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".
战争可不就是这样，在一片漆黑中突然的枪响，突然的死亡
故事差了一点，但不影响它好看。
没有刻意装和秀，很独特的红色文艺惊悚片 配乐画面镜头都很精致。值得推崇和提倡。
诗性电影+战争片，有大胆尝试，但也有诸多问题。专门做的ADR方言自然亲人（是家乡丽水话！），但也因此收音太好，缺乏真实性。摄影上值得琢磨，画面不是单纯地变成纯黑白，而是保留了部分色温（火光的暖色、夜光的冷色），但也因白天是自然光、夜晚是剧组打灯，视觉上有落差（相较于老好莱坞黑色电影的经典打光方式）；长镜头氛围的营造、部分诗意的表达也被战争片段的剪辑与故事的进行无情打破，相较之下1917对长镜头的理解可能更适合战争片。虽说个人对电影诗研究不深（只看过一部老塔），但感官上还是直接感受到没有获得连续的诗性体验，作者没有处理好两种类型之间的矛盾；同时主题有但不深，诗性也显得杀鸡用牛刀了。当然，这两者的矛盾显然是难以处理的，而这种类型的尝试，正是中国电影目前所需要的。
摄影的出彩毋庸多说，镜头在浙江的池沼密林间攀爬腾挪，光影流转，其实是以武侠语境讲革命遗事。意识形态因而在一定程度上得以松绑，大的指向下，个人选择容许被理解：军令还是兄弟，懦夫还是英雄？尽管叙事有断裂，人物心理转变也多突兀处。而最好的点则是不再将战争浪漫化，残肢断腿，枪枪毙命，血雨洗面。不然最后的胜利从何而来？
20220621@保利国际影城（大中华店）
（0604来福士主创见面会）前面睡着了，真枪实弹段落才醒过来。我果然不太适合诗性电影，但这种尝试还是值得肯定的。映后分享有几点印象比较深刻，①zf当年想要的原片名是《挺进吧》②导演觉得很多普通观众审美不行需要教育，所以很多好片子票房不好③国美电影教育偏诗性电影风格。
放在国内 算是比较特立独行的战争片 前半段不可避免地想起 伊万的童年 黑白水墨风 运动长镜 固定中远景相结合 再辅以林间和水中战斗 将战争的压抑与晦暗的氛围树立起来 虽能看到人性矛盾的点 但还没有完全抒发 另外 音效虽丰富 但收音和混音做得不够好 这样的电影 剧作当然是让位于形式 但足够独特 值得鼓励7
要上映了打个卡～个人挺喜欢，前半段以为是水墨版《1917》，那种无形之处的恐慌感，像雾气一般的危机四伏。后半段幻觉与现实反复堆叠和最后的血雨印象太深刻了，不过剧情还是有拖沓瑕疵的地方，多一星奖励他没有胳膊腿乱飞炮火连天。
挺写实的拍法，开头很恐怖，人性表现的不错，很接地气
浙江省宣的订制作品。对战争的思考深度别说王毛杀生了，集结号都不如。形式感来自低饱和调色，低照度打光，手持跟拍和方言素人，学院派的电视电影，那也是电视电影啊。
1.最大的是声音问题。跳瀑布的特效很假，人物的喘息声太假，小孩从远处走来和大人的音量一样， 篝火的贴片音效太一致太假，老鲁在山洞里的声音要把耳朵弄聋 没有回声 特别平面 没有远近的层次感，声音没有方位感 音量大小来源一致 拟音特别差 对白混音混出电音
总体来说，对于命题作文，本片确实提供了新的可能，但诗性的幼稚，难入大雅之堂。
这部电影给我最深的触动就是完全表现了我们的革命精神，不像国外战争片，他们更多推崇的是个人英雄主义，而我们则是对普通人的个人信念和民族信仰的探讨，电影很好的展现了普通人信念转变的过程，而这也是电影和观众最共情的部分。
这部影片给人一种梦幻般的听觉感受，空灵而悠远，蛮特别的，是在看战争片，也是在看艺术片。
#2021 BIFF 第六部# 不喜欢，太刻意了。
看了一个小时才基本理清人物关系，感谢后排社区党员的好记性，不然我连谁死了都搞不清楚。。
美院的风格化，体现在水墨风格的色调，精致细腻的调色，以及用颜色直观区分“红军”与“白军”……各种有逼格且久违的光影美学，值得大银幕。
确实很美，但是内容与题无关以及剧本松散，没有主题。
20220626等·艺术，和帮帮
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