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".
“希望大家在某个吃饱饭的晚上，打开窗，看着天上的星星，想起那个曾经很熟悉的名字：梅艳芳。”
结局没有太俗套地让男女主角走到一起真是谢天谢地。
【2】让一个被创作者主动阉割的形象在银幕上再次盛放，Anita本人绝对不会接受。更何况这浮光掠影的片段化叙事，根本找不到重心所在，反复插入的纪录影像难道不是心虚？外表相像与否没那么重要，无法捕捉出对象的灵魂才最遗憾。
6.8。拍的寡淡了些。新人主角都没选好，hold不住梅艳芳这么精彩的人生。
最大的亮点是葬礼上追思说的那番话。短短几句话，勾勒出一个有生命力女人的一生。笑就很大声，拥抱就很有力，爱人就拼尽全力。一生就这么的踏实。
虽然是翻拍，但在电影业全体造孽的时代，算的上清流了，看看以前的剧本，再看看现在。
可她永远都是香港的女儿
改编的版本还是挺不错的，加入了族裔和家庭的元素，从选角上也避免了落入俗套的窠臼感——没人会磕起男女主的cp吧？只是女主外形不错，但演技实在是太差，且最后再强行来一个girl helps girl的情节显得有点楞。
这个导剪版简直噩梦啊，你做个插叙剪辑多好啊，硬是一股脑把所有素材剪了个流水账
热闹又好看，艳丽又平滑，喜剧不易。除了那个冲突稍显用力外，其他都很棒喔。
人无再少年
女主长得太像杨幂了，看的时候我都在想，大陆翻拍版，女的找杨幂，男的47岁的演员要平凡要亲人，该找谁呢？
梅艳芳粗略简史，而且很碎，在观阅过程中，带出小时的不少同步记忆，情怀加一星。前半段略嫌平铺直叙，并无感受到梅艳芳当时的乐坛地位，后段几个节点还是把握住了，尤其张国荣不在那段，观影时要刻意控制了一下情绪。
这拍一点，那拍一点的。根本就没有抓住重点。浪费了这个故事。完全不想看导演剪辑版了，因为导演根本就不会拍传记片。真实影像就应该放在结尾而不是穿插在剧情中，现在这样看起来很有违和感啊。而且演员就不能选的再像一点吗？演LESLIE的人，首推陈志朋。。还好当时没有去电影院看。
渣男真是影帝啊，在电话里同时面对老婆和情人时，说瞎话的本事真是令人乍舌。
翻完，没啥意思，主要女主颜值打扮我没惊艳到吧
OMG, 一眼认出来越狱的费曼多hhh，安东尼奥离婚后开始约会那个女的是蛇蝎女佣的女主Ana，这个结局我很满意，没有设定男主离婚，女主结束婚外情硬把他们凑在一起，男主的大家庭氛围感染了16岁就只身一人来到洛杉矶打拼的女主，没有朋友和亲人关系也不好，两个人成为了朋友互相成就了对方，渣男也被他的妻子扫地出门，原配和小三击掌
“谢谢你来过，唱歌给我们听”，阿梅和哥哥都是至情至性的人吧，演唱会上她拉着他的手，说“你是我唯一的朋友”，哥哥笑了“阿梅，你的朋友很多”，两个都对对方隐瞒自己的病情，避免对方担心，没想到哥哥还是先她一步去了……😭😭
看的是翻拍版，会看回旧版，因为不甘心这就是女明星？
原來1982的香港紡織工人的工資就有一千二了
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