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".
廉价又塑料，毫无真情。剧情拖沓，逻辑混乱，主演表现尴尬。天真富家女魔改了女霸总，神经质的柔弱杰姬魔改成了铿锵玫瑰。她和他的眼里没有一见钟情的小星星，只有一夜情的性爱快餐。大有汤臣一品有套房的阿姨捞了个不想努力了的小年轻的架势。新版其实也算不是一无是处，当搞笑片看挺好的。赵敏式闹婚礼，女霸总企图在神像上打个野战，女霸总当众怼情敌我俩今天已经做了三次了不急这一时，波洛掏枪逼人认罪，大家原地杵着看凶犯热吻无动于衷，凶犯《英雄》中飞雪残剑同款自刎……行吧，有了对照组才能看到老版有多好，不是吗。78版的优雅与悲哀后劲十足，让我突然想起哪一幕都会心里一空。又找到78版看了遍结局，之前新版笑得多大声，看老版就哭得多心痛。
……开场以为进错厅/放错片儿（传说中的狙击手/长津湖？），直到特效啃泥出现——亨利五世在一战？进入正片儿逐渐明白是亲妈不认的程度，太阳/月亮呢？？？本来出于情谊想3星，但是剃胡子不答应！维兰德阿尔茨海默了你也不能削菠萝啊……
改编后的视听作品出奇的“简洁”，甚至有些不像一部悬疑片了，完全感受不到人物的魅力，不论正反派，那还有什么好说的呢？阿加莎的原作就这么毁了？！要不是为了和上海影城的CINITY厅告别，大概是不会看这片子的。【SFC上海影城】
视效max，盖尔加朵女神颜值max，这版的菠萝演的挺好的，就是剧本有点降智连带菠萝也显得降智，甚至还不如谋杀疑案有趣，不知道是否原作就是这样？
最近的新闻是Kenneth Branagh八次奥提来自七个部门，“哪样都可以，样样也糟糕”的弊端在近年来愈发明显。正片开始前是“老子凭借《贝尔法斯特》提名奥斯卡多项”的隐隐约约公关；接着拉开《回家的诱惑》、《百万新娘》般的肥皂剧情，为爱疯魔；后半段催促着进入结论，好几年后继续拍。本着花钱给Armie Hammer送葬（没有玩双关），也算是值啦。
IMAX2D包场。热恋中的人都是疯子，CG出戏，
真是眼瞎了。全程我都以为自己在看玛格罗比跟贾坤菲尼克斯。结果竟是两个完全不同的演员
Too many goofs and errors.
……咱就是说，这片子如果不带上阿婆的名头，大家能打几分？虽然阿婆每次都喜欢乱点鸳鸯谱，但不是这么点的啊！关键这次还改得棒打鸳鸯，我不能接受！波洛缺的是假期不是老伴儿啊！！！我也不懂为啥要专门解释波洛的胡子，人家就喜欢打理自己的胡子不行吗，非得弄个胡子前传，这样狄仁杰是不是也得解释一下为啥自己那么在意自己的胡子了？另，肯总为啥是actor/actress，他除了波洛还演谁了>_< 没看出来啊……
怒打一星！出来骗钱就不要打着阿婆的旗号了吧。
无聊，又臭又长。肯尼思·布拉纳太可怕了，没才华不说，偏偏又很勤奋，没才华偏偏又勤奋不说，还能拿到好IP，阿婆这几部杰作，您是挨个糟蹋啊。
又包场～nice/最近Tiffany这款项链出镜率真高
基本没有存在的必要，除非是作为埃及旅游宣传片。演技都很尴尬，Gal Gadot快成烂片女王了。
回忆中的明轮船有了，很好，但是很好看的对所有人怀疑所有人甚至怀疑自己的部分没有了，差评！埃及的景色现代化还原的不错~但强行加了很多黑人戏太刻意了…总体只能3星了。
请迪士尼速速放弃这个系列like how you gave up X-Men，莫要再当福斯的冤大头接盘侠。
开头以为走错片场，作为原著粉不接受关于波洛的任何改编。埃及好漂亮，不过更多时候，那种镜头凝视，更像阳光下的罪恶……
改编成了一个“爱男人不得善终，搞拉拉才能活命”的故事。
此外肯尼斯作为老牌导演，摄影的功底相当深厚，电影的诸多运镜与构图比东方快车更加惊艳。
我觉得肯尼这个侦探可以改叫西葫芦，不用拘泥于菠萝
越是求知，越是无知，我是这样理解的。
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