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".
希望加菲入围各大男主奖项吧 拿不拿也不在乎了~ 他唱歌还是不错的 虽然觉得他最近几个角色都有点歇斯底里的…………
纪念今年疫情以来第一次的电影院观影，第一次看唐顿庄园，看到了一些留学时熟悉的old fashion的英国人，里面每个角色都很美好，一点本土英剧的影子都看不到，本土剧对于我来说是eastenders和cornation street的残酷和狗血，但残酷里又有每日的生活，live like British!
“一瞬间你就死了，一瞬间你就过时了”sad😥and you might have to keep on writing and writing until......
石头姐有爱乐之城，加菲有了倒数时刻，我磕到了
老妇人年轻的时候一定是个非常有魅力的lady啊
不应该叫tick tick boom，应该叫tear tear boom！简直催泪弹一般的存在！加菲贡献出了极精湛甚至有些灵魂附体一般的演技，无怪乎国外有人给出的评论是今晚没有看到加菲，而是看到乔纳森拉尔森回到了人间待了两个小时！观看此片的时候，桑德海姆也离世了，了解到桑德海姆虽然并不看好拉尔森的作品类型，但是对他不懈坚持的精神还是大加赞赏的，觉得拉尔森就差那么一点儿运气，晚去世两天，就可以亲眼见证自己的成功，见证自己改变了当代USA音乐剧的表现形式！要我说拉尔森就是被自己的矜矜业业全力以赴不放过任何一个锻炼自己作曲能力的要强精神给累着了！此外喜欢磕cp的也满足了，毕竟两个现在分道扬镳的前情侣都演了音乐剧电影。还有就是这片是真宽街团建，肉眼可见好多熟面孔！催人泪下，值得一看！
有点点私人，但真的，我好爱聚聚。拉森：我好爱桑。聚聚：喜欢rent的人我们就是一辈子的朋友。桑to拉森：你很好。温柔和爱满溢，是我爱的人的一次美好的相遇，电影都能有那种一期一会的体验，太好了。和剧版ttb相比是很温柔的改编，核心是剧院、创作者的美好。节奏也好了很多，加菲太适合了，就不要说客串的半条宽街大佬们。爱聚聚。爱桑。
明明是个与创作者本人无关的故事，却莫名透露着浓烈的自恋味，纯属剧院玩家自娱自乐自我感动。最重要的是，能不能先学会电影剪辑和调度再来染指歌舞片……？今年颁奖季电影的质量简直太恐怖了。
①再过八周我将满三十，比保罗在跟约翰列侬写最后一首歌时还要老，我父母三十岁已有两孩子与稳定的工作。
四星吧，但是也愿意多加一颗星给加菲。（加菲算得上是欧美除了甜茶之外我第二喜欢的男演员了……（加菲给我冲奥斯卡男主！！！
20220517点映，重庆江北百丽宫
加菲总是让我想到Angels in America 虽然musical可能真的不是我的genre 但还是很感人很燃
滴答，滴答……这是时间的声音，生命的声音，死亡的声音。在最后的那声响起之前，你会作何选择？
3.5 标准冲奥系音乐片。泳池里的五线谱令我眼前一亮。为一展歌喉的帅气加菲奶一个来年的影帝提名。
片尾的影像比电影更打动人，其实就能说明电影不够成功，加菲在很多方面演的都很好，但对比片尾就很明显的没演出来一个天才应有的形象。不过胜在歌好听，且改编的恰到好处，否则就真的是一部非常平庸的作品
像《唐顿庄园》这样，见证一部英剧在国内种草、风靡、流于平庸，又余音不绝的经历，已经绝版。所以在银幕和一群老朋友重逢，也很幸福。影版本身也没有让人失望，独立成章的故事起码要比最后两三季的生拉硬扯体面很多。
这是一个关于梦想的故事，友情爱情和事业，任何东西在时间下闪光，在时间下褪去，又在时间下显得弥足珍贵。 这是一部关于音乐的故事，镜头前的加菲在歌唱，镜头后面的导演在编排，这些都是映射创作者的内心，这才是平凡的故事收获的感动！ 听，tick，tick。。。Boom！
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