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".
從小便聽梅艷芳，電影裡每一首歌曲都在跟着唱，想起以前梅姐說，聽壞女孩但是不要做壞女孩。現在她已經走了十八年，看的時候配著熟悉的歌曲，好幾次流淚。傳奇不朽，經典永不過時。希望不了解她的觀眾，都能來看這部影片感受傳奇人生。
昨天看的过程中想明白了一个准则 — 这种超名人的传记，要么挑ta们生活中的一小段故事放大拍，这样可以用新演员，呈现出这个人一段时间的一段状态，情绪给够。如果要拍一整个人生的流水账，那必须找名角。名角才撑得起名角的一生。演员也确实需要足够的历练才能表演出经验造成的前后差异。梅艳芳这部太可惜了。多标准的一个苦情艺术人生，最后搞成这样不咸不淡的。梅艳芳选的不合适，张国荣选的简直差劲。剧本莫名其妙。人物有些走形到离谱。哎。好故事被糟蹋了。
5.5/10
梅艳芳——香港之女，然后梅艳芳去世了，哪怕97的第一个镜头是舞照跳，马照跑。
好哭的戏 除了女演员有点太年轻演后期梅姐略有不成熟，以及梅姐之所以被称为“姐”的气场不够强 王丹妮太高了吧，其他人和他搭戏应该都挺辛苦 其他部分完成度还算可以 哥哥出殡那场哭得...
梅艳芳这样一个华语娱乐界响亮的名字
还是勾起了某些情感，不全烂。
新港片很少在影像质感上去还原时代，着重表现后半生的梅艳芳，风雨飘摇的梅艳芳变成一个符号，象征着风雨飘摇的香港。97-00年被快速地略过，又到了风雨飘摇时，那么“我们”的根基又在哪里呢。
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
12/30@国金百丽宫 逝世18周年纪念专场 7.2 成色比预期高。尽管素材海海但并未淹没在一味膜拜里，演得有自己理解，剪得节制精确，拍得也低调恳切，混着旧影简直太杀。未料从姐姐病榻前一直哑哭到尾，湿透冬夜口罩。所谓绝代，便无再有。
真的就是，一邊心裡吐槽流水帳，一邊哭得稀裡嘩啦，電影非常一般，讓我落淚的始終是那個彷彿一場大夢般的Anita Mui。永遠也不要說再見，我的心會碎多次。｜和🔥女士還有馬老師看的。
人物浮於表（毫無靈魂的Anita）流水線的劇情也真的很難打動人 煽情全靠以前的素材和歌🥺哥哥葬禮的時候配樂一出瘋狂掉淚🥺😣但很無語的是矮化哥哥形象 電影里甚至看著有點懦弱 …梅姐也沒有大姐大的氣勢…各種化名不說還要給近藤真彥這個世紀大爛貨塑造什麼深情浪漫人設 我直呼🆘
意料之中哭着看完，也希望看完电影的人，无论是不是梅姐的粉丝，走出电影院后都能去看看她留存下来的一场场演唱会视频，去音乐平台听听她的歌曲，去看看她参演过的影视作品，希望会有更多的人爱她。
梅艳芳的一生，多想做一个真实的自己，喊一句：我命由我不由天！可惜，她的时代不允许……那是一个群星璀璨的香港时代，也是资本全盘运作娱乐业的时代，阿梅感叹老天给了她太多，其实老天也夺去了她很多，但是，这就是人生！如她歌里所唱，如她戏里所演，用尽全力去拼！不向人生低头！
目前只有137分钟这版的资源，这个版本的剪辑没有突出梅艳芳一生中最重要的场景和画面。
文化波普，精彩分频；似水流年，星光熠熠。（导演剪辑版）
這個故事選擇一種囊括整個40年人生的講述方式，然後從中挑某些大事件作為故事線，當然這沒甚麽問題。但是在這個故事裡面，每件所挑選的事情背後所串連的情感也好，對整個故事最後想要表達的也好，基本為空白。（或者只是看到導演想表達逆流而上這種觀點）最後只是成爲介紹名人的流水賬。還有一個特別明顯在製作上的BUG，張國榮二十多歲跟四十多的妝一樣？？但我還是想說這片別的，對上一次我媽進電影院看的是《桃姐》（還是我拉她去看的）這部片是她第一次主動說想要進戲院看的片。對本地市場（香城）來說，以前的Super idol對於他們的影響力還是很大，對於吸引他們（中老年觀衆）再次走進戲院看電影開了一個好頭，尤其在疫情經濟復甦時。★☆（2020年香城票房第一位是天能5490港幣，而這部片上映11天就已經3300港幣）
也太好哭了🥺🥺🥺演员选得好好，有信念感。但是没有人可以演哥哥。记住一句话：“慢歌唱的是唏嘘，快歌唱的是反叛。”
五味杂陈，不知道如何评价。作为一个梅迷，我很荣幸自己真心喜欢过你。
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
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