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".
我倾心于剧院版的可爱又贱贱的John McCrea小天使
说真的因为有了音乐剧的珠玉在前，我个人并不太喜欢电影里面的Jamie，太drama。电影里的歌舞好似也没有在剧院里面看的有感染力，但是依然还算是可圈可点的。
立意是比较新鲜，但是编导还是比较凌乱，代入感不强，看前一个小时前因后果理解起来有难度，导演故弄玄虚。有些情节不够合理，毒品为什么能灵魂出窍？真要那样的话，都可以诺贝尔奖了还卖啥毒品。
那些说变来变去的人，你们这智商还是滚出电影院
很一般的影片还是平权、价值观、认同那一套没有新意，对于这种事情在我看来就是“关我屁事”和“关你屁事”的区别。歌也不是朗朗上口，唯一惊艳的一场戏是“艺术品就是我”，如果不是英奥提名了我可能都看不到这部影片。
如果每天可以换到不同人的身体里，希望每天都能从小可爱的床上醒来
最烦这种开头就云里雾里背景也不交代下然后节奏死慢还一脸很牛b哄哄的nc片子，十分钟弃
没劲 看了好几天才看完 纯为了打发时间 本来看开始的设定好像挺有意思的 再看几眼就知道要说什么事了 除了设定 都很俗套
摸索真相的方式是新颖，问题是这个真相本身就很烂啊。出来也没什么效果…
理查德格兰特（Richard E. Grant）drag queen造型抢眼。总体来说更乐观积极，歌曲也挺好听，男主很有才华。
一个有创意的设定。不错的叙事结构。凌厉的动作剪辑。还有我张谦蛋大哥！
创意还是有的，就是叙事有点乱，一开始看不懂在干嘛，剩下的时间都是在打打打…
前面讲故事有点啰嗦，铺垫太长了，逻辑上有点乱，感觉最大的赢家是那个乞丐，获得了一辆悍马。
剧情的设定是完全站不住脚的，实际上换一个起因会好的多。越来越觉得林智妍长的漂亮了。
创意还是有的，就是叙事有点乱，一开始看不懂在干嘛，剩下的时间都是在打打打…
电影版比dear even Hansen 好，足球场一幕喜欢。没有了loco Chanel 的背景故事那段有点可惜。剧场版yyds
太扯了，本体致幻居然会转移到别人身上，变成超能力了属于是。但总体来说就是悬疑探案+龙傲天大男主复仇的戏码，最后当然是喜剧收尾啦。
如果不是留下的几首歌还是好听我真的会给两星……这改的什么……或许从开头曲老师的戏份被删就揭开了帷幕，最爱的if i met myself again和ugly in this ugly world也被删，我觉得算是丰满人物的吧，实在不懂；work of art大概想搞点视觉系，可惜画面质感如同mv；算了可能新观众观感并不烂，我只是对原作滤镜太大？
南洋邪术不一般
换了很多首歌，觉得整体卡司没有初代舞台卡司好看，还好John和Bianca换了种方式出现了一下下，比电影电影更像是舞台剧的电影。远景看到我大谢菲，真是美翻了😍期待埃文汉森
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