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".
哪怕此刻一腔孤勇 ，哪怕徒劳无功，
好青春，根本没有卖腐，为什么还被黑？而且很有国内风格的改编，钱全花在制作上了，所以没钱宣传吧？
其实这部改编更有共鸣，日本原版那种日式的夸张风格本来就是一个不是很喜欢的点，不过当初看日本原版很惊艳的最后一场，这里面依旧很激动。
节奏很棒，人物虽然浅，也个个分明，从头到尾都很配。训练阶段点到为止，只用一个翻滚细节点到主题，每个情绪节奏都很到位。不过已经忘记原版了。挺好的，美术也很好。很燃。青春片多拍点这样的吧。
哪怕是一场阵痛 一声叹息 一句嘲弄，
虽然这个事情不论哪个环节都很奇情，它就不可能发生，但是还是看得很开心啊……是夏天的波子汽水味。
扑，但没有扑街；水，但没有水货。p.s.:三分之二部好片，本土化得还不错。小女生的角色可以拿掉。3.5+0.5
日版给人的感觉是突破了所有束缚，此翻拍可看性尚可，但完全归功于原故事的灵巧，主线情节的安排还是落入窠臼，阳刚这样的词出来的瞬间我就想翻白眼。
虽然很理想主义，但是挺热血的，有时候需要一些不切实际的正能量，比大部分国产青春片都好，热切期待男花游进入奥运会啊
真诚，勇敢，很喜欢，也特别希望他能有好的票房。@橙天Luone
三星半。本土完成度大于预期，热血青春感来自扎实的投入准备；档期决策者需要向创作团队扑街道歉。
看见有些朋友对于阳刚这个词很ptsd啊，那就对了，恶心死你们。
搞笑，青春，热血！好看，速速去看！影片缺点就2个：1结尾太夸张 2导演太直男。如果是一个gay来拍可以把5个少年拍的更帅。即使是这样里面的王子还是超级可爱超级帅身材超级好！爱死了！我还要二刷！
承包了很多欢乐的电影，不及日版的好看，但，一样热血励志。
总算出了一个没有长发女主，没有油头粉面娘炮，没有怀孕流产“疼痛”的青春片。运动不是非要夺冠，成长也不一定非要遭遇什么重大变故。非常喜欢男主妈妈的家庭戏，对白是活的，每一句都像我日常在说的。
两星半吧，拍的非常一般，并且整个宣发一直卖惨让人很反感，尤其是这个导演，扫过一眼他的直播，感觉口才不错，说的比拍的好。辛云来在《悲伤逆流成河》里挺亮眼的，在这部的镜头里却被拍的非常普通，甚至有些丑，反倒是李孝谦和吴俊霆比较出彩。
结局还是蛮好的，很干脆也call back。辛云来的屁股也很翘诶，你们发现了吗
也太好看了吧！出人意料的好看！花样游泳竟然能拍的这么热血。。普通的人也可以活得精彩。。有人陪伴真的很幸福，一起努力的人，一起让你不放弃的人。。感觉什么都对，那种暗恋时看到喜欢的人，真的就是阳光很好，打在她穿校服的脸上。。可惜现在的孩子很少有自己骑车上下学了。那才是美丽的青春。。
我承认我是去看腱子肉的
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