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".
- Good For You
以为是推理片，这节奏看的我超级累。其实题材不错，但拍的太表面了，情节也不抓人
一直遗憾没在西区现场看这部，现在出了电影算是让我看到一个一直想看的故事吧。我喜欢这个故事，以后有机会一定要现场看一下
不想写论文把评价很差的DEH看了，然后又在油管看了好久骂这个电影的视频👋
无论多发达或者多贫穷的国家，都有很多得不到保护的人们。
这部音乐剧其实是个轻喜剧，但是电影版反而更加严肃却空洞了。
删减了以下歌曲，我觉得有些可惜，有些歌其实对剧情来说是重要的：
分数：50
没看过音乐剧 觉得电影节奏是有点问题 起伏不够 故事还是很不错的 be self 真的很难 看了Dolby最后一场 还挺想二刷的 但是没有dolby了😢
拍的差了一点，但是题材和内容其实都很不错，顺带对现在的所实行的制度有一种批判的态度。哎，不管怎么样，人家是可以拍这样的题材的。
混乱的剪辑，混乱的逻辑…看了大半才大概明白想说什么。。但演的很不错。。感觉前面又不错，看的时候就一直在想应该给几分😂就是一会儿三星一会儿四星徘徊，，最后结局让我觉得很混乱，说不出那种感觉，我感觉我大概理解了他想表达的意思，但好像又没懂。。呃那就三星吧
有点高开低走，前面烘的稀里哗啦后面down下来了是怎么回事。
Thanks for casting a sexy Connor, not cool for a dull Jared
时间线的铺展和收束都恰到好处
不是什么剧都适合改电影啊，DEH尤其是……既然要做电影，不如直接按原著来把Connor的暗线全部拍出来，丰富得多。Murphy父母演得跟玩儿似的，看起来就真的不像死了儿子，真像把Evan当儿子了。
还没看过，歌已经听熟了。演讲的时候还是哭出来了。缺点有二:剪辑和男主角显老
没看过舞台剧的基础上，比想象中好很多，包括原来最担心的节奏问题，Evan的故事线和道德困境讲的还挺完整（这不吊打去年的舞会），AA和摩尔真是近期合作了两部的烂片姐妹会，但这两部“烂片”（另一部是窗边的女人）我都觉得挺好。Ben的年龄还是大了，有几场戏他边哭边唱但神情和口型又像在说台词有点违和感。
很能让人共情的治愈片，阴差阳错的故事情节，导致的一系列故事的发生，也让男主在其中克服了自己的恐惧和痛苦，而全程多数台词都是唱出来的，真的是比较独特的表达方式了，而且并不刻意，非常自然真实的演绎了出来也是很难得了。全员演技在线，感人的地方也不少，很值得一看！
我不知道那些给差评的人是多冷漠。。这么好的一个片子还要评价电影效果，评价是否按原著拍出来。。真的够了。。这片子反应的很现实，看了心里特别不舒服。。也很能理解小干，在震后失去父母，只有惠姨和泰久相依为命。。使他又重新感到了温暖。。但现实社会很残酷。。我觉得这个片子应该在中国上映。。让国人有所警示，不要再继续让我们这个社会变得冷漠！残忍！每一个人都是应该存在的！不应该被无情淘汰！弱肉强食！那是动物！不是人！
人的复杂性在于情感的丰富导致行动的多样，定义混淆在正义与邪恶之间，非纯正的黑与白。此片以埃文的欺骗为始，认错为终，是人类行为自我修正的典型。与复杂的人性相对的，是行为趋势的明确，人的行为的方向，即是最有价值的判断依据，对于一个人的综合定论。
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