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".
没什么太新鲜的但演的不错 在一些（许多）小地儿悄悄讽刺LA人有被攻击到
斯皮尔伯格万晚年探索歌舞剧，就像大卫霍克尼晚年拿ipad画大风景A bigger picture。都探索了，探索了…
更喜欢汉密尔顿，换一个能hold 住的女演员会不辱没这么经典的音乐剧，
歌舞片爱好者实在看不下去，无力吐槽………斯皮尔伯格运镜调度功力还在，但真的不适合歌舞片吧。另外男女主什么情况，跳得跟中国音乐剧似的，男主唱也够拉胯……
哈哈哈哈哈天呐夭寿啦，欧阳万成洗脑成功吸血鬼日记女主啦。
Lake Placid也被拍进电影了，同样也是冬天去的冷死了，女主怎么可以光腿？？
女主居然是吸血鬼日记的女主 保质期太短了吧！
男主演的…非常离谱…不要轻易尝试歌舞片…莎翁的底子还是好的..但是还是留给舞台不要留给银幕了..
乔尔·科恩的《麦克白》比斯大爷的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》强点，关键男女主演技撑不住，忠实原著女主的人设槽点又太雷人。亲哥被杀思考五秒钟就原谅了东尼，反手就和东尼睡了，被嫂子发现还跟嫂子飙高音，把嫂子忽悠去被一群人侵犯，这种反人类的本子还有啥拍的必要呢。有几场的视听调度非常精彩，这几场里Mike Faist都功不可没。
3.5电影 影像和调度可以，剧情就一般般哦。
角色不够土，不像那个年代的，像是现代人强行生活在六十年代，怪怪的（大部分21世纪历史剧也给人这种感觉，很不适）；镜头非常流水化制作，就是视频论文里面讲解的那种运镜惹，就很没意思。而原版，放在任何标准下都是很独特、很好看的。五星给编舞、词曲。男女主外形真是不错演技也可以，不知道为什么会被其他评论认为不好。（跳舞如何就没注意，但是唱是不怎么行。有一个硬伤是玛利亚的嫂嫂悲痛的演技不逼真。有这么难演的复杂剧情，演员要仔细挑才可以。被枪打也不逼真。玛利亚走掉也不逼真。）虽然甚至拉片看到穿帮镜头但是还是想给五星。喜欢。😭
影评的视觉效果和场面调度不错。结尾略显意犹未尽。男主角诠释爱便是生命的时刻没有感动到我，眼神里的爱意缺了一点。和我一同坐在电影院的观众好像目睹过至少西区故事的舞台剧，有些观众甚至能跟着银幕一道唱。最喜欢的场景就是两个帮派准备去夜斗，the Jets和the Sharks怒气冲冲地为领地奔赴战场，此时交叉剪辑男女主也迫不及待地渴望奔赴爱的约会，浪漫与凝重交织，激烈与温情相融，这一段感觉很美妙。再次感悟，男演员的爱意不是很够。另，该剧的内核真的不是未完待续的罗密欧与朱丽叶吗。
镜头调度和几场歌舞表演都不错，但观感很糟糕，其一是西区故事（罗密欧与朱丽叶）这个剧本放到现今看老派又守旧，观众不仅无法共情还会满脸问号..其二是男女主的演绎都令人失望，唱、演双重糟糕。
陈旧的故事和人物关系，复旧的效果不错，只是不欣赏
古典爱情故事太令人吃不消了，即使我带着歌舞片滤镜来看也不能忽略剧情的离谱和过时。女主的美声高音有点刺耳总让人觉得她跟其他人不在同一部剧里，Anita过于耀眼，三颗星全给街头热舞的那段高光，果不其然一看演员表竟然是汉密尔顿的ensemble，舞台剧演员跟普通演员在歌舞片里比起来真是降维打击
比上一版要好许多，情绪饱满，几段舞蹈设计精彩
主要就是没了黄金时代老音乐剧的精气神 又几乎没啥新时代的好改编 不如直接重映老版…再次感叹Sondheim词写得太好
原本的样貌就很好了 虽然没看过原版音乐剧 但感觉电影这种载体并没有为这个故事增色太多 有更多视角 但却并不是辅助故事本身 几段街景舞蹈很艳丽多彩 很有感染力
好了全看完了，后面甚至都没啥歌舞了
场景镜头都很精巧，就是这剧情太低智了，分分钟让我出戏，感觉好像在看印度片。西语听不懂，歌也不好听，男女主像被强行捏在一起的一样没有chemistry
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