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".
我工作帮助的人群就是困境儿童，残疾人，即将出狱的女囚，老年人等 这个电影在我心中真的值五星 很感动 因为边缘人群真的真的真的在努力生活
大年初一上午场看的，无法预测最终票房如何，但易烊千玺演技值一个影帝，我想不到能把景浩这个角色演的更好的人！看的时候眼泪止不住，太心疼景浩了，看到最后真的会相信努力就有奇迹很治愈
真的值回票价了。平凡的生活，不平凡的笨小孩，我们每个人都是没天赋的笨小孩，只要你愿意努力，总会收获奇迹。全场有笑有泪，完全被真实带动了，感叹于只有在这片热土上才能发生这样的奇迹。还有易烊千玺，一如既往的牛，把景浩那股倔强生长的劲演活了。
这种偏门题材很需要鼓励，戏剧结构很像药神，细节质量也不比药神差。结局的集体暴富，显然是不得不加上去的，因为深圳掏钱了。
最后不由得叫起了爹，值得的。想说黄继光邱少云在哪，果然还是出现了。最后全队冻僵在山岗上实在是震撼。敬礼
广州点映来打卡！期待了这么久果然没有让我失望，国家梦之队的阵容，13亿的投资，全片三个小时，两个多小时都是在打，特效也不错，临场感很足。文戏方面人物都刻画得很有个性，不会有拖沓感，还有几个笑点穿插其中。应该还有下部，水门桥的剧情没有出现。唯一缺点感觉就是最后冰雕连出现太突然，匆匆结尾，意犹未尽。ps：第一次参加这种首映会，会后还有北京现场直播，主创们都来了。
整体不错，结尾的人物归宿，完全没有必要，一下拉低了影片基调，发布会一登台，戛然而止，就可以了
三星半吧，多的半星给胡军，哭死，时长其实就可以控制在2小时左右的，中间一场突击战篇幅过长导致真正的主戏没有突出
电影源自生活，但电影超出生活.我喜欢这个故事
更生拳王爱养狗，劳工纠纷斗流氓，三和大神讨媳妇，伤残老兵再就业，看更免费托儿，工头结款算多；硕士毕业臭老九欺负大学肄业打工人，但同样低学历出身的大老板深知打工艰辛，是个好人哦 : )……文牧野剧作节奏把控工整得可怕，依然是牛鬼蛇神小团队做任务的套路，感觉像周星驰的片子去除了无厘头搞笑后，严肃认真地玩起煽情；但这类题材一弄严肃，其实并不太经得起推敲？即便如此，能让主旋律任务电影重新将视点回归在小人物真实生活疾苦上，也不容易
这几年的国产片都太吵闹，安安静静地看电影很难，打鸡血式的励志片，只是个案，大多数的发展改革，心酸难言
如果你相信现实有童话，你就会喜欢这个电影。我相信～
真的看不得先心病的妈妈和年幼的妹妹这种桥段，我一看就泪崩。
作为一个在深圳的创业者，既感同身受又充满信心！再次夸夸四字弟弟的演技，是可以包揽各种奖项的程度。
就如一场轰轰烈烈的史诗!我看过这种影片，就是会激动，就是想给五星!
整部电影下来 真就 一般 还行 至于那些夸文牧野这部片子群像拍的好的 我表示不太理解
打得一拳开，免得百拳来。
台词有进步，就是看着很憋屈，章宇还是一如既往的有质感
说起万里野孩子形象，其实挺难的。平时的四字弟弟是内敛的，一举一动是得体大方的。突然放松肢体，成为一个混不吝的野小子竟也没有一点违和感。
立国之战，靠的就是顽强的意志！致敬。
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