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".
或许是我笑点低，一直哈哈哈地笑。确实很有趣
导演/编剧在开拍/开写之前就已经给开庭之前就想给主角团们定罪的大法官定了罪。
片子拍得很好。但有个角度更好：原来美国人如此反感越战，仅仅是因为死了太多美军士兵。难怪现在不上街反战了呢，感谢无人机和导弹，让美国人民对被侵略国家的成千上万死难者眼不见心不烦。越战时越南平民死了多少人呢，哦，统计不出来。
好电影是不会让我惧怕政治片的。1968真的是一个伟大的年代，革命的年代。简短的发言是4000多因为不正义战争丧命的people，我爱革命的血性，似乎现在没有真正为自由平等的革命，只有挑拨和污蔑的政治行动，愿自由平等终将到来，属于每一个人，也属于过去或现在每一个被污名化的英雄。
此时此刻放出来目的性很强的电影，但我真的被这群充满理想的学生感动到了，而我们什么时候才可以反战，不要再用向我开炮的逻辑拍电影了呢，我们是否应该铭记“人”，而不是让他们成为集体的颂歌？
乏味的很，为什么英雄联盟和芝加哥七君子这两种水火不容的电影类型，都能在豆瓣找到共鸣？因为，它们来自灯塔。我从这部电影里只能看到美国民主的混乱不堪，貌似程序正义背后的弱肉强食，伪善
隔离，灾难，剧院，都让我眼泪汪汪。世界戏剧节快乐，早日剧院见🙏
影20370：他在求权求公平的时候被封口！他们被逼到橱窗外！历史在重演！请记住，人群中有卧底！会被引诱、误导、嫁祸！博弈的时候你没法解释！不要入断章取义的套！
小哥聊了一句他在记名字因为和越南阵亡者相比他们这个court fight 就很trivial, 然后一句话 马上进入下一幕了。然后我当然脑子一机灵，我觉得这个大概率就是为了结尾埋伏笔了。i m patting myself on my own back for that
奈飞在美国大选期间推出的60年代著名历史事件改编的政治法庭戏，挺有意思。人类现代社会是需要法律的，法律也是在不断地实践、反思、辩论、修正中进步。所以能拍、能看到这样题材之影片，很有意义。
呈现出的质感整体是比较无聊的，快切的手法从头用到尾的确实在是太单调，过于迅速切入故事对于不了解美国六十年代的人（没错就是本人历史小白）还脸盲的人来说实在不友好，从开头到结尾都贯穿着一种奇怪的模式化，没有新鲜感的爆发点、高潮，非常平庸的视听语言……芝加哥七君子对于时代历史而言的确是很好的缩影，各方政治立场的轮番登场，但是最后的观感却只有单一的白人男性的嬉皮士精神。真的是反而是法庭中抽丝剥茧是唯一有趣的点，以及审判本身不过是一次施以正当理由的政治强奸。不过，我不觉得当做一部历史片来看好，所有对过去的援引，自然是当下现实的注脚。
真实事件改编，十周年的时候当着全村人表演个专场也太感人了吧，美式主旋律的正确用法。演员们一人分饰乘客和岛民，很考验基本功和调度了。
庭审戏并不沉闷，全程靠一种情绪（也可以说是煽动性）在撑着，可能这就是国内大多数影视公司想要的共情共鸣共振吧。
他们的平民团结可以带来正义或者改变，不论输赢，起码曾经为之抗争过。
当精英派、嬉皮士、保守派甚至于极端分子成为政府（体制）对面的联合被告，这已经近乎于对统治/管理者的死刑审判，何况还有前政府高官的反水，无论是作为历史事件的再教育，还是电影对社会现实的反射，索金的本子和技术都无可挑剔，而作为一种正义以及对「迫害」的警惕都是无关政治站队，正如「七君子」并非是一种同盟，而是基于对邪恶的反抗。
不苦情、不沉重，大量的美式笑话让人忍俊不禁。但笑着看完，却哭着回忆，百老汇的这波美式正能量，我先干为敬。
民主法制人权都需要流血和勇气，以及智慧。可惜我们大多是蝼蚁和炮灰，服从权威，苟活于舒适区。好莱坞标准的剧本，人物鲜明，庭审唇枪舌剑，正邪对立，人性光辉……7分应该是有的
编排完美，歌舞和这种题材太搭了，让人激情昂扬。只有在困境中才能看出一个地方的素质，是否能考虑到尽可能多的情况，关心少数群体，保护动物，人们互相帮助载歌载舞，这才是人性的闪光之处。女机长的独唱更是激励人心。
三体爱好者纷纷打出一星。毕竟他们太有人性，缺乏兽性。
索金对话和剪辑点太牛批！头两次庭审的对白简直以为拿的是桃谷六仙或者笨贼一箩筐的本子，渐次打开之后每个角色都生动和丰富起来。合理怀疑波拉特同志和索金达成了交易，拿到了最棒的台词和最多的置装费：“你是否蔑视你的政府”“与我的政府对我的蔑视相比，我的蔑视不值一提”“给我点时间好吗，我从未因思考而受审过”；雀斑假意演一个意图杀人放火受招安的渣男角色，但战歌起就一定要有猝不及防糊一脸的美国梦——来预定奥斯卡
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