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".
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系列最佳，没了那些奇形怪状的二次元造型角色，总算有点时代剧的样子；谷垣健治这一集的动作戏亦属系列最佳，总算见血了，几段刺杀拍得迅猛凌厉，血浆飞溅那个爽快，徐克什么的真该跟他合作一把。可惜导演功力还是不大行，没拍出那种历史潮流中被政客以远大理想之名操控充当杀戮武器的工具人的悲哀，爱情戏也没弄好。村花自身气质偏暖，没演出雪代巴的清冷御姐范。冲田总司那发型入选年度tony奖。3.5
我不知道有谁和我一样，在看这部电影的约20年前，看了《追忆篇》动画电影版。至今，我都觉得那部动漫电影无论剧情、画面、配乐都登峰造极。如今，看到真人版电影，免不了跟当年的动画电影比较。剧情高度还原，两位主角演技可圈可点。格斗场面令人震撼。但我标注的这部五星真人电影也不是没有缺点。最大的缺点是：配乐跟动画电影相比，简直弱爆。更让我不解的，是片尾竟是一首英文歌曲。这是为了打入国际市场的操作吗？遗憾。
限于分级原因，这一部本该血腥很多，但是最后都靠CGI了。
一段凄美的虐恋改变了男主的内心，十字刀疤的痕迹铭记着爱人的逝去。
真人化的确难做，又不能完全复刻，又不能太多加工。
都是可以有探讨空间的
為了凸出兩部的明顯優劣，特地回去《人殊篇》補扣它一顆星，以示公平。
还原度很高，但舍弃岩崎琢的BGM等于丢弃追忆篇的灵魂
对还原度的追求近乎变态，无奈雪代巴的选角毁了一切
飞天御剑流 啊算是补全了童年回忆 打戏不错
人间不见白梅香
一个传奇的完结，要把追忆篇的ova找来完整的看一下，以前就只看过片段
三星半吧，主要是动画追忆片太经典了，无论是画面，配乐，主题内核都很牛。巴这个角色太矛盾和复杂了，他们之间的感情不单单是爱和恨，她是剑心的刀鞘，他是她对未来的期望。村花在我心中，并不适合，演得有点木。
两天看完了五部系列电影。佐藤健幸运，绯村剑心也是幸运，遇上彼此和比较靠谱的团队。这部，我喜欢，充满血腥又纠缠不休的狠与爱。但是，巴的脸过分了，太大了，比剑心大很多哎。高马尾冷酷杀手少年，为了新时代甘愿当刽子手潜伏黑暗里，与血腥为伴，靠近了他爱上他是必然，剑心爱上巴也是必然，故事最后也必然是个悲剧。新时代来临，我不会再杀人，只有剑留在了战场上，再无刽子手只有浪客剑心。ＯＫ。完美衔接第一部。
贯彻始终的物哀
一段凄美的虐恋改变了男主的内心，十字刀疤的痕迹铭记着爱人的逝去。
还记得前面几部看得热血沸腾，一直期待还有续集。这也算是期待很久的电影，没想到全程耍酷，男女都一样，看起来根本就格格不入。
在五部中是第二好看的，特别比起《人诛》那种过分中二的氛围，追忆篇是克制的戏说历史。个人的悲欢离合和幕府末年的诸多重大事件交织，唯一可惜的是没有篇幅交代「拔刀斋」的信念从何而来（以及比古清没机会出场呜呜）
不清楚历史导致时代背景有点难理解，只知道个大概，外加日语也难好多(。整篇节奏慢了很多，村花一出场仿佛0.5倍速，有些瞌睡，但收尾时还是狠狠被感动了一把。结束时导演突击挨拶，说感谢疫情期间还来观看，还说没看过final的一定要再去看final，当初也纠结了很久顺序问题
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