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".
太好了，看热评，又一部能反应大众审美贫瘠的电影。
比起未来更像是过去，至于为什么在科技高度发达的前提下还要选择冷兵器时代的战斗方式，可能只有拳拳到肉，以命相博的短兵相接才更有朝代更迭的苍凉悲怆感。一切古老的，原始的，都在缓慢而有秩序的向前流动，等待着既定时刻的发生。画面与配乐都是顶级。
3.5 视听真的好，不记得上一次能够在电影院这样享受一段时光是在什么时候了。至于故事，每个人物都还是莎士比亚的那些，国王王后王子公爵勇士叛徒预言者……人性真的是亘古不变。
作为科幻片设定坍塌，科幻片就是要把设定物品，情节背景，人物行为关联起来。蜻蜓飞行器循环服帐篷器在沙漠使用的方式原因，沙虫飞鼠形成的特殊生物链条，各个种族与自然的互动方式关系，香料的作用等统统都没有，就跟机器猫口袋一样突然就拿出来用。
友邻说像米国接手中东烂摊子后的遭遇，哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
这是科幻片？这不就是古装片？帝国诸侯殖民乱斗少主人惨遭灭门的万年套路，下一集是不是少主化身阿拉伯的劳伦斯，走文化融合群众路线，好殖民者带领土著反击坏殖民者的故事了？
也的确只有外国人写科幻小说会写出各种高级智慧文明，他们的战斗方式永远是短兵相接，甚至于为什么非得短兵相接，电影也给不出答案，在我看来，这个背景设定就显得这些人太蠢笨。
久违的欲罢不能感，激动不已！片尾唯一感想是能不能马上看part 2! 9/17 @ Shaw Theatres Lido
改得太好了！！！原著真心难啃，相比之下电影更显得极其好看，每一秒都是享受……剔除了一些原著里的细枝末节+自说自话+尴尬抓马，维神的镜头更突出了苍凉肃杀+大气磅礴+史诗悲壮，美得肝颤啊……
只是真的很像某奢侈品牌
維倫紐瓦似乎不太會拍動作戲，打到過家家一樣。氛圍處理依舊得心應手，在視覺上塑造出古典龐大的史詩氣概，但故事實在依舊是短板，很多時候沒什麼核心事件發生，就是在猛懟視覺音效配樂，至少有半個小時時間有虛張聲勢之嫌。
适合场景癖、配乐癖，有点外国张艺谋的感觉😅
全程都在想为什么一个设定在一万年左右的故事，还在重复着公元前的历史。战乱、纷争、称霸、征服与被征服。世界似乎并没有什么改变，技术似乎也并没有什么太大的发展。出了影院想想，是啊，为什么人类一定会进步，为什么技术一定会发展，为什么未来一定会比现在好？也许人类就是会不断fuck up，历史就是会不断轮回，技术的发展就是不会带来进步。当然，比较可能的结果是，一万年后人类在这个世界上并不存在了…
科幻仿佛只是装点，内核的封建领主角力故事也很老套。
不过瘾的慢动作打戏，10000年➕了还在冷兵器搏斗，the one（天选之子）和帝王公爵殖民主义的老套设定，人物形象还没立起来就咔咔死了一堆人…作为一个没有看过书的人只觉得还是一头雾水。
1）我错了，我为什么看到有甜茶就决定不去了解不等评分就去看？节奏烂到简直度秒如年，每一个剧情发展都是意料之中，打斗场景也拍得乏善可陈，导演好像完全不知道如何区分轻重缓急和取舍剧情，看完像被揍了一顿：）等结束的我默默想着，为了看甜茶我可以重刷cmbyn，为了看高潮迭起绝处逢生我可以重看移动迷宫，看好人智斗反派重温任何一部漫威都好，为什么，要等待三个小时极其缓慢地过去～最后，surprise！这片子还有下部，“故事才刚刚开始”，这次甜茶也骗不到我了，再见，再也不见～2）让人难受的影片的共性，都是有“噩梦…噩梦…”一般故弄玄虚的呓语反复循环～穿越回当年看《王的盛宴》的“噩梦”…
大量留白的镜头，陌生的宇宙星辰和世界，在人物表情和空旷的天地之间任由我的想象来填充。看多了酷炫密实嘴炮不停的科幻电影，“我们的征途是星辰和大海”，这样的表达在2021年是不是已经过时了? 还有人在拍这样的电影，真好。
抱着看另一个银翼杀手的期待来看的，但感觉作为首部曲非常失败，试图通过无处不在的宏大配乐掩盖平淡的整体节奏。除了沙丘的设定以外没有别的出人意料的东西。感觉像是又一部英雄旅途的套路片，尽管甜茶一如水准的演技和抗得起大特写的颜值让观影体验不算太糟，看完后还是有“就这？”的感觉。
十三号机穿着三国的战甲出来讲了个三毛从军记的故事
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