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".
每一部西区故事都是Anita传，顾名思义除了Anita其他基本都是垃圾。以为原版男女主之间的龃龉和脚演技已经够糟糕了，新版男女主真的讨厌升级，电影演员最怕人丑胆子大演俊男美女，雪上加霜的是俊男美女配上原版就不讨喜的智障人设，他俩出现在我眼前的每一秒都是对我人生的糟践。斯皮尔伯格的摄影和调度每一帧都写满了我厉不厉害，可惜成熟（注意是成熟不是优秀）的技巧加在一滩屎身上也只会让人更反感这滩屎，至于音乐剧层面我已经完全忽略了。
【3】调度自然无可指摘，但底子摆在这儿怎么也拍不出花来。而无处不在的眩光/反射或许试图揭示好莱坞欢愉却终究归于幻想的实质（摄影机的造梦），不予转译的西语是弥合的不可能。环顾当下的世界，斗争不可能只是一场场歌舞那么简单。
用歌舞片来叙述一个比较老派的故事，技法上的新意还可以，但是关于主线的情绪的渲染显得相当空洞。一部歌舞片，不仅仅是在形式上尤其是动作上感染观众，更需要给出一种更加有说服力的表达。想要看到与众不同的人物，而不是循规蹈矩的完全为情节服务的对象。
你永远可以相信斯皮尔伯格，真的太神了！尽管老派的帮派对峙和罗密欧与朱丽叶式的爱情故事放在当代确实有点傻楞，但真的每一场戏都令人叹为观止。可以被列入教科书级别的摄影、场面调度、灯光，每一幕结束都想鼓掌的程度，冲着硬件五星了，这就是好莱坞电影工业制作的天花板吧。有把舞台剧改编成电影形式发挥到极致了，是电影的魔法！好爱嫂子。（唯一不足的可能是演员们的声音素质，一开始还以为男二才是男主..以及能不能照顾一下不会西语的观众朋友们
还是好听的 就是现在看ansel觉得他有点油有点丑 只有个子还挺高这个优点了 女主漂亮的
4.5。近些年似乎出现了一股歌舞片复兴的苗头，然而多数都是重歌而轻舞，但身体的运动恰恰是传统歌舞片里最迷人的一点，而这版《西区故事》毫无疑问做到了歌舞俱佳。斯皮尔伯格从第一个镜头开始就把观众彻底带回到了几十年前那个还是贫民窟的上西区，所有的歌舞场面都是值得反复琢磨的场面调度大师课，而卡明斯基的摄影更是贡献了好几个摄人心魄的时刻
女主还行 主要是男主 又丑仪态还烂 泯于众人 jets那队的riff都比他有魅力多了 唱腔也烂 和女主合唱高音完全听不到他声音 看得我半途去找现场版；虽然加了很多原版没有的人物细节，但大框架本身就是很古典的罗朱1961，加细节反而起了反效果；最无语的哥哥死了 俩恋人上床的戏份还是没改 而且女主还伸手推人更加理直气壮；那家小店和店主的戏份也被删了很多，总而言之就是哪哪儿都不如原版•᷄ࡇ•᷅
本片既是惊悚片，又是心理片，着重展现了男主崩溃的过程，而他的命运似乎从开篇即已预告。——《法兰克福汇报》
还不如让tick tick…boom提名Oscar BP
★★★☆ 我對1961年的經典版其實就沒有那麼喜歡，《羅密歐與朱麗葉》的故事被改得很沒意思，而且拍得只見故事不見人，但是我喜歡這一版，讓我看到了些許人。你永遠可以相信Steven Spielberg的調度能力，將整個故事更加電影化，不僅是musical而且是cinema，在保留有黃金時代歌舞片味道之餘，又注入了活力，更加自由，更加輕盈，當然男女主角的選角和表現令人難以滿意，更可惜的是改編還是保守了些，沒能有更加當代的表達，不過即便有著各種不盡如人意之處，卻也是《愛樂之城》之後我最喜歡的一部歌舞片了。
好像好久都没看斯皮尔伯格的作品了，上次好像还是头号玩家呢，但这，这，这啥玩意啊，我不太行，演的也不行，音乐也不行，就跳的几场戏还行，啥啥啥玩意啊，比原版，歌和台词都不改，而且太舞台剧了，太演了，两星半，
新瓶装旧酒，翻车翻大了。不明白这个陈旧故事怎么会一点改编的痕迹都没有，Tony Kushner你好歹是写出过“天使在美国”的大神啊！另外，阵容gay到我了...
这剧情实在感动不起来 甚至觉得里面的每个角色都太幼稚了 没看过老版 对这版无感且无聊透顶 不敢相信是史蒂文斯皮尔伯格的电影（男主演技太烂了 女主倒还行 但也没到好这个境界）
毕竟是大导呀，一出手就知道有没有，这调度，这视觉呈现，太太太太惊艳了！但…故事是真难看，以及男主是带资进组吗？
太陈旧了，无论是曲风还是表现手法，还是故事脚本，老生常谈的莎翁式太过时了。女角唱功也一般，嫂子的演员非常有表现力，只记得她的段落。一些唱段acting like American也非常政治不正确😂
有什麼比擅長人文場景的大師翻拍音樂歌舞經典還更令人期待？
好像好久都没看斯皮尔伯格的作品了，上次好像还是头号玩家呢，但这，这，这啥玩意啊，我不太行，演的也不行，音乐也不行，就跳的几场戏还行，啥啥啥玩意啊，比原版，歌和台词都不改，而且太舞台剧了，太演了，两星半，
算是国师的芳华吧
充满了种族对立，女主的脑回路也让人大受震撼。把他当纯歌舞片呢，也不够好听好看。这种思想陈旧纯属虚构的故事，如果没法与时俱进提出新的思考，就别拍了。坐在隔壁的姐姐全程跟唱，我也能理解导演对这个故事有深厚的情结，但好歹编一点阳间的剧情。 女二在女主的衬托下格外美，她的裙子她的舞蹈都充满了阳光。
斯皮堡大导出手，技术上确实无可挑剔，很多镜头调度都赏心悦目。只是这个故事实在是…感觉有点一言难尽，太傻了，中后段悲剧开始后还稍微有点感觉了。歌我也get不到。女二碾压女一，女主真的太迪士尼了…
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