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".
20220220 选角非常像，神了。竞技体育画面留到最后一刻集中体现，把好的情绪用在刀刃上，也导致前半部分太窝囊了，想跳着看。窝囊也符合美国草根的主题吧，拍成了一个过于标准的美国梦故事。
“他们不知道的是，是我在这些年所拥有的经验，使我成为现在的我，使我为这一时刻做好了准备，给了我与众不同。”
本来特别传奇的一个人，结果拍成了很普通的“传奇”故事……该有的重点感觉都没有
第一部是来偷钱，第二部是来抢人，老兵实惨！
大哥这题材还要拍3？海豹突击队很牛b？我中国战狼2走一走，眼睛看不见各种都不合理，你莫不如打脑震荡突然能看见了开始装b打起来
从恐怖片变《飓风营救》了？老头也太能打了吧，纳美人瑟瑟发抖。一部戏同时完成弑父和弑母的两大悲剧主题，女主也太悲剧了。
体育运动类电影里最好的爱情片，爱情片里最好的体育运动类电影。
看到片名就知道结局已定 失败者触底反击的故事依旧鼓舞 （不太喜欢感情线的处理）
选角是故意的吗，大学球队时期过于违和，困惑/ 男孩神似大张伟
从恐怖片变《飓风营救》了？老头也太能打了吧，纳美人瑟瑟发抖。一部戏同时完成弑父和弑母的两大悲剧主题，女主也太悲剧了。
？惊悚片之所以分低 就是太多不合乎常理 经不起推敲
导演可能不太会把握爱情桥段，太狗血了点。男主的职业生涯真是不容易
【6.0】孱弱的文本,优秀的视听语言,氛围与1一脉相承。亮点：用声效的夸张处理展现老兵的敏锐听觉.比如脚踩下水盖和风铃声触发老兵的反应.尤其是水纹传到手上的镜头,摄影和音效都很妙/1用关灯,2用烟雾弹制造平等对抗环境/用开灯,雾散时老兵若隐若现的身形+变焦营造惊悚感/手指插眼,铁锨砸烂脸,小女孩砍手臂的镜头满足了血浆片需求/胶水封嘴+用刀划开嘴/老兵点火和飞刀的镜头。硬伤：小孩心脏不能移植给成年人…/一开始要以父亲身份抓女孩走,杀老兵,那又放水又拉电缆是干嘛?/小女孩既然这么爱老兵,怎么会轻信陌生人?/狗的倒戈做了很多铺垫,但还是很牵强.老兵不杀它又放走它,主人丢下它,它就带老兵回了窝,被开了一枪,后来就咬了反派?编剧是按人写的./插眼不一定毙命,老兵不下死手是编剧为了制造女孩杀亲父的镜头.
？？？？？都说2不好看于是我跑去看1，结果看完了发现我他妈看的是2，滑天下之大稽！！！！！看完觉得挺好看的啊，尤其是前半部分！我现在去看1，我倒要看看1多好看！不要抛弃你的狗狗
精华都在预告片里。
又一条狗引发的惨案 爱狗人士狂欢
失望，惊悚气氛全无，第二部彻底沦为粗暴的虐杀电影。
？惊悚片之所以分低 就是太多不合乎常理 经不起推敲
没有第一部精彩，但几个杀戮镜头也还可以。12.19
PS：雪中奔跑送油去车的那一段真的好emo看得，镜头很漂亮。
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