是手段，是背叛，注定无法迎来光明。
还能说啥，平平无奇，还行吧。
对比‘南山的部长们’情节没有那么紧凑，节奏松了下来。二元对立符合电影剧作，但放在这里感觉简单了
事件驱动而不是人物驱动，所以每个环节都像任务。很多地方逻辑性太弱，可能是为了分级定位的功能性，音乐场景很不错，不引进可惜了，歌舞剧不在电影院怎么行。Your Song Saved My Life，拿捏了。
好看好看！不如第一部激动人心，但各种巧思和设计还是让人大呼过瘾～如果真有人能做出这么惊艳的舞台效果，那必须值得一个全球巡演啊！给Clay配音的是Bono，尖叫！
6/10。续集的主题太物质化了，将歌唱与勇气、成功等宏大字眼捆绑，穆恩赶鸭子上架的要剧团参加大城市的海选，为满足白狼大亨的期待不惜夸下海口、性命不保，其欲望动机只是想摆脱小剧院的地位，去争取更大的名望。每位角色的成长事件也十分套路化：极其害羞的小象米娜不敢接近恋爱的机遇；猪妈妈罗西塔因为恐高而无法进行空中芭蕾的排练，被娇生惯养的大亨子女靠关系挤走；猩猩约翰尼被代表文化精英的编舞视为失败者，却接受街舞者白猫女的自由培训后实力大涨，登台时重整旗鼓、战胜了打击他的文化精英；当隐居的传奇歌手卡洛维愤怒地赶走了穆恩，豪猪阿什莉留下来用歌声说服了卡洛维出山。可以看出叙事主线非常简单，矛盾不够尖锐，除了大亨的小助手有点娘，身躯小得被楼顶的直升机吹跑，以及蜥蜴秘书的假眼球和飙车爱好，能体现一点幽默感外新鲜不足。
选择的歌曲证明环球这两年唱片真不好卖……厌倦了专业班子做草台班子大胜专业班子的童话故事了，鸡汤致幻害人不浅啊。
有点脸盲，没有字幕还全是方言听得我好累，剧情是略平淡的类型，大量以叙事交代推动剧情的台词，不过两男主都演的好，很能代入情绪环境中，开场直到三分之一的场景摄影构图色彩都挺好的，后面稍显无聊，走神了一大半。
勉强算是合格的续集吧，毕竟能写个新故事、引入新角色又能把上一部这么多的角色安放进来还是挺不容易的，但一切好像都来得太容易了。不得不说一句，他们三周搞出来的这东西充其量算个拉斯维加斯大秀，跟音乐剧真的没有半毛钱关系！音乐剧也不是这样搞的！
歌还是很好听，整体感觉比第一部稍差点，但也算不错了
起码歌是好听的！从没在一个电影里听到这么多流行歌，但还是轻松快乐～
只要别和第一部比，别抱太高的期待，这部难言精品的第二部其实还是可以的，仍然是很欢乐很流畅制作很精良的消遣爆米花。
而最后打动人的却还是人本身
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