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".
是来看火柴的。我就很为爷爷抱不平，爷爷一死了之后，那些以前不敢的事现在都报复式全都开花了。退公司的，解散的，结婚的…杰尼斯不剩几个了，现在说亚洲第一渣男是因为爷爷干涉恋爱才渣的就好笑。爷爷要气的蹦起来了。。后藤夕辉是什么东西？
听着梅艳芳、张国荣的歌走过青春的人，对这部电影有着不一般的情怀。
王丹妮扮演的梅艳芳还是有看点，张国荣的扮演者……
1105提前場+映後見面會。
古天乐演梅艳芳的服装设计师Eddie，很多镜头都挺感人。
有文章讲，认识梅艳芳是倒叙，首先知道的就是她的谢幕，我也是，从她的终点往相反的时间点长大，才逐渐看过《胭脂扣》、《钟无艳》、《审死官》和《半生缘》。作为不够了解她的过路人也在看影片时哭得很惨，关锦鹏说她本身就长得苦，如花本色出演就够，真的是从荆棘中奋力开出的玫瑰，香港的江湖儿女。王丹妮真的像，说话方式神情都努力去模仿，至于缺失对母亲重男轻女的描写、洗白近藤真彦等问题，只能解释为太多当事人仍在世而无法展示了。最大的问题在于，张国荣是什么人物，导演你就选一个毫无资质的男演员来凑数？如果是一个几分相像的帅哥努力模仿，观众还能理解，毕竟无人能完全复制那种绝代芳华，但这个演员又丑又没有努力的意思，很难不令人倒胃口，还捏造梅帮哥哥加戏的情节，建议荣迷远离这个片子，不然会被气死。
还是那个问题 情动机制在于召唤肉身 就像替身演员只能拍远景和背影 你无法用他们替代本尊 如果要替代 也要找一个量级的 比如当年用顾冠忠替徐少强 不然 你还真当观众是皮格马利翁呐？
女主很多角度神似梅姐，清冷傲气，但又有着一片赤诚的热血之气，《夕阳之歌》响起是眼泪的大杀器。不仅仅是舞台传奇纪录片，更是那个黄金时代的缅念，香港的女儿，我们都挂住你。
7.5飞机上 就，很流水账。。比我自己写的东西还不忍卒读 但主演和演Leslie那位都很努力+1星
古天乐演梅艳芳的服装设计师Eddie，很多镜头都挺感人。
售票路演场，坐得很满。结束后主持人和江老板、王小姐一起领着全场合唱《夕阳之歌》，大家不情不愿地站起来，但音乐一起还是忍不住跟唱。那一刻就在心里默默地跟梅姐说，你看，大家还是记挂你，还是很爱你。尽管电影是拼贴式流水账，避重就轻、食之无味，可是从非典爆发、哥哥离世开始就疯狂飙泪，直到《夕阳之歌》告别曲的叠影，再一次听到那坚决的、用力的「byebye」，还是哭得头疼。之所以失望，是因为它没有拍出「衰落」——香港的女儿，与她的香港，生死攸关——在极盛极美瞬间的凋零，既是上一世纪的余音渐弱，也是下一时代的后劲尽失。而最为难过的是，为一个好像只是不久前才离去的人立传，这本身似乎就是港影破落的镜像，也是时间被吞噬、你我不曾有向前一步的痕迹。
5.感观胜过《第一炉香》，是梅艳芳太有魅力吗？
观影前我并不知道梅艳芳是谁，但当我随着影片过完她的一生，了解了她和小哥的故事后，我为之动容。从那些真实的片段里，我感受到，她一定是一位更侠义、更坚定、更有风韵的时代巨星，影片里的她定不及半分。
《梅艳芳》给我整哭了，尤其哥哥离别和梅姐最后的演唱会。虽然碍于诸多原因在电影本身有不少问题，但看下来，想这个故事、题材类型、情怀与商业的这一路，影片的那种节制内敛无奈，以及尊重，真心佩服江志强江老板。王丹妮的表现是不错的，起码及格线以上了，不容易。看的时候真怀念香港娱乐的黄金时代，那么多性格分明又满是天份的人物。浪奔浪流，江水不休，时代却变了。
电影从剧本到演员，都不满意
电影的风格偏向唯美，比较温柔的讲述了梅艳芳的一生，与严肃的人物传记不同，本片煽情是必然，而我愿意接受它的煽情。感动的是梅艳芳不是《梅艳芳》，梅艳芳的人生和他的音乐是值得感动。
说实话，如果我不认识梅艳芳，光看这电影可能会觉得她平平无奇，可见拍的多差。
976｜27/100，导演剪辑版
38'在舞台上往下看，看到有谁不鼓掌，你就盯着那人唱，唱到他服气，唱到他拼命鼓掌为止
实在是差强人意啊，多一星情怀分。
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