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".
原来低保户的贫富差距哪里都有呀，想起了很早的一个梗开着车去领低保
这两天给上海再加一分的阳性夫妻录音事件和影片中不作为的工作人员无比契合 是的 大家都很不容易 只是活着就竭尽全力了 照章办事还能轻松点 但是稍微用点同理心不行吗 一时的不作为造成他人失去生命 难道不会愧疚吗
连霓虹都不得不正视贫困问题，这让那谁情何以堪……
纯纯的社会派，几乎没有推理和悬念。也没有特别触动我的鸡汤，所以……不合口味，仅此而已。
没看过音乐剧、擅自以为是那种孤独自闭的主人公迈出一步感染了他人也治愈了自己的故事、不成想实际蛮矫情做作还有点尴尬...且这部作品并不适合以歌舞片的形式呈现——上一秒还是沉郁闷丧的气氛、下一秒就high school musical、实在很跳脱。
分数：50
没看过音乐剧（但原声碟倒是听烂了），所以对这次电影改编还是蛮期待的，因为没有对比，觉得电影还是不错的（只是Ben的扮相也太老了吧）。
对不起但小本一开口有种mv即视感……有些作品就让它留在舞台上好吗……
很愛小說，但電影跟小說差太多....很多關鍵細節都沒拍出來，看完頗失望。
音乐很好，演员很好，甚至两位母亲演得比原剧更出色。错就错在几乎完全把舞台剧的表演模式照搬到生活实景中，严重影响它作为一部电影的节奏和情绪。
人都是自己孤零零地死掉了。
最喜欢的角色是那个黑人女生，她比主角还要有复杂度…总体而言，歌很好听！但是从舞台到银幕的转化目前看来有点尴尬，character song必须由各角色亲口唱出来，但这和电影的表达方式可能是冲突的，弄成mv+电视剧了。
对福利制度的探讨加深了电影叙事的浓度。喜欢这种半悬疑、半社会问题思考的主题。每个演员都演技在线。剪辑和节奏我都觉得没问题，是值得一看的好电影，毋庸置疑。
我摩尔真是好强悍啊，她在桌前和儿子对话的那场戏，那个场景和表面的意义，基本和“窗女”是一样，她竟可以处理得截然不同，她是技巧和气度的天才，我的AA你可不可以好好学习一下，你看看你在这部戏里差成什么鬼样，这部电影她还在那个舒适区里偷懒，和摩尔对戏被全方位的碾压。这个故事太古怪了，为什么不好好的情理化一下剧本呢，因为歌舞片说的部分的剧情就只用说意思吗？
瑛太微表情真的很多，这角色真的觉得他死了也活该。
还行啊，个人觉得还不错…没有看过音乐剧版的英语也渣，就电影来看还是可以推荐的。虽然有些处理感觉有点仓促但也不妨碍整体感受，特别是埃文在演讲唱“For Forever”的那一段，挺感人。
如果没有疫情，去年五一就应该在西区看这部了😢自我安慰：反正西区也看不到Ben Platt的卡司，电影总归比剧场盗录版强多了。但一直怼脸拍真的没必要... P.S：Connor的书单有小王子&深夜小狗欸
比我们想象中要更广阔
适合心情灾害重建的人，套路是旧的，但是关怀是好的
全片三分吧，题材加一分。从地震出发，想触及生活保障下的普通人，但感觉没有聊得多深刻。反转也没有多让人意外，只是有困难却还小心翼翼地怕给别人添麻烦真的很让人心疼…让人想到了上海的老人们，善良也变成了他们的弱点
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