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".
在曾經哺育和影響華語地區一代人成長的港台演藝界，在個性足以支撐起一部傳記片者當中，既承載和篤信本土價值、又不隸屬於激進本土派的梅艷芳，近乎算是唯一的相對“安全”的主人公人選。而當梅姐之死仍未被時間拉開足夠的距離，成為足夠經典化、得以加以充分討論的歷史事件，閱讀這樣一部試圖涵納梅艷芳完整生平歷程的傳記片，它沒有/不能拍出的本事，就相比拍出了什麼更值得關注，例如梅姐對政治事件和民主化運動的態度及作為，而梅姐最得意之門生和兩位關係緊密的填詞人則在傳記片中全然缺席，不少尤可“在場”的角色亦以外文名模糊帶過。影片對於70—00年代香港時代氛圍的還原，也主要是外在的，如服、化、道、美術和佈景，而不是歷史的、心理的和思潮的。粵原，2021年11月13日10:20於盧米埃合生6號廳。
这选角不行啊 长得和金星似的 没有梅艳芳的神韵
【2021/11/12with老妈】老妈说是今年在电影院里看过来最享受的一部电影。和张国荣的酒吧初遇拍得很棒，张国荣去世后她的自白也令人潸然泪下，而更让我们感动的是，当时已是癌症晚期的她，坚持开演唱会为医护人员加油，也坚持举办最后一场演唱会，坚持自己亲口说出「byebye」这句话。
976｜27/100，导演剪辑版
内容（故事、情感和登场人物）太少了，作为传记片未免太潦草。
粗剪和上映的版本各看过一次 梅艳芳华绝代 专属的美无可复制
电影从剧本到演员，都不满意
王丹妮把聲真有幾分似梅艷芳，親自唱的一些部分亦都不錯，有幾場戲情緒把握到位。缺點是從十幾歲到四十歲離世 年齡上的變化幾乎沒有體現出來，因此略出戲。這部電影的問題不在演員，而是導演和劇作上的偷懶，幾乎把Anita在世時留下的影像記錄能用的全用上了，增添了感動但也同時加劇了割裂感。// 本片定位是大陸上映的商業片，於是把梅姐人生非常重要的社會運動背景與故事，以及同趙文卓、劉德華的情緣，無良家人、真正的徒弟等等直接抹去。此外電影把梅姑演藝生涯最大的低潮全部歸結於KTV掌摑事件也較難服眾。
永远没有人能复刻AnitA，也没有人能复刻Leslie 即便是重现他们的故事，因为这两人对于我们太熟悉不过，他们的模样与生涯都让人过目不忘，最终的宿命也让人唏嘘，本片其实比想象中的要好点，王丹妮来演梅姐其实也比预料中要好，毕竟将梅姐的感觉，行为还有神态都仿的挺好的，不过终究不是真的，如果将本片整成一部纪录片或许更能让影迷歌迷回忆与纪念
全程不是在想哭就是在哭，但是演员演戏痕迹有点重
作为传记片也真是够流，够水，够流水帐的，加一星给几首经典歌曲。
不该被呈现的如此扁平无力
2.音乐选得好，安排的节奏时间点也好。
阿梅的歌太好用了 画面不够全靠歌声凑 最大的问题是那个时代全都是明星 而梅艳芳张国荣更是明星中的明星 这是两个毫无名气的演员不论花多大努力都绝对演不出来的 更不用说一甘绿叶也是明星来演的 王丹妮简直鸡立鹤群 太惨了
听着梅艳芳、张国荣的歌走过青春的人，对这部电影有着不一般的情怀。
王丹妮比想象中表现得出色，但是剧本和导演都太一般了
电影省略了很多复杂和黑暗的东西，像是美颜过的照片。我印象中梅艳芳身世挺惨的，有个吸血鬼老妈。有几场戏不错，比如夜店演出。感情戏有点多。女演员身高179太高了。
本来以为是收割情怀的电影，但出乎意料还不错，作为一个泪点很高的人也被打动，比电影更感人的是anita真实的传奇一生，能浓缩在电影里完成度已经非常高。演员也用心了，说话时的骄傲劲儿和梅姐很像。人生总有遗憾，又不是人人都是山口百惠，缺憾也亦是精彩。
逝去的是那个时代啊…人生尽是遗憾事。我对他们都没什么了解，只知道名字的程度。近两年才开始看一点电影，听一点粤语，实在是遗憾的。
90年代的香港好在哪？可能其中一种魅力就在于这部电影所呈现出来的色彩：温暖、昏黄、复古而又柔情。暖色调的氛围感，适合回忆、更适合梅艳芳的歌声。所以大家都说这部电影高度还原。其实看过这部电影之后，我觉得片方的用心，不仅在于对梅艳芳的尽力还原，更在于对那个特定年代氛围感的刻画，是如此传神。
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