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".
小孩的电影中规中矩，
挺不错的，装备大更新，酷炫起来了，还加了个新队员，也挺讨喜。不过强行让阿奇自闭再自我治愈这种剧情真的挺烦
m21304：边界一直存在(派别互害)。家庭与周遭给与小巴迪的品质，让他不会像被涂污的鸟般成长。多处拷问：你想要什么? 很多人逃离，很多人留下，很多人迷失，地球依旧在旋转。
很喜欢这部电影，没懂为啥评分这么低。也许是在英国待了很久，也去Belfast游览过，所以我能共情到这一份乡愁。配乐和John Wayne都超有年代感。非常多有趣的台词，尤其是爷爷，真是位deep thinker，导演的童年投射很多。“For the ones who stayed” “For the ones who left” “For all the ones who were lost”，很受触动，其实单纯从触动的角度来说，本片于我而言比《罗马》要共情的多。
很棒的电影 没想过电影会做这么精致！四岁的儿子哭成狗！也不知道还有谁家小孩也哭脸的！感觉制作团队也想过有小朋友哭成这样把！
三星半。运动镜头很流畅。Van Morrison快要承包BGM了
肯尼斯·布拉纳改编他自己的童年，通过对家庭和工人斗争的真情实感打动观众。黑白颜色创造了怀旧的感觉，其他的颜色也帮助场景脱颖而出，配合上雨声、火声或嗡嗡的电视声，一种回忆尽显眼前。他可能也想不出自己该如何平衡那些自己记忆里忽远忽近的东西，但说此片不如《罗马》的，我一万个不服，讲童年的东西，哪用得着那么多匠气。
看不出一点水平的电影。明显更像是戴维斯电影的仿作，居然一堆人看成了落马
唯一觉得不足是对同一个家庭中的哥哥几乎没有展开
陪小朋友看的，画面质感很好，剧情紧凑，小朋友很喜欢，就是里面狗狗的名字和平时看的动画片有一点不一样，小朋友有点疑惑，哈哈哈
最後半小時開始發力——Buddy和爺爺的對話、Buddy和奶奶的對話、媽媽和爸爸的對話，劇本寫的真好。近年英美作品看得比較多的是選擇不移民的（體現Community文化）以及新移民的不適，其實選擇移民前的糾結、對故土的眷戀，是最迷人也最心碎的狀態。小男孩表演很靈動，媽媽演技大爆發，Dornan一如既往的帥，爺奶穩（特別是Dench結尾處的Don't Look Back），希望拿下SAG群戲。
陪娃看。是部积极且正能量的电影。画面切换太快，我的眼睛有点跟不上！
3.5糟糕的翻译 过多的Morison 让人开始很难入戏 错误的观影切入角度让期待逐渐降低 天主教和新教长年累月到疲惫的冲突 仍然是私人叙事下 可有可无的背景 当最后半小时 你发现这不过是一部肯尼斯对于童年往事的追忆 一切感受开始不一样了 从“I don't want to leave Belfast" 那句开始 眼睛从酸痛到最后十分钟的泪如雨下 你开始明白 那些对于漂泊的人而言 曾不想离开或不得不离开的故乡 已不再是一个具体的地址 它可以是贝尔法斯特 可以是都柏林 可以是世界上任何一个地方 ”献给那些离开和留下的人“ 你明白了导演的用意 也无法不想起自己童年的玩伴 走过的老街 以及那些你不得不告别的人
我们每每看欧美电影讲他们的“苦日子”时都会心想，就这？你们也好意思叫苦日子？
“走吧，再也别回来。”
儿童电影，不能以成人的标准来衡量。小孩子喜欢才是硬道理。
想到龙应台的《目送》，有些父母把孩子往前推，有些用情感枷锁让你寸步难行。致从未到达的香格里拉
不如期待的好，也不像风评的那么差。大时代的背景和小家庭的故事都有了，三代人的态度都在了：孩子有哭闹和纯情，大人有理想和歌舞，老人有无奈和眷恋——最后差了一点张力把这些都捏合起来。类似题材的《罗马》实在高出太多啦。
带豆姐看的第二部电影，汪汪队粉还是可以看的。狗狗挺可爱的。其他就没有推荐的价值了…
好浪漫的回忆电影啊～ 很适合lockdown的上海人民，至少暂时治愈了我。
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