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".
故事主线虽然还算明晰，但看起来就很乱，很多没什么意义的东西被乱七八糟地加了进来，或许是导演想着各种元素致敬云云，但带给我不小的割裂感。
我们有祂们所言的贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑
勉强三星，剧本问题比较大，没有一个人物立得住
英国人太笨蛋了。我们不曾亲眼看到战争的残酷，近期的俄乌XX其实就在我们身边，发生在这个蓝色星球的某一个角落，战争其实离我们很近。
结构太散，人物太多，群像也没处理好，整体看下来感觉该讲的没讲到，尤其是行动的英军飞行员一方。轰炸盖世太保，结果轰到了学校头上，如此荒谬粗心的行动让人难以置信。战争年代，上帝已死。
氛围差了点，但故事还是可以看的，通灵大战，密室逃脱
把这么严肃的题材拍的这么艺术，丹麦也算是有独创精神。然而避讳盖世太保主题，却着重描写英军误炸的学校，其实有些别有用心。丹麦当年闪电投降，为纳粹鞍前马后其实历史自有评判，不过就算是撇开政治主题，本片仍然不好看，最多给5分！
一场策划的轰炸计划，两个飞行员，被关在大楼里的人，学校的儿童和修女，流水账一样讲完了……被困在地下室的修女明明可以转过身来，为什么一直躺着一动不动？还以为在等最后有冲击力地展示给观众她全身被石头压住之类的……然后就结束了……
宋康昊跟姜东元这一对带小孩的场景老是让我想起《宝贝计划》真的出戏。
用唯美精致的画面拍出的风格，让观众（我）的喉咙像那个害怕天空的男孩…
4.0，细节节奏台词演员如此完美，摄影写实的应该是没有打灯（现实主义应该有的样子，不美化不矫揉造作），我喜欢，就是结尾实在太完美了，是是枝裕和年老了嘛？对人性有的善意了吗？“是枝裕和近年来愈发心慈手软了，敛锋藏芒的他甚至连一根芒刺都不愿轻易施诸于故事与人物之上。”
撼动灵魂的故事，只想说愚蠢的人类，可怜的孩子们！
后半部分让人心碎，演员都很美。总觉得可以更好
年轻妈妈狂奔回家，女儿正在吃早餐拒绝的那碗冷粥……
战争的代价就是普普通通的老百姓，就是我们自己。
44枚炸弹只有8枚给了纳粹…修女的自罚和恶魔接吻都无法验证耶稣的存在，或许战争一开始上帝就不存在了。不管是什么样的战争什么目的的战争，对百姓带来的伤害是最大的，有的国家军队正在对平民轰炸，有的中立报道却被永久封禁。
最浪漫的解答，也是最伤感的。上帝可能睡着了。
4.5 开场五分钟是恐怖片，有点散但是问题不大，数度落泪。以及这几名小演员演得非常好。上帝啊你可千万不要那么轻易打盹，搞不好你一个打盹儿就是我们的一辈子那么长，那这辈子也太不走运了。
5分给这段历史，-4分给剪辑啊，故事啊，之类的涉及导演的东西，这个片子真心糟蹋这个题材，三条线没一条收敛，紧迫感是突然紧一下再泄了突然紧一下泄了，后面来个恶心人的装逼屎一样的几把长镜头……恶心到家
20页短篇扩充成100分钟的长片，扩充后的那句“It’s for you”反而不如原作有爆发力，而且金味重了好多，尽管伊桑霍克的表演足够骇人
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