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".
帝国毁灭里的小黄终于演了元首了，所以是升级了还是降级了？说回故事本身，大时代插入与历史无作用的小人物是半虚构创作的惯常操作，然而影片两位男主的动机都很顺拐和强行，整体平铺直叙唯一的反转点就在打字妹身上实际也是效果寥寥，当然最大的不适点还是对张伯伦的翻案，你说他的绥靖有没有其他方面的考虑那是可能的，但你说是他拖延了时间换来了胜利可就扯了
1/5，这谍战拍的是来搞笑的吗？什么叫做毫无紧张感；这片子拍出来是为了洗白张伯伦吗？德国反对派那条线拍的真是有够烂～～～
7分。战争一触即发，两个年轻人试图扭转局势。1938年，德国想要吞掉捷克的苏德台地区，英法德意四国首脑在慕尼黑开会协商此问题，没有捷克。德国有个年轻外交官冒着生命危险试图警告英法，好不容易传达到信息，却没有等到英法首脑在协议上拒绝签字的结果。张伯伦的避战立场是否真的给了盟国备战时间？如果在慕尼黑就撕破脸，东欧各国以及犹太人是否就不会如此悲惨？历史无法重来，英国提前介入也不是张伯伦一个人说了算的。情绪上还是没有期望中的那么紧张，节奏还不错。
战争，战争，战争，面对战争一切皆是虚无，人命由天不由己！
历史真相能知道的不多，从影片来看比较认可张伯伦的处理方式，有准备赴战总比仓促应战的好，当然做出这样的选择需要有很好的个人牺牲精神。
紧张的令人窒息的电影。应该学习一下这样的作品。
张伯伦已成为曲线救国的坚忍老头了，当然这是英国人的一厢情愿。
战争一直都没有结束
最后那几行字也是挺一言难尽的。
Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it
过程还是很刺激的。
几个年轻人尽力在历史大潮中掀起一点小水花，片子的历史观与我们熟知的传统观点有些区别。
节奏和镜头语言都挺棒的，说洗白的干嘛看电影看历史书就好了呀（的确可以搞同人，但我忍住了）
高中时代，只是提到了张伯伦搬起石头扎了自己的脚。宏观背后微观的故事表现不错。从宏观历史讲，欧洲人的绥靖主义风行，前有《敦刻尔克》为英国的不战而退洗锅，谓之曰：保留有生力量，然后这部《慕尼黑，战争边缘》为张伯伦正名，谓之曰：牺牲个人名誉，让美国看到德国的真面目。怯战？苟且偷安的表现不过是怯战。日不落帝国还是一副胜利者的姿态，顿时搞到恶心。牺牲小国，跟当下之乌克兰没啥区别！
人类也是第一次经历希特勒这种出尔反尔的疯子却装成是领袖的样子，都像是吃了好几闷棍，不过好像到了2022这样的人还在世界上存在着，你们知道是谁吗
比较慢热的历史题材，流程式铺垫，除了箭在弦上临场感的营造上不平衡，其他的虚实历史表现角度方面都算合格。
谈谈我个人的想法，希特勒一直被宣传成反派的极致，但我想他掌权之前。对周围的人，无论是他的上层，还是下级表现的都是一个极其美的能争取到信任的形象，让他有了实权之后。才会翻脸变坏！人，不都是这样吗？
家国情仇融合的比较好的影片了，如果是政治家可以看看不同层次政治家的权术运作，也可以看看年轻政治家的热情；我们普通人看看休和妻子之间的夫妻关系微妙变化。无论我们的关注点在哪场战争，两位年轻人都懂得了很多处理问题方式也成熟了许多。
政治的部分似乎太过儿戏，要是能把重点完全放在主角间的个人感情倒会是个很好的故事
影片结束的字幕把电影的格局拉低了。读过电影梗概以后我还在问自己为啥要看这么一部片子，其实细想，人类应该每年都得出几部二战题材的电影，直到下次世界大战之后才会停下吧
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