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".
喜欢兄妹之间的羁绊，喜欢男主团的坚毅，人生中需要我们面对的困难很多，我也要坚强一点
莫斯利先生才华横溢啊
在最难的一段时间里曾经充当过我的精神支柱，做梦素材，和一点点希望的影子。今天下班以后一路跑到电影院，错过了前十五分钟。剧情很平淡，就是用两个小时交代了每个人物的结局，不过有主题曲就够了。PS司机真是全剧唯一一个令我讨厌的角色
两条主要的故事线(女儿们的唐顿，爸妈的南法)，再加一群电影人和侍者们的故事，有笑有泪，大体圆满。最后奶奶离开，巴罗也说会离开唐顿，说不伤感是假的，但更多还是预料之中的慨叹。
阉割版《唐顿庄园2》。婚礼开头，葬礼结束，everyone gets a happy ending，包括老伯爵夫人，喜寿，走都走得那么得体。本来是一部爽片，结果把托马斯的戏删得七零八落，就让人很不爽了。赶上了这倒退年代，也无话可说。
《关于我包场了唐顿2这件事》
确实是一个时代的终结了。Mary说Matthew像童话中的王子的时候，真的好伤心。《雨中曲》+《独领风骚》但是起码也没觉得招人烦。希望每个人都幸福。
喜欢兄妹之间的羁绊，喜欢男主团的坚毅，人生中需要我们面对的困难很多，我也要坚强一点
三星纯感情分，其实和电视剧没区别，为了熬出点电影感，硬是把一条主线安排成拍摄有声电影，大小姐居然成了英国的有村架纯😅 既然大部分演员都还健在，不如继续拍电视剧吧。
对应TV剧集11～14集，善逸跟伊之助登场。
超级愉快的一次观影经历。明明没有什么煽情的情节和桥段，看到最后感动得泪流满面。
就是把几集剧集的内容拼在一起，重看发现根本看不下去，太难看了。
庄园迎来了新旧交替的时代。长孙女为庄园运作兢兢业业，忙前忙后。一个剧组来到庄园现场取景，给庄园的每个人带来了冲击和新奇。庄园的仆人们积极参与过程中，自身进步的同时也帮助剧组从默片进化成有声片。与此同时，突然收到一份意外的遗产别墅，儿子带队去法国南部接收过程中，了解到了老太太的一桩陈年情史，对自己身世产生了困惑。最终所有人都明白了自己，找到了方向。老太太在儿孙环绕中安然离去，新生命的到来带来了活力，这就是传承。
A new era：the modern world came to Downtown!掌舵手老夫人去世，一个时代画上句号，2个小时里，我们沐浴在南法的阳光大海里，亦沉浸在唐顿旖旎的旧梦里。电影照进唐顿里，唐顿照进我们的现实里，两相呼应，恍如一梦。从让人难以喘息的现实中出逃，在这场绮梦里避难的我在影院后排泪流满面。
电影版都看了，圣诞版也都看了，唯独电视剧版，停在大小姐速度周旋在两个男人之间，以及各种糟心的剧情。再看此片，情怀都在。依旧不喜欢司机，他简直是在编剧笔下开挂的命好，原因是去世的三小姐爱上了他。我甚至为托马斯开启“下一站人生”而欣慰。是的，在这残忍的世界里能尽量幸福！父亲大人一如既往抓我眼球，哭泣那段演的真好啊！希望还有续篇：南法度假篇（让我联想到阿婆的推理剧），玛丽跟导演再续……想不到已经十二年了，第一次看此剧是2010年。
7.0/10，《鬼灭之刃》第一季，鼓屋敷篇，TV版11-14集合集。
元电影这层处理地很有意思。双线叙事增添了不少乐趣，可惜没多大关联。
老奶奶带着旧时代离去，有声电影标志着新时代的到来，唐顿就像个乌有之乡，即使世界即将崩坏，它自岿然不动~
家里多大的电视都无法取代在大屏幕观影，加一星
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