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".
下午看了梅艳芳。梅艳芳在电影和音乐方面都取得了巨大成就，说是巨星丝毫不为过。不过我对这个巨星没有什么特别的感觉。我知道很多香港的女星，喜欢哥哥和王菲。但是梅艳芳的歌曲和胭脂扣，我印象极少。我这么浅薄的印象，觉得梅的演员选的很成功，很传神。完全抓住了梅的气质，下午看哭了两次……哥哥就天差地别，分分钟让我出戏（慢慢好了，可能形不似，但是有神吧），后半程，梅一般……8分！点赞👍
电影是纯烂片，没有动过心思的流水账，全篇浮光掠影，人物没有塑造，实在不会写“戏”，但是确实感人，双标一把，毕竟还有人愿意纪念。
原本期待不高，但看完还是颇有惊喜。导演很稳，流水账还不算太寡淡，时不时有点小高潮。女主很赞，除了晚年略显年轻之外，对阿梅的神情、举止、眼神的把握都非常到位，某些鏡頭演的不禁让人有些恍惚是真人还是演员。唯一的遗憾是张国荣的演员太弱太出戏，可惜了……
整体上有些刻意，小义到大义这条线还不清晰。
20'做娱乐圈最重要一样东西，是人无你有
慢歌是唱唏嘘 快歌是唱反叛 人生如同一张专辑，时而叛逆，时而停下来唏嘘
果然是流水账。不过胜在怀旧感做得很精致，从街头风景到室内摆设，再到人物的发型服饰，以及台词对白里的俚语，都让人无限缅怀那个早已消失的年代。用金曲穿插并分割人物经历的手法是这类传记题材的常见配置，偶尔给人一点惊喜。而纪录片和虚构剧情两个层面并存的叙事用得很不理想，一旦纪录片段出现，立即破坏故事营造的幻觉。创作者想对梅艳芳生平一网打尽，却又不得不对某些敏感事件和经历做出舍弃，这是无可厚非的，然而，将重点放在她失败的两段感情上，却令影片格局变小。这对不熟悉她的观众来说未必足够吸引，而对于听着她的歌长大的观众来说，更是隔靴搔痒，无法触及到这位传奇人物最有魅力的一面。
做得好的地方也有，比如第二转折点的那场改编式采访和1:99段落，人物气势很稳。但也因为剧作上框定死了这样一条人物线，前面的梅艳芳形象都浮光掠影。
成名前比成名后有趣，但仍有好多有趣的点没有展现出来，现实还是要比电影精彩得多，这是创作的失败。梅艳芳的选角尚可圈可点，演员也足够投入，就算不是十全十美也不留遗憾了，张国荣的选角则是大灾难，身边的工具人则个个伟光正，仿佛要响起《让世界充满爱》的配乐，但更适合她的应该是《血染的风采》吧——她自己唱的那个版本。
热门影评第一位把为什么拍不好的原因分析得很好了，多给一颗星给自己备受香港文化滋养的童年吧，香港的时代过去了，我也长大了。
5.感观胜过《第一炉香》，是梅艳芳太有魅力吗？
观感四星半，梅姐的性格和主要人物立住了，但的确也没有表现出更多的人物或者时代精神了。新录的曲子和原唱一有交叉，差距就显现出来了，我感觉那么努力演了这么多戏，还不如原唱透出的坚毅气质更令人信服，这也是穿插真实片段的短处。Eddie线还是挺妙的。
大片儿底色下缺乏更多的巧心构思，未走出流水线窠臼。家人，恋人，师友，串起二三事。影片或是历史影像片段里，年代人与事的浮光掠影总是最添趣味。但人生历程，所选节点，成长渐变的感觉比较模糊。张国荣相关情节的加入缺乏克制，不够必要。还是太过商业气包裹的作品，看过后想不起梅姑，忆不起真情
事业和拍拖也没那么互斥吧…原来我菲这一批是接的梅姐的班(也翻过Postman!~…(《千千阙歌》跟《夕阳之歌》同曲!~这个时期从外面拿了好多哦，尤其是🇯🇵
作为传记电影是不足的，没有达到预期，但对梅艳芳真的极尽怜爱。
只要有信心，无难事！虽然作为传记片来说，过于平实，但是还是有被感动到，珍惜生命，珍惜时间，活的精彩，respect 梅姐
说实话，我对梅姐的的了解实在谈不上深，因此很难从真实性上谈论本片。不过可以看出，主创绝对是抱着一种深厚的情怀和敬意来描写梅姐，尤其是越到后期，情感就越来越浓郁。可惜的地方在于对梅姐事业进程的的描写过于按部就班，反而对其亲情友情爱情进行重点刻画（特别是和近藤的事，绝对是最大的争议点，而且编剧相当不着调地cue了一下中森明菜）。 演员方面，新人王丹妮可谓表现出色，不仅很多地方有梅姐的神韵，而且有几场戏已经不止于单纯的模仿，还有属于她自己的精彩演绎，廖子妤的梅爱芳也颇为生动。
整个电影看得我真的很不舒服，梅艳芳、张国荣都不是我熟悉的样子，梅艳芳可爱有余，但那种气场、力量和果决是不足的。张国荣就更不用说了，哥哥的风韵是一点没有展现出来的。整个剧情很稀碎，不知道拍摄那些桥段是要表达什么。梅艳芳的挚友们拍出来也让人觉得微妙，非常不舒服。电影不好看，但喜欢梅艳芳。
而当看透梅姐梦想终是平淡之余，那般对港乐巨星时代已逝内娱又每况愈下的惆怅，又好像更适合用林夕的词来诠释，好风景多的是，夕阳平常事，然而每天眼见的，永远不相似...
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