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".
1、那些为梦想奋力拼搏的日子，永远是最动人的啊！
新年第一天看完，有种几年前看赤めだか的熟悉感。算是奈飞为了北野武定制的回忆作品，影帝能把他演的栩栩如生不得不夸一句牛逼。不知道北野武两次重新开始人生，是勇气还是单纯的没有毅力，但是他终究靠坚持个性闯出了一片天地。问师傅左手的伤时故意讲段子的一幕着实精彩，用幽默化解世间痛苦大概就是这么回事。
战争片聚焦于小人物的细腻感情，敌我拉锯战以单个人数为单位紧追比分，手撕一只鬼子的代价可能是被鬼子手撕两个我方战友，扣人心弦的效果就出来了。
提前看的点映，今天上映了来打分，这次张译算是配角，章宇完全hold住了。导演把这场虽小但重要的战争拍的格外扣人心弦。不敢说春节档口碑最好的，但是质量完全过关，冷枪冷炮，热血沸腾。
战争片多数视角宏大，这种以小见大的其实也很好
短小彪悍，以小见大，仅仅是一个极其简单的故事就回答了“我们为什么能够胜利而他们为什么就会失败”这个宏大而困难的问题。演员群像做得极其优秀， 每一个个体是如此的鲜活牢牢地抓住了观众的内心。通过亮亮推动故事发展，使用瞄准镜镜头烘托紧张气氛，利用正反打来赋予故事情绪再加上两军势均力敌的较量，战争的张力蓬勃而出，对决的紧张感跃然纸上，真的是尽显大师风范。但是，在快节奏的对决之中过分运用的子弹时间，在烘托气氛的歌唱情节中用背景音乐定调性的难免会让人觉得有点多余刻意和突兀，在这冰天雪地之中缺少了些许的诗意和浪漫......
老谋子渐渐会拍商业片，但还有点问题。最明显两点：那个子弹的特效太假，以及志愿军战士一口大白牙。
8/10,春节档最佳，国师近几部片子排片量好像都不咋地，同样是抗美援朝大前提，却以一个狙击班做切入点，以小见大。敌方难得的不降智，也不会主动的打小孩。剧情层层递进一气呵成。章宇真的棒。五班都很棒！小不足是bgm实在是铺的太多了。有时候感觉有点吵=-=结局真是让我有了一次全新的体验，就是你明明情绪上波动不是很大，但是你泪止不住的流。五班！到！！
当然 如果子弹时间的次数再稍微少一点 个别情节再更加紧凑一点 那就更完美了
竖子成名，必有良师。前半段掉点儿，后半程提速追回。一些桥段在北野武书里读到过，一些事儿也在我周围发生着。“阿武听好了，不要去讨好观众，应该由你来告诉观众，什么才是有趣的。” 长镜头是真好用呀。
画外音真得讨厌，一出现就出戏，完全可以去掉。以小见大，就这样吧！还能咋拍呢？全篇我最喜欢的一句台词：去他妈的战争？去他妈的战争，所有的战争狂人都有病，和平万岁！
北野武的从业经历 真的不容易 谐星出道能慢慢成为这样一个颇具个性的硬汉
大泉洋不错，门胁麦也不错，影帝是被宽松世代给毁了
这是一部真正的电影。
蛮有趣，原以为是北野武奋斗史，结果是师生情
大历史下小人物一样触动人心，章宇的表现很出彩，首尾的点名相互照应
问：“北野武的相方后来去干什么了？”我：“组了ナイツ”
门胁的哭戏是对火花里告别演出的callback。看到creepy nuts的时候，正好m1败者复活，真是巧。
喜欢这种场景单一却又把每个人物刻画很深刻，时长也刚刚好，氛围也营造的恰到好处
真的是一场很小的战斗，但是就是一场场小战斗赢得了整个胜利。
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