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".
小孩看得很欢乐，有些情节挺緊张的，有时也搞笑
跑步的时候找了部电影来打发时间，适合小朋友看，好人坏人泾渭分明，汪汪队的坐骑真是棒呆了，比变形金刚还厉害！！汪汪队就是要拯救世界。
用我无感的手法在我无感的地方拍了一个我无感的年代里一个我无感的故事-11/19/21 at AMC Garden State Plaza 16
带豆姐看的第二部电影，汪汪队粉还是可以看的。狗狗挺可爱的。其他就没有推荐的价值了…
别人带着娃，我带着自己，毫无不好意思，谁说大人不能看动画。冒险城新当选的市长喜欢猫讨厌狗，喜欢戴高帽，为了自己的喜好随意改变城市，给城市带来了麻烦，于是靠解决困难组成的狗狗战队来到冒险城处理麻烦。在这里队员阿奇克服了幼时对冒险城不好的回忆，也迎来了他们的新队员贝贝。而新任市长的面子工程最终给城市带来致命危机，并给自己带来生命危险。最终汪汪队历经困难拯救了城市，解救了危机制造者市长。里面不断能变化形态的多功能车应该是孩子们喜欢并且向往的，而喜欢戴高帽的市长是孩子不能理解但成人心知肚明的，至于里面那个满口职业术语不会说简明语言的科学家，成功验证了书呆子的形象。小孩子看个热闹应该会喜欢吧。
这个没想到都有大电影了，我妹超爱看陪她去的
我这么喜欢爱尔兰都喜欢不起来这个片，是真的拍得够没想法的。
不配音乐只看画面以为是惊悚片。老k放下执着，别导演了求求了
选角很赞，连詹米多南都不违和。Irish music在这里再合适不过了。本来以为会很沉闷。结果轻松有趣（还是睡了挺久），要二刷/二刷，选角真好。小Buddy真可爱，喜欢这种娓娓道来的感觉
Nostagia oversell。每一次配乐都让我想翻一次白眼。
春节 东站东国瑞电影院 平哥第一次去电影院，有点害怕啦
但这英国口音怎么有股咖喱味。
不懂为什么要弄成黑白的，整个影片气质甚至部分演员的表演都很现代气息浓郁，和黑白片根本不搭，很奇怪，头尾的彩色场景反而很美很舒适
乡愁是上等工薪阶层拥有的特权。真正底层公民所熟悉的那种感觉根本不是乡愁，而是乡仇。别再用物件大肆占据画幅把人物挤到角落了，知道他们都很边缘很不容易行了吧。
这个没想到都有大电影了，我妹超爱看陪她去的
正好和《燃烧》对比，属于导演功力没那么深厚，无法把情绪控制在自己想要的范围内的电影。第一个镜头完全没有表现出来轻松快乐的生活VS暴力冲突之间的强烈对比。导演用了很多很多手法，就好像是初出茅庐的新手导演想把所有技术都用一遍，然而却对情绪表述上毫无意义，音乐也配的奇奇怪怪。不过拍出了那种疏离感，确实不是景深的原因，很多近景甚至特写都可以，还是没有找出其中原因，可能和环境音有关？不行不行真的不行，玩花活可能真的是靠天赋，通过一些孩子讲一些犀利的故事和历史事件，可能老老实实拍，效果会更好很多，现在情绪被极大削弱了，可惜！！要是10分制就好了，都打了三星，不代表在我心中此片和《燃烧》分数一样。PS:爱尔兰口音太土了，好可怕，哈哈～
清晰细腻，温暖动人。在严酷的成人世界孩子们无知无觉地快乐着。人物刻画到光影处理都是满分作品。
一个人跑到电影院刷了Belfast
也就是正常的动画片吧，不过这个画风倒是不怎么习惯呢
第一次带娃去影院看的 我也终于把这群狗狗认全了 没有白看
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