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".
银幕和舞台的玩法很难兼容，还是放回舞台上吧……
前女友拍了爱乐之城，加菲哥是想着不甘人后也来这么一部吗？可惜他音乐感不太好的样子，反倒觉得凡妮莎出彩。
更明白滴答滴答嘣，明白心底倒数的走针声。
林-曼努尔·米兰达确实是有才，这个电影我感触太多了，Jonathan Larson，Respect.
去年mark到今年终于补上了，音乐剧真迷人，加菲演得真好真灵动，最喜欢&印象最深刻的居然是那首吐槽人们为什么要浪费钱去餐厅吃饭的sunday……无效评论1）主角在deadline最后一刻公寓停着电的高压下才写出最重要的一首歌，还一直拖延女朋友的质问，就此和头同学展开了“良好时间管理和创作者的灵感是否可以两全”的讨论；2）加菲和石头姐作为我眼中最适合的文艺前couple（和长久的意难平），各自演了一部歌舞片，两个片中还都与他俩的恋情有千丝万缕的联系，想想更意难平了；3）一直觉得唱歌女孩声音熟悉，全程疑惑这种声线的女孩是不是都长这样，看到最后才想起是歌舞青春的女主，how time flies~
不应该叫tick tick boom，应该叫tear tear boom！简直催泪弹一般的存在！加菲贡献出了极精湛甚至有些灵魂附体一般的演技，无怪乎国外有人给出的评论是今晚没有看到加菲，而是看到乔纳森拉尔森回到了人间待了两个小时！观看此片的时候，桑德海姆也离世了，了解到桑德海姆虽然并不看好拉尔森的作品类型，但是对他不懈坚持的精神还是大加赞赏的，觉得拉尔森就差那么一点儿运气，晚去世两天，就可以亲眼见证自己的成功，见证自己改变了当代USA音乐剧的表现形式！要我说拉尔森就是被自己的矜矜业业全力以赴不放过任何一个锻炼自己作曲能力的要强精神给累着了！此外喜欢磕cp的也满足了，毕竟两个现在分道扬镳的前情侣都演了音乐剧电影。还有就是这片是真宽街团建，肉眼可见好多熟面孔！催人泪下，值得一看！
厄不巧最近看了一个有广告潜力的穷艺术家的故事，相比之下对挣扎的还算有良心的穷人的描绘都无法共情了（推荐我音乐剧的好友邻可以消停了（（
"They are singing happy birthday, you just wish you could run away."
好看！加菲的脸没有以前帅了 唱歌还不错（但那个黑人大哥和大露背姐姐一开口就发现天赋差距） 但看得出他很努力营造角色形象 不知道是谁的锅 反正就感觉太注重歌舞所以Jon这个角色不太丰满。但还是喜欢 看到他随时随地拿个小本子出来记录有意思的事物 就想他真的是个很热爱生活的人儿啊！出字幕额时候看到了真的Jon顿时感触良多甚至想哭 才35啊！甚至来不及看一遍自己写的《Rent》 为了这个舞台剧梦想他付出了那么那么那么多的心血 于是就想 就让这个倒计时永远停留在tick tick的倒数中 不要boom不要结束 让他一直寻梦下去吧
为今天歌唱，为明日而活。Thank you, Jonanthan
“一瞬间你就死了，一瞬间你就过时了”sad😥and you might have to keep on writing and writing until......
开头的歌真是不错 但看到后边就开始乏味了 剧情的内核也是深深的第一世界人民的为赋新词强说愁 标准冲奥片 勉强给七分
actions speak louder than words
也不只是国内有年龄焦虑要三十而立结婚生子，还是不要太逼自己在什么时间点之前扬名立万的好吧，电影原型后来的作品被认可但他三十五岁生病死掉了都没看见自己的成绩。电影是很可以引起浑浑噩噩的三十岁人的共鸣，什么时候能看到希望呀？可是加菲唱歌不太好诶。。。
周日在咖啡馆喝咖啡的SB懒癌，忽悠卖货的无良广告商，前女友哄一哄就好，房租水电别断我马上续费，好基友的逝世，以及要连续不断的创作才能期待卖出作品。这就是剧作家对过往创作史的狠狠吐槽。30了又如何？功成名就的前夜，只是35就挂了，人生真是充满遗憾。7.7
临近年底，好片如潮。我被《倒数时刻》深深击中！
近期处于对加菲的少年感重新上头的时期 看什么都不重要...
"Cages or Wings, which do you prefer? Ask the birds."
最后有点感人，加菲老了但露出脆弱一面的时候还是像小朋友
好一般… 白男first world problems+look我有minority friends。太奇怪了 不知道是剧本有改动还是咋回事 很难想象rent的作者写出这么自怜自艾的东西…
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