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".
有些地方设立的挺有诗意，比如血雨，洪启辰的精神恍惚，看见了自己并且杀死了自己。但是整体比较乏味无聊，所以中间我看得有点犯困，色彩处理得并不是很好。
黑白电影决定着这是一部纯粹的艺术电影，不含一点商业元素。为数不多的有色彩画面是送饭的为数不多的治愈画面。诗性的水墨画风格，画面很美，确有国美风格。
不过保利这里的冷气也太足了，冻死我了，映后的闪光灯也快把我晃死了。
看这片的时候满脑子想的都是前两天和地方政府谈的那个片子，同样的预算同样的摆，搁这胡求拍呢嘛，视听语言毫无章法，场场戏都在跑，强调任务但任务执行不清晰，在不明觉厉的地方强调，把本该加强的地方漏掉。剪辑总在你完全无法意料的地方跳进跳出。摄影很美，但还是得静帧，个别场景找得很好，但有些场景还可以更好，更完美，但那场日拍夜，实在看得难受，而且居然特么还能跑焦？跑那么久还不止一次？。这些和地方政府合作公费拍片的，总是不够勤快，摄影可以更好、剧本可以更好、试听可以更好、景也可以找得更好，就是不做，就是懒得做，导演在自己哪家电影厂里和老艺术家们高唱艺术颂歌，就是搞不明白怎么拍片子，别拿没钱当借口，这片子还行，至少它还能拍出来，狗日的地方政府休想再坑我一回！
这部片子的战斗场面还是不错的，也足够残酷。形式确实很新颖，仔细看还是挺好看的
我没有审美 我不配。。。另附我的朋友对本片锐评：拿摩二等🏅️
战争片中全新的视觉体验，灰阶相当赏心悦目，对话戏比较差。
没见过这种质感的战争片。故事让我想起《一个和八个》《1917》，只好让我想起塔可夫斯基。
整个故事的架构感觉问题很大。说得好听是学院派但给我的感觉更像是大型的学生作业。在视听的处理和画面风格上有一些创新，但是工业流程很明显不熟练，录音部分让普通观众都能意识到存在问题。幻境与现实的切换在创作团队看来是合理的，但是一旦跳脱出创作的语境就会觉得一时间无法理解。总体来说就是自以为达到艺术成就的自嗨。
但是不是一部适合所有人理解的电影
讲述的国共战争，看中国人打中国人真的没有看中国人打外国人带劲。整个大荧屏一直是很黑暗的感觉，给人观影体验很不好，看了四十分钟影院陆陆续续有人离场。
#BJIFF2021#
20220626等·艺术，和帮帮
影调风格据说是特点，实则处处是坑，你都能很明显很具体的看出AB组拍摄的痕迹，调色也非常奇怪，是那种让人觉得自己得了白内障朦胧感。不过好处就是可以让人比较舒服的睡一觉。不多说了，去看朱一龙粉丝了。【2022050】
理想与现实的赞歌，有点1917的影子，但差距不是一星半点。
好久没看电影迟到过了（裂开）......
说实话个人还蛮喜欢精巧营造的水墨画面的，水底、树林和洞穴的光影美则美矣，却不能深入到叙事的新意，同时可惜的是摄影机的存在感太强，表面上在讲个体反主旋律，实际上主体被分散了，个体的内心依然空洞。整体上，就是内容跟不上形式的追求。
3.说战争吧 没什么大规模的枪火 都是大家拿着枪放几下 摆个架势 说文艺吧 偶遇的渔家女天然的正义
3.5。虽然不喜欢影片的调色，但是整片的镜头、声音都是精心设计，和台词一起推动剧情发展，艺术形式上颇有想法。导演故意在大部分时间里都模糊了人物的相貌，不断通过台词加强观众对人物的印象，只在几个镜头中展了正脸，就像经过了历史长河之后，留下的可能只剩名字的那些人。影片最难得的是尽可能地避免了意识形态直白宣讲，甚至通过敌人的台词来体现战争的残酷，那句“都是自己人”几乎可以被“定性”了。正如导演所说，这是一个关于选择的故事。可惜我们离《红军与白军》还有暂时无法逾越的障碍。
看个电影装什么逼 玩形式把自己玩死了 难看就是难看 没什么值得辩解的 希望那些和我一样被海报吸引来看的赶紧逃 不要再动一丝想看这电影的念头
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