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".
戴上面具是愤怒、暴力的复仇者，脱下面具是脆弱、无助的布鲁斯韦恩，“超级英雄”蝙蝠侠被重新演绎成了一个“普通人”，看不到钞能力带来的加持，被一个会计玩的团团转，总是慢人一步，为一个同病相怜的女孩担心。这才是当下语境的蝙蝠侠。人们不再需要高高在上的、带有使命的超级英雄了，而是想看明知不可为而为之的人。get到了帕丁森的颜值了。
拍的好哇，大家都有恨，有愤怒！美式傻侦探，哐哐打乱拳，夜火雨哥谭，猜猜我是谁！
电影结尾前我真的想吹爆它，去年沙丘之后终于又看到这么有质感的商业电影了，故事节奏摄影配乐音效是让你觉得要是能参与这部电影的制作一定是一件很爽的事情，是一定要通过大荧幕感受的电影魅力。可惜结尾有一点点减分，把前面烘托出来的影片和角色的独特气质给削弱了，不然就完美了。但是不影响，整部电影值得五星。
我只有一个问题：Anika为什么不是猫女的女朋友！！！
后半部几乎全靠对话推进，一个个要人顶着boss级别的title，真话说得贼快，一点心理挣扎心术较量也没有，这可是黑暗之城哎...
7分吧…武戏是好看的，文戏是糟糕的。每次蝙蝠侠和猫女同框都搞那么满的悲情壮丽的bgm，实在看的人脑中充满问号… 然后拜托控制在两个半小时以内吧…健康你我他好嘛…
而她将离开这座回南的城市，但她会回来的，不是么？GOODTIME BYEBYE FOWEVER.
4.谜语人长的像毛不易
·罗伯特·帕丁森这等忧郁颓废哥特气质内味十足~好这口的人类肯定是很喜欢的（片子整体画风和建筑风格也是如此）——之前听人说他这造型还像极了《死亡笔记》真人电影里的『L』 确实有这味了。
不错不错，我不要超人那种Batman，就要这种直男Batman
黑糊（不等于黑暗）、笨拙、冗长…罗夏式的叙事和刻意缓慢的节奏想达到《守望者》效果，但仅仅是形式主义。把DC最强大脑塑造的愚蠢和木讷。色彩过黑，华纳在理解黑暗的路上跑的越来越偏。
蝙蝠侠在剧情上起不到任何作用，有他谜语人照样炸堤坝，意义是啥？
没想到是个扫黑除恶专项电影。不如给蝙蝠侠颁个好市民奖吧。
华纳粉丝：？
没有大本的蝙蝠侠，没有钢骨的正义联盟，没有原班人马的自杀小队，DC宇宙已经家不成家…
罗蝙9/10，罗的布鲁斯韦恩7/10，病娇富家贵公子差那么一点点意思；
整体是迷人的，性感的，甚至想在水漫哥谭的潮湿角落里和蝙蝠侠三天三夜无T大搞特搞下！看得出编导大费周章想让所有人闭嘴惊艳，用黑色的质感，摆摆pose硬凹出一个高级货出来（咱又不是没见过），即便压着性感的嗓子念念有词，这也和床上前戏那种“叫爸爸，我要X死你”的调情话作用差不多。里子拍得还是太偶像剧了，观感冷静下来和前几年的《饥饿游戏》《分歧者》又没什么太大的区别，况且，咱又不是什么史诗巨作，没必要搞三个小时哈～
这版蝙蝠侠可真墨迹，总是拍一团混乱中，听见他不紧不慢的脚步，咣叽咣叽半天才走过来，把我看睡着了。
美学上非常新好莱坞，具体说，就像把Alan J. Pakula平移到今天拍了部超级英雄电影。剧本差点意思，为贴近时势而选择了更安全的落点，明显不如《小丑》。拍完《沙丘》和《新蝙蝠侠》，Greig Fraser应该会成为好莱坞下一代DP班霸。这部的影像太学Gordon Willis了，竞选体育馆的场景完全是按《视差》来的，但这个和稀泥式的结尾就只剩被吊打的份儿了。开头有个杂货店的招牌叫“好时光”，是嫩牛授意的嘛，还是期待Safdie的新片吧。
马特·里夫斯的调度与叙事依旧有着当代“严肃导演”拍IP类型片的臃肿，但这一作的物质性以及导演对人物矛盾性的真诚态度又是难以否认的：侦探电影是讲究物件特写的艺术，要细细观看每一个证物与“证据”——所以，或许看看罗伯特·帕丁森便已足够，他没有什么可隐藏的，几乎有点傻乎乎的感觉，不像诺兰那样强调逻辑与二元，正如“复仇”的话语并也不再为蝙蝠侠专属。
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