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".
这些年代出了好多有意义，有影响力的音乐人。反观现在的流行乐市场，现在的孩子受到的音乐教育实在是难以入目
一共三部，感觉挺好的看着，虽然还是差不多一样的剧情
一代大佬，在监狱为兄弟们争取每天多几格厕纸，堕落的够可以的。
就真的非常平庸，人物演的很平，拍的更平。再加上2个多小时的时长，就完全的流水账。哈德森跟一众其他姐妹比，这个表演毫无优势。如果最终入围影后，那一定是肤色优势了。
着实没想到这居然拍成了一个系列，第三部明显悬念少了很多。陈豪打了个酱油，熬到了最后一部的刀疤竟然领了盒饭，可惜了。
声哥挂掉那是真演技，最惨的是现在除了演贱男，已经没什么好戏留给他了
被音乐感动得不要不要的，剧情有些凌乱无重点
为歌喉加一星，看预告的时候感觉可以冲奥，可能期待一下太高了……
故事本身应该不错 只是讲故事的方法有些一般
就看打戏吧！ 剧情...um...不重要吧
故事本身应该不错 只是讲故事的方法有些一般
出奇的好看 最后甚至有点感动 比前两部强很多
尊重 看完我都不太知道aretha franklin到底是谁，但绝不妨碍这部电影会拿到金球奖及奥斯卡提名甚至获奖的预测。大女主的戏，女主演的一团糟，但并不妨碍电影本身能和《波西米亚狂想曲》《朱迪》看齐。因为主旨是反PUA，加上一点黑人民权和女权，总之主题上肯定是奥斯卡喜欢的题材。如果把父亲PUA女儿，渣男PUA妻子最后主角PUA身边的人，最后通过宗教得到救赎当做主线，这部电影算讲明白了。但女主的演技实在实在太差，除了长的略像本尊，其他时候好想上去打人。派拉蒙的，够老派，但情感够充沛，就是太混乱了，对脸盲观众很不友好。
本来以廖启智的财，斗曾江的势（权力），不会这么简单的，幕后的大佬（各方势力）会出来讲和的，但这里没有表现。如果最后的结局是幕后最高势力强迫曾江牺牲儿子以自保（保住爱民党），那就有意思得多，甚至是加一个桥段：之前最高势力强迫廖启智不再追究以致不惜除掉廖启智。
拒绝给川普就职典礼演唱的民权灵魂歌后，为什么会离了两次婚？
就真的非常平庸，人物演的很平，拍的更平。再加上2个多小时的时长，就完全的流水账。哈德森跟一众其他姐妹比，这个表演毫无优势。如果最终入围影后，那一定是肤色优势了。
Biopic最怕就是没有记忆点，特别是跨越多个时间段。选JH来演是对的，她的演绎和歌曲是很强的记忆点，但这些都是观众早已熟悉的。影片对人物深度和时代背景的挖掘还欠些力度。
感觉她真是分裂，我不接受一个有成就的民权斗士的内心竟然是靠宗教哄着撑起来的。
2021.9.11 我真的快对好莱坞传记片ptsd了，这浓重的带入音乐传记片公式求值的味道直熏得我昏昏欲睡。好在音乐还是极具感染力的，只是片尾AF真人开嗓还是把全程发挥不错的演员盖过去了，巨星之所以为巨星到底还是有理由的。
传记电影不是瞎编戏说洒狗血塞入大众喜闻乐见的感情线。JHUD凶悍的表达方式并不足以驾驭艾瑞莎的歌曲。
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