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".
#7月纽约点映 看完最大的感想可能就是片中出现的一段引句了吧 新戏从来演旧事 周而复始话沧桑 还有一个词 就是魔幻 导演用了很多虚实之间的拍摄手法让观众一瞥人生如戏的极致感受 尤其是在观察电影当中每一段时间的海报绘画制作的变化时 都会觉得唏嘘不已 艺术到底是什么？是一份穷人的行当 一个表达政治意识的工具 还是一份责任/又或是艺术家的人生使命 每一段时间艺术在中国所具有的特殊含义 感觉导演都以极具张力的方式表达了出来
歷史就在一次次的左移右搖推軌鏡頭中緩緩鋪展開。全片在攝影棚中以搭景方式拍攝，邱炯炯自己擔任藝術總監製作手繪景片，劇場般的質地，實在新又新，老又老。川劇版霸王別姬，但以更詼諧、更荒誕方式來呈現大時代下小人物，捨去傳統劇情片語彙，玩得頗具寺山修司味。顧桃客串一角。
为了大本蝙蝠侠我看了这四个小时,我可真是爱他。但我最喜欢超人对蝙蝠侠说的那句话剪掉了
9分太扯了，3.5⭐。DC没布好局，妄想剪辑2小时口碑片，这类电影至少2.5小时起步，扎导退让到三小时。好奇扎导影院版会什么样，导演剪辑版不能作为补救措施，难道以后看完影院版再看导演剪辑版？
什么都无法舍弃的人，什么都拯救不了。
2021-03-28 近十年电影流行元素都加了进来，段段都像精美 MTV，情节曲折感情充沛。和《复仇者联盟》相比，就是麦当劳对肯德基，我稍微偏好麦当劳。
但他哪有某些导演剪辑版狂热粉丝黑的那么那么神，能把电影改成面目全非。
（6.0/10）并没有变成一部“新”的作品，只是当初那部离谱的院线版的充实，多少算是能看了。事情就到这里结束吧，以后吵架的由头也没了，DCEU也没了，都散了吧挺好。
虽然没有当初看《守望者》那般惊喜，但事实上也只有扎导能驾驭这样的黑暗史诗了。四小时版本宛若一首加长版后摇（或者说正常版），像人生一样大起大落，高潮迭起之后还能让人无尽怅然，没必要再苛求什么了吧？
加了很多戏，让每个角色都更像人，更有人性，更有温度。与父母的连结，与爱人的连结，与朋友的连结就是我们与这个世界的连结。In this terrifying world，all we have are the connections that we make.
比当年版本多一星。《手表群侠》的历史地位无法超越。
和院线版判若云泥。
有生之年在大银幕看了扎导正联！和DC粉看真的氛围拉满，超人出来时候全场都在鼓掌！太激动了太激动了，小闪救人那段真的太萌了～虽然丑爷只出现了几分钟（且不是我印象中的形象）但是还是超激动！啊啊啊！是华纳配不上大DC～
看完之后我非常地激动。我知道我看到了一步伟大的作品。“伟大”这个词，也许不恰当，它讲的是大时代下小人物的故事。台前幕后、狂欢失意、得意落魄、生生死死。虚构和现实、生与死、东方与西方、遗忘的和被记录的，邱炯炯是站在二元对立的“飞地”来书写个体浮沉的。看这部电影，像是在看一次对历史的招魂。历史，不会以它本来的面目昭示于活人眼前。而我想，邱炯炯找到了显影的方子。
要是真的能拍成三部曲就好了，已经等不及看达克赛德到地球和超人黑化了
比复联好看，既然复联8.5，这个只能9了，
总结：中评
三个小时没觉得长。风格以及构图独特，表演细腻， @Anthology Film Archives 值得细细分析
我常常想，电影的结尾有没有一种除了大梦一场之外的形式，但好像也很难。除了写个隽永的结尾带点梦幻，和现实连上，就是告诉观众，这里结束了，你该醒了。本片在它自身是很完整的，只是我一直在期待着更多！更多！小丑戏本身就不承担那么多别的东西。所以唯一一点遗憾，可能就是椒麻于内于外都太完整了。
好好看！！！！！好多慢镜头😂 而且搞笑元素少了，海王喝酒那段bgm我还是更喜欢院线版的，但是感觉剧情更细腻人物更饱满了！好喜欢啊！好看好看好看！四小时一点也不多！！！！！！！！总体来说比院线版好看！！！！
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