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".
算上音乐剧官摄和现场，这是第三次看Jamie的故事。电影的蒙太奇非常加分，唱到过去窗户里就映出小时候的自己，从学校一个转身就到了舞台中央，drag queen就应该用这种drama的方式呈现！原卡John小可爱也在回忆里作为彩蛋出场，我没有遗憾了😌不过电影版加入的LGBT内涵，有点突然，可以理解但不喜欢。
特别适合在电影院观看的一部电影，动作和视觉效果非常好，情节紧张刺激。虽然剧情上有些bug，但并没有太大的影响。最后的枪战有点帅。
设定是科幻片，剧情是动作片，实际是“无论我在哪个身体都同样爱你”的爱情故事。末尾的夜总会枪击戏挺好看，没有费劲解释“灵魂为何会离体”和“男主为何如此爱老婆”这两件事也算是不错的删繁就简。
选角还是棒棒哒，但对着我的小屏幕大大削减张力。可能看现场舞台剧会好一些
拍得很棒了，动作戏标准以上！ 很多惊喜设计，这个武术指导很OK
结果最后啥都不是的三流动作片，有几段打戏应该还是加速的。关键也没加速成魔女那个效果啊。不抱期待打发时间可看，个人2.7⭐
【补标】去年初在加州试映的时候看的，当时片名保密，片方说试映一场major studio的musical，以为自己可以提前看到In The Heights，结果看的是这部。题材不是自己感兴趣的，编舞、场调和音乐也都没有太多惊喜。
男主被注射了一种毒品后变成植物人，然后灵魂每12点就会转移到一个他昏迷前见到过的人身上，后来破了警局内部几个坏蛋想用毒品发财的阴谋，也救了女朋友。编剧还真有想象力。当然我也不知道是韩国人自己想出来的还是翻拍的哪里的。
全剧透#讲的就是一个人灵魂出窍附在了很多人身上 这个【很多人】同一个目标都是去救
一直附身来附身去的，被附身的几个人的主人格不会反抗吗？这个设定感觉有点站不住
开头就被吸引了，电影里的感情也太感人了，亲情友情全都让人感到很温暖，至于老爸不要也罢。有机会会去看音乐剧！
ks看起来真的演得好辛苦……但这片实在不太好看
I'm not gay.
废了不少心思在呈现和创意上，但是这个故事真的过于单薄了
听说舞台剧更好看，留一星给舞台剧。这是一个关于变装皇后Jamie的故事，关于他的接纳的故事。他的自我接纳，勇敢走出梦想的那步，并且用自己的勇敢征服了周遭的亲人，老师，朋友，甚至是敌人。虽然略有遗憾（爸爸无法接受），但他的故事足够感人。电影里的歌舞也非常好看，虽然没有特别好听的歌曲出现，但都非常有感染力，能将观众拉进情绪里。期待看到原版的音乐剧。
既然转移这么准时，你老实待着掐着点跳楼不行吗？
灵魂想穿越就穿越，想得美。难道你不知道，肉体是灵魂的枷锁吗？
艳妆红唇，惊鸿一瞥
故事的设计还是挺有想法的，但是手法就有点跟不上，不过最后的打斗有几分“大叔”的风格，短兵相接，刀刀见血，还是值得一看。
总感觉似曾相识，表面上题材挺有创意，其实没啥新意。
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