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".
打斗够激烈，故事引人入胜，最后主角醒过来了吗？
故事太单一，一杀红了眼办事就毫无逻辑了。原本以为类似记忆碎片，很遗憾，只是披着灵魂游走外衣的无脑枪战片
但我更喜欢剧院局限舞台的天马行空
很喜欢音乐剧版的Jamie，知道要出电影版之后几乎是掰着指头等上映。剧版里最打动我的角色是妈妈，但电影版最催我泪的是Hugo的回忆，把原版我觉得搞笑成分更多的角色真正赋予了mentor的意义，Hugo一个人抱着花束的镜头我哗哗流泪🥲。个人感觉比较失望的改动是第一次登台前Jamie找到Mimime的自我认同方式，从完全的内心自我呐喊变成了Hugo取名😂同时本来很期待会怎么改编关于hijab的讨论，结果直接没了，fine😅总体而言是我愿意二刷的片子
额。。。很一般，甚至有点差劲的科幻啊。。。设定全在一个泰国毒品上？？！然后可以灵魂穿越？？关键是还准准的12小时一次？？这都是什么跟什么嘛。。越到后面越扯啊。。。所以那个要饭的作用是？
这分太低了吧，动作戏不错，这么简单的片还有人说看不懂？
灵魂换体的桥段类似一部老港片.除了片尾俱乐部枪战场面设计有点意思
一直附身来附身去的，被附身的几个人的主人格不会反抗吗？这个设定感觉有点站不住
前面看的云里雾里，后面就是拨开云雾见青天。感觉导演想表达的东西太多，总得来说还不错，带点奇幻的枪战片。
大兄弟，想救老婆的话直接魂穿她就好了啊，直接省了这100多分钟的戏……
一部赢在设定上的片。开头部分确实很抓人，但包袱抖开后的后半段让本片又回到了老路上。
这个设定其实Bug太多了，一边看我一边和她讨论剧情还能如何神展开。。。有几场打戏还不错
要搞死一个人反而给他注射毒品，太牵强了。而这是整部剧的合理化前提。扣一颗星，其它方面都很不错，复杂的故事条理清晰，节奏明快，自成风格。
电影版虽然在原剧里延展了很多切实的画面，但整体却不及原剧的效果。影版卡司也不如西区原卡惊艳。
多视角去把事件还原，感觉挺难的，但是这部做到了。
刚开始脸变来变去还不习惯，不认识谁是谁，等剧情发展熟悉后，也习惯~整体来说，剧情还算可以，但这吸个毒又没有接触的，刚看了一下，就能灵魂交换，略显扯淡啊~~不过这部电影里的动作戏还算可以~干净利索！至于角色嘛，我真的想说：男主像胖版的河正宇、反派像胖版的吴彦祖、女主像戚薇
还是可以刷的 6.5低了 结尾应该跳到女孩身上，然后一起反杀，那就更完美了
这个。。。有那么点创意，但也不能完全说通。打戏设计还是不错的。
整体剧情就是男主不断魂穿几个对手的身体，寻找自我记忆和身体的故事。前半段还挺刺激的，节奏也很紧凑。
令人睡着的电影。编剧负主要责任，对白尤其无聊拙略
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